Imagine if you will a nation which contains within it whole small towns of people who revere a mass murderer. Within these towns those who revere the murderer revere him because he murdered Jews because they were Jews and soldiers of the nation because he hated that nation. To the inhabitants of the town he is the special one.
If you skipped over the title then you might have thought it a plot for some schlock thriller about remote South American villages of the damned Nazis and the goings on therein. But unfortunately it’s about France.
There is a magnificent article on Unherd by Liam Duffy a London based terrorism researcher all about the situation in France eleven years after the Toulouse massacre. It makes for a really sobering read. There is a well established and active Salafi Islamic extremist culture in France which can end up effectively running whole small town sized housing estates. This is looking worryingly like a state within a state situation brewing and I really don’t see anything positive coming out of that.
https://unherd.com/2023/03/toulouse-and-the-birth-of-modern-jihadism/
I agree with you here.
But we have the same thing here as well, just not (quite) so well developed. The same thing is also found in Sweden as well and probably most other European Countries that have welcomed ‘refugees’ from Muslim Countries.
Islam teaches that Muslims should remain separate from infidels and the multiculturalism of the left facilitates this because it makes no demands of integration/assimilation of the immigrant.
Admittedly, France has made those assimilation demands and the Unherd article shows how well that has worked, which is to say not at all amongst orthodox Muslims.
That the end result is ghettoisation and the development of areas in which the writ of the surrounding state no longer runs (Sweden, France, UK to lesser extent) and that “…[t]his is looking worryingly like a state within a state situation” thus shows that Islam will never assimilate or even truly compromise with the Infidel. As one orthodox Muslim proudly stated to me “Islam is the religion of no compromise!”.
The Islamic canon is quite clear as to Islam’s ‘manifest destiny’ and the methods and routes to achieve it.
We also tend to conflate “jihad” with “sword-jihad” (jihad bis Saif), thinking that the violent aspect of Jihad (“struggle”) is the one to worry about, but hand Jihad (which can include the THREAT of violence) as well as tongue/pen (“activism” Jihad) are just as effective in gaining Muslims privilege in a tolerant society; for example time off work for prayer, [only] Halal food in canteens, declining to handle haram products in supermarkets and the biggest prize achieved so far the equation of any criticism of Islam as “Islamophobia”, “racism” and “bigotry”; thereby forcing people to accept the mantra “Islam is the religion of peace” falsehood despite the evidence of their own eyes