EU Kaput - What fears lie behind the French Non and the Dutch Nee?

How did a half a century old hope of uniting a post-war (WW2) Europe into one nation suddenly fizzle out within a week? Why did an idea that had been gradually gathering support among people through the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties, suddenly started turning sour. Was 9/11 the fulcrum? Were the rising immigration rates into Europe the fulcrum? And were historical memories the fulcrum for the NO vote?

Had the EU become reality, there was the possibility of the socialist governments of France, Spain, Germany throwing their weight behind an EU (if it all is formed) to admit Turkey into the EU. And with Turkey would come Muslim immigrants turning what is now a trickle, into a flood. And these immigrant would not necessarily be Turks. This was what out-weighed in the minds of French voters the positives of dominating a Francophile European Union, as against the negatives of Muslims flooding France and the rest of the Continent (under an EU dispensation).

And with the traditionally porous borders between Muslim states (as we know by the levels of infiltration into Iraq, from Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran), the Muslim immigrants who would flood Europe under the EU would certainly be non-Turkish Muslims also in addition to Turks. With Iranians, Syrians, Kurds, Jordanians infiltrating into Turkey as a first step to moving into Europe proper. But with the No vote, we can say that the sacrifices and efforts of Pim Fortuyn, Theo Van Gough Nick Griffin, and Le Pen have paid off.

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The French government especially was hoping that the Oui (yes) camp would win, as they have always wanted to regain a pre-eminent position - a hangover from the brief interlude they enjoyed in Napoleonic times. A EU (of which the UK was not a part) would have only two major blocs, the French and the German. And successive French governments have hoped that they could manage to dominate a Francophile Europe. But then they underestimated that just beneath France's (and Europe's) egalitarian, socialist surface lies the bedrock of historical memories. The French (and all other Europeans) know their history better than anyone. That's why their culture has become so tortured: obsessed with high-minded fairness, guilt and donning the mask of multicultural deference, the French (as well Europeans in general) do not strike back easily and are not as secure with their self-image.

But today, had the EU become reality, there was the possibility of the socialist governments of France, Spain, Germany throwing their weight behind an EU (if it all is formed) to admit Turkey into the EU. And with Turkey would come Muslim immigrants turning what is now a trickle, into a flood. And these immigrant would not necessarily be Turks. This was what out-weighed in the minds of French voters the positives of dominating a Francophile European Union, as against the negatives of Muslims flooding France and the rest of the Continent (under an EU dispensation).

And with the traditionally porous borders between Muslim states (as we know by the levels of infiltration into Iraq, from Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran), the Muslim immigrants who would flood Europe under the EU would certainly be non-Turkish Muslims also in addition to Turks. With Iranians, Syrians, Kurds, Jordanians infiltrating into Turkey as a first step to moving into Europe proper. But with the No vote, we can say that the sacrifices and efforts of Pim Fortuyn, Theo Van Gough Nick Griffin, and Le Pen have paid off.

Getting citizenship proofs like voter registration cards, driving licenses, and even passports are issue s that can be managed in a poor Muslim country like Turkey. And so all these shady Muslim characters would flood Europe to upturn the demographic balance there.

We do not have anyone going on record with this but what lies in the back of at least some European minds is the eerie prediction that Muslims are prophesied to overrun Europe in the first stage of the final war between the Cross and the crescent, bringing the papacy to an end while ravaging the heart and center of Christendom. Even if one discounts such prophesies of Nostradamus and Malachy as irrational; we cannot but help projecting the trajectories of the present with the Muslim immigration rates into Europe which are shooting up alarmingly even before the EU is formed and Turkey admitted into it.

Although unspoken for many Europeans, the trends seen today and their similarity with the Cross Vs. Crescent scenario in Nostradamus' writings are chillingly uncomfortable. And more uncomfortable to the Europeans because it is they, who lie on the route of an Islamic invasion of the Western world. Twice the Europeans have had to turn back invading Muslim armies - once at Tours in 732 and then at Vienna in the 17th century.

Now the developments could see a repetition of these events, if Nostradamus' prophesy of Muslim armies overrunning Europe is to come true. No nation would want its own home to be vandalized, although any nation would want its enemy to be destroyed if the battle is fought one the soil of either the enemy nation or on that of a third nation. (This also explains the US concern for Homeland Security after 9/11 and President George Bush's visits to mosques and repeated statements that "Islam is a religion of peace", while pursuing the war against terror all across the globe).

It is the unspoken fear of this that lies, at least in part, at the resounding No vote from the French and Dutch voters that has put a question mark on the EU becoming a reality.

Story Credits: Waronjihad Team

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