Gatestone:
by Soeren Kern
October 12, 2012 at 5:00 am
“We will all vote for the Islamic parties because we do not believe in left and right. This will make us win local councils, and as we begin to accumulate power in the Catalan autonomous region, Islam will begin to be implemented.” — Abdelwahab Houzi, Salafist preacher, Lleida.
A successful push for independence in the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia would lead to the establishment of a country with the third-largest percentage of Muslims in Western Europe, just behind France and Belgium, and far ahead of Britain and Germany.
An independent Catalonia, with its capital in Barcelona, would also be home to the largest concentration of radical Islamists in Europe; it would emerge as ground-zero for Salafi-Jihadism on the continent and become one of the top incubators for Islamist terrorism in the West.
Catalonia, historically one of the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Spain, has harbored a strong streak toward independence since medieval times, when Barcelona was a Mediterranean trade center with its own parliament. But the ongoing economic crisis in Spain has redoubled calls for Catalonian secession from Spain and the establishment of an independent state.
Worrying, but not unsurmountable. Nice to see that in this instance, Islamization and centralization are at loggerheads with each other.
VIDEO – Shia Muslims celebrating Mohammed birthday in Barcelona ( 2011 )
Hey, that is our vid about Catalonia. The first one 🙂
Europeans have not learned from the Hindus tragic history with Muslim invaders. Historian Will Durant:
“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.”
Catalan is now seeing the Muslims they encouraged into their land multiply from within and change Catalan significantly.
Ray:
How can you expect the Europeans to learn from it when the Hindu’s clearly have not?
Doesn’t help Europeans to not have leaned now does it? Now they will share the Hindus experience with Islam though many do not quite grasp it yet. The Muslim population will grow, more calls for Sharia, more violent jihad attacks, and transformation of their countries. Several European countries are expected to be Muslim majority in the next few decades, at which point Europe will look more like the Middle East and places like Afghanistan and Pakistan that were once upon a time non-Muslim majority lands. Unless more Europeans soon heed the lessons of India that Durant pointed even if many Hindus did not (but not all Hindus are like that; there are plenty know it and stand up to it though they get marginalized by leftists in India and Western Islam apologists outside – bet that sounds familiar).
Instead of convincing the majority, we should form a revolutionary(or reactionary, depending on your perspective) vanguard that fights Islam on its “own” territory. Point out that Islam destroys itself in Syria. Only a new ideology can save the Middle-East.