Uncontrolled Immigration Upsets Societies

** CAUTION:  Unhinged DeviledEgg Rant! **  

The west has grown slack, and the vandals are dismantling our culture...

Anti-Immigration anger got out of hand in southern Italy, as all situations do when governments fail to carry out their responsibilities.  While we should condemn the (relatively tame) violence in Southern Italy (BB Guns were the weapons used), can't we also open our eyes and see the logical progression that led up to this lamentable event?

Unbridled Immigration is a Recipe for Disaster!

Cultures do clash.  The wider the cultural differences, the bigger the clash. I respect Pope Benedict's defense of immigrants.  We must defend their human rights, and any violence against them is way out of line and should be criminally prosecuted.

But where is the respect for the host country, its laws and the cultural norms of its citizens?  It's not a fundamental human right to breach borders and upset the traditional order.  Immigrant invasions end up satisfying no one, producing cultural strife and anger on all sides. 

Welcome to the 7th Century!

Unassimilable bigots have brought us honor killings, cartoonist menacing, and enraged rantings over religious slights that Christians and Jews simply shrug off on a daily basis.  Their criminal treatment of women leaves the average American male chauvinist pig blushing with inadequacy.

Are we supposed to passively stand by as our cultural rug is pulled out from under our feet?  Hell No!

A Nation has a Right to Set its Own Immigration Policy

It is not a fundamental human right to invade my country, and it is not racist or bigoted to pick and choose who comes in.  It's self preservation.  If you're foaming at the mouth and hate our freedoms, you can't come in!

Our refusal to do our own dirty work contributes greatly to this problem
Real welfare reform would see those on the dole doing jobs "Americans just won't do."  Take away the food stamps, and hunger will become a great motivator.  Also, there was a time when college kids did farm work and bussed tables to pay for their education instead of daddy and Uncle Sam going into hock to pick up their tab...

Obama, UN Muslims Join to Kill Free Speech

Muslim nations are agitating at the UN to silence criticism of their 7th century, obscurantist, global freak show

They're using the UN to push a kind of international thought crime speech code, and the Obama Administration is helping, according to Stuart Taylor at National Journal:

I'm talking about a little-publicized October 2 resolution in which Clinton's own State Department joined Islamic nations in adopting language all-too-friendly to censoring speech that some religions and races find offensive.

The ambiguously worded United Nations Human Rights Council resolution could plausibly be read as encouraging or even obliging the U.S. to make it a crime to engage in hate speech, or, perhaps, in mere "negative racial and religious stereotyping." This despite decades of First Amendment case law protecting such speech.

This is all part of the Muslim agenda to stifle all criticism of their religion and its adherents, to include calling an Islamic terrorist an Islamic terrorist. 

But the real problem is a provision, which the U.S. championed jointly with Egypt, exuding hostility to free expression.

That provision [...] condemns, in this context, any advocacy of national, racial, or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence, and urges States to take effective measures, consistent with their obligations under international human-rights law, to address and combat such incidents" (emphasis added).

Taylor is a moderate man not prone to wild alarums.  Neither is the scholarly Eugene Volokh, but he cautiously backs Taylor in this post at The Volokh Conspiracy.

I’m worried that it might be a step backward for our own constitutional rights, because of what seems to be the U.S. endorsement of the suppression of “any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence” and possibly of “negative stereotyping of religions and racial groups.”

Our UN diplomats should be nowhere near this issue; it violates our very basic principles of free speech.  Both articles are short and quite informative.  I recommend you read them both, and then write to your elected officials.

Volokh Conspiracy
National Journal - Stuart Taylor

More Minarets

Hirsi Ali is a victim of that potent combination:  Islamic misogyny and European cowardice

Dutch authorities were helpless to protect her when she dared criticize the religion of her abusers, and other European countries piddled down their legs and declared her persona non grata rather than defend classical Western liberalism.  This "Feminist Freedom Fighter" overcame it all and now lives in America.  Europe's loss is our gain.

Love the Religion, Hate the Political System 

She has written a brilliant piece on the Swiss minaret vote.  Her central thesis is that the vote is a rejection of political Islam, not the religion itself or its adherents.

Here are some clips:

What Europeans are finding out about Islam as they investigate is that it is more than just a religion. [...]  it prescribes a way of life. 

Islam is an idea about how society should be organized: the individual's relationship to the state; that the relationship between men and women; rules for the interaction between believers and unbelievers; how to enforce such rules; and why a government under Islam is better than a government founded on other ideas. 

The Minaret is a Symbol of Islamist Supremacy

These political ideas of Islam have their symbols: the minaret, the crescent; the head scarf, and the sword. 

The minaret is a symbol of Islamist supremacy, a token of domination that came to symbolize Islamic conquest. It was introduced decades after the founding of Islam.

In Europe, as in other places in the world where Muslims settle, the places of worship are simple at first. All that a Muslim needs to fulfill the obligation of prayer is a compass to indicate the direction of Mecca, water for ablution, a clean prayer mat, and a way of telling the time so as to pray five times a day in the allocated period. 

The construction of large mosques with extremely tall towers that cost millions of dollars to erect are considered only after the demography of Muslims becomes significant. The mosque evolves from a prayer house to a political center. 

Next comes getting the non-compliant women under control, killing the fags, harassing the Jews, and all the other community activities of intolerant religious chauvinism and bigotry.  

