[ May 13, 2024 ]
The new Europe, apparently, will be one that erases Christianity and all its benefits, and bolsters Islam.
That’s according to the talk of the intellectual world, many members of which just met to issue the “Paris Statement,” rejecting “the false Christendom of universal human rights” and the “utopian, pseudo-religious crusade for a borderless world.”
Here, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere proposed a new policy that embraces and recognizes the Muslim holidays as part and parcel of Europe-wide celebrations.
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The Gatestone Institute reports:
A few days ago, some of Europe’s most important intellectuals — including British philosopher Roger Scruton, former Polish Education Minister Ryszard Legutko, German scholar Robert Spaemann and Professor Rémi Brague from the Sorbonne in France — issued “The Paris Statement”. In their ambitious statement, they rejected the “false Christendom of universal human rights” and the “utopian, pseudo-religious crusade for a borderless world”. Instead, they called for a Europe based on “Christian roots”, drawing inspiration from the “Classical tradition” and rejecting multiculturalism:
“The patrons of the false Europe are bewitched by superstitions of inevitable progress. They believe that History is on their side, and this faith makes them haughty and disdainful, unable to acknowledge the defects in the post-national, post-cultural world they are constructing. Moreover, they are ignorant of the true sources of the humane decencies they themselves hold dear — as do we. They ignore, even repudiate the Christian roots of Europe. At the same time they take great care not to offend Muslims, who they imagine will cheerfully adopt their secular, multicultural outlook”.
In 2007, reflecting on the cultural crisis of the continent, Pope Benedict said that Europe is now “doubting its very identity”. In 2017, Europe took a further step: creating a post-Christian pro-Islam identity. Europe’s official buildings and exhibitions have indeed been erasing Christianity and welcoming Islam.
One kind of official museum recently opened by the European Parliament, the “House of the European History”, costing 56 million euros. The idea was to create a historical narrative of the postwar period around the pro-EU message of unification. The building is a beautiful example of Art Deco in Brussels. As the Dutch scholar Arnold Huijgen wrote, however, the house is culturally “empty”:
“The French Revolution seems to be the birthplace of Europe; there is little room for anything that may have preceded it. The Napoleonic Code and the philosophy of Karl Marx receive a prominent place, while slavery and colonialism are highlighted as the darker sides of European culture (…) But the most remarkable thing about the House is that.as far as its account is concerned, it is as if religion does not exist. In fact, it never existed and never impacted the history of the continent (…) No longer is European secularism fighting the Christian religion; it simply ignores every religious aspect in life altogether”.
The Brussels bureaucracy even deleted the Catholic roots of its official flag, the twelve stars symbolizing the ideal of unity, solidarity and harmony among the peoples of Europe. It was drawn by the French Catholic designer Arséne Heitz, who apparently took his inspiration from the Christian iconography of Virgin Mary. But the European Union’s official explanation of the flag makes no mention of these Christian roots.
The European Monetary and Economic Department of the European Commission then ordered Slovakia to redesign its commemorative coins by eliminating the Christian Saints Cyril and Methonius. There is no mention of Christianity in the 75,000 words of the aborted draft of the European Constitution.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, of Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democratic Party, recently suggested introducing Muslim public holidays. “In places where there are many Muslims, why can’t we think about introducing a Muslim public holiday?”, he said.
“The submission is moving ahead,” replied Erika Steinbach, the influential former chair of the Federation of Expellees — Germans expelled from various Eastern European countries during and after World War II.
Beatrix von Storch, a leading politician from Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), just tweeted: “NO! NO! NO!”.
De Maizière’s proposal shows that when it comes to Islam, Europe’s official “post-Christian” secularism is simply missing in action.
A few weeks ago, a European Union-funded exhibition, “Islam, It’s also our history!”, was hosted in Brussels. The exhibition tracks the impact of Islam in Europe. An official statement claims:
“The historical evidence displayed by the exhibition – the reality of an old-age Muslim presence in Europe and the complex interplay of two civilisations that fought against each other but also interpenetrated each other – underpins an educational and political endeavour: helping European Muslims and non Muslims alike to better grasp their common cultural roots and cultivate their shared citizenship”.
Isabelle Benoit, a historian who helped design the exhibition, told AP: “We want to make clear to Europeans that Islam is part of European civilisation and that it isn’t a recent import but has roots going back 13 centuries”.
The official European establishment has turned its back on Christianity. The establishment appear unaware of the extent to which the continent and its people still depend on the moral guidance of its humanitarian values, especially at a time when radical Islam has launched a civilization challenge to the West. “It is simply a problem of a packing that tends to fill a ‘void'”, just wrote Ernesto Galli della Loggia in the Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.
