Peters:
What used to be bitter slums are now militant colonies.
The
Muslim guts of European cities, from Brussels to Marseilles, and the high-rise
banlieues of Paris (designed by the left as earthly paradises) or the grubby
Stadtteile of Cologne or Hamburg, are no longer way-stations for readjusting
immigrants. They’re imperial holdings of a bloodthirsty caliphate, poisoned
with the spirit of jihad.
And the
Islamist fanatics who rule from the shadows intend to slaughter the trusting
aborigines, whose tribal chiefs are enchanted by the trinkets of political
correctness — as we were reminded, again, Tuesday when terrorists killed 31 and
injured hundreds in a double-barrel attack in Brussels.
Will
Islam really conquer Europe? Of course not. But reality leaves Islamist
terrorists unconvinced and unmoved.
And
they’ve already disrupted societies, upended politics and seized strategic
ground at Europe’s heart: The Brussels attacks were symbolically perfect,
striking not only a national capital, but the headquarters of the European
Union and NATO.
Consider
Belgium. The police and intelligence organizations (mindlessly divided between
Flemish- and French-speakers) couldn’t crack the local Muslim community.
Contributing scores of jihadis to ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Molenbeek and
neighboring slums also protected the terrorists in their midst.
Some
locals must have known. Many more must have suspected. But none warned the
authorities that hundreds of their “fellow Belgians” faced impending attacks.
The
roots of radicalism had gone so deep that support for the fanatics trumped even
the desire for self-protection. Of course, the locals saw that, in the wake of
multiple terror attacks and arrests, they’d face suspicion, scrutiny and an end
to the craven tolerance of their crimes.
But
nobody talked. Nobody will.
Nonetheless,
“humanitarian” groups will continue to defend the “rights” to government
financial, medical and housing support for those who send their sons on jihad
and beat their daughters to death.
Which
brings us to the question: What can Europeans do? If they somehow summon the
strength of will? Before the situation worsens monstrously?
Apart
from the obvious measure of restricting migration that seeks only to feed at
the public trough, there are three steps Europeans could (but likely won’t)
take:
First,
work on the families. In the Islamic cultures of the Middle East and North
Africa, the family is the fortress. European states need laws that permanently
deny all further state assistance, including subsidized housing, to the
extended families of terrorists and their abettors.
Collective
punishment? Islamist terror is a collective crime. As the residents of
Molenbeek just reminded us. You have to do what works. And we need to remember
the elementary truth that receiving countries owe immigrants nothing beyond
their physical safety. We’re not in their debt, they’re in ours.
Second,
not only resident status, but citizenship must be revoked from anyone
affiliated with terror — including birthright citizenship. We must stop letting
left-wing activists creatively interpret international law to protect monsters
bent on massacre. The first human right is for law-abiding citizens to be able
to live in peace, free of bodily harm.
Third —
and toughest — the Europeans need to find ways to break up the Islamist
colonies that even the police prefer to avoid. Just as European colonialists
brought smallpox to the natives of the Americas, the jihadi colonists bring
their plague of fanaticism.
Even in
our own country, where a different class of Muslim immigrant — largely
educated, ambitious and law-abiding — means we don’t face the crisis Europe
does, the toughest problems we do face come when Muslims from underdeveloped
states are allowed to immigrate in mass and concentrate in one area.
That
lets them cling to their old culture and language, instead of learning English
and digesting our social values. Note the way we’ve mishandled Somalis, who, in
turn, have disproportionately slipped off to jihad.
American
Muslims are yet another of our nation’s success stories (though we need to
confront the bad actors abusing our tolerance). We get genuine immigrants
seeking their American dream. Europe gets fanatical colonizers.
Don’t
think there’s a difference? Check out Brussels.
