The Coming of Sharia to Europe

 

The increasing terrorism across much of Europe, with a few choice exceptions where terror has not struck that include Poland, Romania, Finland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Portugal, has not received any appropriate reaction from the victims. The United States also appears to have this disease, one which President Trump laughingly claims he knows the answer for, of mistaking Islamic terror for something committed by “lone wolves,” “psychotic maniacs,” “unemployed schlemiels,” or other similar title made to secure the public in the belief that “Islam is the religion of peace” and these are simply miscreants misrepresenting a noble religion. The people are being fed a load of political platitudes because the truth is something that the leadership cannot afford to face, as that would mean they would have to address a serious and straight-forward problem, the Western World is under attack.

 

 

Most leaders of the Western nations have been educated at some of the finest universities and had an upbringing which gave them some knowledge and the ability to read and they are surrounded by some of the brightest minds both political and military. Even if the leaders are ignorant of the true nature of Islam, their advisors, at the least, the military advisors and commanders who are all of rank and have studied military history, know all that they need know about Islam and its militant history. Knowing Islamic history means they have studies, especially the United States military leaders, of the Barbary pirates and the two Barbary Wars, the spread of the Arabs across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and their conversion of every peoples they conquered by threat of death (see map below). They all have likely read the Quran, if not before, since the troubles with Islam rose its viperous head once again across the globe and especially in the West most definitely had them studying it. The truth is known in London, in Paris, in Berlin, in Brussels, in Rome, in Madrid, in Washington D.C. and every other capital under assault. They know that their showing temerity, faintheartedness and ignominiousness they have shown themselves unworthy of the leadership positions they hold.

 

Islamic Expansion

 

The leaders need to come clean and inform their public but once again they believe that they can stall the threat until they have left office and retired under strict and close security and be able to live the remainder of their lives in safety and comfort. Their people, on the other hand, will not have the security, the wealth or the comfort these spineless leaders will enjoy. Terrorism will escalate and escalate just as did the piracy by the Barbary Caliphs who slaughtered Western ships and took the survivors as their slaves or ransomed the officers back to their country of origin. They would also offer to spare any nation’s ships provided they paid the Jiyza, the tax owed by conquered non-Muslims for clemency of treatment allowing them to continue to live without being subjected to Islamic Sharia, Islamic Law. The Muslims saw the payment of the demanded bounty as weakness and would break their word regularly and demand additional payments and always in greater sums. The United States was the first to decide that war was preferable to submission to Islamic demands of supremacy. Their response was all the more credible as ending an intolerable situation as it was decided by the President most desirous of having an isolationist policy and nonintervention in the world’s affairs outside the United States border, President Thomas Jefferson. The Barbary Caliph thought mistakenly that after the War of 1812 and with a new President, President James Madison, that the United states was ripe for renewed piracy. Time has passed but some things do not change and Islam is one of those things. The time for Islam has remained post World War I after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and then the end of so-called colonialism which returned the lands to their Arab colonialists who had a previous history of well over a thousand years of being colonialist rule after their spread across MENA and subjugating close to enough lands to make a continent, the Arab continent. The Arabs love to claim victimhood of less than fifty years of European colonialist suppression but think their thousand plus years of oppressive colonialist occupation of MENA as perfectly natural. But there is much worse potentially coming to the world if things do not change and the Western world does not awaken from their stupor.

 

Islam has awakened and set their sights on those they believe they must conquer and force to submit to their supremacy just as the West had done so in World War I. For the most part, Islam ignored World War II with the exception of cheering that their longest and most feared enemies were the subject of persecution and were rounded up and murdered. The Mufti of Jerusalem of that time, Amin al-Husseini, spent the war in Berlin and the Balkans where he organized battalions who were used to round up Serbian Christians and Jews as well as Roma and slaughtered many of those they captured. These troops under the Mufti of Jerusalem were noteworthy for their cruelty and barbarity. Mufti Amin al-Husseini was reportedly at the Wannsee Conference where the final solution was decided and some credit him with pushing for the extinction of the European Jews and requesting that when the Nazis allied with the Arabs and Islam and conquered MENA that they apply the same solution to the Jews residing within. Truth of the matter is that the Nazis likely got the idea for the Holocaust from the Muslims and not the other way around as so many Western educators wish to claim. The Muslim forces throughout MENA are waiting for their infiltrators into Europe and the United States to weaken the will of the Western nations to fight. They see the “Islam is the religion of peace” statement adopted by virtually every Western leader as a sign that they are well on their way to conquering the West. They see the Western world as afraid of their attacks and too timid and small to return their strikes and stabs at their hearts. Has anybody noticed their attacks and where they choose to make their attacks? Every attack has been in a major city with the majority in Capital Cities. This is their desire to stab the West at its perceived hearts and its strongholds, and for the West it is the major cities. The choice is simple for the people in the West, is your civilization worthy of being defended or are you so tired and lazy that surrender to Islam and to Allah will suit you just fine?

