Opinion: Europe accommodates Islam but not vice versa

By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel

The figure of the new Jew, the outcast, in the form of the State of Israel, emerged in an era where the color green, representing Islam, began to dominate the political spectrum of Europe.

Does the era have a color? The brown plague of Nazism! Or the red banners of socialism-communism, the crimson glow of the blood shed by rivers! The color palette of democracy, welcoming the stranger, is narrowing and shifting toward green. Chlorophyll, whose origin was deciphered by Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, the Jew Richard Martin Willstätter, covers the leaves of living nature. The green color of Islam burns with a dislike for living beings of non-Islamic orientation.

Orientalism stains democratic society with a deep green, indelible dye. Democracy should essentially be multi-colored, international, and multi-religious, but it is turning green because tolerance and respect for the other, the foreigner, the Muslim, forces it to recognize as an equal the newcomer who speaks to it condescendingly and aloofly, intolerant of “infidels.”

Democratic societies accept immigrants from Islamic countries and extend their laws to them. Aliens from the East place Sharia law above the laws of a democratic society. The West is trying to assimilate Muslims. Muslims refuse to assimilate in the West. They are trying to adapt the West to themselves. Muslims do not consider themselves equal to Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and atheists. According to their beliefs, they are the most correct, the most intelligent, and closest to God.

Religious Muslims believe they are on the right path to becoming the majority on Earth. Devout Muslims do not accept equality of rights as a value and, naturally, do not fight for the rights of representatives of other religions and nations, including the rights of minorities. The greenish spots on the body of democracy show how imperfect this system is and, therefore, how capable it is of losing control under the influence of Islamic conquerors.

The response of European democracies to the influx of new Islamic residents to the Old World is equal rights for members of different faiths under the banner of multiculturalism. A culture hostile to the inhabitants of Europe is advancing. Europeans are embracing multiculturalism. Ideally, the multiculturalism of the Muslims attacking them should be replaced by mono-culturalism, the culture of Islam.

Muslim immigrants living in the West are engaged in a complex, but not hopeless, endeavor – turning the West into the East. More and more districts in Western cities are falling under the control of people from the East. There are more and more green Islamic islands, embryos, and seedlings of the East in the West. The green shoots of Islam are absorbing more and more of Western civilization’s oxygen. The creeping occupation of the West by the East is proceeding slowly but successfully under the umbrella of democracy. It’s not impossible that Islam has challenged democracy: to be or not to be.

In 1918, the German philosopher and historian Oswald Spengler published the book The Decline of the West. Spengler’s pessimistic forecast for Europe was that the continent would decline and perish due to newly formed peoples and foreign conquerors. Perhaps Spengler’s prediction is beginning to come true, for the invasion of people from Islamic countries is indeed the invasion of “foreign conquerors.” “Foreign conquerors” came with their God, to whom Europeans sacrifice the generalized, new Jew, the State of Israel, and with it, effectively, the European Jews as well.

In Europe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a freely convertible currency. Antisemitism is broadcast on its waves, brought to Europe duty-free by Islamic immigrants through the condemnation of the generalized, new Jew, the state of Israel. Mass anti-Israel demonstrations are taking place in European countries. Europe traded six million Jews for millions of Muslims who occupied it. The historic exchange took place.

The green crescent illuminates Europe. Under the guise of fighting Jewish “racism” toward Arabs, European activists for the “Palestinian cause” are driving out Jews from Europe who believe that what is happening in Israel does not concern them. The Islamic world is exporting radical views and methods to Europe. The refusal to assimilate in European countries leads Muslim immigrants into opposition to the country that granted them asylum. For those raised conservatively, former residents of Islamic countries, and religiously inclined, it is very difficult to identify with other citizens of their new countries, who are considered “godless” or “infidels.”

They aim to “correct” the new country according to their norms, which dictate that they submit to the society that has accepted them. The Middle East, with its extremist customs, continues to penetrate the Old World. Under the guise of fighting the new Jew, Israel, the threat to European Jews is growing.

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Alex Gordon is professor emeritus of physics at the University of Haifa and at Oranim, the Academic College of Education, and the author of 12 books.