Muslims and Westerners: The Psychological Differences
by Nicolai Sennels (May 2010)
February 27th 2008. On a cold and windy Wednesday (for cyclists like myself), I took a deep breath, grabbed the microphone and did something that changed my life. more>>>
Excellent!!! I wish we ALL can see and understand these facts....every great civilization was destroyed by barbariams!!
1 May 2010 MJL
This author is psychologically astute. I like the frankness of his claim that some cultures are just incompatible, and the way he zeroes in on the most awkward aspects of multicultural life in the west. However I think the most subtle and complete view of these problems sees Islam as a pretext for, not an immediate cause of cultural conflict.
I have worked as a teacher in neighbourhoods where Islamic culture supposedly dominates the hearts and minds of young first- and second-generation immigrants. It seems a surpringly permeable belief system in practice. Bizarre cultural hybrids arise in these areas - Lebanese boys who ape black American gangster-rappers; girls who wear snow-white hijabs but who can fight and scream obscenities with the lowest of their white-trash counterparts. I have also briefly worked in an Islamic country, which is to say a country where an indigenous culture was crushed by invading Islamists some 400 years ago. It was there that I learned just how oppressive the Islamic world is to ordinary people caught in its traces. People fleeing countries such as Afghanistan are, in effect, fleeing Islam, if we believe their murderously violent persecutors when they proclaim themselves the most Muslim of Muslims; but the refugees pray, live and fast as Muslims themselves; they don't consider themselves to be fleeing Islam and they strike me as nice, simple folk for whom family survival and education are the main goals in life.
Sennels is right to define honour codes, tribalism, humourlessness, narcissism and aggression as fundamental forms of psychic weakness. But I think it is unfair to unify human character under the banner of even such an autarchic religion as Islam; in fact there is a distinctly Asian and a distinctly Arabic style of Islamism, and so on around the world where Islam has dominated people's lives. In Malayasia and Indonesia you find a grimly 'try-hard' attitude of the recently converted; in Tunisia a more relaxed style of Islam exists. If anything, the unifying characteristic of countries that are now Muslim is that nearly all began as isolated agrarian slave societies dominated by despotic tribal chiefs. Much more of psychological and behavioural consequence flows from these kinds of facts than from religious beliefs.
Teaching at school I found that Islam became an excuse to express feuding, aggression and exceptionalism that was culturally and age-developmentally normal. It was the metaphysical clothing for the naked emperor of egoism and force majeur. Some cultures just functioned at a higher emotional temperature than others; they tended to be loud, argumentative and aggressive in western eyes whether you considered this behaviour Islamic or not. The worst you could say of the cultural role of Islam was that it attempted to sacralise the otherwise very clearly bestial in human nature.
If that is so, the questions to ask about anything we have called 'bad because Islamic' up till now are, 'Does this behaviour threaten democracy? Does it trample human rights and does it break laws designed to protect people from harm?' By all means be strict about punishing behaviour that answers these affirmatively. But such questions might be asked of behaviour at any time in human history, because of the universality of mental unwellness - the 'insanity of groups that is the rule' in Nietzsche's words. I don't see why it is necessary to single out Islamic groups as especially exceptionalist, aggressive and antidemocratic.
It's Islam as pretext that I see here - it's the latest excuse for abuses that people everywhere and at all times have suffered at the hands of the mentally unbalanced. Sennels' suggestions - clear boundaries, real consequences - would work for anyone regardless of the religious belief they use to excuse their bad behaviour.
2 May 2010 Chezwick
MJL suffers the affliction of so many others, trying to exonerate the distinctly theological nature of the pathologies that afflict the Muslim world. For example, he/she tries to draw a distinction between the Muslim cultural ethos in southeast Asia with that of the Arab world. What he/she fails to recognize is that whatever distinctions that once existed are quickly disappearing; so-called "moderate" Indonesia has seen the killing of thousands of Christians over the last decade...and the persecution of thousands of others, all at the hands of the Muslim mob.
Another false distinction is the laid-back Islam of Tunisia that MJL contrasts with the fanaticism of other countries in the region. What he/she fails to mention is that this is the direct and exclusive result of GOVERNMENT POLICY. The President of Tunisia is a committed secularist, and he has imposed his vision on his country via authoritarian methods. Tunisia would no doubt be a very different country were it not for the vision of a single man.
As for MJL's contention that social pathologies exist in every culture, this is obviously true. In the West for example, sexual freedom has resulted in a high incidence of teen pregnancies and the spread of venereal disease. While we refuse to alter our over-all culture of freedom, we at least acknowledge these pathologies as unwanted side-effects OF freedom, and institute educational and health programs to mitigate them.
Conversely, in the Muslim world, many of the most gruesome social pathologies such as lapidation, amputation, honor killing, child marriage, the murder of apostates, and female genital mutilation (among others), all have their origins in Islamic theology, and therefore are not recognized as social pathologies. Therefore, there is no real impetus to remedy them.
People like MJL are retarding the struggle against Islamic supremacism and intolerance by obfuscating the facts. It is the theological tenets of Islam itself, not some ancillary cause, that perpetuates the pathologies that afflict Muslim (and now Western) societies. This reality necessitates a very specific strategy for dealing with the problem, one that attempts to marginalize Islam in the lives of Muslims. It is a strategy that has yet to be even considered, much less implemented.
4 May 2010 ziggy
Best facts about the muslim community that I´ve ever read. Having visited several muslim countries long before muslims started to pour into our western society, I was shocked when mass immigration by muslims to my own country (Sweden), started to escalate some fifteen/twenty years ago. Seeing now that everything has gone over the top completly, our politicians from every major party, refuse to take action and do something constructive about the mess. Our media is also totally derailed when it comes to adressing the issue and it seems that the police is not better off, since they often refuse to give detailed information to the public about muslim criminals, even if that kind of information probably would help solving many of the often hideous crimes that these particular individuals commit.Everyone knows that it often is hard for even well educated ethnic swedes to get a job and this makes you wonder how someone who
1: Is a devoted muslim.