 

Do you understand what surrender to Islam and surrender to Allah will mean? Here is a small hint for those totally unfamiliar with Islam. Women will have no rights and will be worth half that of any man. Women must be accompanied by a male relative in order to leave the house. No movies. No Music. No dancing. No other religion than Islam. No atheism. No agnosticism. No freedom of choice. No alcoholic beverages. But there are new things which will take their place. Praying five times a day. Homosexuality punished by being thrown off a roof or cliff. Men had better grow beards. Women must dress conservatively and depending on the local Imam, full burkas required. Everything required in life is within the Quran. Education means memorizing the Quran. Ramadan fast lasting a lunar month which changes the time of year it arrives, but one only fasts during the daylight hours. Everyone must travel to Mecca if at all possible once in your lifetime called making the Hajj. There are many other items which can be added to the list of do’s and don’ts but this should suffice for now. So, decide what you want, Islam or facing the threat which is right in front of your face.

 

Beyond the Cusp

 

Israel in Need of Bold Zionist No Excuses Leadership

 

Israel is under attack both from without and within. What is most depressing is that the same people finance most of both kinds of groups sworn to tear Israel down. There are channels used by European government and NGOs to pass heaping amounts of funding through various channels to what are licensed Israeli NGOs as well as financing European and international NGOs all with the same designs, to destroy the Jewish state by all means available. The most used method has been to challenge Zionist efforts and organizations in Israeli courts for internal NGOs and some of the external NGOs and in European and international courts by international and European NGOs and by European governments often using one another’s courts in complimentary efforts. The usual targets are to embargo or otherwise target Israeli exports which are often placed on the defensive of having to prove that none of their product, including their wrappers, shipping containers, labels or even inks came from beyond the Green Line which despite being Israeli sovereign lands by the enactment of the San Remo Conference Agreement and Article 80 of the United Nations Charter are now simply referred to as belonging to some imaginary entity called Palestine which touts a series of terrorist leaders who would be imprisoned in virtually any other nation if they were to use similar violent tactics and subversions anywhere in Europe. With the United States following the European lead concerning Israel and still attempting to tell Israel and American Jewish associations that Israel has never seen a more advantageous and supportive administration, a view fully supported by some of the most liberal and anti-Zionist Jewish organizations in the United States, has backed Prime Minister Netanyahu into a corner where he is too timid to defy President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry most likely under some threats of the United States surrendering Israeli sovereignty to the Palestinians and any other claimants who might claim territory as being their ancestral lands against the Israelis in the United Nations Security Council.

 

The initial reaction by the political leadership in Israel has been to cringe, duck down tight and hope the barrages from Washington pass overhead and nobody gets hurt. The problem is there have been numerous people who have been hurt and continue to be hurt by the acquiescence by Israeli political leadership who out of fear of facing actual threats coming to fruition have led the government in destroying Jewish buildings, many which proved to have been legal but too late, using an overt leftist Supreme Court to approve destruction orders allowing the political leaders to claim their hands were tied. Some of these destructions have been rushed through before the legal teams working with the Jewish owners have had sufficient time to chase down the legal paperwork to prevent the destructions making their eventual production simply too little too late. The forces pushing to force Israel to surrender all of Judea and Samaria along with all of East Jerusalem are the same leftist anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist forces which pressed for the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and its fall to Hamas and the barrages of rockets on ever more of Israel in each assault leading to the next war. All those politicians, pundits, and various others with marginal credibility all know full well their claims that once the Palestinians have been given the West Bank that their claims will be satisfied and all terrorism and related threats will vanish from Israel’s future are completely false. They have ears just as anybody with ears and even the most minimal interest and curiosity have come to know that the Palestinian claims are to all of Israel. Anybody caring to attend the demonstrations at their neighborhood college campus hearing the Palestinian supporters chant of, “From the river to the sea Palestine must be free!” know exactly what the Palestinian demands are, all of Israel with every last Jew removed or they will remove them final solution style.

