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Today, a fearless Muslim advance has penetrated far deeper into Europe than Abd al-Rahman. They're in Brussels, where Belgian police officers are advised not to be seen drinking coffee in public during Ramadan, and in Malmo, where Swedish ambulance drivers will not go without police escort. It's way too late to rerun the Battle of Poitiers. In the no-go suburbs, even before the french current riots, 9,000 police cars had been stoned by ''French youths'' since the beginning of the year; some three dozen cars are set alight even on a quiet night. ''There's a civil war under way in Clichy-sous-Bois at the moment,'' said Michel Thooris of the gendarmes' trade union Action Police CFTC. ''We can no longer withstand this situation on our own. My colleagues neither have the equipment nor the practical or theoretical training for street fighting.''

What to do? In Paris, while ''youths'' fired on the gendarmerie, burned down a gym and disrupted commuter trains, the French Cabinet split in two, as the ''minister for social cohesion'' (a Cabinet position I hope America never requires) and other colleagues distance themselves from the interior minister, the tough-talking Nicolas Sarkozy who dismissed the rioters as ''scum.'' President Chirac seems to have come down on the side of those who feel the scum's grievances need to be addressed. He called for ''a spirit of dialogue and respect.'' As is the way with the political class, they seem to see the riots as an excellent opportunity to scuttle Sarkozy's presidential ambitions rather than as a call to save the Republic.

A few years back I was criticized for a throwaway observation to the effect that ''I find it easier to be optimistic about the futures of Iraq and Pakistan than, say, Holland or Denmark." But this is why. In defiance of traditional immigration patterns, these young men are less assimilated than their grandparents. French cynics like the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, have spent the last two years scoffing at the Bush Doctrine: Why, everyone knows Islam and democracy are incompatible. If so, that's less a problem for Iraq or Afghanistan than for France and Belgium.

If Chirac isn't exactly Charles Martel, the rioters aren't doing a bad impression of the Muslim armies of 13 centuries ago: They're seizing their opportunities, testing their foe, probing his weak spots. If burning the 'burbs gets you more ''respect'' from Chirac, they'll burn 'em again, and again. In the current issue of City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple concludes a piece on British suicide bombers with this grim summation of the new Europe: ''The sweet dream of universal cultural compatibility has been replaced by the nightmare of permanent conflict.'' Which sounds an awful lot like a new Dark Ages.

The echoes can be heard in many neighborhoods of north and east London, where Sajid Sharif, 37, a trained civil engineer who goes by the name Abu Uzair, once handed out incendiary leaflets preaching his brand of extreme Islam. From the comfort of his home, he leads the Savior Sect, a group that claims several hundred supporters and seeks to unite all Muslims worldwide under a strict conception of Islamic law. That might seem fanciful--except that Uzair's mentor, Omar Bakri Muhammad, was one of the first clerics to lose his right to live in Britain under the new antiterrorism laws. He was barred from returning after a holiday abroad. Uzair says he isn't concerned about the threat of eviction because he is British born, and his lawyer has reportedly told him he has little to worry about. "Anyway," says Uzair, "it is all in the hands of Allah."

Uzair is bearded, wears a long white gown and quotes nonstop from the Koran and Hadith (a collection of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad). His Pakistani parents are secular Muslims, he says, and speak very little English. In his youth he smoked and went to night clubs. It was not until he was a university student in Britain that he embraced Islam. "I wanted some inner discipline," he says. "Since I have come to Islam, I have a lot of tranquillity." Now he tries to steer people away from drugs, drink, crime and smoking. Uzair's supporters refuse to vote in elections because his sect recognizes only Shari'a, Islamic law. While he does not openly support terrorism, he declares that the July 7 attacks were retaliation for Britain's support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "The majority of Muslims in the U.K. are frustrated, but they cannot speak," he says. "They will not condone the London bombings, but inside they believe that Britain had it coming."
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BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

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2006-10-12 03:31:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

I take it that, like your avatar, this is a tongue in cheek question because I do not think Europe realises that the USA is saving them from radical Islam!
You see, until G W Bush , the blinkered, inarticulate, tunnel visioned, born-again Christian alcoholic, decide to lie to the American people (and via the UN, to the western world), and used 9/11 as a specious excuse to attack a sovereign nation, Iraq (irrespective of it not being a democracy), in order to help his Haliburton and other oily friends, the threat to the West from Islamic terrorism was much less than the threat that exists now as a direct result of his actions; (the USA's own intelligence agencies confirmed this fact only recently).
It would be better if the USA concentrated more on diplomacy and a little less on using military force as a first option. After all, we are now in the 21st Century. However, if they actually are protecting Europe it's the least they can do since the US stirred up a hornet's nest of Islamic Fundamentalism which will take many years to calm down.

2006-10-12 10:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by avian 5 · 0 1

It appears the US did not protect them from radical Islam. Even Sweden is enduring riots.

Andy: I did not say there were riots where you live or that they are ongoing. Do you deny there have been riots recently in Europe by the Islamic Community? I'm merely stating the US didn't lift a finger about them.

http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/10/ramadan_riots_is_swe.html

2006-10-12 10:30:20 · answer #3 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0 1

Is the USA protecting the EU? We who live there didn't realise that!

And what do you mean by "fall"? Are we all to be made to succumb to jihad, and to convert or die? Are those fabulous French vinyards to be torn up? Are our lycées and universities to be turned into madrassas?

Tell me it isn't so!

And Mel T thinks we are enduring riots! I haven't seen any, and I've been out and about going from country to country, taking public transport.

What would Jules Ferry (French minister of education in the 19th Century who campaigned for free secular education for all) say? Will they have to rename all those schools and streets now named after him?

2006-10-12 10:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

I wish you would pull out of Europe.

You're no longer needed here and are just using us because you can't fly to places like Iraq without landing in, or being refueled from, Europe.

2006-10-12 10:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

the usa should stop bringing war to the world

2006-10-12 10:35:24 · answer #6 · answered by epiphas 3 · 1 1

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