We don't have the same problems with Christianity or Judaism because these religions influenced the founding of Western Civilization and shaped its growth.  Islam stands apart with a different tradition.  Were it just a matter of people worshiping at a mosque, there would be no problem.  But the clash of civilizations begins when angry, arrogant  newcomers agitate to change our way of life.

Muslims Immigration: Even Responsible People Think it's a Bad Idea

** Unhinged DeviledEgg Rant Alert! ** 
 

If the thought of an "honor killing" on American soil doesn't disgust you and make you boil with patriotic rage, you're brain dead! 

I live in Europe, I've lived in North America, and I've lived in that armpit they call the Middle East. No contest which I think is better!

Why the hell do Western nations continue to allow these troublemaking Muslims to immigrate? Look at a map.  Wherever there's trouble, angry turbaned men with beards are involved.

Our cultures are incompatible.  We enjoy pork bbq and beer, use toilet paper and refrain from female genital mutilation, for example.

Many Muslim immigrants refuse to assimilate, and the only way to have peace here in the West is to give in to their fleck spittled agitations at the expense of our cultural norms.  Not while I have breath in my body!  Better to close the gates...

ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE!!! DISAGREE AND I'LL KEEEEL YOU!!!

Unlike the DeviledEgg, foreign editor of The Australian Greg Sheridan is no xenophobe, but he declares, "Uncontrolled Muslim Influx a Threat to the West."

It is extremely difficult to talk honestly about Muslim immigration. All generalisations about it are subject to countless exceptions. Muslims are very different from each other.

Most are reasonably successful. But a much bigger minority end up with social, political, extremist or other problems resulting from a lack of integration than is the case with any other cohort of immigrants in Western societies. A lack of honest discussion about this results in bad policy.

He goes on to recommend a book by Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West.

Jacob Laksin at City Journal recommends the book as well.

Polls show that some 70 percent of Britons believe that there are too many immigrants in their country. Majorities throughout Western Europe agree, and Muslim immigrants in particular are viewed with suspicion.

Europe is a Benignly Racist Continent
Despite the finger-wagging at America, many Europeans are fundamentally and unconsciously racist and insular. Here in Germany, people from the next village over are considered outsiders, fellow German speakers from Austria are treated as the enemy, and those who hail from farther afield have no hope of ever fitting in in the land of beer and bratwurst. 

Europeans are in a jam, trying to steer a course between the Charybdis of bigotry and the Scylla of cultural destruction. Worse, the entire continent is in denial. Muslims are to blame as well, especially when they display open contempt for their new home:

Yet the immigrants themselves are far from faultless. One of the immigration debate’s inconvenient truths is that Muslim immigrants have been so difficult to assimilate into European societies because they’re unwilling: many Muslims simply choose religious ties over national loyalties.

... 31 percent of British Muslims felt they had more in common with the people of Muslim nations than with their fellow Europeans.

I hope the US can learn the right lessons from Europe's immigration debacle. Reading Caldwell's book would be a good start.

I've got to stop now, that guy shouting from the tower is giving me a headache!
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The DeviledEgg is prone to unhinged rants, childish outbursts, and fits of anger, but he's really a good egg once you get to know him. He is half German and half American and splits his time between the two countries. Western Hero is proud to add him to the team.

City Journal - Jacob Laksin
RCP - Greg Sheridan

Muslim Immigration: Invitation to Murder?

Why are we allowing Muslims to immigrate to our country?

Nobody else is asking the obvious question, so I will. With all the terror plots in the news, I think it's a relevant question.

This is not an anti-Muslim screed
One of my favorite bosses of all time is a Muslim. He was just one of tens of thousands to honorably serve his country in the US armed forces. If white Eastern European Christians (my background) were blowing stuff up and cutting off heads all over the world, I would call for an immigration moratorium on them as well.


All Muslims are not terrorists, but outside of Tim McVeigh and the Earth Liberation nuts, all recent terrorist activity on our soil has involved Muslims. Given that there is an 8 in 10 chance that an immigrant from the Muslim world hates our Yankee cowboy guts, why do we let even a single one immigrate?

I know there are good Muslims there who want to come here, but why take a chance? The State Department is obviously no good at separating the good from the dangerous. We hope we're getting Fouad Ajamis. Instead we end up with Najibulla Zazis, angry young men cruising Denver beauty parlors collecting peroxide to make bombs.

Selective Immigration is not Discrimination
Discrimination, as legally defined in US Code, has nothing to do with immigration policy. If we're not free to choose who to let in to our country, then we've lost our sovereignty. But once we let someone in, they are protected by the constitution, and plotting terrorists know that and use it to their advantage. Are we stupid?  Yes we are.

We Owe Them Nothing, especially not a US passport
Some say we owe the Iraqis and Afghanis because we invaded their countries. Bull! They owe us! For the blood and treasure we've spent trying to give them a shot at improving their little corner of hell on earth.

Besides, we already have enough home-grown idiots, why import more? Why bring hatred, petty grievances and religious chauvinism to our doorstep?

It may be too late for Europe (I pray it's not), but we still have a chance to save our unique Western civilization from the clutches of those who want to destroy it.

Telegraph - German Village in Pakistan
NYT - Zazi
Dallas News
Reuters
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