 

Furthermore, they know that the Israeli claim that giving up Judea and Samaria along with East Jerusalem will bring rockets to the heart of Israel are true. They also know that such a situation will bring all tourism to Israel to a screeching halt the minute a single passenger airliner or cargo airline is shot out of the sky landing or taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport as every airline insurance company will immediately terminate any insurance for any airline carrier, be it passenger or cargo, if they persist in flying to Ben Gurion or any other airport within Israel. El Al will lose their insurance and be closed down as they operate out of Israel and what good is an Israeli airline which does not fly into or out of Israel. Then the first close call, not necessarily a hit, on any ship coming to an Israeli port the same will end all sea traffic in and out of Israel with the exception of some intrepid Israelis in their private small craft, which will have become uninsured should they not move its mooring to Crete or further. The cynical pro-Palestinian peace camps know that should Israel surrender what they cynically call the West Bank adopting the same terminology invented by Jordan during their occupation of Judea and Samaria as well as East Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967 in order to remove the Jewish roots of the occupied areas, occupied from who, by the way, Israel would be the correct answer. During the nineteen years under Jordanian occupation not only was there no mention of Palestinian lands being under occupation, there were also no attempts to return to the Palestinians any lands. The knowledge cynically denied by the anti-Israel organizations, politicians, and individuals is the threat to Israel. Why would these entities go to such extents to deny any threats which might be posed to Israel by turning over Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians? Their drive is to destroy Israel by any means necessary which has been a desire started initially by the British immediately after they received the Mandate to establish the Jewish state in the Mandate lands granted their oversight. While the Zionists were too weak to oppose any British perfidy they demanded that the Zionist Congress sign off on allowing an Arab state to be formed west of the Jordan River for guarantees that the lands east of the Jordan River would remain sacrosanct belonging solely to the future Jewish state. At the same time other English politicians and leaders promised the Arab leadership they would never permit sufficient Jewish settlement to form the Jewish State. This was why the British immediately recognized the Jordanian occupation of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem along with one singular other nation, Pakistan. The rest of the British efforts to prevent Jewish immigration to Israel even when it could have provided the Jews of Europe an escape from the coming holocaust the British refused to open the area to Jewish immigration. There will always be forces both overt and covert working to the detriment of Israel. Additionally, Israel has more enemies thanks to the Arab and Muslim world’s animosity as well as sufficient enemies in Europe, South America, most ardent leftist politicians, anti-Semites the world over, and those who are held at the tender mercies of the oil producing nations already strongly opposed to Israeli existence.

 

Israel is the proverbial bridesmaid but never the bride when it comes to being accepted through much of the world. Will the world ever accept anything Israeli, yes, of course they will. They will accept the technological products, software, agricultural advances, medical procedural advances, medical imaging technology, weapons advances, drone technology and the numerous other areas where Israel leads the world and is often more than happy to share these advances. Such has been evidenced by the sharing with the third world the technology of drip irrigation which allows for irrigating fields with a fraction of the water required from conventional methods. There is the Save a Child’s Heart Organization which not only flies children in to Israel to perform delicate life-saving heart operations but also sends their specialists to third world nations to perform operations and teach the surgeons in the hospitals which the Save a Heart Foundation sets up with the necessary medical equipment necessary to perform these lifesaving procedures and remain ready to advise over the internet or to fly in upon request for any difficult or unusual situations. Israel has even taken the precaution of flying children with a family member from any Arab or Muslim nation to Israel after having them flown to a neutral nation before being brought to Israel and returned them by similar manner to avoid their facing any difficulties and their visit to Israel never will show on any of their paperwork such as Passports. For the treatment Israel provides to enemies as well as friends and even compared to their own IDF soldiers one can read an account which proved to be a life changing experience for Brigitte Gabriel’s autobiographical work Because They Hate.

