National leaders are
closing their eyes to Islam’s refusal to assimilate, By Cal Thomas -
- Wednesday, February 3, 2016
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Just as radar warns of
approaching storms, so does the flood of migrants entering Europe warn us of a
deluge yet to come, not only for Europeans, if they continue to allow
unrestricted immigration, but for the United States.
Reports that women in
Cologne, Germany, have been groped and robbed by men described by authorities
as having “a North African or Arabic” appearance should be warning enough, but
there are other and more ominous warnings that suggest worse lies ahead, unless
the problem receives immediate attention and action. And it’s not just Cologne.
The Gatestone
Institute, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit international policy council and think
tank, is in possession of what it describes as a “leaked German intelligence
document,” which says, “We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism,
national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples, as well as a different
understanding of society and law.”
Last October, reports
Gatestone, Andrew Parker, the director general of Britain’s Security Service,
said that ” ‘the scale and tempo’ of the danger to the [United Kingdom] is now
at a level he has not seen in his 32-year career. British police are monitoring
over 3,000 homegrown Islamist extremists willing to carry out attacks on the
U.K.”
On Wednesday,
President Obama visited a Baltimore mosque. According to The Daily Caller, the
mosque “has deep ties to extremist elements, including the Muslim Brotherhood.”
That mosque is not alone, as a map on the paper’s website reveals.
Explaining the
president’s visit, White House spokesman Keith Maley said, “The president
believes that one of our nation’s greatest strengths is our rich diversity.”
I doubt terrorists believe
that. I don’t believe that diversity, as practiced in America, exists in any
country with a Muslim majority.
Benedicte Bjornland, head
of the Norwegian Police Security Service, recently warned against further
Muslim immigration. When U.S. politicians suggest a similar approach, they are
denounced as “bigots” and “Islamophobes,” but in Norway and Sweden, two of the
most liberal nations in Europe that have welcomed Muslim immigrants, that
charge will be difficult to make stick.
What we are witnessing is
the complete breakdown and failure of multiculturalism. Dictionary.com defines
multiculturalism as “the preservation of different cultures or cultural
identities within a unified society, as a state or nation.”
That definition contains a
glaring contradiction. A society cannot be unified if it preserves different
cultures and cultural identities within itself. That’s why our national motto
is translated “out of many, one.” To the multiculturalist it appears to be,
“Out of one, many.”
History demonstrates that
no nation can long survive if it forgets why it exists. Our failure to
inculcate American traditions, beliefs and history, even in the native born,
not to mention immigrants, is rapidly destroying the country bequeathed to us
by our forebears.
Leftists in Europe and the
United States have promoted multiculturalism, believing that once Muslims
experience our freedoms and dedication to equality they will want to be like
us. It doesn’t appear to be working and anyone familiar with the Koran and its
“kingdom of this world” instructions knows it likely won’t.
European leaders, from
Germany’s Angela Merkel, to Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, have
deliberately closed their eyes to what they see unfolding in their countries,
and in others.
President Obama is doing
the same thing with his trip to the Baltimore mosque. Our enemies see our
weakness and failure to understand their objectives, which include destroying
the West and establishing a worldwide caliphate. This is not top secret
information. Not all Muslims are terrorists, to be sure, but large numbers of
radical Islamists profess allegiance to the faith and they are more than
willing to wreak havoc in pursuit of their goals.
An ancient proverb reminds
us: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
Cal Thomas is a nationally
syndicated columnist. His latest book is “What Works: Common Sense Solutions
for a Stronger America” (Zondervan, 2014).
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