Angry Islam Incompatible with European Liberalism

Europeans are increasingly unwilling to tolerate Muslim intolerance

The liberal media in this country are wringing their hands over increasing European intolerance. They worry that anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise even in Sweden...





 

"...home of the Nobel Prize and known as the "conscience of the world" for aiding refugees and pioneering laws for women's equality and gay rights. Yet even here, the Swedish Democrats made it into the Rikstag by tapping into a surge of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment sweeping across many nations in Western Europe, propelling right-wing and nationalist parties to their biggest gains in years." (WaPo)

Are our ink-stained scribblers and enlightened cognoscenti really too dumb to realize that Islam is the greatest threat to Europe's famed and admirable liberalism? Muslims are not known for championing women's equality and gay rights.

A Swede put it simply:

"The Swedish are tired of walking around in their own neighborhoods and feeling like they're in Saudi Arabia," said Ekeroth, an intense 30-year-old and founder of the new Anti-Islamic Fund, which promotes criticism of radical Islam. "It is time for the Swedish to be comfortable again in their own country."

Angry Muslim replaces Ugly American as #1 Threat to Europe

There is disorder in the European house. Europeans were living comfortably and peaceably in the home they had built, settling upon a live-and-let-live liberalism that has kept the peace for 65 years.  Ugly Americans demanding everybody speak English used to be the main disturber of Europe's peaceful repose.

Now, denizens of the Olde Continent are shocked and horrified to see that the Muslims they generously invited in have become a pack of wild animals let loose in the house. The beasts have found high perches upon couch backs and china cabinets and bare their fangs at common European behaviors and customs.

Because of these newcomers, Europeans must change their behavior?

How is that right? A people have a right to their culture, and nobody has the right to forcibly change it from the outside. This is especially so when the culture is beneficial to mankind, not a threat to others, and has been decided upon by the people. Europe's culture meets all three criteria.

"It isn't racist to want to preserve your culture," said Leif Johansson, a 64-year-old carpenter. "I'm open to immigration, but these people come without a thought to integration, no interest in learning Swedish or being part of Swedish society."

Precisely. No nation should be compelled to commit national suicide. But what else could the agenda be of a people who move in and angrily demand conformance to their strange and violent politico-religious freak show?

Europe may finally be fed up. I pray they are, and I pray we learn a lesson here before it's too late.

Liberalism Contains the Seeds of its Own Destruction

Europe's famed and admirable liberalism and tolerance are being snuffed by militant Muslims.  It's a case of tolerance taken too far, to its logical extreme:

Tolerating intolerance kills tolerance

Having tolerated Muslim intolerance, Europeans are now horrified to see rightwing political movements gaining ascendancy:

Socialists' long-standing support for European unification, religious tolerance and integrating immigrants has made them vulnerable to right-wing populists like the Sweden Democrats, Geert Wilders' Dutch Freedom Party or France's National Front. (Reuters - Anti-Immigrant Europe)

Angry, bigoted Muslims, the recipients of European tolerance, repay their liberal benefactors by spewing intolerance of anything outside their narrow, bigoted ideology.  Europeans are growing weary of it and voting rightwing as a result.

The People Get It

"People in Europe have grown comfortable in the decades since World War Two and now they see that level of comfort threatened," Grabbe said. "The result is that tolerance is no longer held dear as a European value, even in countries that used to be proud of being open and liberal." (Reuters - Anti-Immigrant Europe)

I am not bashing Europe. They have way too much socialism for my taste, and they fund it by confiscatory taxation while having us carry their defense burden. But it is their choice. They have built a nice, peaceful life for themselves, and it is being ruined by liberal immigration policies.

An Example from Nature by Dr. Michael Savage
Michael Savage best explains it best by taking an example from nature (I’m paraphrasing from memory). A society should be like a strawberry, luscious and juicy and sweet on the inside, but with barbs on the outside to keep the predators away. Yes, many varieties of berries have barbs, they are just so fine that they don’t bother humans eating them, but they do repel the pests that try to eat them on the vine.

Europe is a beautiful continent and the people are wonderful. They are way too collectivist for my tastes, but it’s their society, not mine. If they want to hold on to the world they have built, they need to put some barbs on their berries.

NY Time - Swedish Anti-Immigration
Reuters - European Socialist Crisis

Dhimming the Lights in Olde Europe

Who cares if a Muslim scrawls on the side of a Catholic cathedral?  Europeans sure as hell aren't using it.  Europe's Churches are hollow tombs waiting for the continent's death rattle.  