 

There are a few things about Israel which most people are not aware but might change your view and have you look into Israel with a different viewpoint and the things you may find will amaze you. First is that Israel is not some nation out to claim any areas commonly purported as Greater Israel and extending from central Iraq to the Nile in Egypt. All Israel really cares to claim, even the most avid Zionist, is simply the lands promised under the San Remo Conference Agreement which extend from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, which is where the Palestinian claim derives just as their claimed history closely mirrors the history of the Jews minus the persecutions. The main expectation Israel extends to the peoples of the world is for them to base their laws and nations on the Noahic Code, seven laws of Noah. The religious Jews in Israel realize that the main purpose of Israel besides being a homeland for the Jewish people is also for the people of Israel to live their lives in such a manner as to be an example for others to follow. It is not their place to expect others to follow their example no matter how perfectly they manage to conduct their individual and collective lives. Still, the purpose of Israel and her people is to live in as exemplary a manner simply in the hope of realizing the joys of living a life in service of the L0rd G0d and observing the totality of His Commandments by which we fulfill our half of the covenant and we have faith that once we all work towards observing the Commandments that He will fulfill the promises of lives fulfilled. We are not guaranteed that the world will love us, our history pretty much has taught us the opposite, but that is not the point, living a G0dly life is sufficient reward in and of itself. There are numerous items which makes a number of the Commandments impossible to fulfill but with faith the answer to these challenges will be presented in due time. It is not always heartening to admit but our time scale is not that of the L0rd and all we can do is our best and hope that we will live long enough to witness the fulfillment of our Covenant with the L0rd. Until such time we must be content with perfecting ourselves and aiding one another in their efforts to do the same. Still, many wish our political leaders would have more faith in our nation and would stand against those who would prefer to see Israel fail because as the leaders of Israel your first responsibility is to Israel and us her people first, foremost and without any secondary thoughts or distractions.

 

One last link to something I read after completing the article that is well worth a quick read titled, Supporting Middle Eastern Christians is Zionism. Please take a moment to read as the combination working with the article’s author, Father Gabriel Naddaf, may really surprise you, it almost did me.

 

Beyond the Cusp

 

Time to Choose is Upon Us

 

Most of us who grace these postings and pages already support Israel, and for that we should all be glad. But what is coming will require a far more difficult choice, the choice where supporting Israel interferes with one’s life and potentially livelihood as supporters of Israel become pariahs in their own communities. Thankfully there will be exceptions to this rule in places outside of Israel. The American Heartlands, which area is referred to as flyover country by the political elites, as to who gave them that title it remains unknown and suspected it was an example of self-aggrandizement of the most grave and dishonest kind. Thus far supporting Israel resolutely and actively defending her from fallacious slanders often used as facts has cost us at most a couple of acquaintances who proved unacceptable by their own hatreds for Israel and possibly banned us from the watercooler conversations where the most erudite of the groups often proved to be devoid of facts concerning Israel. These are sacrifices, though some amongst us might call such revelations a blessing, are usually not life-changing except in the rarest of cases where one realizes their superiors at their place of employment hold animosity for Israel and this also effects their judgements and conduct in relations concerning work related items such as evaluations, promotions or simply the work atmosphere. You probably were considering finding a new job where the air was cleaner and the people were of a higher caliber of integrity. What is approaching is much, much worse and the ramifications of supporting Israel, or even being suspected of such support, will make life most difficult and in some places life may become threatened to the point that flight may become the only option. Simply worded, supporting Israel is about to become perhaps the most important and significant decision you will ever make for the rest of your life.

 