2: Doesn´t want to be integrated.
3: Has 5 maybe 6 years in school.
4: Doesn´t see the need too learn swedish.
5: Has a view of women, that we left five hundred years ago.
is going to be able to get and hold a job and live happily together with his ethnic swedish countrymen. The last part is of some importance, as we hear all the time that the muslims are here because they are sorely needed in order for the swedish nation to be able to pay the pensions for future generations, but I must say that I have my serious doubts about that.
5 May 2010 Hugh Fitzgerald
is going to be able to get and hold a job and live happily together with his ethnic swedish countrymen. The last part is of some importance, as we hear all the time that the muslims are here because they are sorely needed in order for the swedish nation to be able to pay the pensions for future generations, but I must say that I have my serious doubts about that"
You still have doubts? I have no doubts that allowing Muslims into Sweden will be a terrific expense, that these Muslims cannot possibly integrate, and what they will take out of the system, making sure they receiveevery possible benefit, part of a welfare system that is amazingly generous (and naive), one that was originally created by Swedish voters and taxpayers, for the intended benefit of other Swedes, but now being exploited by Muslim immigrants whose hatred of bid'a (innovation, that is any new or entrepreneurial acitvity on their own part) and their deep inshallah-fatalism, guarantees they will economically fall immediately behind, so that they will always havee far higher rates of employment.
Meanwhile, their wives, one or more, will breed and breed and breed, as Oriana Fallaci famously warned, and you have only to look at the figures about Muslim population growth, all over Western Europe, to see what is going on.
Muslim immigration has to be halted, and then reversed. This can be done, just. But the countries of Western Europe have to turn off the tap, and make their own lands as unwelcome and hostile to Islam, to its practice, and to its adherents (the fact that a handful, in the mental freedom of the West, jettison Islam and so can fit in, is no consolation).
And if Sweden really is so hard up for workers, it can find plenty of non-Muslims from countries all over the world, beginning with Eastern Europe and Russia, and Latin America, and parts of Asia, and can make sure that those who come do not carry, undeclared, in their mental baggage, Islam.
Here is an assertion:
"The large-scale presence of Muslims in the countries of Western Europe has led to a situation, for both the indigenous non-Muslims and for other, non-Muslim immigrants, that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous, than would the case withouit such a a large-scale Muslim presence."
Is there anyone in Western Europe, among the sane, who at this point would disagree? Is there anyone, in Western Europe, among the sane, who would dearly wish, if things could be done all over again, never to have permitted any Muslim immigration in the first place, over the past thirty odd years?
Well, then, there is still time to halt and reverse, halt and reverse. But first people must education themselves about Islam, its texts, tenets, attitudes, atmospherics.
It isn't hard.
9 May 2010 Paul Blaskowicz
The worst you could say of the cultural role of Islam was that it attempted to sacralise the otherwise very clearly bestial in human nature. MJL
MJL: Could one say anything more disgusting about any ideology? This one undeniable truth - though the verb should be in the present tense - demolishes all the rest of your sophisticated argument about a seeming similarity between the ethos and practices of the worlds of the muslims and of the kafirs.
Islam's malignant rule is total, whenever and wherever it is found; that individual muslims may from time to time act contrary to its prescriptions and proscriptions proves nothing but that they are exceptions to that malignant rule.
9 May 2010 Annie Oakley
Quoting MJL..."The worst you could say of the cultural role of Islam was that it attempted to sacralise the otherwise very clearly bestial in human nature." MJL is an apologist for Muslim misbehavior.
I'ver seen Muslim culture first-hand, both as an American soldier and as a law enforcement officer.
The worst I could say about the cultural role of Islam is the cold, hard truth. Islam is a murderous political cult that will accept nothing short of the utter destruction of all non-Muslim societies. It's all there in the koran. I might add that when there are no non-Muslim adversaries around to confront, they have no problem whatsoever turning their homicidal rage upon each other. I suppose they want to keep their skills honed so that they will be prepared the next time they encounter an Infidel.
Islam demands that its followers become "slaves". Well, an ideology that demands slavery as part of its system of beliefs authorizes its stronger members to enslave the weaker members of society. After all, that is the "shining example" that has been set for them.
I don't know about MJL, but I have no intention of becoming anyone's slave.
9 May 2010 Egghead
Nicolai Sennels' article is excellent and easy-to-read.
Islam itself is the problem rather than the pretext for the problem - as has been incorrectly suggested by another commenter. Read the Koran and other Islamic literature like the hadiths.
The ONLY goal of Islam is the forced conversion, rape, enslavement, or killing of the infidel (any non-Muslim). An infidel can NEVER be innocent because the infidel refuses to submit to the immutable UNCHANGEABLE word of God that God revealed to the FINAL prophet Mohammed.
Unfortunately, Mohammed was an illiterate psycho child molester, serial rapist, torturer, and mass murderer with 26 wives (one wife married when she was six years old). But, as the final prophet, Mohammed is viewed as the IDEAL Muslim man to be imitated by other Muslim men.
Bravo! You are speaking truth to power! I have long referred to Islam as a cult, with leaders exercizing life and death power over the religious, and even the non-religious (consider the "Fatwah" sentencing of innocent men to death for the crime of insult). Stoning of "adulterous" women, amputations for thieves, endorsement of murder against infidels - this is Dark Age barbarity in the era of the Internet. And how about "non-violent" muslims - why is their reaction to Islamic crimes so often muted? If they are truly opposed to Islamo-fascism, why don't they start a "New Islamic Way" that utterly and completely denies violence and mysogny, and accepts only the loving and charitable tenets of the Koran? Here's my opinion - the problem with cutting the violence out of the Koran is that you don't even have half a loaf left - just a bunch of banal crumbs that could have been better written by Kahlil Gibran. Anyway, great job, and I'm going to buy your book!