“It is impossible to ignore that behind the packing are two great theological and political traditions — that of the Russian Orthodoxy and Islam — while behind the ‘void’ there is only the fading of the Christian consciousness of the European West”.
That is why it is hard to understand the “logic” behind the official European animosity toward Christianity and its attraction to a basically totalitarian Islam. Europe could easily be secular without being militantly anti-Christian. It is easier to understand why thousands of Poles just took part in a mass protest along Poland’s borders to voice their opposition to “secularization and Islam’s influence”, which is exactly the same as the official crazy EU credo.
During the Second World War, the Allies avoided bombing Brussels, because it was to be the site of European rebirth. If the European elite continue with this cultural repudiation of their Judeo-Christian-Humanistic culture, the city could be its grave.
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29 Comments
6 years ago
The satanic agenda exposed.
Christaphobic is the real issue not islamaphobic
https://youtu.be/Hd4BmDeiqP4
6 years ago
Reply to
Tom Validakis
The atheist Europeons will be getting all the religion they never wanted in their totalitarian muslum future.
6 years ago
And the Islamonazi Pope wants christians to bring in more of his islamonazi friends. while the hypocrite hides behind personal security and 40 feet high walls !
And now he even questions christians on their faith http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl
Its like he has sold his soul to Left/Islam agenda and only foolish ignorant christians are foolishly treating him with respect he does not deserve.
6 years ago
Trump’s ME Envoy Greenblatt Slaps Down Palis
DebkaFile Oct 19, 2017 @ 11:30
Jason Greenblatt, the US special Middle East Envoy, Thursday published a statement in support of Israeli cabinet decisions to bar future negotiations with a Hamas-run Palestinian government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He said: “The United States reiterates the importance of adherence to the Quartet principles: any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognize the State of Israel, accept previous agreements and obligations between the parties – including to disarm terrorists – and commit to peaceful negotiations. If Hamas is to play any role in a Palestinian government, it must accept these basic requirements.”
Under their unity agreement, the Palestinian Authority is scheduled to move into the Gaza Strip on Dec. 1.
http://www.debka.com/mivzak/us-mid-east-envoy-backs-israel-policy-palestinian-unity/
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
The Paleswine will certainly pretend to adhere to most anything you want them to, and when the rockets come raining down on Israel again, it’ll be a case of “my bad”.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Hi Izlamis,
Yes, of course the Palis will stay stupid. And Israel will stay incredibly patient. But at least the USA has Isreal’s back this time. Greenblatt’s a smart guy. He was once Trump’s lawyer. I have followed him from the get-go.
6 years ago
“slavery and colonialism are highlighted as the darker sides of European culture”.
Slavery and colonialism are the in-your-face glaring aspects of Islam, alive and well, and both unchangeable.
“Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.”
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, professor, imam and eminent Saudi scholar.
“Islam will dominate” -countless placards
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
As Winston Churchill said in “The River War”, while recounting an episode in which the Mohammedan driver started praying to Allah after his train broke down due to lack of maintenance, just the way Islam treats women amounts to slavery:
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or as a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
If you haven’t yet seen it, the whole passage that quote comes from is hilarious, and sums up muslims and their religion perfectly.
https://archive.org/stream/1899RiverWarVol2/1899%20River%20War%20Vol%202#page/n277/mode/2up
6 years ago
“two civilisations that fought against each other”.
Two? Excuse me?
Daughter-killing, stoning, slavery, amputations, genital mutilation, forced marriage, child marriage, no freedom of conscience, no freedom of speech, no equality before the law. That is not civilisation
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
Dear Michael, I share your dislike of Islamic values. However the meaning of the concept of two civilisations eludes you. The c-word does not mean “something good”, rather it is the label of systems of large-scale human social organisation. This is well-presented in the great book by Arnold Toynbee “A study of history”, the shortened version of which is essential reading.
The whole point of different civilisations is that they can be utterly incompatible in their values and beliefs. Thus many Muslims consider our values to be evil – just as you and me see it the other way round.
But that is not to say that all civilisations are equal in every way. As Toynbee explained, at the founding heart of every civilisation is a religion. Ours was Christianity (and ditto Coptic, Syriac, Russian Orthodox, Celtic). The Islam cult likewise gave birth to the Iranic and Arabic civilisations, now very much broken down.
