Paul Belien discusses the idea that European anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism result in part from the fact that people who are willing to submit to subjugation will tend to hate and/or fear those who refuse to submit, and who will fight to preserve their way of life.
From The Rape of Europe at Brussels Journal:
In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard (23 October) the Dutch (gay and self-declared “humanistâ€) author Oscar Van den Boogaard.... says that to him coping with the islamization of Europe is like “a process of mourning.†He is overwhelmed by a “feeling of sadness.†“I am not a warrior,†he says, “but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.â€Posted by dan at October 25, 2006 8:05 PMAs Tom Bethell wrote in this month’s American Spectator: “Just at the most basic level of demography the secular-humanist option is not working.†But there is more to it than the fact that non-religious people tend not to have as many children as religious people, because many of them prefer to “enjoy†freedom rather than renounce it for the sake of children. Secularists, it seems to me, are also less keen on fighting. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, this life is the only thing they have to lose. Hence they will rather accept submission than fight. Like the German feminist Broder referred to, they prefer to be raped than to resist.
“If faith collapses, civilization goes with it,†says Bethell. That is the real cause of the closing of civilization in Europe. Islamization is simply the consequence. The very word Islam means “submission†and the secularists have submitted already. Many Europeans have already become Muslims, though they do not realize it or do not want to admit it.
Some of the people I meet in the U.S. are particularly worried about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. They are correct when they fear that anti-Semitism is also on the rise among non-immigrant Europeans. The latter hate people with a fighting spirit. Contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe (at least when coming from native Europeans) is related to anti-Americanism. People who are not prepared to resist and are eager to submit, hate others who do not want to submit and are prepared to fight. They hate them because they are afraid that the latter will endanger their lives as well. In their view everyone must submit.
This is why they have come to hate Israel and America so much, and the small band of European “islamophobes†who dare to talk about what they see happening around them. West Europeans have to choose between submission (islam) or death. I fear, like Broder, that they have chosen submission – just like in former days when they preferred to be red rather than dead.