And The Dhimmis Keep Marching On

I was looking for information on Bat Ye'or, whose book Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate I've reviewed here, to read about her latest commentary on Islam. The most recent information I found online was her interview with Christine Tasin and Pierre Cassen, posted on their website Riposte Laïque on October 10, 2012.

Christine Tasin writes for the French publication Riposte Laïque and is the founder of Résistance Républicaine. Pierre Cassen is editor-in-chief of Riposte Laïque. Both are active in the movement to stop the Islamization of France, and more precisely, the attempt to shut down voices that criticize Islam.

Tiberge, the blogger at Gallia Watch, has posted the first of the two-part video of Bat Ye'or's interview, with a transcript of the interview in English. Both parts are available (in French) at Riposte Laïque's website here.

Bat Ye'or says in the interview:

Now we are back in an era of very active jihad and sharia, and now sharia, with the so-called Arab Spring, will be applied in all Muslim countries. We are in a period of jihad in all of its forms, some peaceful, such as immigration, such as certain Islamic precepts and concepts that are very important, for example, what we Westerners would call the destruction of history. For us history consists of events that can be proven, dated, and verified by archeological evidence, or some other kind. But in Islam, history is whatever confirms the Koran. It is religious history, not history in the sense of Greek, Western or Cartesian rationalism. And we are in the process of renouncing our history, our conception of history to adopt an Islamic conception of history. Obviously this has repercussions on our identity, on our culture, and so gradually, without realizing it, we are entering into a process of intellectual Islamization. Through the schools, the teaching, and this is promoted by our own State authorities. There is also another very important element in the transformation of Christian nations into Islamic nations, this is what I call dhimmitude, a system of laws regulating the status of populations conquered by Islam: Christians, Jews, and non-Muslims, and these laws established a permanent feeling of insecurity. That is to say, these populations were protected by Islamic law in a status of permanent insecurity, and humiliation and violence...

In my book I examine the mechanisms that led our nations to self-destruct and to betray their own people. How did this happen? What collusion took place? What forces were at play? There are of course many elements in this Titanic, this culture and civilization that are in the process of collapsing before our eyes.

This is the most recent commentary, actually warning, that Bat Ye'or provides about Islam.

My google search for Bat Ye'or also resulted with this article: Do Muslim Immigrants Really Threaten the West. Bat Ye'or's name is mentioned only once in the article, and is listed with a group of anti-jihad writers:

The successful integration of Catholic Europeans [and] Jews...all of whom formerly huddled in ethnic neighborhoods under a cloud of suspicion, is ignored by our current alarmists. Authors like Mark Steyn, Niall Ferguson, Pamela Gellar, and Bat Ye’or warn that western civilisation is about to be submerged by a tide of Muslims seeking to Islamise us all.

The author of the article is Eva Sajoo, who is a research associate at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her biography at the university's website reads:

Eva Sajoo has taught at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing as well as the University of British Columbia, and currently lectures at Simon Fraser University in the Continuing Studies Program. She has published work on gender, development, and education in Muslim societies, including “Modern Citizenship, Multiple Identities” in Muslim Modernities, ed. Amyn B. Sajoo, (I.B Tauris, 2008) and a co-authored chapter entitled “Gender and Identity” in the forthcoming Companion to Muslim Cultures (I.B. Tauris, 2011). Her research won first place in a 2010 competition sponsored by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (Geneva). In addition to her academic work, she is a regular contributor to the news media, notably on Afghanistan.

She has an odd last name, for someone who looks like she has Irish or Scottish ancestry. Further search of her name reveals that she is somehow related to an Amyn Sajoo.

Looking around the Simon Fraser website, I found that an Amyn Sajoo also works at Simon Fraser University as a scholar-in-residence, and whose biography informs us that:

Before joining the CCSMSC [Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, in Simon Fraser University] as a Visiting Scholar in the summer of 2009, he was a research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, UK, where he was also founding editor of the Muslim Heritage Series. Previous appointments included lecturing in political science and history at the University of British Columbia and SFU, and visiting affiliations at Cambridge and McGill universities.

Amyn Sajoo's facebook site has a photo section filled with shots of a woman who very closely resembles Eva Sajoo. So this is the Eva Sajoo, Muslim apologetic, who is married to an Ismaili Muslim, who has written several books defending Islam. Sajoo has also happily posted photos of a young child, clearly their daughter. Sajoo's "struggle for civic spaces among Muslim migrants in the West," as described by a reviewer of his book Muslim Modernities, will clearly transfer to his half-Canadian, half-Muslim child.

However much Muslims and non-Western immigrants appear to adopt Western culture and beliefs, the truth always comes out in existential moments, as when they are forced to choose between the cultures and religions they supposedly left behind and the new ones they encounter wherever they immigrate. This existential dilemma is resolved when they have offspring, whom they inculcate from an early age with those great attributes of the cultures and religions which they fled. Children of Muslim immigrants often grow up to be even stricter Muslims than their parents.

Amyn Sajoo may have a strong excuse. How can he abandon the religion and culture he grew up with? But Eva Sajoo is the ultimate dhimmi, abandoning her religion and culture for one which clearly would destroy her, her family and her country. Such is a strategy of Muslims, to enter a country peacefully and invited, as are immigrants in the West, and to lock in the loyalty of its citizens by marrying its men and women. Their half-Muslim children will grow up to militantly ensure civic spaces for the Muslim culture in these Western lands.