The West must re-examine human rights, political correctness and multiculturalism.

“If it wants to survive, Europe must go beyond mere legal measures and constitutionality and begin examining three of the principles that are the mainstays of its culture: human rights, political correctness and multiculturalism.”

By Mordechai Kedar, INN

Kedar1[..] The war is not limited to firearms and bombs. More and more people are beginning to discern the gaps allowing the enemy to breach the walls of the West’s encampment. The mass migration from Islamic lands, starting in the seventies, is well entrenched in Europe but has not integrated into European culture, has not adopted its mores and has, instead, carefully held on to its original culture, nurtured in neighborhoods where the host country’s culture is not welcome.

As a result of last weekend’s attacks, French President Francois Hollande announced that France will change its laws to allow the government to cancel the citizenship of suspected terrorists. Now they wake up? Where were they three years ago, in 2012, when Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his two sons Arieh and Gabriel and the little Miriam Monsonego were murdered in Toulouse by a murderer who arrived from the Jihadi fields of the Middle East? Where was the French government after the murders at Hyper Cacher and Charlie Hebdo this past January? What steps were taken when Ilan Halimi was barbarically murdered in Paris in 2006? All these terrorist murders were perpetrated by Muslims who could have had their citizenship revoked. France is shutting the barn door now that the horse has bolted.

If it wants to survive, Europe must go beyond mere legal measures and constitutionality and begin examining three of the principles that are the mainstays of its culture: human rights, political correctness and multiculturalism.

The concept of “human rights” is a broad term that took over much of Europe’s public, media and legal discourse as a result of WWII, the Holocaust and Europe’s colonialist crimes. This all-embracing concept has left no room for its counterpart, “human obligations’, and is interpreted to mean that every human being has basic rights whether or not he fulfills his basic obligations and duties. That is the reason Europe granted the entire world’s unemployed the right to reach its shores.

An exaggerated concept of human rights also provided the justification for not having children. As a result, the demographic statistics for Europe are disastrous, making it necessary for a constant stream of foreign workers to arrive to work in factories, transportation, services, groceries and laundromats. Except that these workers, unlike immigrants in the past, live in cultural enclaves and do not budge from the lifestyles of their countries of origin.

This brings us to the next Achilles’ heel, multiculturalism. Many Europeans believe that a country can manage to contain a number of cultures. In the case of Islamic immigrant culture, that means allowing polygamy, dependence on welfare systems, family violence, vandalism, violence against people who are not Muslims, unorganized labor and the acceptance of Sharia courts whose verdicts are often at odds with the host country’s laws.

The real meaning of multiculturalism in this case is the takeover by a violent society of the non-violent host culture in the public, economic and political domain, a situation that cannot go on for long. Law enforcement officers fear entering the violent neighborhoods that harbor this culture, one that lives on the social, economic and political periphery of the host country. Marginal people who feel neglected and ostracized are a short distance from terror.

The third problem Europe will have to find a way to deal with is political correctness that shuts the mouths of anyone pointing to the problem by labeling them racists, extremists and rabble rousers, then placing them in the docks to be castigated by the media, academia, politicians and the public. Political correctness paralyzes any efforts against those who are destroying the foundations of society – it has reached the point where, in Sweden, it is forbidden to connect the rising harassment and rape of women to Muslim immigrants, even though the vast majority of the incidents really are perpetrated by Muslim immigrants – who believe that the wives of infidels are their property.

The battle is not confined and cannot be confined to those who fired, blew up and murdered hundreds of French and Russian citizens over the past month. The war is being waged on a much larger battlefield, with a comprehensive ideological framework that justifies violence against the nations of Europe and their culture.  The nations of Europe must take back the ability to defend themselves instead of allowing democracy to be used as a tool in the hands of those who are against democratic values, especially that of liberty.

Israel is part of the campaign

Israel talked for quite a while about declaring the “Northern Branch” of the Islamic Movement, headed by Sheikh Raed Salah,  illegal. This branch currently enjoys all the protection and freedoms which a democratic society provides its citizens, but does not believe in democracy in the slightest. It subscribes only to the Islamic values as set down by the Muslim Brotherhood’s philosophers. It does believe in liberty, but only for Muslims, and not including religious liberty or the freedom to leave the Islamic faith. It does believe in equality, but only between Muslims, while Jews, Christians and infidels must live under Islamic protection with limited rights. It does believe in monotheism, but other monotheistic religions such as Christianity and Judaism, are deemed invalid, while Islam is the only true faith.

