So... the game is over.
In March I saw Al Qaeda ravaging one of Europe's most delightful capitals, Madrid. Blood. Crime. Their beloved ed'dem bed d'em = eye for an eye. Inflicted to whom ? To the unique Occidental area who promoted a constant dialogue with Islam in the last 50 years.
Proving Europe what ?
That EU's policy towards the Arabic world failed. The policy - a mixture of equivocal, indeterminate, humanitarian methods, money-for-reforms, and a so-called "diplomatic" language - collapsed, pushing Europe in a crisis that goes beyond the anarchist terrorist-attacks of the 1970s. Diplomacy is useless when coping with barbarians. That's why I said "yes" to war in Iraq (but I said no the American unilateral formula).
Europe failed miserably. The extremely wise advice of the Romans "Mens sana in corpore sano", a healthy mind in a healthy body, seems to have been forgotten : Europe cultivates its (fairly magnificent) mind, but leaves aside any concerns relating to the health of her muscles. Gracious (read : weak) as she wants to be, she was punched in her pretty face the way she couldn't even imagine.
And now what, Europe sweetie ?
25 States, half-ridiculous, half-boring are trying to rebuild their self-esteem. Keeping a bit of their inglorious antagonistic political past, the Euro15/25 team re-re-re-re...-reasserts now the project of a united diplomacy, of a united army, of a Constitution, blah-blah, words, words, words. Everyone dislikes the American hegemony but no one has the will of turning into real Fact the what is now an endless stream of calm, condescending, Olympian anti-Americanism, so vividly claimed by some European nations... Europe miserably fails in co-ordinating its external affairs, Europe miserably fails in remaining attached to a unique principle. These 2 aspects are the eternal causes of its insignificance (worthlessness!
on the world stage -Middle East included, of course.
Europe commits the unpardonable mistake of judging Islam through its own secularised Christianism. Europe15/25 imagines that the post-1990 Arabian-Islamic terror is a sort of jealousy, a religious-facetted economic anti-Occidental frustrations of a once powerful civilisation. Half-correct, and still not enough. Islamic terrorism is the work of a special sort of fanaticism, typical of Islam : an increasing bigotry, a ferocious intolerance, an obsession that secular minds cannot conceive now. Mix this with the pseudo-intellectual powder called "Jihad" and you'll get the recipe of a new kamikaze. He does not die for the triumph of an idea, he dies for the triumph of pure destruction. Islam managed to show us, in the last 1400 years, that it is the unique religion that does not appreciate LIFE as a gift ; that it is the unique religion for whom mobility, transformation, evolution, construction are a danger and must be eliminated. How? Not by proposing a counter-model, but by simply destroying. Islam cannot conceive liberty, freedom. Freedom means "lack of submission" - while "Islam" means "submission"...
Therefore, due to the perfect superposition of the civil and the religious laws, for Islam the terrorist attacks seem to be veritable rituals, motivated by an inner mystique. Is the entire mass of the Arabian-Islamic population adhering to such a perception ? Might be so. Born in a name of a vengeful God, they cannot envisage another way.
They accuse Christian Crusades, voluntarily ignoring that Crusades was determined by the relentless Arabian-Islamic attack against Christian Europe (7th to 11th century).
What image could I "fabricate" (for my private use) about a civilisation that, when entering History, began by a crime against culture and intelligence ? Islam put on fire the Alexandria Library ! « If the books inside say things against the principles of the Koran, they are dangerous ; if the books inside repeat the same things as the principles of the Koran, they're useless. » Which reminds me : why Christianism never denied the truth hidden in the philosophy created centuries before Christ ?
Oh, well, of course, one knows modern Islam has its own fractures and hides an enormous diversity : separated Koranic lessons, polarised spiritual hierarchies, the Suuni-Wahhab-Shiites [spell. ?] cleavage, local tensions and nationalistic accents, diverse degrees of modernisation (for them : "satanisation"), nuanced political expressions : from the most severe theocracy (Saudi) to a clerocracy tinted by parliamentarism, going through Hashemite-like monarchy or Nasserian-shaped socialism ; add to this the differences between the Black-African, Arabian and Asian Islam. The diversity here is the perfect cocktail for Islamic terrorism, no matter the targets, the methods, the factions or the tactical stake.
