European Brief

EUROPEAN NEWS

Ireland's half-finished houses. The housing bust and mortgage collapse. (Deutsche Welle)

THE RISING EUROPEAN ANGER
The Brussels Journal describes themselves as "The Voice of Conservatism in Europe." (About) They have some fantastic writers who comment on every aspect of life in Europe. Diana West says defiance of the multicultural orthodoxy is more popular in Europe than anyone imagined.

Maybe that's a lot for Americans to take in, but they haven't lived through the Islamization Decades that their European cousins have. As Europe's neighborhoods, banlieues and cities have repeatedly seen, headscarf-friendly zones yield to other Muslim demands, from single-sex recreation and medicine, to a refusal to tolerate certain Western texts or foods, to the institution of Islamic banking, to the acceptance of jihadist treason in the mosques, to the entrenchment of Islamic marriage (forced and polygamous), to the ultimate recognition of Islamic courtrooms run according to sharia.

a The movement has already begun. Swiss citizens voted (57.5%) to ban the construction of any new minarets after a referendum opposed by the government, the Council of Europe, and the UN. (And Newsweek and every other liberal publication.) France and some German states have banned scarves in the classroom and France is planning to ban them at public offices.

A new referendum in Switzerland calls for expelling any immigrant convicted of a crime. Citizens in Spain are furiously angry at a liberal Socialist mayor who, her political opponents said, catered to her Muslim constituents at the expense of respect for the law.

Notoriously multicultural Quebec is likely to institute rules to restrict full face coverings for those using public services, a move fully supported by Muslim Canadian Congress who say the niqab and burka are worn for sandstorms and "it's being thrust on North America and Europe. Most Muslims are fed up with the niqab and burka.”

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And, it might be said, there is the same intolerance for politicians in Europe, Canada and the U.S. who pander to Muslims for, let's be honest, campaign contributions, if not outright bribes.

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SCOTTISH ANTICS
Five members of the Scottish Parliament "have found time in their busy schedule to praise the "progressive" achievements of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and to urge Scotland to forge closer links to his country." (The Scotsman)