Migration Crisis: "Islam Will Conquer Europe Without Firing a Shot"

by Bassam Tawil
September 28, 2015 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6542/migration-crisis-islam-will-conquer-europe

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The failed foreign policies of the EU and the US under President Obama, have brought the Arabs to the brink of chaos, and destroyed regimes which, even though they were not democratic utopias, at least provided governance and public order. These failed policies have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution -- and are ultimately the cause of the tsunami of refugees beating at the gates of Europe.
Now the EU and Obama want to bring the catastrophe of Gaza to the West Bank.
The American FDA is more careful with experiments on animals than the White House is with experiments on the people of the Middle East.
Every time the Palestinians have taken steps against the Israelis, we have hurt no one but ourselves, and are left with -- nothing.
The Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune, because under the State of Israel we live in security.
In the face of ongoing mass murder in the Middle East, what arcane consideration, apart from Federica Mogherini being a racist, could possibly bring the EU to deal with something as marginal to global issues as boycotting Israeli face-cream and cookies?

With the recent anniversary of Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, internal Palestinian discourse revolves around radical Islam and America's actions. It relates to the slaughter, rape and millions of refugees who have fallen victim to Al-Qaeda, the humanitarian calamity and the Islamist terrorist organizations to which it gave birth, such as ISIS. Today a disaster of apocalyptic proportions is unfolding in territories that used to be Arab states but are now the battle grounds for feuding Arab tribes, whose only objective is to destroy one another.

In their heart of hearts, the Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune because under the State of Israel we live in security. This reality is brought home to us by the feeble international response and the strange behavior of U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Western world who have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists (and their supporters in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar), and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution (mainly in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon).

In view of what is happening in neighboring countries, it is clear to us what will happen if Israel is in danger of destruction: no Western state will come to its aid and no Arab state will come to our aid. Our fate will be the same as that of our brothers beyond Israel's borders. It is hard not to identify and sympathize with Israel's efforts to fight terrorism and with its objections to the nuclear agreement with Iran.

Despite the chaos and worse than chaos in the Middle East, the EU's foreign policy representative, Federica Mogherini, recently announced that the EU had decided to mark products made in the Israeli settlements. That is mind-boggling, so say the least. In the face of the ongoing mass murders in the Middle East, what arcane consideration, apart from Mogherini being a racist, could possibly bring the EU, now, to deal with something as blatantly marginal to global issues as the provenance of face cream and cookies?

In the final analysis, if the Europeans harm Israel's ability to market goods manufactured in the West Bank, the first victims will be the Palestinian workers in the Israeli settlement factories. Every time the Palestinians have taken steps against the Israelis, we have hurt no one but ourselves. The last time we boycotted Israeli products we wound up buying them on the black market at double and triple the price. When we refused to work on construction sites, the Israelis switched to modular, prefabricated units, and the Palestinian construction workers who went on strike are unemployed to this day. When we refused to work in Israeli agriculture, they brought in workers from Thailand, who took our jobs and left us with -- nothing.

The Western pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to establish a Palestinian state as soon as possible, when viewed through the prism of the mass murders and uncertainty in the Middle East, is incomprehensible. The initiative, and the obsession, to promote such a dangerous project at a time when everyone understands that the conditions on both sides are not yet ripe is dangerous; and the motives involved, whatever they really are, are suspicious. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not new, it has been waged in an atmosphere of terrorism and violence, hostility and complete lack of trust for a hundred years. So why exert pressure now?

Everyone, at least everyone living in the Middle East, knows full well that the conflict will not end with a "peace for our time" agreement forced on the two sides and accompanied by a handful of empty, meaningless documents; the dynamics are too dangerous. For both us and the Israelis it is a matter of life and death, not semantics; and it will probably take another hundred years before enough trust can be built on both sides to find a just solution.