The Astute Bloggers have a post about a Muslim stone mason carving “Allahu Akbar” on the side of a French Cathedral he is helping restore. God-fearing conservatives posted their outrage at Europe's increasing submission to Islam, but I take a different view.  He should tack on some minarets while he's up there.

Europeans have done it to themselves
They hate God, they hate children, they rail against the United States about how we’re destroying the world and wrecking their European culture by our global dominance and our crappy fast food. Yet that same culture collapses like a soggy house of cards in the face of angry Muslim bigotry.

They won’t f**k and they won’t fight. They are done as a society, and they deserve to be.  Europeans are a bigger insult to the Catholic Church than that Muslim man who calls the Cathedral he is restoring a “sacred place.”

Europe will be a Muslim continent in 50 years

Europeans refuse to breed; Muslims are cranking them out like crazy.

It saddens me to say this, I lived there for three years, but Europe is done, strangled by its tolerance of intolerance, child hatred, and liberal immigration policy.

Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski are crying in their graves. What Islam failed to do by the sword they will surely do by demographics.

And who cares? A flabby, flacid people unwilling to propagate their race and advance their culture deserve to die out. The gene pool will be improved at Europe’s passing.  America, Canada and Australia will continue to carry the torch.

Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu, Ta Ta.

WHY IS GREEN ENERGY GREEN ???

THERE'S GREEN IN THEM THAR TECHNOLOGIES !!!!!!!!!!!
President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Congress to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil and pass a clean-energy bill that he says would help the nation end its dependence on fossil fuels.

And the plan is....

Drive up the price of existing energy sources to a level that makes immature and unreliable "green" alternative technologies a viable alternative, thus ending our dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil.

Great for the environment, good for green technology investors and companies, bad for the American consumer.

So, which party is it that is in bed with big business? Oh yeah...that's right, BOTH OF THEM! They're just in bed with different businesses, lobbies, and donors.

As of 5/31 the average price of gas in the US was $2.73 of that 47.7 cents went to the government (18.4 cents federal). So, for a gallon of gas that average US worker had to work 7 minutes.

The average price of gas per gallon in the UK is currently 120p/liter, at 3.79 liters to the gallon the price per gallon in the UK is 4.54....but wait, that's in Pounds....at the current exchange rate of 1.4643 dollars to the pound the price of a gallon of gas in the UK is $6.66 USD (Honestly, that number is just coincidence...the price is 6.6596).

Of that 120p per liter, the UK petrol tax is 56.9p per litre, almost half (47.4%)....but wait, that's before the 17.5% VAT tax... with the VAT the total tax on petrol is roughly 65% of the cost versus 17.5% in the US.

Who gets hurt by higher gas prices? The average American worker.

With gas at $2.73 a gallon the US average hourly wage is $22.47

With gas at $6.66 a gallon the UK average hourly wage is $19.05 USD (Thats 488 pounds for 37.5 hours of work in 2009)

In real terms a gallon of gas is 7 minutes of work in the US and 20 minutes of work in the UK

British cars on average are 20% more fuel efficient than American cars, but gas cost roughly 140% more.

The average economy of 2009 new passenger cars was 32 MPG and the average US commute was 16 miles. That's 1 gallon of gas round trip (ideal), $2.73 cents, or 7 minutes of work. With British gas prices and fuel economy that would equate to $5.32 cents or 14 minutes of work.

Raising taxes or rolling back tax breaks for oil will both do the same thing, raise the price of gas, this will also cause price increases for everything else due to increased transportation costs. When the general prices of goods rise over time in respect to currency, that is inflation, plain and simple.

The false assumption is that when common market energy costs rise, the costs of alternatives won't. What is your viable alternative to fossil fuels? Electric cars? When the price of fossil fuels rise, the cost of the electricity used to charge them will also rise. A Toyota Prius currently gets 48-52 MPG under ideal circumstances. If the price of gas goes up 140%....are you going to be happy with a car that gets 60% better mileage? Even with a Prius the commute that now costs you $2.73 is going to cost you $4 (instead of $6.66) and that doesn't include the increased cost of charging due to increased fossil fuel costs for those of you with plug-ins.

