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I asked my friend @Zafar, who often states his opposition to colonization, this question: Do you object to Europe becoming a colony of Islamism?
Not just Muslim individuals, here and there, but one group---the most ruthless, least tolerant form of Islam--- ruling the original group for its own advantage? Because that's what's happening. Or, arguably, it's what's happened.
Colonialism doesn't happen in one swell foop. Like other events that can only be recognized retroactively as swift and drastic transformations, a colonization moves in fits and starts, generally slowly enough to be imperceptible, especially for those who do not want to perceive it.
Colonies often start out small, undefended and needy: Think of the pilgrims, requiring mercy and resources from the locals to survive their first New England winter.
Like other European colonists, the pilgrims brought no army and didn't need one: They did not encounter violent resistance. The locals weren't worried. There weren't all that many Pilgrims, after all, and there were women and children among them. Sure, they dressed funny, ate weird food and had weird religious habits, but let's face it, these were refugees, not conquerors.
Over time, more Europeans arrived, of course, and Native American groups from east to west were delighted to trade fur for steel knives, guns and ammo, tools they could use to more efficiently exploit the resources of their ancestral environments and weaponize as their incessant internecine wars continued. Eventually, some of the larger tribes would contract military alliances with one or another European power, thinking to harness those European armies to fight their own, old enemies.
Today, the parties of the European left have similarly been happy to exploit and harness what the new colonists (refugees, asylum seekers) bring with them: Workers, cheap and spicy food, but also opportunities for virtue-signaling. And, of course, votes. Intellectuals and politicians are delighted to have a rhetorical weapon ("racism!") with which to demonize their opponents ("far right! Neo-Nazi!") and if it means throwing women, Jews, gays and young white and Sikh working-class girls under the bus, well, so be it. Diversity is our strength!
October 7th was, among other things, a chance to assess the progress of the Islamist colonization project.
Query: How cowed, how dhimmi-fied is the West these days?
Answer: After the massacre, intellectuals declared their approval and hundreds of thousands of Western leftists donned keffiyahs and marched, occupied college quads, blocked highways and murdered Jews in support of Hamas. Those in power did little or nothing to stop this. Then, in September, Starmer and Macron (and whatzisface from Canada) announced their craven recognition of Palestinian statehood.
Hamas' hideous, highly-publicized violence had been rewarded. The Hamasistas and useful idiots were not repudiated but placated. The Jews were cowed, and many were and are leaving.
Here is evidence for those with eyes to see that these major European powers, having failed to recognize let alone resist the danger, are at the mercy of a demographic now large enough to wield much political influence and bellicose enough to intimidate, destroy and kill when politics doesn't go their way.
So... now what?
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Or has Europe simply surrendered to Islamic colonization?
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Consciously?
Unconsciously?
At what point does a people realize "hello, we've been colonized?"
I wonder if Native Americans or, for that matter, Indonesians, Indians, Chinese...were similarly sanguine when the colonizers (whether of a different Native tribe, Islamic, European, Chinese) arrived?
Or, as the Chinese colonize Africa, are arriving?
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Colonization of other spaces seems like an inevitable feature of human nature. Colonization has been going on as long as there has been recorded human history.
For one ancient example, the Hebrew people, recently released from centuries of slavery in Egypt, colonized Canaan, seeking to replace cultures of child sacrifice, murderous revenge, local gods who behaved capriciously and arbitrarily with a universal God of logic and consistency. Jews and Christians believe that God instructed the Hebrews to do so in order to show peoples throughout the world how to live in relationship with Him, which would also produce better human relationships and interactions.
But then later, what had once been Canaan was colonized by the Assyrians, then the Babylonians, then the Greeks, then the Romans. The Greeks demanded the Hellenization (Greek-ifying) of local cultures. The Romans were a little less insistent on forcing the locals to behave as Romans.
In the "New World" a culture of Western Civilization over time replaced other cultures of child and female sacrifices, arbitrary death, and continual seeking of killing off or enslaving people of tribes other than your own.
If people travel into areas other than their native lands, it seems inevitable that at some point at least some of them will conclude that the local population should conform to the more recent arrivals' standards. Either as a pure power play, or out of a belief that the recent arrivals' culture is superior to that of the natives.
The only way I see to prevent "colonization" is to somehow prevent people from traveling to places other than the place in which they were born.
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Unconsciously on the part of most of the public.
Very much consciously by the governments of most of these countries. There are a few like Hungary that recognize the dangers of unfettered Islamic immigration.
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I think the current European situation is conscious, which makes it almost, if not entirely, unique in history. For some reason, current social incentives in historical "Western Civilizations" (European and north American) seem to encourage Western Civilization to surrender to other civilizations and cultures. The very tolerance that is a characteristic of Western Civilization has been taken on as a tool to encourage surrendering the historical advantages of Western Civilization to civilizations that have none of those advantages.
I'm not sure the current Africans (and to an extent, central and south Americans) don't fully appreciate that they are being colonized by the Chinese.
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