The irony is staggering. At a time when the Arab states that were artificially created after the First World War crumble to dust, the EU is pressing for the creation of another artificial Arab state, this one called "Palestine," to be carved out of territories once belonging to Jordan and Egypt. If "Palestine" is granted the status of statehood, it will force not only Israel but the rest of the world to grant it complete control over its borders, airports and a seaport. That will expose the new weak "state" to a rapid and certain takeover by Hamas, ISIS and various other terrorist organizations. Given the current situation in the West Bank, the elected government of "Palestine" will be controlled by Hamas. It will overthrow the Palestinian Authority, the way it did in the Gaza Strip, take over the West Bank, use its airports and seaport to import missiles, various other weapons and Islamist terrorists, and help Islamist terrorism in general, and ISIS in particular, to operate from its territory. The Islamists will proceed to attack Israel and Jordan the way ISIS is currently attacking Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. Worse, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will enter the new "Palestine" and strengthen its relations with Iran, just as it has in the Gaza Strip and Syria, and with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Evidently the Israeli withdrawal in 2005, which led directly to Hamas's bloodbath and takeover of the Gaza Strip, the expulsion of the Palestinian Authority and the entrenchment of Islamist terrorism, was not enough for Europe. Now the EU and U.S. President Barack Obama want to bring the catastrophe of the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. The American Food and Drug Administration is more careful with experiments on animals than the White House is with experiments on the people living in the Middle East.

In view of the events in the Arab countries, it is clear to the Palestinians that American and European actions in the Middle East are the direct result of stupidity and complete ignorance of the Middle Eastern mindset, if not outright racism and malevolence. What is inescapable is that under Obama, both America and Europe brought the Arabs to the brink of chaos and beyond, destroyed regimes which, even though they were not democratic utopias like the United States, at least provided governance and public order. That is ultimately the cause of the tsunami of refugees beating at the gates of Europe, all of it caused by the United States and its failed foreign policy.

All the signs indicate that the Middle East disaster is hardly far from over. It is actually just beginning. it will get worse because of the tens of billions of dollars that will now pour into the Ayatollahs' coffers from the insane agreement with Iran. Much of this money will go directly not only to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards' Qods Force, Iran's arm of international terrorism, but to the various proxy terrorist organizations Iran supports, thus hastening the total destruction of the Middle East and eventually large swaths of Africa.

The wave of refugees will increase, and the price will be paid by the Europeans, already faced with legions of refugees and no plan for dealing with them. Eventually Gaddafi's prophecy will come true: Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot.

Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East.

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19 Reader Comments

ERIC JAN KAMP • Sep 30, 2015 at 18:01

Somebody forecasted also that " We'll conquer you with your laws, and we'll submit you with our laws ".

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Jumbo

ERIC JAN KAMP • Oct 2, 2015 at 14:38

While I am sympathetic to the turmoil this has created, the nation's ideology and lack of concern for their fellow citizens
has caused this refugee climate, with the motive to forcing their ideology on others, but it will not happen no matter how many people die.

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Rachel • Sep 29, 2015 at 11:27

How is it that these so-called leaders in the West just don't see it? They want to create a state that never existed as a sovereign power, Palestine, for some Arabs who in their own origin of country do not except them, but use them as a pawn only because their ultimate goal is to destroy the tiny Jewish democratic State of Israel...whose history in that spec of land is undeniable, and who preserves and cherishes human rights and dignity for all mankind under her rule. Truly shame on those anti-Semites such as Federica Mogherini, they are no good for anyone including peace loving Arabs.

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George • Sep 29, 2015 at 06:55

Thank you! The question becomes...What is to be done in the face of this utter lunacy enabling the barbarians?

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Elizabete • Sep 29, 2015 at 05:10

UK residents/citizens, I kindly ask you to sign petition "Refuse asylum seekers in UK". https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107142

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Ivor Silverman • Sep 28, 2015 at 16:03

You are an intelligent and a brave person for not only being truthful, but having the insight to explain what has been and what is about to befall all of us.
I visited the West Bank not long after the 1967 war; I found the people warm and friendly and happy to have freedom under the Israeli's. I ask, why the Arab residents succumbed to Arafat and his forty thieves? Unfortunately, it appears peace may never come to those who want to live in harmony.