# EuropeNews “Integration of Muslims in Western societies is not possible”: http://europenews.dk/en/node/21789
# The German Review of Books: The one thing Muslim immigrants fear is being deported: http://www.germanbookreview.com/the-one-thing-muslim-immigrants-fear-is-being-deported/
# Interview til Hommaforum: An interview with Nicolai Sennels: http://hommaforum.org/index.php/topic,19459.msg271993.html#msg271993
# Artikel i New English Review: Muslims and Westerners: The psychological differences: http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/63122/sec_id/63122
# Interview i FrontPageMagazine: Among Criminal Muslims: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/05/among-criminal-muslims/
14 May 2010 bzbody
I found the article interesting up to a point, but really, it is oversimplifying a complex culture. I am myself not a Muslim, but I have some familiarity with Muslims and Muslim culture relative to India. My own observation is that there are well-brought up children and badly brought up children in all cultures; it is true that some parents lack understanding and wisdom, but I haven't really seen this as being confined to Muslims alone.
As for the blanket statement that Muslim culture (really, all Muslim cultures, everywhere in this wide world?) are lacking an aspect of mocking pomposity and authority, this is simply a matter of the author carelessly generalizing based on very limited knowledge. Children in my part of the world are very familiar with the tales of renegade Mullah Naseeruddin, who makes a point of showing up the high-and-mighty, including religious figures. Muslim kids that I grew up with used to have a lot of fun composing doggerel verses that ridiculed the excessive piety and hypocrisy of the mullahs or religious leaders.
Perhaps the author's view is biased due to exclusive association with the dysfunctional and criminal element; by definition, you can only expect dysfunctionality from them. To be fair, I am not familiar with the issues of Muslim immigrants to Europe, though I imagine that population must be a narrow self-selected slice of the population of their home country.
This should be required reading for every political party and there members. I have finally found solid evidence to support why I think Muslims should not be allowed to immigrate into western society.
6 Jun 2010 Fred
bzbody wrote:
"My own observation is that there are well-brought up children and badly brought up children in all cultures; it is true that some parents lack understanding and wisdom, but I haven't really seen this as being confined to Muslims alone."
I think you failed to understand the main point of the article, which is that the deep principles and values that determine muslims' thinking and acting are different from and incompatible with those of the West.
Yes, there are many many "well-brought up" muslim children, if "well-brought up" is understood in its shallow meaning: not social criminals. Most of the September 11 terrorists were considered well-brought up and well educated until they comitted their crime. Many muslim men are considered well-brought up, and actually behave as well educated people, until they hit, and sometimes kill, their sister or cousin because she has a boyfriend (i.e. has sex without being married).
You can call this "shallow well-bringing up".
Therefore, the point is not whether there are well brought-up muslims or not. The real question is how many of them deeply believe in freedom of speech (including harshly critisizing their religion), in the idea of total equal rights for all humans, whatever is their color, gender, religion (or absence of religion), sexual orientation, etc?
The answer is: only a minority. I grew up among muslims and I have very good friends among them. They are very nice and very helpful. But when it comes to discussing the issues above, I can tell things are different.
1 Jul 2010 Mary
Reading the article by Mr. Sennels and the introduction by Ms. Tobin left me feeling rather sad. I was thinking of the Muslim persons who came under their care. Those clients are in the position of being judged by people who seem unable to see their clients as individuals, those clients are in the position of having to accept something as delicate as psychological help from practitioners who are unable to see them as anything more than a symptom of what they see as the symptom of the dysfunction of Islamic societies. Think of the damage such therapists can wreck. That such people are invited to spread their distorted views as expert advice to law enforcement or to political decision makers is truly terrifying.
Great Book !! In Canada we have the same problem with the integration of muslims. We go to many big cities and we feel we are in the Middle East..they look at us as if we are the ones that dont belong!!! It has gotten out of hand. They dont want to integrate. They will never have respect for the religion, traditions and culture and the women in western societies even though they might say they do!
I lived with a muslim for few years and he always wanted me to convert to Islam. He told me while it was permitted to marry a Christian God prefered that he married a muslim. I told him I would never convert...after he told his family the mother invented false accusations agaist me and I was no longer welcomed in his house, his family and friends started planning his wedding and giving him names of all the poor peasants from his home country who by the way dont even speak english or french.....the men say they have to marry a poor muslim woman that will be thankful for whatever they can give her....the women there are dying to come to rich countries and are desperately comunicating with all friends and siters here to get them a husband...a sort of mail order bride system between friends and family cause they get a dowry and share the profits or make them gifts and are eternally grateful to the people that gets them any guy with a Canadian or American passport!!! ....all of his friends did the same and brought here all this women who now have two, or three kids here..the girls wearing hijabs at an early age to be able to fit in and be respected and be able to marry..if not they can not find a guy with money.....anyhow all the men and women I met were criticizing that women in the west are uncovered and are not as clean and respectable as the muslim women are and they feel superior to all of us because they cover their heads, arms and even their toes during heat waves!!...is sad that all this people with retarded ideas are here criticizing us women and feeling superior to us !!! ...most of them are illeterate or have received limited middle easten education...here they think they are morally superior and even illiterates think they are people of high levels of education to whom we have to seek advice from!!!...To these men and women we are infidels and not worthy of love and compassion and marriage unless we convert.
Please help save the western world and our democratic values! ...We need to pressure our governments which unfortunately are desperate seeking votes and approval and cant see that this people are a threat to our future that they dont integrate and they will keep bringing all their family and uneducated women here..they can have four wives!...they are making sure they will outnumber us in the future... imagine their reproduction rates skyrocketing while we can barely have children to pay for their welfare and in the case of men their unemployment insurance!!
Has the western world gone mad??? I feel betrayed. I thought we were looking for well educated civilized people to come to developed nations to help our economies, not to become a burden and a threat to us! The least they could do is get people that share our our own religions in the majority of the west so that inter marriages and reproduction among us is possible!
When I first read the work of Nicolai Sennels, and the introduction by Nancy Kobrin, I wrote on my Facebook the following: I read the article, and I believe it is the most stupid thing I have ever read. People like Nicolai Sennels start by considering Muslims to be "different", another kind of animals, not part of the human race, (that requires a special psychological understanding). But he has not touch upon the great civilization that the Muslims have achieved 1000 year ago. It was a civilization that gave mankind a great leap forward. When the European church took over and took back Spain, Europe entered into the Dark Ages.
