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Author: Prafull Goradia and KR Phanda
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: December 24, 2006
Introduction: According to Bruce Bawer, Europe will become a colony of Muslims if it continues to behave as it has done in the recent past
While Europe Slept, Bruce Bawer; Doubleday, $23.95
The central message of Bruce Bawer's book, While Europe Slept, is: Europe in the not-too-distant future will become a colony of Muslims if it continues to behave as it has done in the recent past. This is the unanimous view of noted Western scholars of Islam.
In July 2004, Professor Bernard Lewis predicted that Europe would be Islamic by the end of the century. Bat Yeor, a historian, has termed this phenomenon of Islamisation as 'Eurabia'. Another historian, Niall Ferguson, characterises it as "a youthful Muslim society to the south and east of the Mediterranean is poised to colonise a senescent Europe to the north and west". Lars Hedegaard, a Danish expert, describes the future scenario in these words, "A long twilight of Balkanisation, with Europe divided into warring pockets of Muslims and non-Muslims, the latter of whom may be either democrats or fascists or both. Alternatively, Europe may simply persist in its passive ways, tamely resigning itself to a gradual transition to absolute shari'ah law and utter dhimmitude." Bassam Tibi, a Muslim teacher at a German University, warns: "Either Islam gets Europeanised, or Europe gets Islamised".
These views are supported by the increasing Muslim population in Western Europe. In France, it is 12 per cent; and, in Switzerland, it is 20 per cent. At present, in most of Western Europe, 16 to 20 per cent children are Muslims. The native European fertility rate ranges between 1.2 and 1.8 per cent, well below the required replacement rate of 2.1 per cent. A T-shirt popular among Muslims in Stockholm reads: " 2030 - then we take over." This is the third variety of jihad - demographic explosion.
In Denmark, the Muslim population has reached an alarming proportion. A Danish sociologist conducted a study of a cohort of 145 Turkish men who had entered the country in 1969 and 1970 as guest workers. The importation of spouses and other family members combined with a high fertility rate had turned this group of 145 into a community of 2,183 at present. The average number of children per Muslim family was reported to be 6.4 - far above the Danish average rate.
Paris is more and more a Muslim city. Out of five million Muslims in France, some two million alone live in Paris. North African immigrants continue to arrive and obedient, homebound wives continue to be fertile and multiply. Brix and Hedegaard in their book, In the House of war: Islam's Colonisation of the West, (2003) characterise this phenomenon as "demographic overpowering of Europe's native people".
Is the position any different in India? Not at all. District after district in West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, as per the 2001 Census, have thrown up data that show that population of Hindus is going down and that of Muslims is going up from census to census. Once an area is occupied by Muslims, Hindus start leaving. In due course, it becomes Malapuram.
It is well known that the enemy within is always more dangerous than the enemy outside. Muslim immigrants are openly abusing the welfare system. Many Muslim immigrants are told by their religious leaders that Muslim law gives them the right to abuse the infidel's welfare system as much as possible. In Denmark, five per cent Muslim population pockets 40 per cent of the state's welfare outlays. After 2005 terrorists attack in London, it came to light that the four suspects had raked in more than half a million pounds in welfare benefits from the British Government. Omar Bakri Mohammed, who openly preached hatred against the Christians and Jews, was getting multiple welfare benefits: £331.28 a month as incapacity benefit; £183.30 a month as disability living allowance in addition to housing benefit and council tax benefit. His wife got another £1,300 a month.
The book is evenly divided into three chapters: "Before 9/11 - Europe in Denial"; "9/11 and After"; and, "Europe's Weimar Moment". The present situation in Europe, according to Bawer, resembles that of Germany at the end of World War I. Germany had been defeated. Kaiser Wilhelm was forced to abdicate and Germany had become a republic. The new Constitution was drafted in the city of Weimar. Like the Western Europe of today, Germany was run by the social-democratic elite and elite's labour - union allies. Their misrule eventually led to the rise of Nazis in Germany. Coincidentally, in Italy, Mussolini's Fascists had come to power.
Mr Bawer writes, "Now, once again, Europe is at a Weimar moment. Poised between the aggressive reality of Islamism and the danger of an incipient native fascism, it is governed by an elite many of whose members, even now, remain determined not to face reality. The spectacular failure of integration has brought some nations to the verge of social chaos and is leading other nations in the same direction; and, European leaders, unwilling to shake off their faith in multi-culturalism and the welfare state, are spending ever increasing sums to subsidise and deepen that failure thus leading their nations inexorably toward economic ruin. In the end, Europe's enemy is not Islam, or even radical Islam. Europe's enemy is itself - its self-destructive passivity, its softness towards tyranny, its reflexive inclination to appease" (p-233).
What Bawer has written about the European leadership is equally, if not more, true of India today. As in Europe, it is the establishment comprising the academic, the media, the bureaucracy and the politicians who have - and are - feeding "systematic untruths" about Islamism to the public in India. The establishment has been busy misleading the country by not telling the young people that India was divided in 1947 on the basis of religion. Muslims got a separate homeland and they have no locus standi in India on the basis of the proposal for an exchange of population between Hindustan and Pakistan made by Mohammed Ali Jinnah and seven other prominent leaders of the Muslim League.
Many of the problems that India faces today are the result of the failure of the leadership to implement the corollaries of Partition. Indians should wake up and pull up their leaders, else their country would also face a future not very different from that of Europe's.
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