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Harvey • Sep 28, 2015 at 11:49

After reading this article, one doesn't have to take a deep breath to realise what Mr Tawil says is one hundred percent true. Who do I blame? Chiefly Barack Obama and the EU. They are still like ostriches with their heads buried in the sands, and if they don't or won't come out of this cloud cuckoo land, then the West will be a snapshot of most of the ME and Africa. When one thinks of how much blood has been spilled over the last century to get freedom and here we are on the way to the dark ages again.

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Meg • Sep 28, 2015 at 10:46

You have a lot of nerve calling Americans and Europeans stupid and ignorant when it is the Arabs who are killing each other! Oh yes, it was a ridiculous mistake trying to manipulate politics in the Middle East, but it is still the citizens of the Middle East who cannot seem to refrain from murdering each other.

When will the people of the Middle East put down their weapons and take responsibility for the well being of your brothers and neighbors? The West made a well meaning series of mistakes, thinking very naively that if they just removed a brutal dictator or two, that the people would be glad to be free from oppression. The truth evidently is, however, that people in the Middle East seem to rejoice in brutality. Nothing anyone outside themselves is going to be able to save them from themselves.

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Ed in North Texas

Meg • Sep 29, 2015 at 08:00

Meg is insulted by the truth that the US and EU foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly over the past 6 years, has been stupid and ignorant. Overthrowing governments, whether by undeclared war (Libya) or supporting insurgency and/or civil unrest(Syria, Egypt), has results which obviously were not considered before taking action. No contingency plans were in place to cope with these results, leading to anarchy* (Libya, Syria) or another government removed by internal force and supported by election (Egypt). Those are the outcomes of making "...a series of well meaning mistakes..." in the real world. Making stupid and ignorant mistakes while meaning well makes for well meaning stupid and ignorant mistakes.

* Iraq is another example, abandoning the country and expecting a successful outcome as seen in Germany and Japan after WWII was a stupid and ignorant decision again leading to anarchy.

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Menahem Lester

Meg • Sep 30, 2015 at 07:23

Bassam Tawil has every right to call the Americans (i.e. Barack Obama & acolytes) ignorant and stupid -- that's correct.

Obama came into office thinking he knows everything & that by the force of his oratory he would change the world.

Well -- he has. By the force of his arrogance and sheer ignorance, he thought he would improve things. Without studying the history of the region and the peoples of the region, this was madness. In more enlightened societies such as Russia (where they actually study a thing or two before opening their mouths), a person acting like this would have been consigned to an asylum.

As for Europe, it also suffers from a dearth of leaders and a surfeit of yes-men who only lust for the power, the presige and the pension that accompanies their posts.

Woe to the West - Islam will conquer it without firing a shot.

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Graham Lord • Sep 28, 2015 at 10:27

It is a strong possibility that Islam will conquer Europe by stealth. But Islam can never overcome Jehovah's covenanted people Israel. Although Israel may feel isolated she need not fear, for the covenant made to Abraham and Isaac is secure. European governments in turning their backs on God have left a vacuum that Islam is eager to fill.

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Daniel L Remler • Sep 28, 2015 at 09:58

How can one not love the writings of Bassam Tawil? The man pulls no punches. How incredibly refreshing to read!

Thank you Mr Tawil for your insights.