The Islamic Movement believes that Jews form religious communities which are part of the various nations in which they live and therefore are not a nation deserving of its own state. They believe that the Land of Israel, in its entirety, is holy to Islam and only to Islam, so that there is no justification for the State of Israel’s very existence – in their eyes, it is the state of a non-existent nation with an invalid religion, whose territory is slated to become part of a Muslim country.

The branch headed by Raed Salah was founded in 1996. Since then, he has been inciting Israeli Arab citizens against the state, its government and its army, and is especially virulent about Israeli control over the El Aksa Mosque, the site of Judaism’s Holy Temples.  He views Jewish control on the Temple Mount as an indication of Judaism’s return to life, posing a theological threat to Islam and so the Movement works feverishly to undermine Jewish hold on Jerusalem.

The Northern Branch

Both the Northern and Southern Branch believe in the same ideology, but the Southern Branch plays the Israeli political game, sits in the Knesset and acts as though it accepts the existence of a Jewish State. It is less violent and therefore less popular among Israeli Arabs.

Now that Israel has decided to declare the organization illegal, it is crucial to oversee the effectiveness of that measure on two fronts;

a. Have the movement’s activists stopped their anti-Israel activities or have they gone underground and moved to less legal and more violent attacks?

b. How will this move affect the rest of Israel’s Arab citizens? Will they side with the movement and its goals or will they – in time – turn their backs on it.

This is a war, a war against Islamic fanatics, and in war as in war. The West and Israel do not have the option of losing.

Written in Hebrew for Arutz Sheva, translated from the Hebrew by Rochel Sylvetsky, Arutz Sheva Op-ed and Judaism editor.

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  1. dove Said:

    We`ll make it. Just wish we didn`t have to go through so much grief to get there.

    We made it… life is full of grief for most folks.
    Others are being taught our pain from their own experience.
    It does not look like it but the glass is half full 🙂

  2. dove Said:

    I agree with you bernhard………….. I have enjoyed letting the men do all the ‘bull’ work

    dove Said:

    Thanks for being so gracious.

    not gracious, meant it… your post was especially interesting to me because you spelled my name in its original correct spelling AND also had the surname of the man my father named me after in “quotation marks” in your post: his name was Bernhard Bull.
    I always spend time thinking about unusual coincidence and at this time it reminded me of the beginning of my life and my father who died when I was a teenager. he came from germany to england on the last of the kindertransport with his brother… sent by my grand parents from germany at the last minute. everyone got out in the end but my fathers and uncles life were changed…. that change was the cause of my birth. I dont usually like to talk about my personal life in detail, on the web, but I am a student of life’s coincidences and saw in your post a message for me, unrelated to everything else. As I see you as a passionate human being I thought I would tell you the story.

    thanks. 🙂

  3. dove Said:

    Sorry bernard!

    no, dont be sorry, it reminded me of the beginning.. and it is the correct spelling of my real name given to me by my father named after his best friend.

  4. SOROS ‘STOKING REFUGEE FIRES’ TO TOPPLE EUROPE
    Billionaire accused of leading mass-immigration plot

    http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/george-soros-blasted-for-stoking-refugee-fires/#H21YpqTi4hHWreJs.99
    Hungarian PM Slams Soros-Funded Advocacy Groups: They “Are Drawing A Living From The Immigration Crisis”
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/15/hungarian-pm-slams-soros-funded-advocacy-groups-they-are-drawing-a-living-from-the-immigration-crisis/
    Soros Has Donated More than $100M to ‘Immigrant Rights’ Groups
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/10/26/soros-has-donated-more-than-100m-to-immigrant-rights-groups/
    The White House And Soros-Backed Open Borders Group Strategize About Bribing Immigrants To Naturalize Before 2016
    http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/23/the-white-house-and-soros-backed-open-borders-group-strategize-about-bribing-immigrants-to-naturalize-before-2016/

    Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Soros one of several “activists” trying to take down the European Union via mass immigration from Middle Eastern regions, ….
    His website GeorgeSoros.com touts him as a “prominent international supporter of democratic ideals and causes
    But critics decry Soros as little more than a left-wing activist, intent on using his billions of dollars to topple governments and bring about his socialist-minded visions around the world

    http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/george-soros-blasted-for-stoking-refugee-fires/#H21YpqTi4hHWreJs.99

    the Soros MO is to invest hundreds of millions of tax free dollars in NGO’s which raise millions in donations in order to pressure and topple govs, employ those who write all the treaties and reports for the international agencies… while doing this he tends to wager in his investments in the rise and fall of currencies and makes direct business contacts with the govs he installs for gov contracts like SCTYTL, etc, for grants to his orgs, to influence policy…. and thus he makes billions from his hundreds of millions in investments while maintaining a money making network of serfs employed to his NGO’s. JUst now he invested hundreds of millions in hotel groups in argentina….. the currency is expected to be floated and to devalue… one of the greatest hedges against inflation from devaluing currency is real estate… especially real estate which will make its money from foreign dollars while paying expenses in trailing and falling local dollars. This means that profits will grow in real dollars which will increase the capitalization rates on the foreign currency driven properties which will thus increase their balance sheet and real estate value. The Key to soros is not his investment choices, which are guaranteed once you can influence the flow of events. He has a global network in almost every nation operating for him while raising donations from the public.. whatever money he puts in is written off as donations. Remember, his curriculum vitae began with him helping the nazis to confiscate Jewish properties. He prefers to deal in distressed goods, like most vulture capitalists.

  5. Of course it’s all logical but this point of view has no voice in Canada – any such voices are either censored or vigorously prosecuted by the HRC. The other narrative in favour of national suicide is totally empowered even the lunatic fringe part of it.

    The general public is not aware this POV exists -they are not aware there is a propaganda war about it.

    The Syrian Refugees have become a “cause celebre” – all the other refugees of the world or ignored or on the last last burner.
    How did MUSLIM refugees from Syria became the prominent concern of ordinary Canadians –
    Answer: PROPAGANDA
    Which begs the questions:
    Who is in charge? Who has the money to do this? What do they get out of it?
    How do they do it?
    Who and what agencies are the study teams that they use for propaganda manipulation ? – Some group or agency has it down to a science – they knwe exactly what they were doing in the last election.
    The answer is not ideology.
    The mass mind here is more tightly managed than even in Stalin’s USSR. Modern methods have evolved since Stalin’s day.

  6. dove Said:

    I admit, I have enjoyed letting the men do all the ‘bull’ work

    😛 😛 😛 nice one
    dove Said:

    I agree with you bernhard

    that is the original correct spelling on my birth certificate, dropped the h later.dove Said:

    What an insult to equate this Syrian mess to the holocaust!

    I am speculating that these are american jews with little connection to the shoah or to todays reality in the ME

  7. @ bernard ross:

    I agree with you bernhard. What the hell are our North American Jewish brothers and sisters thinking? Have they gone mad? What an insult to equate this Syrian mess to the holocaust!

    My shul is a member of the OU. I left Egaltarian because I was sick of same sex constantly being thrown in my face. I left the Reform for much the same reason. I left Conservative because of amalgamations and the new Conservative shul was too far away. Now I am with the Orthodox. I admit, I have enjoyed letting the men do all the ‘bull’ work as I see it. Obviously they need a womans touch. My touch will definitely bring the ‘wrath of G-d’ to their ears! I wasn’t at shul today. Probably a good thing. Maybe not wise to let my wrath out on Shabbat – or maybe thats the best time? I will be there during the week for Torah study. Watch out!!

  8. Orthodox Union says let Syrian refugees in as House votes for constraints
    Like other Jewish groups, the O.U. invoked the plight of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe.

    “Just a few decades ago, refugees from the terror and violence in Hitler’s Europe sought refuge in the United States and were turned away due to suspicions about their nationality,”
    http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Orthodox-Union-says-let-Syrian-refugees-in-as-House-votes-for-constraints-434804
    US Holocaust Museum: Don’t turn away Syrian refugees
    “Acutely aware of the consequences to Jews who were unable to flee Nazism,
    http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-Holocaust-Museum-Dont-turn-away-Syrian-refugees-434821

    I find the ignorance of american Jews to be nauseating
    It is disgusting to hear them create an equality between the Jewish victims of nazism and these muslim refugees who teach their children that jews are sons of apes and pigs and were only recently marching in kill the Jews parades. Polls have been done to show that they are a majority anti semitic muslims. To compare the Jews who are a non violent people to this ideological cult which worship violence and intolerance is despicable and to hear it said by Jews shows the utter ignorance and superficiality of those fool Jews.
    I would have as much sympathy for fleeing nazis and why not, those muslims subscribe to a violent, genocidal, anti semitic ideology and belong to a club as vile as the nazis. Why would I want to see a child who wants to kill the sons of apes and pigs grow up?