My Norwegian friend on the Facebook objected to my reflections, and said that I have to read it once again with my eyes “open”. I promised him that I will do. But before I did that, he read the article himself, with his eyes open, and came back with a negative impression also. He wrote that on the Facebook.
So what is so wrong in that article that makes a Christian European rejects it.
Actually there is nothing right, the whole article is written without the standard method of scientific research. All graduates of European Universities study, as part of their graduate requirements, the so-called scientific method. This method teaches an individual how to analyze, compare, and undertake a research on objective basis. This will guarantee that the product of his work will carry scientific content, and not rubbish. The work will be part of the scientific knowledge and well-delineated from “superstition,” or crap.
Having said that, the work of Nicolai Sennels will be rejected on such basis.
But before I go into details, I would like to discuss another interrelated issue. This issue is European Superiority Complex.
I said that European Superiority Complex is part of this issue because it is not onlyNicolai Sennels who gives themselves the right to stigmatize other cultures and jump to wrong conclusions without respect to their own approved method of research. Complexity is so widespread that it is practiced by many European scholars who are unaware of such misconduct.
If we pick randomly any known book on philosophy, for example, we shall never find anything mentioned on the contribution of other cultures but the Europeans (Greek). No European scholar will ever mention that the Greek themselves used to study at Babylon. This great civilization is never mentioned although science and philosophy originated there. The letter A comes from the name of Babylon God. The Babylonians made the week 7 days, and the day 24 hours, just to mention a few. Then came the Great Muslim civilization, where the remains in Spain speak for themselves. What is most important under Muslim rule was the religious tolerance. Today you can find Christian indigenous communities living in most Muslim countries. They lived there for the last 2000 years. On the other hand, when the Christians took over Spain, Muslims were wiped out. This religious tolerance what makes the Muslim civilization superior to other civilizations. One day I asked a European colleague of mine why there is so much racism in Europe against Muslims, whereas we do not have a similar behavior against Christians in the Muslim countries. He replied with a ready-made-answer: Christians in Muslim countries are indigenous, whereas Muslims in Europe are immigrants. But this friend of mine failed to explain why we do not have indigenous Muslims in Europe. I think the Jews can have a lot to say as they suffered the most in Europe all through history.
Nicolai Sennels cannot provide us with an explanation for this superiority because his work is motivated by European Superiority complex. Europe is always better than the others. Sennels mention that Muslim hatred to the Jews is part of Muslim teachings, but he never mentions anti-Semitism, which is a European phenomenon. On the other hand, Sennels have no answer when he discovers that, Jews, like Christians, are part of the indigenous populations of many Muslim countries.
Actually this European Superiority Complex has historic origins. Alexander the Great was motivated to invade Babylon in order to wipe out the barbarians. When he entered Babylon, and walked around, and according to Herodotus (his companion), Alexander said: we are the barbarians, not them. Alexander was very impressed by Babylon. If one reviews the Memoirs of Herodotus, for sure he can see the other picture of Alexander. Just to site one example: when Alexander marched towards Babylon, he followed the Euphrates into what we call today Anbar province. As he met the villages, he found out that all the men have fled, and only women and children were left behind. Alexander the Great ordered the butchering of all women and children. This historic massacre is never mentioned in European history books although it was well-registered by Herodotus.
Going through history, although I have no time to describe the barbarian massacres of the European crusades in Jerusalem, I believe that it is scientifically wrong to generalize from a specific social or historic event. History is relative, and our behaviors are relative to that time reference. I will never jump to a conclusion from whatever historic data are under my possession. And it is her that I disagree with Nicolai Sennels. Jumping to conclusion is simply evidence of the superficial content of the work.
There is a basic mistake in the work of Nicolai Sennels. Muslims do not constitute one homogenous community. Islam is a religion and not a nationality. Muslims speak different languages, and have different cultures, and originate from different countries, continents, and origins. The Muslim community is simple very heterogeneous. Any work that oversees this simple fact is simply unacceptable to any scholar. People coming from Somalia are very different from those who come from Iraq or Iran, just to site a simple example. Sennels interviews, which are based upon criminal Somalis provide no basis for generalization on the social behavior of Somalis in particular, or Muslims in general.
Sennels compared criminal Muslims with Europeans, and made few conclusion. Her he was comparing Apples to Oranges, and not Apples to Apples. Let us use Sennels own words:” Further, a serious discussion about the relationship between the Muslim Culture and criminal, antisocial behavior is, indeed, very much needed.” Her, as you all can see, Sennels talk about Muslim culture, without referring to a specific culture. Does he mean Somali culture, Indonesian, or Moroccan? You tell me. Then he reaches his famous conclusion:” After having consulted 150 young Muslim clients in therapy and 100 Danish clients, my finding were that the Muslim’s culture and religious experiences played a central role in their psychological development and criminal behavior. “Criminal foreigners” are not just a generalizing and imprecise term. It is unfair to non-Muslim foreigners and generally misleading.”I would like to say that this last statement written by Nicolai Sennels is the most stupid statement I have ever read in my life.
I can do exactly the same. Pick up 250 Europeans criminals, interview them, and say the same on Europeans as Sennels said about Muslims ( in general including all Muslims from Indonesia to Morocco).
I can do even better than Sennels. By discussing the fact that Europe initiated the SecondWorld War (not to mention the First world War, or the wars before) which led to the death of 80 million human being, one can reach a very clear conclusion about the social and psychological behavior of Europeans.
Under the sub-title Anger, Sennels starts using his imagination to create false Muslim expressions. He discovered a new term that was absent from all history books, that is “holy anger” he mentioned that “holy anger” is therefore completely contradictory to any Western understanding. But from where did he discover this new term. From his pure imagination. This example was the first example in my life that I encountered that shows a European makes open lies against other cultures.
In the same section Sennels refers to diplomatic dialogue which is alien to Muslim countries and organizations. He does not cite any example, but I can help him in citing the number of US B-52 Bombers that killed hundreds of thousands of farmers in Vietnam, or the number of women and children that are killed daily by ISAF in Afghanistan today.
The Muslims became known as terrorists when a small group of criminals killed less than 3000 innocents in New York onthe 11-September 2003. But others are not terrorists even if they killed more than that figure.My question: why?
If a Muslim country would, one day, attach the Gaza Aid Flotilla, then I wonder how many what new terminology would be invented to describe such action.
When Europe was occupied by Nazis Germany, the secret resistance to this occupation was considered very legitimate and heroic. But, other countries do not have the same right, only Europeans have this right. If a country outside Europe is under occupation then its resistance to occupation is considered to be terrorist.
Finally I would like to add to the knowledge of Sennels that it was Prophet Mohammed who started peaceful dialogue with his enemies. Just look it up. Also he was the first in history to stop killing Prisoners of War (at that early time), and to set them free. The problem is actually caused by a man who is ill-informed and ignorant of Muslim culture and history, and at the same time claims to be the expert.
Another point called Locus of control was raised by Sennels. He defines this term to be a psychological term describing whether people experience their life influenced mainly, by internal or external factors. Regarding this term I have two issues to raise: first, which historic stage is taking into consideration? During Medieval Europe one can support the thesis of Locus of control more than in Muslim societies. Let us take an example, it was only under Christianity that women were burnt in the open streets accusing them of being witches. They had to be burnt in order to get the evil spirit out of their bodies. We have never experienced such stupidity under Islam. It is very eccentric that writers like Sennels do not mention such facts. Secondly, other religions can exhibit similar features more than the Muslims. All my Jewish friends told me that Judaism is more than a religion, but a national embarralle. The same applies to Hinduism, ..Etc. Sennels continue by giving incorrect examples. ”Every kiosk has dozens of magazines for both women and men….” Well it seems that Sennels is very ill-informed and ignorant because we have in Arabic more magazines and books that serve the same purpose, but in Arabic language, and this may explain why Sennels is very ill-informed and ignorant. Actually it is very easy to refute all the claims of Sennels against the Muslim World simply by showing that he is very ill-informed and ignorant. We can provide similar examples from other religions that show that all religions have similar claims. Judaism claims that the Jews are the “Chosen People”. Israel was established on religious claims. When the Christians wear the Christian Cross on their chest this is not considered to represent a problem, but if Muslims do the same then we do have a problem!!
Sennels tries to discover a new social behavior. “it is his fault that I beat him up. He provoked me”. Sennels continue by saying that such excuses show that people experience their own reactions as caused by external factors and not by their own emotions, motivation and free will.” He claims that such behavior is limited only to Muslims. Well actually the example reminded me of George Busch’s war against Afghanistan. It was their fault that forced the USA to destroy a whole country, and to kill thousands of innocent civilians.
Actually Sennels has reached a number of serious conclusions. He claims that it is the mistake of the Europeans that they allow young Muslims to destroy their lives with bad habits, bad friends and bad criminals. I think the truth is the other way around. It is the young Europeans who destroy their lives by addicting to drugs and alcohol, and it is the Muslim young people who represent a perfect example for the Europeans to follow. Our young generation is free from drugs and alcohol, whereas the European youngsterssuffer greatly from the consumption of drugs and alcohol. Sennels should re-write the wrong conclusions upside down. Another conclusion of Sennels is that Muslims fail to integrate in European societies. People all over the world aim to live a normal life, and to prosper. If this can not happen, then there is something wrong in the circumstances surrounding them. Actually the reason for the failure to integrate is traced back to the policies that are applied to these immigrants. Basically the problem is racism. These youngsters are subject to severs racists practices. This is shown clearly when they seek a job. They suffer from their names, and they get rejected before the interview takes place. The principle of equality of opportunity should be universal if the aim is to integrate the new immigrant communities to European societies.
When people find no State to support them they turn to other social institutions that could provide alternative support. This explain why in many Muslim countries people have strong bonds to the tribe, or family. No Muslim believe that he belongs to the “Umma” as Samuel P. Huntington claims. Umma is a word used by the Prophet Mohammed, and it does not mean “nation”, because nation is a modern term that has no meaning at that time. Political terminology is a product of its own time, and using modern terms to explain events of the past is very pseudo-scientific.Another strange conclusion made by Sennels that Muslims cannot respect non-Muslims. I think history has shown the opposite. It was the Muslims who respected the Christians and Jews not only those who lived, and still living in Muslim countries, but those who were living in countries the Muslims invaded like Spain. Another conclusion relates to Honor. In this respect Sennels made another grave mistake. Sennels can not differentiate between rural and urban cultures. Honor is a rural value widely practiced in such societies. Another value related to honor is revenge. It is very strange that Sennels has forgotten to mention this important value !! Both of these values, honor and revenge, are part of the rural culture and their presence clearly shows the absence of the State and not the presence of Muslim religion. Another eccentric conclusion made by Sennels is his claim that “Muslim culture tells its men that criticism must be taken completely personally and met with childish reactions”. Actually I do not know what sources Sennels uses because he does not refer to any. Such claims are baseless, and such work should not ber allowed to be published by an academic journal simply because it does not follow the European basic standards of scientific research. Sennels continue by citing a Danish fairytale about a little boy that points out the nakedness of the King “he has no clothes on”. Sennels reach the conclusion that “Such a story could never have been written in a Muslim culture”.I believe that everybody agrees with me that Mr. Sennels is very ill-informed and represent an ignorant. The Tales of One Thousand Night and a Night was written by a Muslim writer one thousand years ago in Baghdad, and was used by Europe to build its literature foundations. One Thousand Night and a Night is still inspiring American and European cinema producers in their artistic works. The tales of One Thousand Night and a Night also provided an open horizon for mankind imagination well before modern technology provided the materialization of what the tales used like the flying carpet and the remote screen (TV and satellite). The Tales of One Thousand Night and a Night also represent a deep understanding of the sociology of human societies. There is no need of going further in this great work of literature because many Scholars have enriched it with their PhD thesis’s at different universities.
