"Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty."
Oriana Fallaci minced no words when she spoke of the "Islamic invasion" of Europe. At the time she spoke these words she was living in New York to escape prosecution in Italy for vilifying Islam in her book "The Force of Reason". Tunku Varadarajan, interviewing her for the Wall Street Journal, said she was "in a black gloom about Europe and its future". Fallaci died in September 2005, but the truth in her words did not.
In Europe, skylines reflect the rise of Islam:
...Across Europe, the Continent's fastest-growing religion is establishing its public presence after decades in basements and courtyards, changing not only the architectural look of cities, but also their social fabrics.
Hailed by many as a sign of Muslim integration, the phenomenon is also feared as evidence of a parallel Islamic world threatening Europe's Christian culture.
"Muslims have come out ... and have become visible," says Claus Leggewie, a political scientist at Germany's University of Giessen who wrote a study on the evolution of the mosque landscape in Germany. "By building expensive, representative mosques, they're sending a message: we want to take part in the symbolic landscape of Germany. We are here and we'll stay here."
Major mosque projects from Cologne, Germany, to Amsterdam to Seville, Spain, have met with fierce opposition and fears that they will serve as breeding grounds for terrorists. Family members of two of the suspects in the Glasgow, Scotland,car bombings this month said the men had been radicalized by Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic revivalist group with plans for an 18-acre complex near London's 2012 Olympic stadium that would house Europe's largest mosque.
Too many times when people speak out they are labeled bigots, Islamaphobes, and racists. While it's true sometimes the fears are misplaced, there are legitimate reasons for concern.
It is a fact mosques have been used by terrorists to plan and recruit:
The notorious Finsbury Park mosque became a breeding ground for terrorism during the six years that Abu Hamza held a "controlling influence" there.
Dozens of anti-terrorism investigations led detectives back to the north London building, which became known as a first port of call, a meeting place and a haven for terror suspects arriving and operating in the UK.
There are numerous other examples:
On June 2 and 3, Canadian law enforcement in Toronto arrested 17 Muslim men for planning terrorist attacks on Canadian targets. The leader of the group, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, recruited young Muslim males by speaking at Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education, a storefront mosque in Mississauga. Law enforcement officials across the globe are searching for suspects connected to the Toronto 17; American law enforcement has already discovered at least two terrorism suspects who spoke with members of the Canadian terrorist cell.
Oriana Fallaci was an atheist but she admired Pope Benedict XVI. "I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! There must be some human truth here that is beyond religion." Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, the Pope's private secretary is also warning of the "threat by Islam":
"Attempts to Islamise the West cannot be denied," Monsignor Georg Gaenswein was quoted as saying in an advance copy of the weekly Sueddeutsche Magazin to be published today.
"The danger for the identity of Europe that is connected with it should not be ignored out of a wrongly understood respectfulness," the magazine quoted him as saying.
Monsignor Gaenswein is wrong. Attempts to Islamise the West can be denied. Even when the evidence is staring us in the face.
Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan
Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi sheik and leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of America:
"The most dangerous thing that is going on now in these mosques . . . is the extremists’ ideology," he said. "Because they are very active, they took over the mosques; . . . they took over more than 80 percent of the mosques that have been established in the US." He warned ominously that "a danger might suddenly come that you are not looking for . . . we don’t know where it is going to hit."
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