By Raymond Ibrahim ——Bio and Archives--July 31, 2016
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issued a stunning rebuke to Mrs Merkel on migration, blaming recent terror attacks on the mas[s] influx of refugees... Migration, he argued, "increases terrorism and crime" and "destroys national culture" in a thinly-veiled swipe at Mrs Merkel's decision to roll out the red carpet to millions of people from the Middle East.This is as simple as it gets. Over three years ago, in May 2013, a Muslim man decapitated a British solider with a meat cleaver in the middle of a busy London street. I explained it as follows:
It reflects what I call "Islam's Rule of Numbers," a rule that expresses itself with remarkable consistency: The more Muslims grow in numbers, the more Islamic phenomena intrinsic to the Muslim world--in this case, brazen violence against "infidels"--appear.... Thus as Muslim populations continue growing in Western nations, count on growing, and brazen, numbers of attacks on infidels--beheadings and such.
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Those who seek to reverse this situation [growing Islamic terrorism] must begin by embracing a simple fact: Islam is not terrorizing the West because it can but because it is being allowed to.... Today [as opposed to historically], Muslim terrorists, rapists, and criminals are not entering the West against its will but because of it....Orban agrees:
We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca, but in Brussels [capital of the EU]. The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels. We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.Simply put, whatever Islam is or teaches--whether it is violent or not, whatever it does "over there" in Mecca and elsewhere--is not the immediate problem. Rather, the immediate problem is that EU "bureaucrats in Brussels" are imposing Islam "over here," or, as I had more bluntly concluded:
Western policymakers who insist that Islam is peaceful (despite all evidence otherwise) and that the West is "obligated" to receive Muslim migrants, are 100% responsible for the daily victims of jihad, most recently an octogenarian priest.... The war begins with them. Kick them and their suicidal policies out, and watch Islamic terror on Western soil fizzle out.It's all very simple: More Muslims equals more violence against non-Muslims. This formula acknowledges that not all Muslims, or even the majority, are inclined to acts of terrorism. However, as Muslim numbers grow in general, it's only natural that the numbers of "radicals" grow with them (e.g., 10 % of 100 is only 10, but 10% of a 1,000 is 100). And the immediate issue isn't whether or why Islam is violent; the immediate issue is that Western leaders are the ones enabling and importing it into the West. It still remains to be seen if Orban is right "that other European nations would come around to Hungary's no-nonsense way of thinking as the reality of regular terror attacks set in."
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RAYMOND IBRAHIM (RaymondIbrahim.com) is a widely published author, public speaker, and Middle East and Islam expert. His books include Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). His writings, translations, and observations have appeared in a variety of publications, including Fox News, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Syndicate, United Press International, USA Today, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard; scholarly journals, including the Almanac of Islamism, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst, Middle East Quarterly, and Middle East Review of International Affairs; and popular websites, such as American Thinker, the Blaze, Bloomberg, Christian Post, FrontPage Magazine, Gatestone Institute, the Inquisitr, Jihad Watch, NewsMax, National Review Online, PJ Media, VDH’s Private Papers, and World Magazine. He has contributed chapters to several anthologies and been translated into various languages.