Europe did its honourable duty towards Middle East and Maghreb. The economic aid for the Arabian states created by de-colonisation was never suspended. Europe created wide institutional spaces for Mediterranean dialogue (public or private). Christian churches remained active for the sake of a "desired harmony between the monotheistic religions". Powerful European states (Germany, United Kingdom, France, but also Spain and the Benelux) host on their territory millions of Muslims. EU (excepting the United Kingdom) was not involved in the second Iraq war against Iraq - the majority of the governments pleaded for a multilateral, UN sanctioned solution ; when US did what it pleased ravaging a country (and now pays through an incessant blood-tribute of its deployed soldiers), Europe sent troops, too : soldiers who dehydrate due to heat, who rebuild schools and hospitals and who arrest criminals, all this in the delightful atmosphere of bullets, bombs, attacks and explosions, general hatred and amongst a hostile populace. (Glorious European idiocy.) For this European offer, Europeans got killed now at home. In the f**king name of Islam. Governments are shook by a panicked electorate, new menaces are proffered, democratic stability and prosperity in Europe are threatened by a bunch of criminal Barbarians, in the name of a criminal Religion.
But, ohhh, goodness!, in Tunis, Rabat and Beirut one can always encounter intellectuals educated in Paris, London, New York, Vienna and Berlin, ready to expose historical-theological arguments against the frequent perception of an alliance between Islam and terrorism. They are lovely and respectable. But after March 11 2004, for Europe, their discourse is pure bullshit. Their discourse is pure Lie.
I never heard of Christian bombs and Christian terror in Islamic countries where owning a Bible is a crime punished by physical mutilation. Even in Turkey, a Christian cannot display the Cross, while a Muslim can exhibit the Crescent.
Christians in Europe did not kill Muslims when they were leaving for Mecca.
I never heard of a Muslim state who'd build, on its expense, a church, as European states do for their Muslim citizens by building mosques.
They should cut the crap, the Muslim intellectuals ! The "refined, good, kind and ecumenical" Islam they're mumbling about does not exist. :angry:
In March I saw Al Qaeda ravaging one of Europe's most delightful capitals, Madrid. Blood. Crime. Their beloved ed'dem bed d'em = eye for an eye. Inflicted to whom ? To the unique Occidental area who promoted a constant dialogue with Islam in the last 50 years.
Proving Europe what ?
That EU's policy towards the Arabic world failed. The policy - a mixture of equivocal, indeterminate, humanitarian methods, money-for-reforms, and a so-called "diplomatic" language - collapsed, pushing Europe in a crisis that goes beyond the anarchist terrorist-attacks of the 1970s. Diplomacy is useless when coping with barbarians. That's why I said "yes" to war in Iraq (but I said no the American unilateral formula).
Europe failed miserably. The extremely wise advice of the Romans "Mens sana in corpore sano", a healthy mind in a healthy body, seems to have been forgotten : Europe cultivates its (fairly magnificent) mind, but leaves aside any concerns relating to the health of her muscles. Gracious (read : weak) as she wants to be, she was punched in her pretty face the way she couldn't even imagine.
And now what, Europe sweetie ?
25 States, half-ridiculous, half-boring are trying to rebuild their self-esteem. Keeping a bit of their inglorious antagonistic political past, the Euro15/25 team re-re-re-re...-reasserts now the project of a united diplomacy, of a united army, of a Constitution, blah-blah, words, words, words. Everyone dislikes the American hegemony but no one has the will of turning into real Fact the what is now an endless stream of calm, condescending, Olympian anti-Americanism, so vividly claimed by some European nations... Europe miserably fails in co-ordinating its external affairs, Europe miserably fails in remaining attached to a unique principle. These 2 aspects are the eternal causes of its insignificance (worthlessness!