Keep in mind that $6.66 petrol prices in England has not spurred a massive development and market of alternative fueled vehicles. The vast majority of cars in England still burn fossil fuels, albeit most are low displacement turbo diesel sub-compacts with mileage rates similar to the Prius and we all know how you environmentalists feel about diesel. The vast majority of high mileage turbo-diesels in the UK aren't for sale here because they can't pass the EPA standards for diesel emissions.

Take an easy example:

US Volkswagen Golf 2-DR 2.0 TDI/UK Volkswagen Golf Match 2-DR 2.0 TDI

US: 30 city/41 highway, MSRP $22,354 USD
UK: 46 city/70 highway, MSRP $30,625 USD

Another good example for you performance enthusiasts is the Mercedes C350

The British petrol version of the C350 has the same size engine (3.5 liter V6 200 kW (268 hp) has a top speed of 155 and a 0-62 of 6.4s (62 because that is 100 km/hr) it gets 20/38 mpg and has CO2 emissions of 232 g/km.

The American version has the same size engine (3.5 liter V6 268 hp (200kW) has a top speed limited to 130 mph and a 0-60 of 6.1 seconds but it only gets 17/25 mpg and has calculated* CO2 emissions of 487g/km. You can't say that American Mercedes enthusiasts wouldn't flock to a C350 that gets 38 mpg on the highway for a performance sacrifice measured in tenths of a second.

* The UK MB website provides the CO2 g/km figure, no figure provided on the US MB website, but the EPA provides a figure of 9.2 metric tons/year. A little research provided the EPA calculation is based on 11720 miles per year and is based on gallons of gas consumed (metric tons/gallon times gallons used). I converted the metric tons to grams (9200000), converted 11720 miles into kilometers (18862) and divided... coming up with 487.75 g/km. Now I have no idea how the Europeans calculate that, but I would guess it's measured. This is the best figure I can come up with for the American version... any engineers out there are free to correct me.

So the question is: Why can't you buy a European C350 in the USA?

And don't think it's just European manufacturers... the European Ford Focus Econetic gets 62 mpg, the best you can expect from the US version is 35 mpg.

That all comes down to NHTSA and EPA regulations, the US blocks the importation of vehicles built to the international ECE standard and it currently impossible to build a vehicle that meets both the ECE and US FMVSS. The two standards are not as divergent as you would think, one major sticking point in reconciliation being headlight design. I don't think many would argue that European model cars are not as safe as their American counterparts. Differences in environmental testing diverge less in end results than in testing methodologies and individual focus. A European clean diesel engine is arguably more environmentally friendly, yet will not pass US emission requirements.

Repealing oil tax breaks and driving up the price of gas is not a winning move for the American public. We don't need more fossil fuel regulations and taxes to promote green energy. The answer is less regulation not more. Want a 70 mpg car? adopt the international ECE vehicle standard and allow the importation of European models into the US. Afraid of killing off the rest of the automotive industry? Provide a 1-3 year window in which American manufacturers can retool, say allowing sale of ECE vehicles by American manufactures the first year, and gradually raise the number of allowed foreign ECE imports by 20% per year in subsequent years for 5 years until we are back to a free-market on sales.

If you're for penalizing fossil fuels to promote green technology, follow the money... Oil loses, Coal loses, the American Public loses, who wins? It's certainly not the environment.

Cheers!

Finntann

Europe's Slow, Painful Suicide

Watching Europe's decline at the hands of modern-day Vandals and Visigoths is sickening.  The worst part is that Europeans have done it to themselves.  It's like watching a dear friend slowly kill himself with drugs...

MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic district of Milan, smashing shop windows and overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian...

The rioting began on Saturday evening after a 19-year-old Egyptian man, identified by police as Hamed Mamoud El Fayed Adou, was killed, apparently by a group of immigrants from South America.

Diversity is Perversity...

... When guilty liberals use it to promote cultural dysfunction.  Is a culture that circumcises little girls and kills young women for looking at a boy really equivalent to Italy's rich cultural tradition?

Is allowing newcomers to form criminal gangs and snuff the natives' traditional way of life a form of cultural outreach?

Europe is Dying
This saddens me, because I love Europe.  I have lived there and traveled to many countries on the continent.  This is what happens when a morally flaccid people can't sustain themselves by having enough children.  They have to import troublemakers in the hopes that the noisome newcomers will sustain the social programs that the aging nation depends upon.

I hate to say it, but a country that becomes ashamed of its culture and unable to sustain itself has earned its decline...

Arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, cheerio...