Posted by
Tzimisce on Friday, December 22, 2006 1:01:20 PM
Republican Representative Virgil Goode is in trouble. It turns out he
wrote a letter of concern about Islamic immigration to the United
States. He's basically afraid that the US may eventually turn in to an
Islamic state.
This is a very real fear. Right now Europe is suffering from a large
minority of Muslim people from North Africa. Parts of France have been
dubbed "occupied terroritory" by the immigrants who live there and
resent French rule. Germans are debating whether or not they can
perform a play by Mozart which features the head of Mohammed at one
point. And England has finally given in to pressure and let the
Islamists set up their own system of courts.
Wahhabists all over the Islamic world have made no secret that they
want convert the whole world to their brand of Islam. In our
politically correct world, we're not supposed to look at who anyone is
or what they're saying. Otherwise six Islamic Imams who get on a plane,
begin talking of their admiration for Osama bin Laden, request seat
belt extensions when they don't need them and change seats to put
themselves at key locations on the plane wouldn't even have a case. The
fact that anyone would take these people seriously is exactly what I'm
talking about.
Immigration has always been a controversial issue since before the
founding of the country. The difference between today and say 100 years
ago is the mentality of the immigrants in question. Most immigrants who
come here historically genuinely wanted to assimilate in to American
culture. True they brought their own customs along the way, but the
immigrants of old were fleeing the oppression and tyranny of their
homelands.
Today immigrants come to our nation intent on keeping their own customs
and culture. Especially the Muslim ones. Again, look at Europe. The
immigrants over there have made no secret at all that they don't want
to assimilate. They accuse western culture of being greedy and
decadent. They refuse to speak the language of the natives. They reject
the customs of their adopted homes. Thus one has to ask, why did they
come here?
Some people who are reading this piece are now calling me a racist or
an "Islamophobe". Thank you for doing that - you are illustrating my
point. We need to start looking at people who want to immigrate here
and what they're saying and what they're doing. There is nothing wrong
with wanting to protect one's culture, that's what a lot of the
Islamist immigrants are doing by rejecting the culture of their adopted
homelands! But if you don't like our culture, why come here (other than
to make trouble)? And why is a discussion of how a group of people (a
*minority* group of people) is attempting to change our culture
considered a taboo topic?