Fearing for Freedom in a Post-Christian Europe

by David J. Rusin • Jan 31, 2010 at 11:06 pm

http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/01/fearing-for-freedom-in-a-post-christian-europe

This is a precautionary message for Australia and muslim immigration.

Sometimes it seems that European Christian leaders are more concerned with preparing their flocks fordhimmitude than with defending their faith and the civilization built around it. Among other infamies, prominent clerics have maintained that the acceptance of Shari'a law is "unavoidable," urged believers to refer to God as "Allah," suggested that Lent be rebranded as "Christian Ramadan," and insisted that Catholic schools incorporate Muslim prayer rooms.

But not all are content to watch Christianity "go gentle into that good night" — and often they specify secular reasons. Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican bishop of Rochester, has argued that many of the freedoms and institutions enjoyed in Europe have Christian roots — and thus are put at risk by sidelining Christianity. Likewise, he has hammered the UK's multicultural policies as unmitigated failures that serve only to undermine societal cohesion, even fostering Islamist-run "no-go areas" in major cities.

Two leading prelates recently have echoed Nazir-Ali. First, in an online interview, retiring Czech CardinalMiloslav Vlk asserts that the spiritual vacuum is being filled by Islam — especially its most radical elements — and could result in the "fall of Europe." Second, George Carey, the ex-archbishop of Canterbury, uses an op-ed to contend that "tolerance, fair play, [and] pluralism" are not enough to define a nation, "so we must look also to language, institutions, and our shared history." Unfortunately, "some groups of migrants … are ambivalent about or even hostile to such institutions" and prefer to self-segregate in "ghettos" governed by Shari'a.

Stating that "there must be a willingness on their part to integrate with the rest of British society," he continues:

Is there anything distinctly Christian about such a call? Some will say "no." Our values lie rather with the Enlightenment than with the Church. I believe that history is against them. It is my firm view that our society owes more to our Christian heritage than it realizes and to overlook this inheritance of faith will lead to the watering down of the very values of tolerance, openness, inclusion, and democracy that we claim are central to all we stand for.

What undergirds liberal democracy: the Enlightenment, Christianity, or some other factors? Furthermore, is the Islamic faith by nature compatible or incompatible with such a system? Detailed answers are beyond the scope of this blog, but please note that the Middle East Forum has worked to advance the debate on the latter question. What is absolutely undeniable, however, is that the Christian, Enlightenment-shaped West has produced the freest nations on the planet, while Muslim-majority states now rank among the lowest in terms of social and political rights.

Therefore, is it "Islamophobic" to worry about how Europe will be affected by the decline of Christianity, the ascent of anything-goes multiculturalism, and the expansion of unassimilated Muslim communities originating from oppressive lands? No. For lovers of freedom — believers and non-believers alike — these concerns are both reasonable and necessary.

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Your 2010 New Year Resolution

You don't need to live a life controlled and manipulated by religion. You don't need to:

1. Feel a sense of guilt because you believe in original sin
2. Be frightened of eternal damnation
3. Have your fertility controlled by a church
4. Fear punishment because you don't believe religious fairy tales
5. Cover your face and body so that nobody can see the real you
6. Face punishment or death because you talked to men or had an "improper" liaison
7. Believe religious myth because others do (you aren't a sheep are you?)
8. Do anything else you don't want to to follow some man-made doctrine passed off as divine
9. Brain wash your children into following a religion (a type of child abuse(

You can live a good, happy life without religion. Religion is a cause of much evil and unnecessary suffering in the world and has been for thousands of years.

Make 2010 the year you free your life of religion and live the life you should. Join the increasing band of people who have seen the light.

Dark Horse

Government Buckles To Tamil Refugees' Demands

In one of the most gutless backdowns I have ever seen by the Australian Government, 78 Tamil malcontents from Sri Lank will be granted permanent residence visas.

This makes me incredibly angry. The government has betrayed the Australian people. Those of us who pay taxes to support immigrants and hundreds of thousands of other people who rely on the welfare system. We, who vote for governments we think will carry out our wishes.

What kind of government allows a group of people to hold it to ransom? A spineless government ... the Australian Labor Government.

The 78 Tamils have lived in Indonesia for months. They paid up to $15,000 USD for a boat trip to Australia so they could enter our country illegally. When the boat sank, the Australian Government's Customs vessel "Oceanic Viking" rescued them at great expense to the Australian taxpayers. After being decent enough to rescue them, they then refused to leave the vessel and return to Indonesia. We fed them and provided medical attention for the past four weeks and rather than force them off (which would have made the government look bad), or take them back to Sri Lanka, where their own Prime Minister said they are economic refugees, not asylum seekers, the Labor Government will give them permanent residence visas.

They'll receive Centrelink benefits, Medicare Card, and assistance we don't even give our own people, many of whom will have paid tax for decades. Some of whom are pensioners struggling to get by from week to week.

The Australian Government stinks. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stinks. Gutless. Spineless.

We need to win back our country. We need Referenda to determine some of the critical issues facing Australian society. Such as:

1. Whether we should ban muslim immigration and try to offload those muslims who are already here (pay them to leave)
2. The need for a Human Rights Act
3. Whether we should cease our alignment with the United Nations Convention on Refugees
4. Means testing of all government benefits, especially those given to descendants of the First Australians

Please write to your local Member of Parliament (check the phone book) and object to the backdown by government in relation to the Sri Lankan illegal immigrants.

The longer we fail to do something, the worse it will get.

New Plan to Deal With Illegal Refugees

The idea of a multicultural Australia is one that few Australians accept. We accept immigrants, but we want them to become part of us ... to become Australians.

