Unexpected Consequences of Islamic Europe

Submitted by Alfred London (United Kingdom), Mar 8, 2010 at 12:56

The irony is that the rise of Islam will have unintended consequences. Most of the fear of Islamisation is not religious/cultural change but a racial one. However, this is not necessarily racist-fascist or racial supremacy which motivates the fear of the indigenous "white " European but racial equality as "if all races are equal why should ours die out or exist as a pathetic native minority?", "If all races are equal it is not unlikely that they could be as racist to us as our ancestors were to them?". these questions and fears will force indigenous Europeans to change their lifestyles. Progressive secularism has already shown its failings while Christian conservatism is historically discredited because of its reactionary heritage. I do not think neo-fascism or neo-Nazism will make much headway because it is largely discredited as a result of history (Thankfully!) and just simply dishonourable, immoral, unscientific and grotesque. Rather, it will be racial preservationism or survivalism that promotes "white indigenous" Europeans with an identity worth preserving while abiding to the principles of racial equality. The irony being that Islam may be just the religion to help this along as although we think of the faith as aiming towards a globalised Ummah (community of the faithful) it has a bad track record of unity and Islam has never moulded every follower into Homo Islamicus. Instead many have glorified their distinct culture and racial identity and the Ummah as just come to mean "politeness to foreign beleivers when on the Hajj" but not mutual assimilation.

If Muslim of African and Asian descent rejoice at the conversion of native Europeans to Islam, beware! This will have the affect of higher white birth-rates, the re-indroduction of arranged marriages will allow parents under their community's pressure to avoid racial exogamy and the healthier lifestyle promted by Islam (anti-substance abuse, anti-promiscuity etc...) will drastically turn the white indigenous population around. As ethnic and race-relations in Muslim states have shown do not expect good neighbourly attitudes to endure. Racist Africans and Asians who hide behind Islamism will find excuses why white Europeans are not Islamic enough in order to suppress them while ultra-nationalist whites will use Islamism and Sharia Law's property rights to "reclaim" the continent as their rightful possession against "usurpers". It is even likely that native Muslims of Europe will embrace Shia Islam in order to infuriate the largely Sunni Afro-Asian community. The European colonialists were said to have brought the seeds of their own destruction when they colonised the world as they glorified nationalism which inspired the colonised to confront them. The same may be true of the Muslim Afro-Asian migrants

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