First they came for the gays

[DixieBelle]

PJM Oslo: Once an oasis of tolerance, Europe is slowly but surely succumbing to Islamization. “Sharia law may still be an alien concept to some Westerners,” writes Bruce Bawer. “But it’s staring gay Europeans right in the face — and pointing toward a chilling future for all free people.”

by Bruce Bawer

One day last month, I gave a talk in Rome about how the supposedly liberal ideology of multiculturalism has made possible the spread in Europe of the highly illiberal ideology of fundamentalist Islam, with all its brutality and – among other things – violent homophobia. When I returned to my hotel, I phoned my partner back home in Oslo only to learn that moments earlier he had been confronted at a bus stop by two Muslim youths, one of whom had asked if he was gay, started to pull out a knife, then kicked him as he got on the bus, which had pulled up at just the right moment. If the bus hadn’t come when it did, the encounter could have been much worse.

Not very long ago, Oslo was an icy Shangri-la of Scandinavian self-discipline, governability, and respect for the law. But in recent years, there have been grim changes, including a rise in gay-bashings. The summer of 2006 saw an unprecedented wave of them. The culprits, very disproportionately, are young Muslim men.

It’s not just Oslo, of course. The problem afflicts most of Western Europe. And anecdotal evidence suggests that such crimes are dramatically underreported. My own partner chose not to report his assault. I urged him to, but he protested that it wouldn’t make any difference. He was probably right.

The reason for the rise in gay bashings in Europe is clear – and it’s the same reason for the rise in rape. As the number of Muslims in Europe grows, and as the proportion of those Muslims who were born and bred in Europe also grows, many Muslim men are more inclined to see Europe as a part of the umma (or Muslim world), to believe that they have the right and duty to enforce sharia law in the cities where they live, and to recognize that any aggression on their part will likely go unpunished. Such men need not be actively religious in order to feel that they have carte blanche to assault openly gay men and non-submissive women, whose freedom to live their lives as they wish is among the most conspicuous symbols of the West’s defiance of holy law.

Multiculturalists can’t face all this. So it is that even when there are brutal gay-bashings, few journalists write about them; of those who do, few mention that the perpetrators are Muslims; and those who do mention it take the line that these perpetrators are lashing out in desperate response to their own oppression.

Never mind that Europe, far from oppressing Muslims, offers personal freedoms and welfare-state benefits far beyond those available in any Muslim country. Never mind that few if any Europeans – certainly not gay people – are doing any Muslim-bashing. Never mind that Hindu and Buddhist immigrants, or immigrants from South America or China, feel no compulsion to react violently against their “oppression.” No, assaults by Muslims always have to be construed as defensive – as expressions not of power but of weakness, not of aggression but of helplessness. To suggest that the culprits, far from being fragile, sensitive flowers who’ve been pushed over the line by something we did, are in fact bullies driven by an overweening sense of superiority and a deep-seated malice – both of which they’ve been carefully taught at home, at school, and, yes, in the mosque – is verboten.

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It’s very clear what’s going on here – and where it’s all headed. Europe is on its way down the road of Islamization, and it’s reached a point along that road at which gay people’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is being directly challenged, both by knife-wielding bullies on the street and by taxpayer-funded thugs whose organizations already enjoy quasi-governmental authority. Sharia law may still be an alien concept to some Westerners, but it’s staring gay Europeans right in the face – and pointing toward a chilling future for all free people. Pim Fortuyn saw all this coming years ago; most of today’s European leaders still refuse to see it even though it’s right before their eyes.

http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/01/first_they_came_for_the_gays.php

Are you listening Liberals??

[Lord Undies]

Liberals don't need to listen because it is something they have known all along.  Liberals aren't blind to what they embrace. 

Right now, all that is important to liberals is the way-overdue comeuppance of Western culture and the conservatism which accompanies it.  This important goal supercedes everything else at this point in time.  It is especially urgent since George W. Bush is in the White House.  The liberals have pretty much said the homosexuals will just have to absorb the damage islam does to their way of life until the liberals realize their goals.