  9. e American Anthropological Association (AAA) on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. If it receives final approval from the full 10,000-strong membership early next year, the embargo will apply to all institutions, but not individuals.

    US Jewish newspaper the Forward said the resolution was sponsored by academics from Columbia University and Tufts, as well as other US educational institutes, and will bar the AAA from “formal collaborations or other relationships with Israeli academic institutions.”
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-anthropological-association-approves-israel-boycott/
    With over 10,000 members, AAA is by far the largest academic association in the United States to endorse the boycott at an annual meeting……..
    The AAA vote for an academic boycott of Israel follows similar votes passed with overwhelming majorities at the American Studies Association, the Asian American Studies Association and others…..
    The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomed the vote. Co-founder Prof. Lisa Taraki stated that “anthropologists at the AAA conference have sent a clear message of international solidarity with Palestinians and upheld some of the best values of the profession.”
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/americas/22396-american-anthropological-association-overwhelmingly-endorses-bds

    this is where Lawfare should come in at various levels:
    suits can be brought by jewish members regarding interference with lawful commercial activity.
    It is probably a violation of its own bylaws as well as various federal and state laws
    suits should be filed seeking to block any federal or state funding the the org OR to its members
    Sponsors should be contacted and advised of the legal dangers of their financial support

    The organization should be damaged, its members should be damaged and Israel should ban all Israeli academic contact with pal academic orgs, residents or universities PLUS any members of this org who probably conduct research in Israel. Israel is a fountain for archaeological and anthropological research. Israel should state that any archaeological research in Israel cannot be conducted by any institution or person belonging to the AAA. Likely many academic research institutions conducting archaeological research also belong to the AMA. Banning archaeological researchers from israel would have effect.

    No pals should be allowed entry into an Israeli academic institution. It cannot be that Jews throughout the world fight the BDS movement while the state and govs of Israel continue to facilitate it by not bringing action action against the Pals who encourage it.

    Instead of seeking to improve the economic situation of the PA Israel should seek to impede their BDS by worsening their economic situation. Israel rewards their boycotts by bringing them 3G. their exports to the EU should be caught up in bureaucracy and slowed in order to bring their economy to the bottom and encourage them to leave. The GOI does the opposite

    contact
    http://www.americananthro.org/StaffList.aspx?navItemNumber=668
    by laws
    http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1775&navItemNumber=761

  10. Soros-Backed Group Launches Bid to Keep Syrian Refugees Flowing

    masquerading as conservative but backed by left-wing foundations including billionaire George Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS) has launched an online advertising campaign in defense of bringing Syrian refugees to the United States.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/20/soros-backed-group-launches-bid-to-keep-syrian-refugees-flowing/

    the sly mongoose whose resume begins by helping the nazis confiscate the properties of Jews.

  11. Time Frame: NOV 15, 2015 – NOV 20, 2015 (5 Day Rolling) CHANGENovember 20, 2015
    931 RESPONDENTS
    Businessman Donald Trump 38.8%
    Surgeon and author Ben Carson14.7%
    Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio10.3%
    Tex. Sen. Ted Cruz7.1%
    Wouldn’t vote6.3%
    Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush5.5%
    Ken. Sen. Rand Paul4.1%
    Ohio Gov. John Kasich3.0%
    Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee2.8%
    NJ Gov. Chris Christie2.6%
    Former Sen. candidate and business executive Carly Fiorina1.6%
    Former Penn. Sen. Rick Santorum1.1%
    SC Sen. Lindsey Graham0.8%
    Former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore0.6%
    La. Gov. Bobby Jindal0.5%
    Former NY Gov. George Pataki0.4%

    Looks like most republicans are not buying the religion of peace narrative that their leadership doles out in unison with the democratic con artists.

    SUGGESTED POLL READINGS: Businessman Donald Trump is performing weakly among those making $100k or more, compared to those making less than $100k.

    Looks like they are not understanding what happened and why folks feel that the choice between Trumps simplistic ravings and the establishments ludicrous assertions makes trump the winner…. the “simpleton” trumps the know it alls. Guess simple folks can sometimes recognize a pile of bullshite and the educated cannot…. proving that simple good judgement always trumps intelligence and education.