Islam versus Europe

All across the civilised world, the Islamic evil is putting down roots in the form of mosques. Often conceived in jarringly outlandish architectural styles, they are apparently exempt from the requirement to blend in with the surroundings that is typically imposed on any proposed new building project as a standard part of the planning process. Indeed, not only are mosques exempt from planning laws; they are often exempt from the laws of economics. In many cases, the land for the mosque site is made available at no cost by the local government.

Almost invariably, people in the area are dismayed about the initiative. They realise that mosques are markers for Muslim colonisation and act as vectors disseminating the Islamic mind virus further through the body politic, forming a focal point for the extremism and intolerance that is intrinsic to Islam. But they face what is, in effect, an elite conspiracy against them.

According to orthodox elite opinion, Islam is a religion of peace, only a tiny minority of its adherents pose any problems and only lunatic extremists think otherwise. Many people now know better. Polls show that about half the European population now sees Islam as a threat. But, still, it is not yet permitted to voice these views within the public sphere.

When publicly objecting to the proposed construction of a mosque, therefore, people are forced to couch their argument in anodyne terms. Often they will complain about lack of parking, fear of excess traffic and so forth rather than state the simple truth, which is that they fear the spread of Islamic evil into their neighbourhood. There are recorded cases where those who decided to dispense with political correctness and state the simple truth later had their objections passed to the police for possible prosecution.

How then can we reconcile our wish to limit the further spread of Islamic institutions with the artificially exalted standard of morality that is required within the public sphere? In a word: reciprocity.

We must make the construction of mosques in civilised countries contingent on the freedom to construct Christian and other non-Muslim places of worship in predominantly Islamic countries. This is an idea that could gain traction and acquire public support even among those normally too timid to embrace anti-Islam ideas publicly.

Usually, the idea of artificially attributing the status of a collectivity to people would be questionable. For example, holding negroes responsible for atrocities committed in Africa or Catholics responsible for IRA terrorism in Northern Ireland would be ridiculous. In the case of Muslims, however, it is they themselves who demand to be recognised as a collectivity: the Umma. And this concept of the Umma has an institutional expression: the OIC.

So the demand for reciprocity has something to focus on. We simply demand that the countries of the OIC, all of them, establish freedom of worship within their own domain, including the freedom to construct places of worship without facing unduly burdensome regulation and the freedom to convert from one religion to another or to abandon religion altogether without facing prosecution or persecution from the state or non-state actors. Once these conditions have been established in all OIC countries, we will allow Muslims to construct as many mosques as they like in our countries. Until then, there will be a complete ban on any further mosque construction.

Of course, hypocritical human rights organisations and the UN will whine about the injustice of this, but the nature of the reciprocity demand is such that they cannot do it without facing up to the issue of the existing restrictions on non-Islamic worship in predominantly Islamic countries. By even talking about the issue, they will only publicise it further, exposing their own hypocrisy in having remained silent about it before.

Until the rest of the western world catches up to us in its understand of the Islamic menace - and that will happen eventually, because Islam cures everyone’s naivety in the end – we need to frame out resistance in ways that are as congenial as possible to those still partially entranced by establishment dogmas like non-discrimination and human rights. A demand for reciprocity is the perfect way to do it.

Once the campaign got going and gained significant publicity, it could only be a victory of some kind. If it succeeds, mosque construction is either stopped here or the Islamic monolith is broken down in the Muslim heartlands. If it fails, it will be an ongoing illustration of Islamic hypocrisy and the elite collaborationism. Either way, it’s good for our cause.