Hat tip Ongehoord Nederland. Translation by Fousesquawk.
I am cross-posting an article from the conservative Dutch news outlet, Ongehoord Nederland. The writer, David Pinto, has an interesting take on why Europe is suffering so much culture clash with Mulsim immigrants and asylum-seekers. Translation by Fousesquawk.
https://www.ongehoordnederland.nl/discussies-over-religie-leiden-af/
Discussions on religion are distracting
David Pinto
31 March 2021
In my previous two (articles), I wrote over the usefulness and necessity for a new political system and outlined a number of suggestions to accomplish that.
This article and the next will be about migration. First here on the immense difference between the earlier, old migration of Huguenots and Jews from East Europe and modern migration. In the next article, translation into policy.
It is beyond dispute. Many of the societal tensions have to do with migration, citizenship, and diversity in relation to modern migration streams. How is that?
European societies, unlike before, are confronted with such sharp cultural differences that people wonder: Can we continue to live together? Sexual crimes in Germany, Norway, and Sweden make the problem with non-Western fellow humans manifest. The Netherlands is also struggling with this. Jews, women, and gays are victims of the multi-cultural society. There are surely natives who misbehave against these people, but in the majority are the pre-modern foreigners who are intolerant against them. Jews cannot go out on the street with a kippah. Gays can no longer hold hands. And women can no longer go walking in certain neighborhoods. According to results from the Amsterdam Regional Police Commission, foreigners make up 75% of rapists and 69 % of the assailants. The Netherlands has sunk deep.
To completely shut the border is not the solution. That is not realistic. But it is also not realistic to act as if there is no problem. Islam is a problem, but that doesn't explain all wrongs. There is more at play. This is a new political voice!
Religion approach
Many ascribe these (and other misbehaviors) to Islam, the religion of the perpetrators. There is much to indicate that this is, indeed, true.
-Texts in the holy writings (Koran, Hadith, Sharia) such as: Kill the unbelievers (Koran 9:5); Kill everyone who insults Islam or Mohammed (Koran 33:57-61), Kill the apostates (Koran 4:89); the duty to wage war on unbelievers (jihad), "even if reluctantly" (Koran 2:216), Jews and Christians cannot be friends of Muslims (Koran 5:51), Muslims must terrorize others (Koran 8:12).
The long list of Islamic terror groups responsible for a series of attacks around the entire world, Islamic Jihad, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas, Boko Haram, Al-Nusra, Abu Sayyaf, Al-Badr, Muslim Brotherhood, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Ansaru, Jemaah Islamiyah, Abdullah Azzam Brigades and many more. And they all rely upon the holy texts of Islam. Islamic terror is, therefore, not limited to "confused crazy people" or an extreme group.
Only Muslims have problems everywhere with their neighboring peoples, whoever they are: Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Baha'is, Shintos, and even themselves (Muslims with other Muslims). While any other combination of the above-named groups live together without problems. In "Clash of Civilizations" Samuel Huntington lists 130 armed conflicts around the entire world. 95% of them are between Muslims and neighboring lands.
Nowhere are Muslims happy. Not in Gaza, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Nigeria, Kenya, or Sudan. Where are they happy? In Australia, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, the US, Canada, Norway, and India. They are happy in almost every country that isn't Islamic.
Many testimonies, and warnings through the centuries about Islam from renowned scholars, teachers, experts, scientists, and philosophers. Icons who all are wholeheartedly negative about Islam. Here are just a couple of illustrations.
Martin Luther: "Islam brings chaos to the three areas of life: Religion, politics, and that of marriage and family."
Ernst Renan, great French intellectual: "A disaster, a bridge of hate and fanaticism."
Baruch Spinoza: "I can't believe there is a church more suited to deceiving people and controlling peoples' spirits than the Mohammedan church, which far exceeds this."
Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America", writes in a letter to his friend, Gobimeau: "I have studied the Koran well. I ended that study with the conviction that there are few religions in the world as deadly as that of Mohammad."
So much aversion does not apply to the (small) part of the religious rules, such as prayer and fasting. The problem is (the much larger part) of Islam, namely the ideology. There is talk, also among Muslims, of "political Islam". There is no "political Hinduism, Judaism or Christianity".
All reason, therefore, to point to Islam as the cause for terror, atrocity, misbehavior, backwardness, and the enormous gap between Muslims and Europe. But that is not the whole story.
Religions are usually made up of religious rules and regulations, not the daily behavior and intercourse between individuals. This last one is, after genes, primarily determined by the environment in which people grow up. My behavior was primarily determined by the fact that I was born and raised in a rural Berber town in Morocco (Midelt) and not through my Jewish being. The same is true for Job Cohen, Ed van Thijn, and Jacques Wallage. They are also Jews but behave as Dutch, and not as "Jews".
Culture Approach
In science, the influence of the "environment" in which a person grows up upon the behavior of people is investigated, That is how I came to the development of the "structure theory". In it, I describe a continuum from an extremely fine-meshed structure of behavioral rules and codes (the F-structure) to an extremely course-meshed structure (the G Structure). The F structure is characterized by great tightness with little room for nuances. In all behaviors. While the G-structure is characterized by a loose, flexible approach with room for nuances and putting (things) into perspective. This classification of F and G has application for societies, groups, and individuals.
On this scale (from F and G), Europeans and other Westerners (The West) score high on the G structure, and Arabs and other non-Western societies (The Rest) score high on the F structure. The cultures on the F structure, for example, are characterized by a strict hierarchy, non-nuanced (black/white) thinking, such as in the difference between good and bad, friend and enemy, in and out group (own group vs the others), man/woman, boy/girl, chaste or whore. While with the G-structure, almost everything is fluid, there is a lot of room for nuances and perspective, but also for the individual fulfilling and interpretation of rules and codes.
Said characteristic of the F-structure is found in Islam. No wonder; religion is like a river; it takes on the color of the ground over which it flows. Two examples to illustrate:
Islam divides the world in two parts: dar al Islam (house of Islam) and dar al harb (house of fighting/war, a term used to indicate the West). Dar al Islam must kill dar al harb (the West). (Koran 9:5)
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