Minarets in Switzerland and McDonald’s in Mecca
Published By: All Right Magazine on December 4, 2009
By ROBERT STARK
Swiss voters recently voted to ban construction of minarets, which greatly affect the skylines of many European Cities due to the massive growth of Muslim populations. The ban does not stop the construction of new mosques, but bans the minaret towers. We are used to American values of freedom of religion where it would be a questionable infringement on the 1st Amendment right to freedom of religion, but keep in mind that many European nations do not even have the same rights to freedom of speech that we have. Both Jewish and Muslim groups are outraged by Switzerland’s decision. However many Muslim nations do not allow for the construction of churches or synagogues, and Israel also has restrictions on freedom of religion such as laws against proselytizing and intermarriage.
The issue about minarets in Switzerland has become an issue of Islamophobia rather than opposition to foreign influence and Globalism. Many Muslims living there may feel their religious rights are being infringed upon; however due to the large scale of immigration Europeans feel threatened that they are losing their culture and nations. While I support European Nationalism and a halt to immigration, it is shame that the movement have focused on making Muslims into the enemy rather than supporting nationalism for all people and opposing Globalization.
What they fail to realize is that the Muslim world has a lot of the same concerns about losing their cultures to globalization that Europeans have. The 9/11 Hijacker Muhammad Atta was outraged about how American style urban sprawl has destroyed the aesthetic character of the ancient city Aleppo in Syria, and was opposed to modern skyscrapers being built in his home city of Cairo. Atta who was a city planner who dreamed of raising the Western Architecture in Aleppo and rebuilding it as an authentic Arab City. To Atta the World Trade Center was a symbol of globalization and the same type of Modern American architecture he despised. His concerns were similar to the concerns of Europeans who see their historic cities cluttered with Islamic Minarets. Unlike Atta, however, Europeans usually do not become terrorists.
Even Mecca, the Holy City of Islam has been crowded with American style fast food joints, causing strife among many Muslims there. In his lecture “Islam and the New World Order”, Shiekh Abdullah Hakim Quick talks about his experience in Mecca and seeing the affect of consumer culture there saying, ” we came out of the Kabba and we looked up and we see the Golden Arches…..in Mecca….Pizza Hut, Baskin Robbins, Burger King..and there was a young boy, probably from a Meccan family and he was in McDonald’s with his big pants and his hat on and he had an attitude.” Quick believes there is a conspiracy to establish a secular New World Order but he advocates an Islamic New World Order as an alternative.
America is often associated with globalization in the rest of the world, since we are the home to most of these international banks, corporations, and media conglomerates. However ,these institutions are truly international and have no responsibility or loyalty to America but only care about profits. They are tarnishing our nation’s reputation abroad with their greed and exploitation while at the same time they are lobbying our government to lax our immigration laws and send our jobs overseas.
These policies of immigration and interventionism are part of the same agenda of the globalist elites. They want to control the Mideast’s oil and make the region safe for Israel. They use immigration to change the demographics of western nations to prevent nationalist movements to rise and challenge their power. Muslim immigration serves their purpose by causing westerners to hate Muslims and therefore be sympathetic to their agenda in the Middle East.
While Israel has a right to its sovereignty and is small nation in a hostile region, Zionists in America and Europe try to stir up hatred against Muslims in order to start wars on Israel’s behalf. Many Zionist politicians and organizations are as vehemently opposed to European nationalism as Muslims are and even supported Muslim separatists in Kosovo by bombing Christian Serbia. Ironically it was the Islamic Republic of Iran that gave refuge to Jürgen Graf, a Swiss revisionist historian who was facing imprisonment by the Politically Correct Thought Police of the same government that is banning minarets.
Even though they have historically been anti-Jewish, many European nationalists now support Israel against what they see as a common enemy in radical Islam. While Israel has its flaws, I do not blame the nation itself for globalization but the influential politicians, moneymen and organizations in America and Europe that both unconditionally support Israel though foreign aid and wars, are also the biggest promoters of globalization and immigration.
Anti-Islam activists have made a huge fuss over Sharia finance, but in reality it is far superior to our corrupt banking system based on debt and fiat money. Sharia prohibits the payment or acceptance of interest fees for the lending and accepting of money. As was Iraq before the toppling of Saddam, Iran is now one of the few nations that does not allow international banks to operate. Both nations contain the world’s largest oil reserve and the international bankers can’t wait to get their hands on it.
The West and the Muslim world have become enemies because of globalization. Muslims are rightfully angry at America and West for its foreign policy and corrupt consumer culture, but so are Europeans about the large scale Muslim immigration into Europe. Because to the large numbers of Muslims in Europe and the wars in the Middle East, I feel that the damage has been done, but what we can do is limit immigration and stop meddling in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
The Elites say we have to tolerate diversity at all cost. We should respect other nations’ sovereignty and right to preserve their way of life, but at the same time we should not be afraid of being called xenophobes and racist when it comes to defending our own culture and national sovereignty. Whether you agree with Switzerland’s decision or not, it is its right as a sovereign nation to decide.
ROBERT STARK is an artist and host of a political talk show called 15 Minutes of Freedom on www.myfbn.com. He is a strong defender of the Constitution and National Sovereignty and rejects Partisan Politics and Political Correctness. His articles can also be found at the L.A. Examiner.
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