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French Intifada: A Clear and Present Danger

The Face of Radical European Muslims

By Dale Hurd
CBN News Sr. Reporter

CBN.com – LONDON, England - When the Muslim world reacted in fury over the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, it was the face of moderation that European Muslim leaders wanted the world to see.

“The mainstream Muslims living in this country want to show that we can express our protest in a very legitimate, in a very civil, in a very courteous way," said Sheik Zaim Siddiqi.

But the other face of European Islam has also expressed itself -- for instance, when Muslims took to the streets and chanted: "Denmark, go to Hell. George Bush, go to Hell. U.S.A., go to Hell. Nuke, nuke Denmark -- We want Danish blood -- we want Danish blood -- we want Danish blood!”

That demonstration took place this year, outside the Danish embassy in London.

The chants continued: "Denmark, you will pay…with your heads, with your heads. Denmark, you will pay…with your blood, with your blood."

One of the demonstrators was dressed as a suicide bomber. Even moderate British Muslims were outraged that no one was arrested, even though British law forbids incitement to murder.

But this follows a pattern of extraordinary - some would say dangerous -- tolerance of Muslim radicals.

Flashing back to 2004, Muslim protesters threatened bloodshed in a demonstration that occurred one year before London's "7/7" subway and bus bombings.

Abdulrahman Saleem, Al Muhajiroun said, "Tony Blair has been warned. Pull your troops out of Afghanistan. Pull your troops out of Iraq. If you do not pull your troops out, you will get bloodshed on the streets of London."

Again, no one was arrested, and moderate Muslims showed up to keep the media from publicizing what -- for them -- has become a public relations nightmare.

"That's disgusting,” said moderate Muslim Masood Bazak. “I mean, it doesn't serve any purpose. These guys don't represent me. They probably don't represent most Muslims in this country. And they do a disservice, not only to (those) living here in the UK, but they do a major disservice to Muslims.”

They may not represent the views of most British Muslims, but polls do suggest the Muslim middle is radicalizing.

A recent survey shows that 40 percent of British Muslims want Islamic Sharia law in the United Kingdom. Sharia imposes punishments such as amputations and stonings. And in a separate poll, nearly one third of Muslims (32 percent) agreed with the statement that "Western society is decadent and immoral, and that Muslims should seek to bring it to an end."

Critics say that European political correctness and multiculturalism, which were supposed to embrace Muslim radicals and somehow westernize them, have backfired. And now, western Europe seems paralyzed by the political correctness that grips the government and the media

“One of the biggest fears for a lot of commentators, whether they're terrorist commentators or commentators on the Middle East,” said terrorism expert Simon Barrett, “is that if they actually address this whole issue of Islam and start to question it… is being labeled an Islamophobe.”

Trevor Kavanagh, journalist for Britain's biggest-selling daily newspaper, The Sun, said, “There is a real reluctance to offend the ethnic communities of any sort, let alone the Muslim community,”

And there seems to be lack of political will to stop Muslim radicals bent on conquest.

The Dutch Parliament has tried to strike a blow against radical Islam by voting to ban the burqa and veils. But that exposes unveiled women to being raped by Muslim men as punishment. There is reported to be a growing rape epidemic of unveiled women in Europe.

In London, Shadow Homeland Security Director Patrick Mercer of the Conservative Party said Britain remains in denial, and thinks it is protected by what he calls ‘pointless legislation.’

“You have to ask yourself,” Mercer said, “what is a piece of paper going to do to an Islamist fundamentalist, or any other form of fundamentalist terrorist, for that matter, and the suicide bombers? Are you going to be able hold [it] up in front of them and say, don't blow yourselves up or we'll get really cross?”

In France, the government continues to pretend that Muslim anti-Semitism is not a major problem. But it could not keep tens of thousands of Frenchmen from marching last month, after the brutal murder of a young Jew named Ilan Halimi by French Muslims.

Halimi was held for ransom and then tortured to death by Muslim immigrants, who phoned his family and recited to them verses from the Koran as their son screamed in agony.

“A lot of Jews in Europe, and especially in France, are really scared about the future. I have many Jewish friends and they say to me, ‘We think we should have to leave France to go to the United States, to Canada, to Israel, but France will not be our country any more,"’ said French conservative political writer Guy Milliere.

It is a similar story all over Europe. Muslims demonstrate and chant: "Khlabar, Khalbar, O Jew, the Army of Mohammed is coming for you."

In the wake of the cartoon protests, a worldwide group of intellectuals, including Salman Rushdie, who was threatened with death by Muslims in the 1970s for his book on Mohammed called The Satanic Verses, recently signed a declaration.

The declaration states…"After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global threat: Islamism…It is not a clash of civilizations, nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats."

And Europe's problem with radical Muslims is our problem too, because they cry, "Nuke, nuke U.S.A. In your blood, in your blood...”

Political correctness has been the fertilizer that has helped Muslim radicalism grow in Britain.
Political correctness intimidates the media and law enforcement.

The chanters warn, "Denmark, watch your back. Bin Laden's coming back."

But Western Europe and Britain may have to choose between political correctness and the survival of its civilization.

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