Tariq Ramadan: In Europe, "It's Over"
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One of Tariq Ramadan's rhetorical weapons is the constant assertion -- in many of his appearances -- that "it's over." Listen and you will hear it often. He means: it's too late, get used to us, adapt, We're here, and we cannot be dislodged, and that's that. No one should for one minute accept this. The mistakes made during two or three decades, and that could overturn three thousand years of history in Europe, can be reversed, can be overcome.
It is not over. It is just now that people are educating themselves and waking up. Tariq Ramadan does not wants that to even be considered as a possiblilty. But the halting of any growth in, and the reversal of the size of, the Muslim presence in Europe, is exactly what people are coming to understand has to be achieved. And achieved with or without the understanding, help, and support of the benighted American government, at least as presently constituted.
Posted on 03/19/2010 8:48 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald