International Law: January 2007 Archives

The associated article by Srdja Trifkovic, "Eurabian Nights: A Horror Travelogue," shows that significant portions of various Muslim communities in Europe are abusing and exploiting their host countries. Rather than treat their hosts with gratitude or at least make efforts to be good citizens and integrate, in some places they struggle to create separate enclaves and have increased the degree of serious crime. Slavish European elites in turn tend to blame the members of their own societies for everything that goes wrong and counsel them to accept an "inevitable" change to a Euro-Islamic civilization. Many things can be written about curing the sickness of contemporary European immigration politics, but we would like to focus on five elements.

Thousands of young Muslims, armed with clubs and sticks and shouting, "Allahu akbar!" riot and force the police to retreat. Windows are smashed; stores are looted; cars are torched. Europeans unlucky or careless enough to be trapped by the mob are viciously attacked, and some are killed.

The scene could be Mogadishu in the aftermath of Pope Benedict's Regensburg address; or Tripoli during the Danish-cartoons fury; or Karachi, Kabul, Gaza, and countless other cities in Dar al-Islam's heartland, on any number of occasions. Yet a year ago, such scenes were unfolding, for weeks on end, in places with such names as Clichy-sous-Bois, Argenteuil, and La Courneuve.