The Contentious Future Of Islam In The West
What does the rise of Islam in the West portend for the latter?
There are four factors colluding to make Islam a potent and disruptive socio-political force within the West over the next few decades: (1) The irreversible event that was the influx of millions of Muslim migrants into Europe in the last decade; (2) The fecundity of these new arrivals along with that of the already existing Muslim population vis-à-vis that of the indigenous Europeans; (3) The democratic nature of Western societies which are so constituted as to allow politicized minorities to press their interests on the body politic; (4) The atrocious inability of Western societies to properly assimilate these Muslim populations.
Whether Islam is truly a religion of peace and tolerance (as is repeated by the Left ad nauseum) is not the only (or even main) issue to contend with. Religious ideas (regardless of their doctrinal attitudes towards organized violence) alter how ordinary men and women decide to act out their roles in more mundane spheres (as spouses, employees, citizens, scholars, ectara). As the peculiar ideas of a certain 7th century Arab are taken as sacred rite by an increasingly larger percentage of the West’s inhabitants it must by logical necessity disturb certain established social, cultural and political patterns.
The censorious attitude taken by Muslims towards the consummation of liquor (the lubricant of Western social life) will make itself felt. Bars, liquor stores, night clubs and all other establishments that are associated with the consummation or procurement of alcohol will in local areas where Muslims either predominate or even a represent a significant minority be curtailed and then eliminated.
The enjoyment of liquor has been such a fixture of Western life for so long (excepting a few regionalized short-lived aberrations such as Prohibition) that any forced contraction of this activity will lead to a serious reimagining of how leisure time is to be spent in the West.
The deathly aversion Muslims have towards what they call zina (or fornication) uncharitably condemns by definition many if not most of the sexual liberties enjoyed by Westerners. The most offensive of these sexual liberties is of course homosexuality and the accompanying laissez-faire position Western societies have adopted towards its practice. Needless to say, this position will grow more untenable as the Muslim community awakens to its political strength.
This overcharged feeling of sexual contempt towards their Westernized neighbors which courses through the Muslim community is sometimes discharged via unsavory outlets such as in the organized sexual victimization of young Western women. One particularly egregious example occurred in the town of Rochdale where a sex trafficking ring run by Muslims was allowed to operate with impunity for years for fear of offending the Muslim community (and its liberal guardians). Expect more not less of this going forward.
These multiple points of contention with Western societies can be traced to the singular fact that Western Muslims chafe under the rule of secular governments and yearn in their hearts of hearts for an Islamic state of some sort (running the full gamut from an “Islamic democracy” to a dictatorial caliphate). This impetus to imbue the dictates of their Prophet with the full authority of the State will only increase in fury as their numbers (and thereby political strength) do.
This illiberal yearning represents one of the greatest ideological challenges to Western societies since the rise of the totalitarian movements after the Great War. Already Islamic enclaves have made certain cities unrecognizable and inhospitable to the surrounding Westernized populations (see: the infamous “no-go zones” from France to Sweden). These enclaves appear more Islamic than many Middle Eastern capitals did half a century ago and its inhabitants even more belligerently anti-Western.
Unfortunately, such thoughts are still classified as taboo by the reigning Liberal orthodoxy but nevertheless are anxiously in the back of everyone’s mind as shown by the awkward success of Michel Houellebecq’s provocative novel Soumission (Submission). It was the first popular fictional account to map out the mechanics of how such a fundamental transformation of a Western society could take place and, in a few decades, could prove quite a prophetic text.
It is quite clear that one of the two main constituent parts of Western civilization (Western Europe) will in the next few decades suffer serious socio-political discombobulation at the hands of its Muslim populations if certain trends continue unchanged. How to properly face this challenge is a separate issue but face it we must.