We are witnessing the spread of anti-Semitism throughout Europe and do not kid yourself that it is solely from amongst the immigrant population alone; the indigenous peoples also are reverting to what has been the European default position of hatred for the Jews. The Middle East and North Africa remain a place where nations may retain a few hundred Jews who are the token they allow some rights so as to claim they are not anti-Semites and their hatreds for Israel are politically and not racially motivated. They know they are being disingenuous but also know that this does not matter in the least as the leaders of many nations outside their region will bless their claims in return for the same when they use similar arguments about their societies. We have seen how in much of Europe the Jewish neighborhoods and places of gathering did not receive any protection at the level which was necessary to prevent the shooting and other attacks used exclusively to murder Jews. The piece of scum who assaulted the Hyper Cachet kosher market down the street expressed that he chose this particular market and timed his attack for when Jews would most likely be buying their Shabbat meals thus giving him a maximum number of Jewish victims. Where this confession is common knowledge today, I ask what will be the memory thirty years hence, twenty years, or even ten? How about within a few weeks? For the proof of the extent leaders of the so-called free world where honesty and truth are presumably prized as required of those holding high office, let me quote United States President Obama speaking of this very incident a mere few weeks after the horrific murders at Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cachet where he stated, “It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.” Randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris? Don’t tell me that he just didn’t remember that the Hyper Cachet was a kosher deli and market or that the terrorist murderer chose this particular location as he sought to murder as many Jews as he could as not knowing these facts is unconscionable. I would understand his forgetting the name of the market, Hyper Cachet, as it does not easily come to mind as it is rather meaningless in English. But that the little terrorist monster was hunting for Jewish victims as he had confessed is just slightly too important and relevant that for the President of the United States to give such short shrift to the targeting of Jews so as to refer to them as “a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris” is simply evil. The world will soon find that this will have become acceptable and even expected of the media as well as the political class. Jews will start to find certain doors closing to them refusing to bring in fresh Jews such that as the older Jews die off, so will the Jewish presence in some of the most prestigious jobs markets of the world. Paralleling the abuse and hatreds placed against Israel, so will it be for the supporters of Israel and the Jews who will be guilty as Israel simply due to their religion. This is where the world is heading and it often appears to be bull-rushing through all the barriers which might have installed some level of sanity to the coming world we will all likely live to see.

 

Israel must refuse the invasive attempts to steal from her the lands for yet another Arab failed terror state situated perfectly to threaten the very heart of Israel. This is not by accident as this took almost twenty years for everything to be turned on its head. Originally it was common knowledge that Israel would retain the lands liberated from Jordan as the lands were liberated which implies that they were occupied and that the real owner of these lands had retaken them. Then there was this invented nation of Palestine which was based in theory on a General Assembly resolution turned down, thus making it invalid, which had suggested an even division of the lands. Eventually Palestine came to mean all of the lands liberated by Israel. This simply meant giving up all of the lands gained from the Six Day War and the lands from Jordan were not to be returned to Jordan but instead to be turned over to terrorist masters playing politicians, and not all that well. There are already the beginnings of a movement by Bedouins to claim their own nation in all of the Negev Regions. This is being supported and even aided through advisors by the same people backing the Palestinian Arab claims. Then there will be the claims by Hezballah on the Galilee and returning the Golan Heights to Syria. What would such leave the Jews, the metropolitan region of Tel Aviv for as long as they might hold it. These other claimants are the reason that giving away any parts of Israel must not be permitted to occur otherwise every inch of Israel will be claimed by somebody and all the lands will be given away and the Jews cleansed from the lands. What happens when the final lands are gifted away and there is no nation willing to take the now refugee Jews? We remember what was the solution to the Jewish problem the last time the entire free world refused to accept the Jews; so why does anybody believe it will be different this time? You say that nobody has a claim to the central Tel Aviv region? I am willing to bet that should a group of people claiming to be the last remnants from Santorini who fled their Island home right before the eruption and assumed end of the Minoan civilization, claimed they took to their boats and rowed due east and eventually set up their new homelands just south by a couple of miles from Tel Aviv and that entire area belongs to them, the world would grant them that remainder leaving the Jews nowhere to live and at the whims of a world unwilling to lift a finger to assist except to steal the land from under their feet. As far as what the Jews were to do, they would suggest treading water for as long as possible and then, well, who knew they couldn’t swim forever, anyways, why didn’t they just part the Mediterranean Sea and live on the land thus created? Perhaps there is a degree of hyperbole, but supporting Israel will be as if to fight against such attempts and perceived eventualities. It is true that Israel had best grow a backbone and a few other body parts to facilitate taking a stand and apply the treaties what exist and are signed by the entirety of the world granting Israel the lands described by the Balfour Declarations and this was incorporated into the San Remo Conference Agreement which set up the Mandate system. The British did their best to prevent there ever being a Jewish State, they failed. What we’re seeing now is the next assault to destroy that which the British proved unable to prevent. If Israel is to survive it is going to take those who support her to speak up at every opportunity and even force the making of such opportunities to give people pause to read the promise made in 1920 and start a new conversation which does not give away lands overseeing the heart of Israel. We have International Law on our side, so why not scream so from the highest peaks. Let us at least open and start conversations supporting the legal definition of Israel which is the real claim of “from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, the lands belong to Israel and the Judean.”

 

Beyond the Cusp