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As Islamophobia migrates from the margins of European discourse to breach the mainstream, our opponents on the political Left are busily arming their partisans with objections and counter-arguments. Most of these arguments are (or will be) junk, but we’ve all come across a few that do not sound obviously false, and so let’s arm ourselves in kind, so to speak. Here are three reasonable sounding arguments against cultural preservation, followed by a clarification of each individual issue.
Claim: “People overestimate the number of Muslims in their country.”
Reality:
On the face of it, there is nothing to object to here. People do indeed overestimate the Islamic percentage of their nation’s population. In France for example, the Economist found that ordinary natives believed 1 in 5 French people were of Islamic origin, when the real figure is actually closer to 1 in 10.
As it relates to the larger picture however, this argument means next to nothing at all. History is a work in progress, and the predictions of mainstream demographers all concur that Islam will become a major cultural force in Europe in the coming decades and that it will ultimately find itself in a position to bully its cultural rivals – including secularists, Jews and Christians.
It must also be noted that statistics do not always tell the whole story, especially if numbers are cherry-picked out of their proper context. It’s true that Muslims currently make up a small percentage of passport-holding Europeans. However it is also true that this Muslim population is typically youthful and that the non-Muslim population is quickly aging. With the greatest respect to any older folk reading this, a native over the age of 65 cannot be counted on in a situation of street conflict or civil war – that is, unless the population is armed. To best understand the street-fighting power (and this matters) of European Muslims therefore, the figure of believers should rightly be doubled to reflect the real balance of forces. This detrimental process shows no sign of slowing down, and should native birth-rates recover to replacement level (and they show no sign of doing so) there will still be a very long and perilous period of ‘generational drag’ – a period open for more virile aliens to make their power felt.
Claim: “Muslims are just like Jews of the 1930s. Islamophobia is just a replacement for anti-Semitism.”
Reality:
I fully understand what people mean by this and – looked at with a lazy eye – the claim would appear to be supported by evidence. The cartoons we see depicting blood-thirsty Jihadis are clearly reminiscent (hook-noses and all) of those gruesome caricatures of Jews in Hitler’s Germany. Similarly, the phrase ‘Islamic Menace’ can easily be (mis)heard as an echo of ‘Jewish menace’, ‘Muslim problem’ of ‘Jewish problem’ and so on.
That though is as much as I will concede. Unlike contemporary Islamophobia, the anti-Jewish hate-wave which billowed across the continent in the early Twentieth century was a detailed portrait of human irrationality. Of course the Jews of Germany enjoyed a disproportionate share of influence (as they do today in America), but this is a consequence of talent, rather than conspiracy and this is borne out by the fact that all around the world, there are other ‘Jews’.
As Amy Chua explained in her book ‘World on Fire’, the concept of a ‘market-dominant minority’ is a universal one, and the reactions to it are everywhere the same. In Africa, the Tutsis of Rwanda were the ‘Jews’ – and they were attacked for it by Hutu Nazis. The Chinese minority in the Philippines are hated with a similarly violent passion and Filipino Nazis have called openly for their genocide. The Koreans of south Los Angeles in the 1990s were the ‘Jews’ – and the local Black Nazis reacted in the same time-honoured fashion. Chua’s rule is easy to understand and more-or-less solid: Whenever a racial minority does well, anywhere in the world, the racial majority senses conspiracy and reacts with violent populism.
But Islam is not hated because of envy. In modern Europe, Muslims are disliked because they are a proven threat to civilisation. No country in the world has ever successfully integrated a Muslim minority, or at least not without injury to its native way of life. In China, the Uygurs behead, blow up and enrage the Han majority. Lebanese Maronites have had their tolerance repaid with paramilitary violence. Serbia has been mutilated and half-destroyed. It is not irrational, but the height of clear-headedness for Europeans to resist the same fate.
Claim: “Muslims can be integrated. The reason they have not done yet is because of Islamophobia.”
Reality:
This is a quite ludicrous idea and I include it only because of its popularity. The reason Muslims haven’t integrated into our native culture has nothing to do with the native reaction to their lack of integration. It is frankly surreal to advocate any other way. But given that some continue to maintain this, the best response would be the following counter-interrogation: If Western Islamophobia explains the lack of Muslim integration into Western culture, why have Muslims similarly failed to integrate into Chinese, Thai, Latin American or African culture? Are Nigerians Islamophobic? Is that why Boko Haram exists – to combat reactionaries?
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Despite the increasing desperation of our enemies, I (like you) take great pleasure in being on the right side of history. When people look back at our generation, whether from the vantage point of a free world or a nightmarish Islamised Europe, some of us will be remembered fondly, and others with contempt. I implore everyone, of any background, to come over to the side of truth if they are not already here. It is not yet too late, but the clock is ticking.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
Really good article that answers the annoying ‘defence’ arguments that I’m sick of seeing over and over.
I liked this bit here:
” But Islam is not hated because of envy. In modern Europe, Muslims are disliked because they are a proven threat to civilization.”
carry on 🙂
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Thank you. Glad you liked it.
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“People overestimate the number of Muslims in their country.”
My counter to that is: People make that overestimation because Muslims exert a disproportionate influence on society and political events. This small minority demands concessions from the most banal to the most fundamental; These range from halal rules resulting in cruelly-slaughtered animals being introduced to our food supply, to demands we curtail our freedom of expression. They also commit certain crimes to an extent far beyond their population.
That’s why we overestimate their numbers – because every single day we see their disporportionately negative influence on society.
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“People make that overestimation because Muslims exert a disproportionate influence on society and political events” – Very true.
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A very prescient and insightful quote by the willfully ignored by the ‘multicultural’ elite, the political scientist and author, Samuel Huntington
“Islam’s borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.”
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He was overlooked because his arguments were unsettling and people have weak stomachs. It was only after 9/11 that people began to recognise his importance. He was far more prescient than Fukuyama in his assessment of the post-Soviet age.
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Another excellent post. It strikes me that support for Islam amongst the Western intelligentsia comes from two main directions: 1. Gullible liberals who buy into the kind of arguments that you dissect above. Is there any creature on earth more gullible than a Western liberal? 2. Radical leftists who see in Islam a kind of battering ram which they can use to bring about the downfall of that Western civilisation which they so loathe. Such people tried to destroy Western civilisation through the medium of Marxist-Leninism but that particular project ended in failure, so they’re having another go using Islam……..Useful Idiots and malicious radicals, both groups being necessary allies of the Islamic onslaught against the West.
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Gullibility is certainly one explanation, but I also think laziness and ignorance play a part. People are simply too lazy to read up on contrary arguments. Liberals are not always as educated and informed as they think.
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I agree with most everything but let’s be honest, there has been, from the very beginning hostility towards muslim immigrants. I do believe that while some probably did not want to integrate, others were prevented from doing so by a general atmosphere of distrust. This has come to a point where mulsim immigrants, or even second or third generation migrants that want to integrate suffer as much from peer pressure than organic reject.
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I know what you mean. Pakistanis are disliked for many non-cultural reasons in the English north. In France, there is a long tradition of Anti-Arabism – both for cultural, racist and historical political reasons (the Algerians terrorists for example, who forced the French to withdraw from North Africa, are seen as a leading cause of France’s decline as a world power), and so on… But these bigotries, like any other kind of racism, would have been moderated over time had Islamic mischief not confirmed their arguments.
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I don’t want Muslims to integrate if it means the majority having to integrate or excuse their misbehaviour or warped ideas.
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