I felt unpleasant when I finished reading the work of Sennel because I have learnt from Europeans the basis of scientific research. Sennels work is very alien to everything the European taught me.
Samir Yousif is a graduate of the London school of economics (University of London)1976, and worked as a professor at the Universities of Al-Fateh (Tripoli), and Al-Qadissyiah (Iraq). He is a Norwegian citizen living in Stavanger, Norway.
An excellent article. Very astute, very clear, very convincing. It is not racist to stand up to an intollerant ideology, that includes both Islam AND political correctness. There needs to be more discussion like this.
Dr Sennels' article is an important addition to the canon, so to speak -- the body of literature and knowledge about the Islamic world. However, my own experience of living in a Muslim Arab country for 20 years would suggest that the picture might be more complex.
First, what country were Dr Sennels' patients from? There is a vast difference between Somalis and Egyptions, Morrocans and Saudis, for example, in terms of their attitudes towards honour, shame, personal responsibility, etc. These differences come from cultural factors that run parallel to, and in some cases are overlaid upon religious beliefs.
Second, are we surprised that the criminals that Dr Sennels writes about did not "feel" Danish? One look at a Dane will show you that Danes are vikings, or at least northern teutonic types, and Somalis will never look like Danes. Danes are punctual, and Somalis are not. They eat different food, drink different beverages, and, to refer to St Augustine, "love different things".
The Somalis are in Denmark not because they ever wanted to be Danish (in other words, to stop being Somalis), but because they did not want to live under threat of death, starvation, bombardment or a life of misery in their own country. For them, I would suggest, Denmark was a bolt-hole -- a place to live (at least for the first generation), where they could be Somalis with the support of Danish taxpayers, until such time as they could return to Somalia.
They will never "feel" Danish, just as I (from Canada) could life in India, but would never "feel" Indian, and neither, I would warrant, would my children and grandchildren. I might obtain a passport, but I would not "be Indian". I would simply be a passport holder. And no efforts to assimilate me would work. If I had enough money, I could resist valiantly and vocally. If there were enough other people like me around, we could resist through common support. But I would never be an Indian.
This does not mean that I would be a criminal, of course, but it would mean that for me, Indian rules were "other people's rules", and thus would not have the force that rules of my home country, or home culture, would have.
Dr Sennels is right to the point in his discussion of the responsibilities that young Muslim men have, and the pyramid shape of freedom. I have seen men change from being boys at 20 to being middle aged men at 21 -- but this is partly economic, partly a function of social class, partly a function of religion, and partly cultural -- in other words, the picture is rich, so to speak. But Dr Sennels' article is an excellent place to start understanding it.
24 Jul 2010 Ivar Garberg Nancy Kobrin is mistaken when she believes Sweden by any means is involved in awarding the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee is appointed by the the Parliament of Norway.
All members of the committee are Citizens of Norway...
30 Aug 2010 Truth
This message is addressed to Mr. Nicolai Sennels, as well as all the readers and commentators:
TITLE: Deja-Vu
Very convincing! It's written very well and everything is so done well to make it all sound logial! Islam is indeed the second big religion of our planet and through centuries, islamists and non-islamists have had their contradictions, their own beliefs and way of thinking. However still they have (had) several things in common:
1. The Danes (Western) and their so called peacefull culture as well as the Arabics (Islamists) prosecuted and killed people who had their own ideas a long time ago, until the Enlightement, the Revolution and the Renaissance for the West.
2. The Danes (Western) and their so called peacefull culture as well as the Arabics (Islamists) did believe in One God and both had the same names and stories of Harun, Noah, Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Abel and Ca�n.
3. The Danes (Western) and their so called peacefull culture as well as the Arabics (Islamists) had (the latter one still has) the tradion to make their women and wives wear a scarf, on the street and in the Christian churches !
I couldn't agree more with some points of Mr. Nicolai Sennels in which he remared that Muslims are quickly offended and they like religion over their country.
However again, this growing religion of Islam, has also much more types and kinds of people then any other religion in the world. The Christian religion has been spread into civilizations in Europe, the Latin-American's, some African countries and that was it all. I am not mentioning Canada, Australia or America because it's founded by Europeans and it has the same religion. On the other hand, the Islamic religion has been spread into much more countries (Arabs, Somalis, Mongols, Persians, Indians, China, Indo-China's, Morrocans, Turks, etc.) These Islamic countries have NOT been the same in culture of language in the past. They still have their differences. They still vary from different opinions.
When I said that Mr. Nicolas Sennels was right about quite a few points, I was refering to the following fact: Morrocans, Somali's, Tunisians are a very unciviliased, uneducated and a-social culture. These are the ones that has caused these unrests in Europe. Not the religion of the Muslims. Why? Because they never understood the value of education! There are also a few who didn't have the opportunity to follow an education in Iraq or Turkey too. Eduaction is the bringer of civilisation! Invest in education and you will invest in integration!
Next time when a questionnaire is begin set up to investigate criminality or islam, PLEASE mention also from which country they are because many factors are important such as origin. Why? Because Muslims like Persians, Turkmen or Afghans are unlike Morrocans and Somali's very contributing folks to any nation. THIS IS A FACT, research it.
One religion who provides rest and redemption to any human being should not be blamed for the mistakes of some uneduated, uncivilised groups who also belief in the islam but misbehaviour themselves!
I can understand you and Mr. Nicolai Sennels. I can understand why the criminality among Muslims is higher and I agree with it. What I don't agree with is the point that Mr. Sennels and the media are making that EVERY Muslim doesn't want to integrate, doesn't want educate or is offensive!
PLEASE, be critic of everything you hear and read! You know what is currently the strongest element? The MEDIA! Remember what one person has started in 1939, one person who claimed to know the sollution for the countries problems, it all started by blaming one religion and one minority group.
