Hugh Fitzgerald

They must not be allowed in. For the safety of our own citizens in the West, we can't take any more Muslims, and certainly not the most dangerous of all, the Shock Troops of the Lesser Jihad, the local Arabs who were carefully renamed the "Palestinians." They have proven to be at the center of many terrorist plots and schemes. And then they are suddenly identified demurely as having been "born in Jordan" or "born in Israel" -- and the word "Palestinian," so often emphasized, suddenly disappears.

They are a specific threat to Jews, even a mortal threat. Would the American government knowingly allow neo-Nazis into this country? No. Would it allow into this country, knowingly, the followers of Eugene Terre Blanche in South Africa, people who would bring in their mental baggage a desire to reduce the black population to a state of permanent economic, social, and political inferiority? Would they allow in such people when it was clear that their ideology was so ingrained that it could not be uprooted, and was passed on from generation to generation -- as is Islam?

And think of the Storm-Trooper tactics of "Palestinians" on North American campuses, as they shout down speakers, intimidate pro-Israel students, and crush much free speech, as they scare administrators into banning whatever Arab Muslims wish to have banned...or else. There have been examples from the University of San Francisco all the way to Concordia in Montreal. How much more evidence does one need of the effect of a large Muslim or especially "Palestinian" presence on free speech in the United States, Canada, or anywhere? Is there not a duty to limit this malevolence and this violence, threatened or actual?

Why should the Infidel nation-states of the Western world make things difficult for their own? Why should their ruling elites abandon their own people, out of ignorance and negligence and timidity (fear of offending Muslims, fear of finding out a little more about Islam or, upon finding it out, having to establish sensible policies based on what they have found out)?

Close off the possibility of these people entering this country, further endangering all of us. Close off those who will have to be monitored, with all the attendant expense. Close off this country to those who bring with them a Belief-System that tells them that they cannot be loyal to an Infidel nation-state, for their sole loyalty is to Islam and the umma. Too many Moslems accept this view of things. Some may say they reject it. But even among those who say they reject it, they cannot offer a coherent explanation of why, nor can one be sure if that rejection is real ("war is deception" said Muhammad). Or if real, one still cannot be sure that it will last for the lifetime of the man who still calls himself a Muslim, or if there may be a "return to Islam" by that same person. Or -- as is obviously happening in Great Britain, Germany and elsewhere -- the later generations become more, not less Muslim, as they perceive that Islam does not have its "rightful place," i.e., it does not dominate in the Lands of the Infidels, and this comes to enrage them, and they work to subvert the legal, political, and social institutions of the Lands of the Infidels. As, by their lights, is only right, is only just, only makes perfect sense.

Intelligent people in government (there are some) will wish to limit the size of the danger, the expense of the monitoring, the increase in the unsettlement and unpleasantness of life.

The political, economic, social, moral, and intellectual failures of Muslim societies, including that of Gaza, should be taken as the lessons that they are. Yet in Gaza, a limiting of the tens of billions of dollars that the "Palestinians" have received since UNRWA was established, and supplemented by the billions received from Infidel -- never Arab lands-- in the last decades, is called absurdly an "economic boycott" or "embargo." Yes, because the billions in aid extorted from Infidel taxpayers by their own governments and given to the "Palestinians," and then siphoned off in fantastic acts of wholesale corruption, with much of what is left over spent on weaponry to keep attacking Israel, is treated by the "Palestinians" as theirs by right. Thus the denial of it as an "embargo." Meanwhile, these "poor Palestinians" with their Internet Cafes and DVD stores in those places described as "refugee camps," and even their interior decorators -- one was recently quoted in the newspaper -- don't know how to overcome their own inshallah-fatalism, their own aggression now turned in upon themselves, and some want out.

But Islam? Don't Leave Home Without It, say the imams. And they won't. They can't. Many even of the "Palestinian" Islamochristians cannot free themselves from the Jihad ideology and attitudes they have so deeply internalized.

Keep them out. There are 22 Arab countries. Let them choose among them.

Hugh Fitzgerald is a frequent contributor to Outpost. This article appeared in jihadwatch on May 16, 2007.