Europe

Let us compare and contrast two pieces on the one hand, one a Der Speigel editorial, and one written by a clearly modern, cosmopolitan woman, steeped in the effects that feminism and a generally more candid treatment of human sexuality in Western societies have had over the last few decades, and a piece by a former federal prosecutor who has made a name for himself in recent years sounding the warning bell about the steady imposition of sharia and jihad on the West.

The editorial, signed by no less than twenty-one of Der Speigel's staff, is lengthy, and tries, at least according to its own standards, to fairly present the various perspectives on what went on in Cologne and other German cities New Year's Eve. It's a lengthy piece, acknowledging the strong presence of Arab and / or north African young men among the attackers. It examines Merkel's recent toughened tone as outrage grows. It acknowledges that the Cologne police department's January 1 report on the previous night said it was, unbelievably, "largely peaceful." It covers the opinion-organ and social-media rantings of crude populist groups.

Its concluding paragraph says that German politicians have no grasp of what real integration of the influx of immigrants would entail.

But in the entire piece, you will not find the word "Muslim."

Anna Sauerbrey's piece in the New York Times is similar in tone and point. She acknowledges that German media coverage was slow in coming, and that no arrests were made. She observes that German feminists and far-right groups had a similar assessment of the meaning of the attacks.

Ultimately, she concludes her column much the way Der Speigel concluded its editorial:

Assumptions have replaced observation, assertion has replaced assessment, and ideology has replaced evidence. With its vision thus distorted, Germany is speeding toward a multicultural society, chased by the mob on the Internet, without any idea of what that society should look like.
We need to regain our sense of balance — or it’s just a question of time until we hit a wall.

And, again, you will not find the word "Muslim."

Compare these takes to that of Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online. Right out of the gate, his impatience with the dance of painstaking imprecision is on full display:

What happens when the West’s fantasy Islam collides with the reality of an imported critical mass of unassimilated — and defiantly unassimilable — Muslims?

Cologne happens.

Nor is it only Cologne. That was just Ground Zero of the New Year’s Eve rape jihad in Germany. As National Review’s Ian Tuttle notes in an alarming column about the predictable — and, if I may say, predicted — surge of sexual assault in a Europe overrun by “migrants,” the jihad included similar episodes, albeit on a smaller scale, in Stuttgart, Hamburg, and even astride the Brandenburg gate in Berlin.

He forthrightly employs the term the first two pieces studiously avoid:

The Muslim men used a tactic that has escaped the notice of fantasy Islam devotees but is well known to those of us who’ve followed the scant reports on the rape jihad as it has proceeded from Tahrir Square to Malmö to Rotherham: A group of men encircles the targeted woman or girl, trapping her while walling off police and other would-be rescuers. Knowing they are a protected class, the Muslim men have no fear of the cops — “You can’t do anything to me,” and “Mrs. Merkel invited me here,” are just some of the reported taunts. By the time “help” reaches one victim, the assailants have moved on to the next.

It is not very effective law enforcement . . . but at least the cops can’t be accused of “Islamophobia,” right?

He basically says that those who refuse to look squarely at what is happening are either fools or duplicitous apologists who will contort themselves endlessly to preserve "diversity" as some kind of supreme value.

And just what is happening?

As I’ve previously explained, when Muslims are seeking conquest, Islamic scripture endorses sexual assault as a weapon to establish their dominance. “O Prophet,” Allah is said to have announced (in the Koran’s sura 33:50), “We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou has paid their dowers, and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the captives of war whom Allah has assigned to thee.” In the Western ministries of fantasy Islam, the pols and their note-takers will thumb their chins and wonder what could possibly have motivated the German attacks — just as they wonder what could possibly explain the European sexual-assault crisis that has, by some mysterious coincidence, coincided with mass Muslim migration.

The rest of us will know that there is a strategy: conquest. Just as in the Middle East, women and girls in the West are the spoils of jihad, the vehicle for intimidating non-Muslims into surrendering sovereignty over the streets. If they want to be safe, Sheikh Qaradawi warns, they must submit to Islam’s sartorial suffocation. If not, well, they have it coming. 

And it's not just Germany that is being forced into this self-examination. Similar attacks occurred in Helsinki New Years Eve.

And let us recall the Rotherham sex-abuse horror. By the way, the BBC was caught up in its own scandal when it whitewashed the fact that the exploitation, rape and torture of some 1400 girls over a period of years was perpetrated by Pakistani gangs.

Let us recall the November 2015 and January 2015 Paris attacks. Routine car-burning melees in the "immigrant neighborhoods" in recent years. No-go zones.

Let us remember that there's not one damn country on the continent where the native population is reproducing itself. Let us remember that church attendance has plummeted in recent years.

Europe, the cradle of whatever the West is, is dying in real time. 

Take it in. Two wars so tumultuous that, even though they mainly involved European powers, were called world wars in the previous century did not finally do in what is being done in now.

And just as Western civilization spread to two vast, untapped continents an ocean away from home, the suicidal bent that is killing it is spreading to those continents now.

When the Most Equal Comrade tries to sincerely sound like he's more than mildly annoyed about "violent extremism," or the mayor of Philadelphia says that the ISIS militant who had traveled to the Middle East at least twice and who shot a city cop in his patrol car, proclaiming to do so in the name of Islam was not motivated by Islam, you can be sure that the will to preserve this unique blessing to humankind, let alone cultivate any understanding of why it's been a unique blessing, is a flame about to flicker its last.