I can assure you, prove you, promise you that the islam itself is NOT an offensive, dangerous religion!
It's the people. It might be yourself.
29 Oct 2010 Scholar Excellent article. You can see that you really struck a nerve with the muslims who read this. You can also see, I'm sure, the brainwashing that occurs in muslim societies. Comments are full of beliefs taught in islamic countries that are just not true.
Too many to mention, but here are a couple: The idea, for instance, that islam is tolerant....We know about dhimmitude ("until they feel subdued...")
WWII? The Allied countries got rid of hitler and stopped a genocide. Or the Marshall plan? Rather than making our enemies feel "subdued" after defeat, we gave time and money to help them rebuild their societies.
Mohommed freeing captured enemies? Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Jihad is an excellent source for the militant history of Mohammed. Or read what Churchill, Jefferson, or Adams wrote.
The author points out that the cultures are too different to live together. Muslims want sharia while he West does not amputate, lash, or stone people to death; we do not kill our children who act against our beliefs. Women have the same inheritance and legal rights as men.
The koran teaches muslims to kill the infidel, to not make friends with unbelievers, and to practice taquiyyah with non-muslims. Islam has its great number of followers due to being spread by the sword and laws against apostasy. All this leads to anti-social behavior, as the author writes.
If muslims want the advantages of the Western world, assimilate. Don't come here with a sense of superiority. Open your eyes to what we have and decide if you want it.If you decide to join us, welcome. If not, go to an islamic country. That's all the author is saying.
Last commenter: Thank you. You clearly pointed out the defense mechanisms and false beliefs muslims are brought up to never question. It reminds me of a book I read about N. Korea, where they are taught from childhood "We are the happiest people in the world," and then really think they are.
The difference is, the N. Koreans in the book immediately saw, when they escaped to South Korea, that they had bee brainwashed from birth. Pity the muslims can'd do the same.
As a few have pointed out, it does not matter what coutry they are from: As long as they see mohammed as the perfect man, they will excuse their own pathologies.
To the author of the article: Thank you for your courage. Slowly but surely, the West is awakening. The question is: will it be soon enough? I fear for this Christmas season.
7 Jan 2011 shocking
Sorry to break it to you. Islam is a religion not a culture.while each religion has a culture of its own why is Islam been radicalised??
There are plenty of mentally unsatable people out there, some just happen to be musliums.How can you are argue of a muslium's nature when musliums are diverce? An english muslium may not have similar characteristics as a Somali muslium!!!
9 Jan 2011 Babs Barron
Nicolai this is an excellent paper which is easily accessible to the lay person. I am a psychologist who is engaged in trying what I see as the glass wall which separates the Muslim apprehension of reality from ours.
I have circulated it among the people I correspond with.
Thank you once again
11 Jan 2011 F. Mussmann
I fail to understand why it is so complicated for our law enforcement and law makers to believe what is written here. In my mind, this article is absolutely spot on. Keep them coming.
14 Jan 2011 Roy
Samir Yousif, Stavanger, Norway wrote:
"When the European church took over and took back Spain, Europe entered into the Dark Ages."
The Dark Ages were the centuries immediately following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Civilisation certainly flourished in Muslim countries at a time when it was stagnating in Europe but by the time of the re-conquest of Spain from the Moors the Renaissance had already started and it was the Muslim world that was beginning to stagnate.
Some of the points Samir Yousif are valid but he seems to think that any criticisms of Muslims should be ignored.
28 Jan 2011 Stan
Western World People Wake up ASAP. if not your world will die at your feet. The MUSLIM faith is a firm belief in the spread of it by THE SWORD and death to the infidel that does not bow down as a slave to the Muslim Religious leaders, of course-all men. In case you did not know it they find nothing wrong with them engaging in sex with beasts. There are many things about their faith that any person that seriously thinks in depth about should find it extremely unfavorable. Something that I am especially concerned about is this; Is it not possible that a large majority of the Muslim immigrants throughout the Western world is a 5th column bidding their time patiently and peacefully until a specific signal from the big shot leader to take physical bloody action? If not, why is it that the "good peaceful" Muslims don't write letters to the Editors, stage rally's supporting the American way. There are so many things they could do. Of course the threat of death to their families and close friends back in the Muslim home countries could be held over their heads. But then every so often you find out about one here and one there that writes or sounds off against the Muslim religion. But why are there not many more?
Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat
Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life, a government.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.
Islamisation begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here's how it works:
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
United States — Muslim 0.6%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1.8%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:
Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — Muslim 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:
Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 15%
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:
Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia — Muslim 40%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of nonbelievers of all other religions (including nonconforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of sharia law as a weapon, and jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is ongoing in:
Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-es-Salaam” — the Islamic House of Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the madrassas are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:
Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
Somalia — Muslim 100%
Yemen — Muslim 100%
Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.
“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel.” — Leon Uris, “The Haj”
It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by sharia law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrassas. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.
Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world's population by the end of this century.
Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat
Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life, a government.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.
Islamisation begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here's how it works:
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
United States — Muslim 0.6%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1.8%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:
Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — Muslim 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:
Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 15%
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:
Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia — Muslim 40%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of nonbelievers of all other religions (including nonconforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of sharia law as a weapon, and jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is ongoing in:
Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-es-Salaam” — the Islamic House of Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the madrassas are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:
Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
Somalia — Muslim 100%
Yemen — Muslim 100%
Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.
“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel.” — Leon Uris, “The Haj”
It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by sharia law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrassas. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.
Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world's population by the end of this century.
Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat
Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life, a government.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.
Islamisation begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here's how it works:
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
United States — Muslim 0.6%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1.8%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:
Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — Muslim 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:
Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 15%
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:
Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia — Muslim 40%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of nonbelievers of all other religions (including nonconforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of sharia law as a weapon, and jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is ongoing in:
Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-es-Salaam” — the Islamic House of Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the madrassas are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:
Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
Somalia — Muslim 100%
Yemen — Muslim 100%
Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.
“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel.” — Leon Uris, “The Haj”
It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by sharia law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrassas. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.
Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world's population by the end of this century.