Due to the inferiority of civilisations based on worshipping an intolerant mass murdering raping lying sadistic thief bigamist terrorist war-inciter along with his supposedly perfect all-time final message, the Islamic world now consists mainly of failed states. And that is even before the Saudi’s oil money runs out and the millions of now-literate “Muslims” can read for the first time and have millions of free copies of the perfect book to see how full of ignorance and illogicality it really is. Hence Ex-Muslim is the new faith of our times.
6 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
“the Iranic and Arabic civilisations, now very much broken down.”
I’ll expand on that a bit. In both these central Islamic countries, electoral politics has been introduced, and ditto in most other Islamic countries (Pak etc). That’s a huge incursion of Islam-incompatible Westernism into their societies. If you think our Kuffar societies are in crisis please be assured it’s nothing compared to the crises in the Ummah societies. Islam is going down the drain, just not very publicly for obvious reasons. How many are being told: “Anyone who leaves Christianity, kill him!”
6 years ago
That was just a question of time. The higher the number of muzzies in Europe is rising, the more Islam will be promoted. It´s a natural and logic thing. Just look at the Kindergardens throught western Europes cities: There, muslim kids are already the majority, so of course it makes no sense anymore to celebrate traditional christian holidays like Christmas or Easter anymore, because there simply are no more Christians amongst these kids. So the complete agenda of the EU turns itself more and more towards Islam, which is an unseen example of idiocy in history yet. The elites still think that they are able to use muslims as a tool for their “higher goals” but they absolutely underrate the danger of Islam because they still believe that Islam is a religion (of peace) and that muslims can be tamed or even integrated. That Christianity is dying in Europe is a sad thing, but at the same time I don´t feel sorry for that when I see in what a disgusting way the church is promoting the influx of muslims in Europe. But removing crosses from churches pictured on the tin foils of yogurts just to not offend muzzie feelings is simply pathetic and stands as a prime example of the insanity of the degenerated liberal western society. Never before in history Europe has shown a bigger invitation sign to Islam than it does now, which will be he ultimate suicide for this continent (well, not the whole continent but the west and north for sure).
6 years ago
What Europe?
6 years ago
never in history has a continent committed suicide like this. i think most of the good and intelligent dna in europe died in the wars of the 20th century, leaving us with this pathetic residue
6 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
my sentiments exactly .the nazi scientists must have sprayed something in the air b4 the regime fell
D
6 years ago
Continental Western Europe has gone insane. I always found it difficult to penetrate into their mindset, there was something different about them I just couldn’t grasp. They are more statist for one thing, subservient to the state. I liked some of them a lot, sad to see them go down this way.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
I found many of them to be just like the US leftists of today.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Stick a fork in them Western Eurapia is done. I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point in their muslum puppet state future their armed forces are employed as Janissaries for the muslum world (i.e. to fight against countries that are resisting islamic imperialism/colonialisation).
6 years ago
“During the Second World War, the Allies avoided bombing Brussels, because it was to be the site of European rebirth.”
Maybe not the Allies, but the globalists who controlled & financed the Allies.
6 years ago
western europe places no value on its Christian past. The counterfeit propaganda of a lying philosophy that calls itself “Christian” is a poison bait set by contemporary judas’s, waiting for the naive and trusting to swallow it. The basics of Christianity are every clearly stated in the Bible, there is no real difficulty in understanding it. The qur’an is the same, they’re total opposites. islam is death, despair and damnation. Christianity is life, happiness and salvation. It is remarkable how many fools choose death. These purveyors of the new superficial form of man made “intelligent design” reveal a short sighted ignorance that is the trademark of the pseudo intellectual.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The NWO had already taken over Europe and their globalist puppets that run it. It’s the West the NWO is working feverishly to overtake, but Trump is standing in their way, for the moment. And so are the American patriots who will NOT give up their guns.
6 years ago
Reply to
marlene
There are more patriots defining themselves as American or other free nations every day. When hell breaks loose, islam will be destroyed.
6 years ago
So how many continents are dying from the poison of islam now?
6 years ago
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3
6 years ago
All Muslims need to be expelled out of Europe.
D
6 years ago
Great article from Gatestone Institute…and here’s link to “The Paris Statement”
https://thetrueeurope.eu/a-europe-we-can-believe-in/
It puts everything into perspective and explains the suicide of the West. Alex Jones has been totally right on his major theme of “Globalism” and NWO.
6 years ago
If you believe in the Biblical “End Times”, then consider that the Antichrist will be Islamic, the Beast will be Islamic, and the false prophet will be the son of Mohammad.
6 years ago
Considering the complete indifference the atheist governments of Eurapia have shown towards the Christians being slaughtered/enslaved/persecuted by muslums allah over the muslum world I don’t find this article surprising in the least.
