What a gloomy outlook!
Over the last two years Gates of Vienna has gradually become more Eurocentric than would be expected of an average American blog. A certain well-known lefty blog — I won't stoop to name or link it here — has referred to us as "the Eurotrash version of LGF". And with good reason. Who could disagree?
The more I investigate the Great Jihad, the more important Europe seems. The United States military fights on the front lines of the "War on Terror", but Europeans live on the front lines. What happens in Europe is crucial: if the USA follows Denmark's example, we can expect to defeat the Jihad. If we use Sweden as a model, we can put our head between our legs right now and kiss our collective fundament goodbye.
In either case, what happens in Europe foreshadows the shape of things to here in the USA.
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When I was in Copenhagen staying with Steen at his apartment, I had the privilege of sitting in on some extensive conversations with Fjordman. Most of the time it was just the three of us, but for a while late at night after the Counterjihad Summit, several other Danes were there, as well as Gaia, a British member of Vigilant Freedom. The group discussed a wide-ranging set of issues concerning Muslim immigration in Europe.
Fjordman and I agree that if Europe succumbs to the Jihad, then America won't stand a chance — if they go down, we go down. We will last longer, but we will face the same fate. The European crisis stands before us to warn America of what is to come.
Our biggest problem isn't that a crazed horde of mujahideen might have access to French nukes or British military hardware — although that most definitely is an issue for our national security. The real problem is that American political culture is not vastly different from its European counterpart. Their response to the Islamofascist crisis — dhimmitude, collapse, civil war, or a reawakened sense of national purpose — is likely to prefigure our own.
In Fjordman's opinion, Sweden is more of a basket case than any other European country. Caught in a self-destructive spiral of immigration, high taxation, welfare spending, and denial, it faces a looming catastrophe.
"Paul Weston wrote on your blog that Europe will face a civil war by the year 2025," he said, "but I think he underestimates how soon it will be. Within five to ten years at the most Swedish society will collapse. It can't be avoided; the Swedish welfare state is simply unsustainable.
"But the civil war won't start in Sweden. Sweden is too far gone. I think the civil war will appear first in Britain, which has the second-worst conditions. But the British still have a spirit of resistance."
Gaia agreed vehemently. "People in Britain will eventually reach the breaking point," she said. "Just beneath the surface people are really, really angry, and it will take just a little spark to set it off. The hostage situation in Iran only made it worse."
The general discussion that followed reached a consensus on the outline of future events in the UK:
1. The British government continues its suicidal policy of promoting Multiculturalism and cracking down on British "racists".
2. A precipitating incident by an immigrant or group of immigrants sparks violence, with mobs of angry Britons taking the law into their own hands.
3. The riot police and possibly military troops are summoned by the government to quell the "racist hooligans."
4. At this point a true civil war has begun, with the Government and civil authorities, in tacit alliance with the Islamists, fighting native Britons.
5. Elements of the police and the military are reluctant to fight against their own countrymen — with whom they are in broad agreement — and they defect to the "racist" side of the conflict.
6. Next step…? Perhaps a full civil war?
Fjordman and Gaia both felt that Britain will eventually come through the bloody conflict, and finally give up its self-destructive policies, after paying a huge price.
Sweden, however is another matter entirely.
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