3 May 2011 syl
Dear Sir,
I applaud you on your research. I was born in an Arabic country and am not Muslim and your article is dead-on and truthful. I am living in the west and have always spoken of the differences but was regarded as prejudiced. I will say this: if you meet an Arab who says he has integrated himself into western culture, don't believe him. Being born of Muslim faith is more like an infection than a teaching. I would also say that they all have a persecution problem - it's like someone is always there to get them. Always weary of others. including their own. The world should open up to this truth.
30 Jul 2011 Johnny M
Very good Nicolai and interested to read what i myself have alwys thought.
To Understand with Light from Above, "discipline" should lead us to know that The First Victim of evil is Goodness[Holy Spirit of Creation, God] due to ignorance of creatures towards His Word, Divine: [Recall Sacred History...in view of Eternal Life]
Prioritize the Father's Divine Right, As Jesus Chist Lives.
Truth Ignored produce people against this Logic: God = Father. His Divine Word ignored produces people without Divine Love.
You must Be Christ-like, else you bear no Eternal Fruit, to lead others back to The Divine Father.
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24 May 2012 Babs Barron
Nicolai Sennels has performed a valuable service here, by naming the difficulties Islam presents at the interface with the wider communities in which it finds itself, and why these persist.
All of us in the West who are made uncomfortable by the attitude towards us of Islam in our midst are gagged by misguided notions of political correctness, driven by Islam itself so as to fend of criticism of its extreme behaviours, so that we dare not speak out if we are in paid work for fear of castigation.
I am in a similar situation to Nicolai (I too am a psychologist) but have chosen to write under a pseudonym for fear of disciplinary action by my professional body. I need to earn a living.
The more we allow ourselves to be mystified by the alleged peaceable nature of Islam, the more its influence will grow. Nicolai Sennels' is a brave voice. I hope one day to be able to join him under my own name.
This is a most important piece. I have sent it around.
27 Jun 2012 arish sahani
Water and oil don't mix. ISlam is like oil.
Today we have one buillion converts to islam .
Poor, uneducated and crininals love islam due to one reason It tells them not to work hard and find a easy way of looting,kill infidels and live like animals.
Eat and breed like animals.
Have yoiu seen any one leaving islam ,no as they will be killed .
The only thing surprising about this is that someone has had the guts to come out and say it.
24 Aug 2012 David
the only surprising thing about this is that someone had the guts to say it.
4 Sep 2012 Tony
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One might get the impression that Islam is a culture built of violence, coercion and cowardice if we judge them by the media's description. Also their founder used murder to gain converts, changing laws to suit his own sick desires, claiming to have had visions of Allah to justify his legalisation of paedophilia and other personal preferences of his. However, most of the Muslims I have met and lived with in some cases were quiet, humble and respectful people So where do we go with this ? I think personal experience is the best means of evaluation for ALL religions are primitive and ignorant in their outlook.
21 Sep 2012 Indian
I am from India and I stumbled upon this article by chance. Spot on Analaysis by the author.
Hinduism is a very tolerant religion and India is a secular country, despite that Muslims still are wary of the country. In any contest with Pakistan- Cricket or Hockey- Indian Muslims almost always support Pakistan.
When 9/11 happened, muslims rejoieced and celebrated in all cities. Our political class does not have the will to clam down for the fear of losing votes.
Islam is the most confused religion in the world. All their ulemas and mullahs misinterpret what is written in the Koran. On top of it - they are damn aggressive.
I used to comment on NS' blog on JP some years ago, I enjoyed his blog and I enjoyed reading this. I will re read so I can remember it all as I think it is important to stand up to the ones who favour Muslims in the west over ethnic westerners. Thanks NS and Godt Nytår.
10 Feb 2013 Dr Abdullah Qureshi
Mr Sennels, great work indeed. I must admire your understanding of the fundamentals of muslim culture to its very core. As I was going through this article, i could easily understand the concepts you were describing and conclusions you were drawing. I'm a Pakistani in my thirties and in Europe for a mere three years. Therefore, I could appreciate every bit and piece of your account on Muslim culture and presentation in its entirety. I have been to all parts of Euorpe and the salient features of the muslim communities living there are remarkably consistent with your findings. I would call these cultural differences between the west and Islam as Software Differences in discussions with friends back home. Your discription of the problem is scientific and objective. You have hit the nail on its head. Perhaps, I found better explanation and clarity which I lacked on this subject. I have found words. Thanks. The strategies and solutions you proposed perhaps could accomodate another point. The West MUST not support the undemocratic forces governing the whole of the Islamic World. The West must renounce opportunism when it comes to recognizing these draconian kingdoms and dictatorial regimens. Otherwise the Islamofascist jacobins would continue to thrive unchecked, only to play havoc with whatever is left in the east and the civilization in the west. Thank you very much for this piece of pure genious.
As long as Muslims allow themselves to be brain washed and ruled by Mullahs
eligious clerics and Islamists there's no hope ! In this day age religious based nations or ruled by religon have no place on this planet,anyone coming from these nations to better their lifes should conform to our rules and be part of the country they move to ! If west keep on acting in a wishy washy way these people will turn our nation to same heal hole they came !
8 May 2013 sarosan
Islam is a religion of peace - as a CAMOUFLAGE.
The core is a KILLING MACHINE .....
I was a muslim before, and I knew exactly what sura quran tell their as muslims.
So how come a religion have 2 opposite side - like a coin, in the same time?
The answer is very simple.
As a Camouflage this is a very effectife way to WIN THEIR WAR!
Like Tsun Zu art of war's said:
The Weakest Enemy is the one that Don't Know if They are Being Attacked !!!
Or in muslim jargon:
The one that Don't Know if WE AGAINST THEM - as they only knew that islam is a religion of peace!!!
The lesson is clear. Beware of the Useful Idiots who live in liberal democracies. Knowingly or unknowingly, they serve as the greatest volunteer and effective soldiers of Islam.
They pave the way for the advancement of Islam and they will assuredly be among the very first victims of Islam as soon as it assumes power.
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