Menace In Europe Part 12

1. Khaled Shawkat, "European Cinema Exposes Anti-Muslim Practices," Islam Online, February 7, 2005.

2. Marlise Simons, "Militant Muslims Act to Suppress Dutch Film and Art Show," New York Times, January 31, 2005.

3. http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/2005/01/special-sincere-thanks-to-our-friends.html 4. http://iraqilibe.blogspot.com/2005/01/best-eid-i-ever-had.html 5. This theory was offered by Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan and one of academia's great comic geniuses. See his blog, "Informed Consent," http://www.juancole.com/2004/12/ manipulation-of-blogging-world-on-iraq.html 6. For a full discussion of this point and the new historiography of this period in Dutch history, see Jan Herman Brinks, "The Dutch, the Germans and the Jews," History Today, 49:6 (June 1999). This chapter draws heavily upon his scholars.h.i.+p.

7. Report of the Netherlands Minister Relating to Conditions in Petrograd, Publications of the Department of State, Papers relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. Russia, 1918 (in 3 vols.); here vol. 1, United States Government Printing Office, Was.h.i.+ngton, DC, 1931, pp. 67579; here pp. 678 and 679. Cited in "The Dutch, the Germans and the Jews."

8. "The Dutch, the Germans and the Jews."

9. Ibid.

10. Wolfgang zu Putlitz, In Evening Dress Among the Browns.h.i.+rts: Memories of a German Diplomat, The Hague, 1964, p. 210, cited in "The Dutch, the Germans and the Jews."

11. Cited in "The Dutch, the Germans and the Jews."

12. See, particularly, Jacob Presser, The Destruction of the Dutch Jews, translated by Arnold Pomerantz (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969). Historian David G. Dalin considers the record of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands notably honorable, however: Dutch bishops distributed a pastoral letter read in every Catholic church in the Netherlands denouncing "the unmerciful and unjust treatment meted out to Jews by those in power in our country." The Myth of Hitler's Pope (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Regnery, 2005), p. 79.

13. "The Dutch, the Germans and the Jews."

14. Ibid.

15. Anne Frank. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Prossler. (New York: Doubleday, 1995), p. 54.

16. See http://www.cidi.nl/dossiers/ae/ae.html, "The Background of Abou Jahjah" (Achtergronden Abou Jahjah), citing diverse Belgian doc.u.ments and particularly an article in the French-language Belgian newspaper Le Soir of December 6, 2002.

17. Abigail R. Esman, "The Arabian Panther," Salon, June 14, 2004.

18. According to the NRC Handelsblad, March 1, 2003, she said: " Dat zijn geen effectieven uitspraken, maar ik keur die ook niet af, " meaning, "Those are not tactically wise expressions, but I don't reject them either."

19. "The Arabian Panther." Op. cit., citing the Dutch newspaper Algemeene Dagblad.

20. Ibid.

21. "Somali Refugee Follows in Fortuyn's Footsteps with Attack on Imams," Telegraph, November 1, 2003.

22. Address by Mayor Job Cohen to Amsterdam City Council on November 3, 2004, http://www.amsterdam.nl/contents/pages/ 00005460/addressbymayorjobcohentoamsterdamcitycouncil.pdf 23. "Feestvieren in de bajes," De Telegraaf, September 13, 2005.

24. Chantal Delsol, Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World. Translated by Robin d.i.c.k (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003).

25. Ibid.

26. Emma Goldman, Living My Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), vol. 1, chap. 23.

27. Twain, Mark. What Is Man and Other Essays. (Fairfield, Iowa: 1st Word Library-Literary Society, 2004), p. 177.

28. Steve Sailer, "Did Fortuyn Have It Coming?" United Press International, May 8, 2002.

29. Ibid.

CHAPTER 3 : WHITE TEETH.

1. ICM Polls, Muslims Poll, December 2002. http://www.icmresearch.co.uk/reviews/2002/bbc-today-muslims-dec- 02.htm. Note the extraordinarily different responses to questions 7 and 10, which are logically the same question but phrased differently.

2. "London-Based Radical Salutes Bombs 'Victory,'" Times (London), July 17, 2005.

3. "The Men Who Blame Britain," Telegraph, July 20, 2005.