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Vivienne Leijonhufvud • Sep 28, 2015 at 09:14

This is an excellent article, wish I could have articulated this point of view as well, the entire article confirms my views over the last 15 years. The only possibility of real change coming about may well be Russia's permanent bases on the Levant and China's interests. Israel at least is on cordial terms with both these super powers. Neither power has anything to gain by obliterating Israel just because a bunch of Moslems insist Israel should not exist. The mess in Gaza and West Bank could have ended years ago. If the so-called Palestinians know they are better off as Citizens of Israel why on earth have they just not ignored Hamas and Hizbollah and allowed the IDF to handle these terrorists? Pally's are represented in the Knesset they have far better infrastructure than any other ISLAMIC state. Education of the highest standard as well as health care what more could they want?

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Leslie Vadas

Vivienne Leijonhufvud • Sep 29, 2015 at 14:06

Unfortunately, I agree with the conclusion of the article. Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot, however, it will no longer be Europe. In their desire to be more humane, more politically advanced, more liberal, the governments of Europe will bankrupt their countries. They will pressure their citizens with higher taxes and confiscations to help the refugees and finally the refugees will replace the citizens. There is an Arab story about a camel who only wants to put the tip of his nose into the tent, then his head, then his neck, etc until the entire camel is in the tent and the owner is pushed out. A few countries will try to hold out, Hungarians what to remain Hungarian, but they cannot remain an island in a Moslem sea.

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Éamonn Gavin • Sep 28, 2015 at 08:01

"Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot". The really sad thing is that whenever one, such as myself, says this to the media or in public, one is laughed at and told not to be ridiculous. Europe is happy to ignore the fact that it is committing SUICIDE. By ignoring it, they don't have to deal with it. BUT THEIR CHILDREN WILL !! Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

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Hanna • Sep 28, 2015 at 07:37

Dear Mr. BASSAM TAWIL, your problem is that you are making too much COMMON SENSE, in a world that is DEPLETED OF ALL COMMON SENSE!!! The question is why are the so-called "more sensible"? Western Countries going along with their own demise and with the "peace in our time" idiotic politics cooked up by the so-called "champions of peace" the E.U., U.N. and our own President? Their (EU, UN and Obama) utopian dreams are leading the entire world into a new world order of BARBARISM, and the only remaining hope is (as I said before) a new BIBLICAL FLOOD. Thank you BASSAM TAWIL -- your article is a must -- read, and thank you GATESTONE.

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Capn Sparrow • Sep 28, 2015 at 07:01

The Arabs are not "at the brink" of chaos. They have been deep over the edge of chaos for thousands of years, and continuously threaten to drag the free world over the precipice to "join" them.

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Jane • Sep 28, 2015 at 05:55

For many years now, I've watched in dismay as cultural and institutional stupidity spreads. The events now unfolding across the Middle East and Europe beggar belief; we in Europe are busily dismantling and undermining our way of life, our trust in government and the essential nature of our societies, all the while brandishing our conspicuous compassion-and ignoring the plight of our own impoverished, marginalised and unemployed citizens.

The Middle East is embroiled in chaos, savagery and destruction, while the supine leaders of the West bring nothing but appeasement to the table, while blaming beleaguered Israel for everything.

Mr Tawil's wise and courageous voice will not be heard by many in the West.

Mass migration will destroy Europe; no doubt this is what is planned for us: we are despised and exploited as heathens and weaklings by the Islamists.

The UK's Moslem population has apparently grown by some 80% in recent years: this growth will now become exponential across much of Europe.
It seems to me that the lot of Palestinians will never improve unless they accept peace with Israel, accept that country's Jewish identity and then come to benefit from Israeli expertise and investment.

As for Ms Mogherini, has she nothing better to do with her time: addressing the immigration crisis in Italy perhaps?

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FX MEANEY

Jane • Sep 30, 2015 at 19:54

Every Western European country has now had years of trouble from the non-assimilating Muslims, each year being worse than the one before. Yet they are waving in hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of mostly young men raised to be violent as members of the Army of Islam, ready and eager to make war against the weakling infidels, so ripe for the picking. Madness, stupidity, be nice to the crocodile? They have no one to lead to rescue them with Obama in charge in the U.S. Time to mournfully sing "The Last Time I Saw Paris."

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