Islam and the Muslims of today are at the stage of the Christian Crusades which started during the first half of the second millennium and lasted for about 400 years. Following the split between the Eastern-Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in the 11th century, the Roman Catholics started Crusades aiming to destroy all other religions including any other branches of Christianity.
Those who refused to convert faced death.
The goals of the crusaders included the wish to establish a Roman-Catholic Christian Kingdom in the Middle East – the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which would be united with Catholic Europe. The crusades were an unprecedented wave of barbarism and violence that brought mass slaughter of those who were not Roman-Catholic – Muslims, Jews, Orthodox Christians and others in the Middle East and Europe. It was a period of bloodshed and pure barbarism that was reminiscent of the Huns' invasion of Europe in the fourth and fifth century.
In the 13th Century the Franciscan Order was established by Francis of Assisi. After his death, its members became very active in the framework of the Inquisition which was, for all practical purposes, a continuation of the crusaders’ idea to make Western Europe Catholic. In the 15th century the Inquisition brought about the murder of those who refused to join the Roman Catholic Church, or at best, to their expulsion.
The Inquisition was a way to fight the Reformation which started to spread over Europe during the second half of the 15th century and became a threat to the existence and uniqueness of the Catholic Church. Eventually, the Reformation movement won. Due to the influence of the Enlightenment movement in Europe, the Roman Catholic Church gave up its vision of establishing a Universal Kingdom. Western civilisation started to rule Europe and its influence spread to countries bordering Europe or to those who had commercial and cultural relations with Europe.
Islam currently stands at the stage in which the Christian world was in during the first 350 years of the second millennium. Like the split between the Eastern-Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches, there is a split between Sunni and Shia Islam. The split has become so profound that it involves blood-bath wars. These wars brought the extreme Sunni organisations to declare the establishment of Islam Caliphate, Da’ash (ISIS), starting in the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria, with the aim to control and rule all the Levant countries. The next stage is to conquer and rule the European countries, and in the long term – also countries overseas. In order to achieve this target the Islamists adopt the same system used in the Crusades – slaughter and murder of those not ready to join the Islamic Sunnah.
There is a similarity between the wars of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches; IS also destroys all those who are not Muslim and refuse to convert.
However, Da’ash (ISIS) members do not limit themselves to this open system of conquering and destroying. They have also adopted the “Trojan Horse” system for some decades, abusing the innocence and folly of rulers in Europe and overseas.
Human Rights are not self-destruction weapons
Usually immigrants are people who were not happy in their homeland, with the values, civil rights, regime, lifestyle, traditions, or with the physical or intellectual coercion they suffer. They leave everything behind and immigrate to countries where the regime, the culture and lifestyle are different in order to integrate, enjoy the culture and regime of the countries that were ready to accept them.
However, for the last three decades we have witnessed another sort of immigration. Immigrants who move to other countries for work, but not in order to integrate. They insist on segregation, declare themselves as ethnic minorities in order to force the host countries to change and accept the values, culture and lifestyle of their prior homelands and incorporate their laws as an integral part of domestic legislation.
A similar phenomenon was seen after the discovery of America. European countries conquered many territories in the New World, and forced the local population to accept their culture. However, they did it openly and consciously, not in hiding or planned “spontaneous rioting” from the inside.
Today's immigrants, who refuse to integrate and insist on segregation,are mainly immigrants to European countries, but slowly they move to other countries. They abuse the “human rights” ideas and principles, flow in either legally or as illegal infiltrators, force the democratic regimes to grant them asylum, protection, support, financial benefits, also bringing over many family members who join them in order to assist them in their endeavours to bring to power the culture and political system of the countries from which they “escaped”.
Successive governments did not foresee the future and ignored the dangers. They did not expect that “human rights” would serve as shields by those who openly despise and corrupt them. Some of those “immigrants” are regiments of the army sent by the Islamic crusade planners and organisers, in order that they will act from inside the western countries, so when the day comes, each country will be attacked from both outside and inside, very much like the story of the Trojan Horse.
They recruit more fighters from among the disillusioned children of the immigrants from inside the countries to where they emigrated, in order to spread terror inside and are sent to help cause terror from outside, while waving with the passports granted to them by the countries which had mercy on them or on their parents.
The current immigration to Europe has caused, in less than 30 years, a social, ethnic and political opposition that changes the image of the many European countries. This phenomenon is similar to the rebellion occurred in the Roman Empire which collapsed due to the mass immigration of the Berber Tribes into the Empire, until their numbers were high enough to rebel against the Romans.
Spending time on dialogues with these groups in order to agree on co-existence is impractical and at this stage a waste of time. It is of no use to have dialogue with another who is not interesting in talking, thinks differently, and has different fundamental values. In these circumstances, any negotiations are doomed to fail, and will only strengthen those who are against it.
The western politicians are enslaved by the concept that everybody, including their opponents, think and behave according to the same western pattern and believe in the same western values, principles and goals. They have not yet internalised the fact that not everybody who is highly educated is a student of the western culture. As long as the “western culture” leaders are not aware of the gap, and strive to negotiate, assuming that everybody is like them, the world is in danger.
Theoretically, comparison to the process Christianity went through during the crusades may lead to the conclusion that Islam needs 400 years in order to reach “reformation”, and stop its ambition to Islamise the entire world. However, in an era with weapons of mass destruction waiting 400 years means the likely elimination of civilisation or the entirety of mankind.
The leaders of the free world, as long they are still free to decide, should act without any delay, with all power they have, in order to defend the free world. They ought to come out of the bubbles to which they entered, and understand that “human rights” including their scrolls, conventions, declarations and judicial decisions, were intended to be used by those who respect them. They were not given or intended to be weapons of self-destruction.
Whenever world leaders declare that they have got “commitments”. Winston Churchill and many other great world leaders never delivered speeches on their “commitments”. They acted. Conferences and assemblies of declarations on “intentions” and “commitments” will not save us. They will put us to sleep until we are so dormant that it is doubtful if we will ever be able to wake up.
History continues teaching us what we should have learned a long time ago: “kill or be killed”. All that we can hope for is that this time the world will learn that lesson in time, while the price is not too high.
Translated from the Hebrew publication "Marot"