4. Dilpazier Aslam, "We Rock the Boat: Today's Muslims Aren't Prepared to Ignore Injustice," Guardian, July 13, 2005. Shortly afterward, in response to widespread outrage that Aslam's political affiliations were not revealed in this article or his byline, his editors asked him to renounce his a.s.sociations with Hizb ut-Tahrir. He refused and resigned instead.

5. The film can be viewed at http://johnathangaltfilms.com/.

6. "Poison Warfare Suits Found in Mosque Raid," Herald Sun, January 27, 2003.

7. The Muslim News Online, http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/yoursay/ index.php?ysc_id=3.

8. Mohammed Abdul Aziz, "Understanding British Muslim Alienation and Exclusion: Exploring the Challenges and Developing Working Solutions" (2004, unpublished draft doc.u.ment), and Humayun Ansari, Muslims in Britain (Minority Rights Group International, August 2002), http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/ijgr/2003/ 00000010/00000004/art00006 9. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (London: Penguin, 2001).

10. Personal correspondence, October 15, 2005.

11. Tariq Modood, Sharon Beishon, and Satnam Virdee, Changing Ethnic Ident.i.ties, London, Policy Studies Inst.i.tute Report 794. Statistics on Muslim intermarriage in the United States vary so greatly that I am reluctant to a.s.sert a concrete figure. By law, the official U.S. census does not gather information about religious practice, so that's no help. Two-thirds is my best guess, averaging several different sources. See, for example, Yvonne H. Haddad, "The Muslim Experience in the United States," The Link, 12:4. One simple reason for higher rates of intermarriage among Muslim immigrants in America may be that they are so much more geographically dispersed. If you don't meet as many other recent immigrants, you are less likely to marry them. (http:// www.psi.org.uk/publications/publication.asp?publication_id=19) 12. Hanif Kureis.h.i.+, The Buddha of Suburbia (London: Faber and Faber, 1990), p. 40.

13. Marina Gask, "Editor's Introduction," Top Sante, November 2004.

14. I am indebted to my good friend Damian Counsell-another immigrant in Britain-for this thought.

15. Bernard Lewis, "Islam and Liberal Democracy," Atlantic Monthly, February 1993.

16. The insightful Brazilian poet Nelson Ascher offered these reflections on Lewis and Said to me in personal correspondence, for which I thank him.

17. Report of the High Level Committee on the Indian Diaspora, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, 2002.

18. The Education and Child Poverty Report, End Child Poverty group, March 25, 2003, http://www.ecpc.org.uk/downloads/ Education%20and%20Child%20Poverty.pdf 19. I thank Damian Counsell for this observation.

20. A full and excellent description of queuing theory and its applicability to immigrants in the United States and Britain can be found in Susan Model, "Non-White Origins, Anglo Destinations: Immigrants in the US and Britain," in G. Loury, T. Modood, and S. M. Teles, eds., Ethnicity, Social Policy and Social Mobility in the United States and the United Kingdom (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002). This theory provides an intriguing explanation of the comparative success of Muslim Asian immigrants in America. Let us imagine a queue such that the ethnic group viewed most favorably by employers (yellows) is at the head, and the group members viewed least favorably (greens) are at the tail. Purples are somewhere in the middle. Suppose we have two labor markets, market A and market B. a.s.sume that market A contains only yellows and purples. Market B contains all three groups. According to the theory, purples will do better, ceteris paribus, in market B than market A, because the presence of greens benefits purples. Purples will accrue advantage if the yellow group shrinks or the green group grows. About 27 percent of the U.S. labor force consists of immigrants and ethnic minorities, compared with 10 percent of the British labor force. a.s.suming most employers in both countries prefer whites to other ethnicities, the theory predicts that Asian minorities in the United States will fare better than their compatriots in Britain, because the United States contains two large, low-ranking groups-blacks and Hispanics-who are less well represented in Britain. This increases the chances that Asian minorities will be at the top of the U.S. labor queue. As long as these large groups hold a lower position on the American ladder of discrimination, Asian immigrants will be more successful in the United States than in Britain.

This appears to be what has happened. When American employers are asked to rank groups in terms of their desirability as employees, whites score highest. Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent are seen as mid-rank, followed by blacks, Arabs, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans. If Zia, then, found himself to be an "honorary white man" in the United States, it is perhaps because of the prevalence there of real black men. (I am observing, not celebrating, these circ.u.mstances.) 21. "We Can Take It," Mirror, July 8, 2005.