Liberals don't really give a shit about homosexuals.  Liberals use the radical  homosexual agenda as a tool in their war chest against conservatism.  When the radical homosexuals are no longer useful, the liberals will applaud the beheadings to come.   

[DixieBelle]

^Scary isn't it? Clearly you are correct. Rosie O'Dumbell has already consumed the Flavor-Aide - she thinks terrorists are just "parents like the rest of us". Apparently we're picking on them.....wonder if she'll sing the same tune at the guillotine?

[Bondai]

  Payback is a bitch......

[Chris_]

Liberals don't need to listen because it is something they have known all along.  Liberals aren't blind to what they embrace. 

Right now, all that is important to liberals is the way-overdue comeuppance of Western culture and the conservatism which accompanies it.  This important goal supercedes everything else at this point in time.  It is especially urgent since George W. Bush is in the White House.  The liberals have pretty much said the homosexuals will just have to absorb the damage islam does to their way of life until the liberals realize their goals.

Liberals don't really give a shit about homosexuals.  Liberals use the radical  homosexual agenda as a tool in their war chest against conservatism.  When the radical homosexuals are no longer useful, the liberals will applaud the beheadings to come.   

The only thing a liberal hates more than gays and minorities is him/her self.

[RedTail]

^Scary isn't it? Clearly you are correct. Rosie O'Dumbell has already consumed the Flavor-Aide - she thinks terrorists are just "parents like the rest of us". Apparently we're picking on them.....wonder if she'll sing the same tune at the guillotine?

To the end.

At another board I post, there is a Scot Socialist Lesbian (younger than me, natch) who thinks I'm barbaric and violent for advocating that those that are not straight should be armed... especially those not quite even adhering to a particular gender. This dumb bitch would rather DIE than defend herself.

If she is any indication of the mentality of the Continent, all I have to say is... send me back for the books, and build a trench around the cathedrals, and let the rest of the place go to seed.

*TKay*

[DixieBelle]

^The psychological implications are stunning aren't they? You could spend a lifetime studying people like that. Meanwhile, they get the rest of us killed. Well, some of us who aren't armed

[Lord Undies]

The wickeds' devotion to their worldview mirrors the intensity of devotion the Bible tells us we should have for God.   In the perfect sense, that devotion to God keeps the faithful from being wicked.  In the imperfect sense, the devotion to their worldview keeps the wicked from accepting God and requires they do everything in their power to reject the Truth.   

The rejection of Truth allows the wicked to reject good and embrace evil, even if they stand to lose their head in  the process.  It even allows them to reject the notion they themselves are wicked, for there is no God to judge them.   No price is too high to pay to prove there is no Christian God.

   

[DixieBelle]

Yes, they see no problem sacrificing others to hold their warped views. Scary.

[RedTail]

^The psychological implications are stunning aren't they? You could spend a lifetime studying people like that. Meanwhile, they get the rest of us killed. Well, some of us who aren't armed

And the sad thing is...arming oneself isn't even a Left v. Right issue anymore at that board...there are transgirls that pack heat for their own safety...many of the moonbats there are armed because they do see what is going to happen to "that kind" in Europe.

*TKay*

[Tess Anderson]

GLBTs have always been useful idiots to any Marxist. They will be stepped over themselves when the road named "Sharia Law Lane" is finally paved.

[Lacarnut]

All I can tell these misguided liberal souls in the EU is, you reap what you sow

[Ptarmigan]

GLBTs have always been useful idiots to any Marxist. They will be stepped over themselves when the road named "Sharia Law Lane" is finally paved.

Communist regimes persecuted and killed many homosexuals, especially in Soviet Union, China, and Cuba.

[DumbAss Tanker]

GLBTs have always been useful idiots to any Marxist. They will be stepped over themselves when the road named "Sharia Law Lane" is finally paved.

Ten nooses, no waiting.