We don't mind if they start up a Chinese Restaurant or build a Greek Club so they can remember their homeland. Provided they integrate, learn our language and at least make an effort to fit in, we will accept them.

Our history of immigration is evidence of this.
It's probably true to say that most Australians (that is Australian born people) don't want dozens of people sailing in from overseas in old boats. Our illegal immigration policy has been a shambles. We need a new approach to dealing with illegal refugees.

One approach would be to establish Refugee Processing Offices in the countries from which most of our refugees are now coming. Instead of having to save up $15,000 to pay some Indonesian for a trip across the Indian Ocean in an endeavour to reach our mainland, they could lodge their applications at one of our Refugee Offices, completely free of charge.

This would demonstrate our generosity, humanity and willingness to grasp cultural and language diverse peoples.

Muslims, criminals and anyone found undesirable for political or other reasons would be prohibited entry and have their application refused. Economic refugees would also be refused. Having an office in the countries of refugees' origins it would be easier to check such things as birth certificate, whether they were generally victimised and so on. Medical examinations could be carried out to ensure no unwanted diseases eg, tuberculosis, weren't imported to Australia.

Those who passed the test for genuine refugee, could be paid to fly to Australia, given a Medicare card, a cheap government apartment, set up with Centrelink payments for life, and spend the rest of their days living at tax-payer expense.

They would be so grateful, that as soon as they were eligible, they could be signed up as members of the Labor Party and have a real opportunity of getting a cushy job as a politician in an ethnic electorate, representing the diversity of thier electorate.

Eventually, when enough of them got into politics, they could use the great democratic system to change laws to allow millions of uneducated, poor, refugees into the country thus showing everyone what a great country we have.

As the rivers died off, the productivity of farms and orchards decreased and people began to become hungry, thirsty and felt victimised, they could get into boats and travel back to countries from which they came which now have new people, fresh crops, a sound government and democratic systems since they had time to replenish and redevelop without all the dead wood being there.

This is what is called the cycle of life.

If you believe Australia should have offices in high refugee intake countries, write to your local member today and request it. You never know, you could finish up in a seaside office with your computer drinking pina colados and processing the odd refugee application.

Who Owns the Land?

I've never been a communist or a socialist, although some of my ideas certainly border on socialism and not my usual right-wing self. One such idea is that about land ownership. I believe that ALL land should belong to the State.

Now that's a brave comment.

In my scheme, instead of someone buying a block of land for their house or business and paying for it, they'd simply get a 99 year lease (or some other period lease) from the government agency controlling land development. The government would charge a nominal rental fee annually to contribute to national taxation.

If the tennant of the land built something on it or otherwise improved it, the ability to transfer the lease would exist, but it would be a government-authorised transaction. Perhaps a slightly higher rental fee would be charged for improvements.

Land acquisition would be on a first-come-first-served basis.

The State (or governments in this sense) has perpetuity, whereas you and I die. It seems to me that it would be more sensible to have an enduring entity in charge of all the land in a country rather than have a false economy built on supply and demand of something that noone can really own.

What do you think?

Australian Human Rights Bill

There is a minority of people who believe Australia should have a Human Rights Bill. We don't. Australia has a plethora of acts of Parliament that provide for our rights and in some cases, our responsibilities.

Every time the Australian Government enacts social engineering legislation, it shoots itself in the foot. For example, the Native Title Act and the Aboriginal Land Rights Act have resulted in the lock out of millions of hectares of land that cannot now be used for housing development. In many places, house prices and rents have gone through the roof because there is no land available for development.

As a result of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the Australian Government has purchased dozens of functional, profit-generating cattle stations and turned them over to indigenous groups. In nearly all cases, the cattle died through neglect and the land now lies unused and unprofitable with the inhabitants still a drain on the welfare system.

You can bet your life that if we introduce an unwanted Human Rights Bill, there will be unforseen negative consequences.

At the end of the day, the only rights any of us have are those our society wishes to allow us. Australians live in a free, democratic society and there are many other things we could focus our attention on than an unnecessary Bill of Rights.

Not a Racial Riot, a Religious Riot

According to an article in News.com.au titled, "Facebook Used to Organise Riot - Police":

"A RIOT by Muslim youths in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn last week was organised via Facebook, police believe.

The troublemakers used the social networking site to flash up inflammatory references to police and rally their friends for a confrontation.

One update identified police as "non-believers" who were raiding a "brother's home".

More than 150 people gathered in Cumberland Road, Auburn, on Tuesday night, forcing police to call in 100 officers, the riot squad and a helicopter.

The tense stand-off came after Middle Eastern organised crime squad police raided four homes."

The idea that this riot was racially based is a ruse to downplay the fact that muslims were at its centre. Most Arabs are Caucasians like most Australians. They have darker skin, usually brown eyes and black hair, but they are never the less, Caucasian.

This was a religious-based riot. Muslims against everyone else. They are a group that doesn't readily tolerate anyone whose views are different.

Their views are almost totally different from those of us who are real Australians. There is evidence all over the world that muslims are intolerant of non-muslims.

The question I have to ask again is why are we letting them immigrate to Australia? We know that these people create problems wherever they go. In the same way that they are now creating problems in Australia. We don't need them. The more we allow into the country, the more frequently our problems will occur and eventually they will resort to armed insurrection to establish an Islamic State within Australia.

I do not hate these people and I would do nothing intentionally to hurt them. In fact I have several good friends who are muslims. However, I believe they should move to an Islamic Utopia like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia or some other place where their values and religion will provide what they need.

They are not wanted and not needed in Australia. Write to your local member and ask that muslims be banned from permanent immigration to Australia. If you don't, we will all live to regret it.