22. "A Letter to the Terrorists, from London," London News Review, July 7, 2005.

23. Harold Pinter, "The American Administration Is a Bloodthirsty Wild Animal," Telegraph, December 11, 2002.

24. Margaret Drabble, "I Loathe America," Telegraph, May 8, 2003.

25. Brian Reade, "G.o.d Help America," Mirror, November 4, 2004. Of course, many on the American Left hold identical sentiments.

26. Salman Rushdie, "Anti-Americanism Has Taken the World by Storm," Guardian, February 6, 2002.

27. http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=788 28. Fifth Volcker Report, p. 86. Galloway denies this, of course. (http://www.iic-offp.org/story27oct05.htm) 29. K. Sinclair, A History of New Zealand (London, 1988), p. 59.

CHAPTER 4 : THE HOPE OF Ma.r.s.eILLE.

1. The French philosopher and essayist Ernest Renan provided the definitive expression of this doctrine in his famous speech to the Sorbonne, "Qu'est-ce que la Nation?," in 1882.

2. Cited in Patrick Parodi, "Citizens.h.i.+p and Integration: Ma.r.s.eille, a Model of Integration?" in History-Geography (Ma.r.s.eille, Academie Aix-Ma.r.s.eille, 2002). My translation.

CHAPTER 5 : WE SURRENDER!.

1. Chantal Delsol, Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World. Translated by Robin d.i.c.k (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003).

CHAPTER 6 : NO PAST, NO FUTURE, NO WORRIES.

1. Antonio Golini, Possible Policy Responses to Population Aging and Population Decline: The Case of Italy (Expert Group Meeting on Policy Responses to Population Aging and Population Decline, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat: UN/POP/PRA/2000/7, September 26, 2000).

2. "No Easy Answers Around the World to Population Decline," The Scotsman, October 15, 2004.

3. Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and the Pride (New York: Rizzoli, 2001).

4. For an interesting depiction of the immaturity and f.e.c.klessness of the Italian male, see L'Ultimo Bacio ("The Last Kiss"), directed in 2002 by Gabriele Muccino, one of the most successful movies ever produced in Italy. At the center of the film are five young men, each striving to exceed the others' irresponsibility toward their girlfriends and the children they have fathered.

5. Stendhal, Rome, Naples et Florence (Folio Ser.: No 1845). (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).

6. Personal correspondence, December 7, 2004.

7. David Horn, Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 59.

8. "Germany's Declining Population-Kinder, Gentler," The Economist, June 12, 2003.

9. Icarus Fallen.

CHAPTER 7 : BLACK-MARKET RELIGION: THE NINE LIVES OF JOSE BOVE.

1. I owe my description of the early Boves, and my knowledge of medieval millenarianism-as does every contemporary scholar-to the great and eloquent historian of medieval heresy Norman Cohn. The Pursuit of the Millennium (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 4142.

2. "A World Struggle Is Underway," interview with Jose Bove by Lynn Jeffress, with Jean-Paul Mayan.o.be, www.zmag.org.

3. "Anti-Globalization Activist Jose Bove Is at It Again," Agence France-Presse, January 30, 2001.

4. Jose Bove and Francois Dufour, The World Is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk Food (London: Verso, 2001), p. 18.

5. Phil Reeves, "Jose Bove Takes His Magic Potion to the West Bank," The Independent, June 21, 2001.

6. "Jose Bove: A Farmer's International?" New Left Review 12, NovemberDecember 2001.

7. The Pursuit of the Millennium, p. 48.

8. The World Is Not for Sale, p. 146.

9. The Pursuit of the Millennium, pp. 5960.

10. "A World Struggle Is Underway."

11. The World Is Not for Sale, p. 34.

12. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (New York: Perennial Cla.s.sics, 2002), p. 41.

13. "Anti-Globalization Activist Jose Bove Is at It Again."

14. The Pursuit of the Millennium, pp. 99100.

15. "Jose Bove: A Farmer's International?"

16. "Report from French Farmers," Jose Bove, Synthesis/Regeneration 16, Summer 1998.

17. The World Is Not for Sale, p. 208.

18. "Report from French Farmers."

19. "A World Struggle Is Underway."

20. The World Is Not for Sale, p. 168.

21. Ibid., p. 198.