on the world stage -Middle East included, of course. Europe commits the unpardonable mistake of judging Islam through its own secularised Christianism. Europe15/25 imagines that the post-1990 Arabian-Islamic terror is a sort of jealousy, a religious-facetted economic anti-Occidental frustrations of a once powerful civilisation. Half-correct, and still not enough. Islamic terrorism is the work of a special sort of fanaticism, typical of Islam : an increasing bigotry, a ferocious intolerance, an obsession that secular minds cannot conceive now. Mix this with the pseudo-intellectual powder called "Jihad" and you'll get the recipe of a new kamikaze. He does not die for the triumph of an idea, he dies for the triumph of pure destruction. Islam managed to show us, in the last 1400 years, that it is the unique religion that does not appreciate LIFE as a gift ; that it is the unique religion for whom mobility, transformation, evolution, construction are a danger and must be eliminated. How? Not by proposing a counter-model, but by simply destroying. Islam cannot conceive liberty, freedom. Freedom means "lack of submission" - while "Islam" means "submission"...
Therefore, due to the perfect superposition of the civil and the religious laws, for Islam the terrorist attacks seem to be veritable rituals, motivated by an inner mystique. Is the entire mass of the Arabian-Islamic population adhering to such a perception ? Might be so. Born in a name of a vengeful God, they cannot envisage another way.
They accuse Christian Crusades, voluntarily ignoring that Crusades was determined by the relentless Arabian-Islamic attack against Christian Europe (7th to 11th century).
What image could I "fabricate" (for my private use) about a civilisation that, when entering History, began by a crime against culture and intelligence ? Islam put on fire the Alexandria Library ! « If the books inside say things against the principles of the Koran, they are dangerous ; if the books inside repeat the same things as the principles of the Koran, they're useless. » Which reminds me : why Christianism never denied the truth hidden in the philosophy created centuries before Christ ?
Oh, well, of course, one knows modern Islam has its own fractures and hides an enormous diversity : separated Koranic lessons, polarised spiritual hierarchies, the Suuni-Wahhab-Shiites [spell. ?] cleavage, local tensions and nationalistic accents, diverse degrees of modernisation (for them : "satanisation"), nuanced political expressions : from the most severe theocracy (Saudi) to a clerocracy tinted by parliamentarism, going through Hashemite-like monarchy or Nasserian-shaped socialism ; add to this the differences between the Black-African, Arabian and Asian Islam. The diversity here is the perfect cocktail for Islamic terrorism, no matter the targets, the methods, the factions or the tactical stake.
Europe did its honourable duty towards Middle East and Maghreb. The economic aid for the Arabian states created by de-colonisation was never suspended. Europe created wide institutional spaces for Mediterranean dialogue (public or private). Christian churches remained active for the sake of a "desired harmony between the monotheistic religions". Powerful European states (Germany, United Kingdom, France, but also Spain and the Benelux) host on their territory millions of Muslims. EU (excepting the United Kingdom) was not involved in the second Iraq war against Iraq - the majority of the governments pleaded for a multilateral, UN sanctioned solution ; when US did what it pleased ravaging a country (and now pays through an incessant blood-tribute of its deployed soldiers), Europe sent troops, too : soldiers who dehydrate due to heat, who rebuild schools and hospitals and who arrest criminals, all this in the delightful atmosphere of bullets, bombs, attacks and explosions, general hatred and amongst a hostile populace. (Glorious European idiocy.) For this European offer, Europeans got killed now at home. In the f**king name of Islam. Governments are shook by a panicked electorate, new menaces are proffered, democratic stability and prosperity in Europe are threatened by a bunch of criminal Barbarians, in the name of a criminal Religion.
But, ohhh, goodness!, in Tunis, Rabat and Beirut one can always encounter intellectuals educated in Paris, London, New York, Vienna and Berlin, ready to expose historical-theological arguments against the frequent perception of an alliance between Islam and terrorism. They are lovely and respectable. But after March 11 2004, for Europe, their discourse is pure bullshit. Their discourse is pure Lie.
I never heard of Christian bombs and Christian terror in Islamic countries where owning a Bible is a crime punished by physical mutilation. Even in Turkey, a Christian cannot display the Cross, while a Muslim can exhibit the Crescent.
Christians in Europe did not kill Muslims when they were leaving for Mecca.
I never heard of a Muslim state who'd build, on its expense, a church, as European states do for their Muslim citizens by building mosques.
They should cut the crap, the Muslim intellectuals ! The "refined, good, kind and ecumenical" Islam they're mumbling about does not exist. :angry:
