Immigrants or Colonizers?

By Jan McDaniel

We Americans arrived, not as immigrants, but as European colonizers of the North American continent that was already inhabited by an indigenous race, whose ancestors were colonizers from Asia.

This bit of history was recently mentioned by an Israeli columnist who remarked on the irony of President Obama lecturing Prime Minister Netanyahu on where Israel can build settlements, while Obama was speaking from the formerly Iroquois territory of Washington, D.C.

I’m not sure the Iroquois nation extended that far south, but never mind—the point is valid.

The colonization process is underway again, or maybe it is better to say that it never stops.

We of the Western civilization send troops and Predators to Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan to get them, of the Islamic civilization, to reconsider their attacks on us and their neighbors. We advise them, with uneven success, on the creation of new Constitutions intended to embody Western freedoms.

They of the Islamic civilization immigrate to our Western countries to build a colony of believers in order to replace our civilization with theirs.

The indigenous inhabitants of North America recognized an existential threat in the Europeans, fought them, and lost. The indigenous civilization was subjugated by the new dominant civilization. Sometimes the waning civilization chooses not to fight. But either way, one of the big threads of history is the rise and fall of civilizations through colonization.

Francis Fukuyama in his 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man:

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of
Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

If mankind ever arrives at any universal ideology, the distinction between immigrant and colonizer will disappear. But timing is everything. It is very dangerous to assume that we have arrived at the end of history, or will soon. If we behave as if the universal civilization is just around the corner, and thus do not need to resist Islam, we can be undone by our premature idealism. The issue is spelled out in detail in Robert Kagan’s Of Paradise and Power.

President Obama is pushing America to catch up with Europe’s headlong rush to the end of history and he clearly does not believe that we are being colonized by Islam. What is his motivation? No one knows-- our CEO keeps his cards close--but his Cairo speech unveiled him as the Great Syncretist and he demonstrates interests that reach beyond America. If he serves two presidential terms, he will then be 56 years old. Who would be better positioned to lead a United Nations equipped with serious enforcement powers?

Most Westerners agree with Obama, and have not yet recognized an existential threat from Islam, though some in Britain and The Netherlands and a few in America are starting to react.

Some Muslims view their move to the West only as an attempt to live a better life, not to be terrorists, not as an attempt to change anything about their host country. Islamic law and doctrine are the farthest things from their minds. They are Muslims in name only.

But some of the new colonizers, the ones who run mosques and speak for Islam in the West, understand the history of Islamic colonization. As Solomon and Maqdisi explain in Modern Day Trojan Horse, the process is modeled on Mohammed's Hijra and the conversion of the pagan and Jewish Yathrib into Muslim Medina. The same process was used to convert Indonesia and Maylasia into Islamic states and these colonizers understand that Europe and America are next.

These directors of the Islamization process take money and direction from the Saudi clerical establishment and the Muslim Brotherhood. Some Brotherhood (Ikhwan in Arabic) directions were found in documents uncovered in the investigation for the Holy Land Foundation trial:

The most interesting exhibit is a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum by Mohamed Akram, dated May 22, 1991, where he outlines the Ikhwan vision of the future. He leaves no ambiguity as to the nature of the Ikhwan calling. Under the heading "Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America," he writes:

"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and
'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

Douglas Farah,
counterterrorismblog.org

Islamists also understand that the natural process of assimilation can swallow colonizers. That is why Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan publicly told Turkish Muslim citizens of Germany in 2008 that “Assimilation is a crime against humanity."

If you believe that Western and Islamic civilizations are not essentially different, but essentially compatible, then none of this will be convincing.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in Turkey v. Refah that Islamic law is not compatible with Western civilization. If you agree with the Court's judgment, then Muslims in Europe and America are colonists, not immigrants.

History teaches us this: If the Muslim colony continues to grow, what we did to the Iroquois will happen to us.