By Andrew C. McCarthy
Saturday, January 09, 2016
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.
We are finally learning about the magnitude and harrowing
details of the attack after days of Stasi-like information suppression.
Chancellor Angela Merkel may not be big on German security, but she is a
bulwark when it comes to fantasy Islam.
First there was no news; then, a few disturbing hints of
gropings and robberies by gangs of “Middle Eastern or North African” men. Now,
we know it was a mass atrocity — the only remaining question being: How
massive?
Upward of a thousand men, overwhelmingly Muslim, executed
a coordinated series of attacks on an obvious target of opportunity: street
celebrations in the major cities of a reviled Western state, where they were
certain to find throngs of young women and a police presence grossly inadequate
to provide security — certainly not against a critical mass of Islamic
supremacists.
The participation of Muslim migrants in the rape jihad
is, of course, the fact most desperately suppressed by German officials. Mrs.
Merkel earned her “Person of the Year” honors from left-leaning relic Time magazine by rolling out the red
carpet for a staggering 1.1 million migrants in 2015 — infuriating the German
public and spurring the migrant tsunami now washing over neighboring countries.
In this information clampdown, the nightmare of the victimized women turns out
to be the chancellor’s good fortune: Police on the scene were so outnumbered
and outmaneuvered by the assailants that it was physically impossible for them
to get near most of the women being savaged, much less make arrests. Most of
the perps will never be identified.
The media are already using this to cast doubt on migrant
culpability. “It was not clear,” the New
York Times opaquely explains, “that any of the men involved were among
those who arrived in Germany over the past year from conflicts in Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere.” Sure. In southern Germany, after two teenage girls
(ages 14 and 15) were raped, police tripped over themselves to announce that
the three Syrians arrested were not recently arrived asylum seekers. What a
relief.
Nearly 200 women have filed criminal complaints in
Cologne, the vast majority charging all manner of sexual assault. There have
been few arrests, though, and nearly none involving sex crimes.
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?
Still, Europe is not Nigeria — not yet. In the regressing
advanced world, nothing on the scale of the New Year’s Eve siege can happen
without tweets and pictures filtering out. Try as they might, German officials
have been unable to put a lid on accounts from police explaining that “the
large majority” of assailants they were able to identify were “from Syria,” or
observing that “there were thousands of people who could not be specifically
identified but who had an immigrant background, and were most probably
refugees.”
Truth being the first casualty of war, it was left to
Henriette Reker, the fantasy Islam–drenched mayor of Cologne, to blame the
victims for their ordeal. Such assaults could be prevented, she declaimed, if
German women adopted a “code of conduct” tailored to the new, multi-culti
Deutschland.
In the spirit of multiculturalism, I have such a code
just off the shelf (on which rests The
Grand Jihad, in which I outlined it a few years back). It goes like this:
To be absolved from guilt, the raped woman must have shown some sort of
good conduct . . . Islam addresses women to maintain their modesty, so as not
to open the door for evil . . . The Koran calls on Muslim women in general to
preserve their dignity and modesty, just to save themselves from any harassment.
So for a rape victim to be absolved from guilt, she must not be the one that
opens . . . her dignity for deflowering.
These pearls of wisdom come from none other than Sheikh
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s renowned sharia jurist. He proclaimed
them on his popular IslamOnline website about a dozen years ago, right before
he was welcomed into Britain — as a trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic
Studies — despite his fatwas supporting Hamas suicide attacks in Israel and
terrorism against Western troops in Iraq. Though he resides in Qatar, Qaradawi
currently heads the Ireland-based European Council for Fatwa and Research.
Qaradawi is the most influential Muslim intellectual
behind the strategy of, as he puts it, “conquering” Europe and America by
“dawa” — the aggressive proselytism of Islamic mores. The plan calls for
flooding the West with Muslim migrants, directing them to resist assimilation,
establishing Islamic enclaves, and pressuring the host country to concede the
enclave’s right to govern itself in accordance with sharia — Islam’s societal
framework and legal code.
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.
By the way, since President Obama entered office, the
United States has issued over 100,000 green cards per year to migrants from
Muslim-majority countries. That’s just green cards — it doesn’t count the
thousands of visas issued to students, tourists, and temporary workers. With
the Republican-controlled Congress fully funding the effort, the government is
on pace to award another 680,000 green cards to Muslim migrants — with their
entitlement to lifetime residency, federal benefits, and a path to citizenship
— in the next five years.
As Sheikh Qaradawi and Mayor Reker might say, I’m sure it
won’t be a problem . . . as long as the women “maintain their modesty.”
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