For over two decades now, the establishment media has been waving away concerns about Islamization, that is, the transformation of the free societies of the West into Islamic societies in which the rights of women and non-Muslims are severely curtailed, as a conspiracy theory, the brainchild of far-right, racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” A old video has recently resurfaced of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni discussing the phenomenon in Europe, and some recent incidents show that concern about it is entirely justified — not just in Europe, but in America as well.
In the video, which apparently dates from 2018, before Meloni was prime minister, but began circulating again in late March, Meloni says: “There is a process of Islamization underway in Europe, which is very far removed from the values of our civilization.” This has led to the predictable indignation, but around the same time the video of Meloni began circulating, a few news items from around Europe made it clear that she had an important point.
Both of these stories indicated a readiness on the part of at least some Europeans to give up their age-old customs and traditions in order to make Muslim newcomers feel welcome, despite the fact that a concomitant interest in assimilation and acceptance of European values on the part of those new arrivals has been notably lacking.
The Austrian German-language publication Unzensuriert reported Thursday that at an elementary school in the Flachgau area of Salzburg, a diversity-and-multiculturalism-minded teacher had her fourth-grade students sing a Ramadan song during what was supposed to be a Catholic religious education class.
“Ramadan is the most beautiful time of the year,” the Catholic children dutifully sang, and at the end of the school day, when the children returned home, one girl in the class innocently asked her mother why “Allah is so great.” The girl told her mother that the song was just one part of a larger presentation: the entire Catholic religious education class had been devoted, Unzensuriert reported, to “Islam and its customs.” The Austrian publication adds that “the mother subsequently had to explain to her daughter ‘that we have our God and not Allah,’” which “annoyed the woman enormously.”
The local “inspector for Catholic religious education,” however, was entirely unsympathetic, and insisted that the teacher “did nothing wrong.” Indeed, one may see this school lesson as an exercise in inculcating tolerance and respect for the views and practices of others. One serious problem with that idea, however, is that it isn’t reciprocated.
Mosques and Islamic schools, neither in Austria nor anywhere else, are teaching their children to sing Christmas carols or Easter hymns, and teaching them to value their Catholic neighbors. On the contrary, the Qur’an calls non-Muslims “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). Hardly a promising basis for dialogue and mutual respect.
The other incident took place in Britain. Fox News reported Sunday that “a secular primary school in England faced backlash from Christians after it canceled its annual Easter parade and service to create a more ‘inclusive’ environment.” Headteacher Stephanie Mander of Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, Hampshire “reportedly sent a letter home to parents informing them that the school's Easter Bonnet Parade and Easter service would be canceled this year to make sure all beliefs were respected.”
Mander explained: "By not holding specific religious celebrations, we aim to create a more inclusive atmosphere that honors and respects the beliefs of all our children and their families.” Canceling Easter celebrations, she said, "aligns with our values of inclusivity and respect for diversity."
Yeah. Voluntarily giving up one’s own culture and traditions will make for a marvelously diverse society. If all non-Muslims in Britain followed this line of thinking, the only religious observances in the country will be Islamic ones. And there we are back again at Meloni’s warning about the Islamization of Europe.
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Of course, it can’t happen here, except that it is happening here. The RAIR Foundation, a group that is dedicated to opposing Islamization, has been doing valuable work uncovering the activities of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), which it describes as a “powerful Islamic mega-mosque that has acquired vast land holdings to construct an autonomous Sharia-adherent Islamic community.”
That’s a vastly different phenomenon from the spectacle of Christians giving up their traditions to avoid offending Muslims, but in the end, the outcome is the same: a historically non-Muslim land becomes a Muslim one. This is conspiracy theory. It’s happening all over, as it is mandated in the Qur’an that Muslims must fight non-believers until “religion is all for Allah” (8:39). That fighting doesn’t always involve terrorist attacks; there are plenty of other ways to achieve the desired goal of religion being all for Allah — or, as others would put it, Islamization.
