An interesting read. Can you imagine if Turkeys gains entrance into European Union?
Seventy million Muslims will likely blanket Europe. It will never be the same.
THIS WAS PRINTED BY A GERMAN NEWS PAPER
>>
>> However you feel about Iraq, this is a must read: absolutely
>> brilliant
>> and well said . . . Only one comment: History WILL repeat itself. (
>> News commentary.)
>>
>> Commentary From Germany ( News commentary)
>> It's fascinating that this should come out of Europe. Mathias
>> Dapfner,
>> Chief Executive
>> of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a
> blistering
>> attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest daily newspaper, against the
> timid
>> reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat. History will
>> certify
>> its correctness
>>
>> EUROPE, THY NAME IS COWARDICE
>> by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)
>>
>> A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, Europe - your
>> family name is appeasement. It's a phrase you can't get out of your
> head
>> because it's so terribly true.
>>
>> Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as
>> England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too
>> long before
>> they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless
>> agreements.
>> Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union,
>> then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for
>> decades,
>> inhuman, suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the
>> ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.
>> Appeasement crippled
>> Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had
>> absolute
>> proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and
>> debated,
>> and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from
>> halfway
>> around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.
>>
>> Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European
>> appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word equidistance now
> countenances
>> suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians. Appeasement
>> generates a mentality that allows Europe
>> to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder
>> machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement,
>> has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is
>> uncovered
>> that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made
>> illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N.
> Oil-for-Food
>> program. And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of
>> appeasement... How is Germany
>> reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in
>> Holland
>> and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a Muslim
> Holiday
>> in
>> Germany.
>>
>> I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our
>> (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German
>> people,
>> actually believe that creating an Official State Muslim Holiday will
>> somehow
>> spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot
>> help
>> but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty
>> signed by Adolph Hitler, and declaring... European Peace in our time.
>>
>> What else has to happen before the European public and its political
>> leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially
>> perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims,
>> focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies,
> and
>> intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction. It is a conflict
> that
>> will
>> most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of
> the
>> last century -- a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by
>> tolerance and accommodation but is actually spurred on by such gestures,
>> which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for
> signs
>> of weakness.
>>
>> Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for
>> anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush. His American critics may quibble over
> the
>> details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald
>> Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly
> 50
>> years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the
> Social
>> Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the
>> Islamic War against democracy. His place in history will have to be
>> evaluated after
>> a number of years have passed.
>>
>> In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in
>> the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values
> and
>> being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true
>> great powers, America and China.
>>
>> On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to
>> those
>> ;arrogant Americans, as the World Champions of tolerance, which even
>> (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why?
>> Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic,
> so
>> devoid of a moral compass. For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the
>> dollar,
>> huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and
>> persistent
>> burden on
>> the American economy because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush
> realizes
>> what is at stake..
>> LITERALLY EVERYTHING.
>>
>> While we criticize the robber barons of America because they seem too
>> sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems.
> Stay
>> out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our
> 35-hour
>> workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation... Or
>> listen to TV pastors preach about the need to reach out
>> to terrorists. To understand and forgive. These days, Europe
> reminds
>> me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last
>> pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor's
>> house. Appeasement? Europe, Thy Name Is
>> Cowardice.
