This one’s been boiling around the kettle of my fevered brain for a while now, but a comment from Reader TopCat last week brought it steaming out. His comment was a quote from Raspail’s The Camp Of The City Saints, which I had read (in the original French, as part of a class assignment) right after it was first published, but almost forgotten about.
I shouldn’t have. Here’s the quote:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door…”
…and it is one of the most perceptive statements ever made on the topic of mass immigration.
However — and I’m not excusing it — I can almost understand why a tired and cold immigrant might, in extremis, decide to burn a piece of furniture. There is an extenuating circumstance.
There are no extenuating circumstances for immigrants who arrive in this wonderful country, and then try to set about changing it into the shithole they just left. We all know about the Communists of the Frankfurt School, of course, and they were (and still are) aided and abetted by our own locally-bred Commies of the Red Diaper persuasion.
And then there’s this little development [sic] :
A video circulating widely on social media has gained widespread attention, claiming that 402 acres in Texas have been purchased to build an “Islamic city that will govern itself.” The project, known as EPIC City, is linked to the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) and is at the center of intense scrutiny and speculation.
EPIC announced plans in early 2024 for what it described as a “historic project”, a residential and commercial development near Josephine, Texas, roughly 30 minutes from its Plano-based mosque, as reported Daily Mail. The project includes proposals for 1,000 homes, a school, a shopping complex, and a central mosque, intended to serve a growing Muslim population.
There has been some opposition to the building of this little self-created ghetto:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has launched more than a dozen state investigations against the development, claiming that EPIC City officials want to impose Sharia law within the community.
…as well he should. As this article points out:
Deep in the heart of Texas, just outside of Dallas, is the new community of Epic City, a totally Muslim City. Amy Mek sees it as the beginning of the end. It is a big change for Texas. That’s certain.
The problem with Islam is it is a total way of life, political, social, religious, and there can be no other way. Sharia Law cannot coexist with the US Constitution. The US needs people to assimilate.
The project will feature a mosque at its center, surrounded by houses, townhomes, apartments, Muslim schools, parks, gyms, and other facilities.
Many Texans are expressing concerns about EPIC City. Some see it as creating a separate Muslim-only area, which they fear could lead to segregation.
They worry it might become a “no-go zone,” where non-Muslims feel unwelcome. Critics also fear that introducing Sharia law could conflict with U.S. laws and values.
“Could” conflict with U.S. laws and values? How about “will definitely” do all that? As this article states:
Supporters argue that EPIC City is about religious freedom. Except it’s not simply a religion. It’s a complete life plan.
Of course, the Muslims deny all that:
EPIC City developers said that is simply not true, and its newly-hired attorney Dan Cogdell has called the state’s opposition to the community flat out “racial profiling.”
It has nothing to do with race, you MuzzieSymp fuck; it has everything to do with culture — and Muslim culture, at its very core, sets out to suppress any culture that isn’t Muslim*. To argue otherwise is to invoke the oh-so-Muslim practice of taqiyyah — lying to infidels in order to further Islam. Here’s more from that Green Diaper lawyer:
“If this were a Presbyterian church in Red Oak or a Catholic church in Waxahachie, we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” he said on Friday’s airing of “Morning in America.”
Yeah, let’s conflate the hostile and murderous Islam with Presbyterians and Catholics, by all means.
“It’s because they’re Muslim. It’s just that simple,” Cogdell added.
Damn right it is. And now for the taqiyya:
Cogdell told NewsNation the community does not intend to impose Sharia law as the state of Texas accuses.
“They have no intentions of that. There are 7,000-10,000 that attend the current mosque. There are lawyers, judges, doctors, politicians that attend that church,” he said. “It’s just absurd that that allegation is even being made at this point.”
I know that at some point the WhatAbouts (like this asshole Cogdell) are going to ask me how I feel about the enclaves of Orthodox Jews that are sprinkled about, and my answer is that I have no problem with them — not because they’re Jews, but because Orthodox Jewry is not about forcibly changing U.S. law into Talmudic.
In other words, I believe strongly in the freedom of association (and of religion) embodied in our First Amendment — but not when such association or religion sets about changing our nation and our Constitution into fucking Shari’ah. If you don’t think that’s their goal, you haven’t been paying attention to what’s been happening in Africa (see the link immediately above). And feel free to consult a poll (any poll, in any country) of Muslims to see under which set of laws a majority of them would want to live.
The Constitution, as the man quite rightly said, is not a suicide pact.
And speaking of majorities: typically, it doesn’t take a majority of Muslims in a population before the shit starts spraying off the fan blades; as I recall, anything over 15-18%, and the fun starts. Sometimes it’s even less.
Make no mistake, this EPIC City thing, if allowed to survive, would not be the only settlement of its kind. Pretty soon they’d spread throughout the United States like cancer cells in a chainsmoker’s body. I leave it to your imagination as to what the end result of that would be.
And if you think that EPIC City (or Cities) would not become a breeding ground for Islamist extremism, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
As I see it, though, opposition to EPIC is following a bureaucratic path:
“The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality found that the East Plano Islamic Center and affiliated entities have not obtained the required authorizations or permits needed for construction.”
That’s fine; but if those authorizations or permits are denied, expect lawsuits: lawsuits that the Muslims might win. And then what?
Better, I think, to put the issue onto a binding referendum in the November elections. (The referendum question has to be simple, e.g.: “Do you think that the state of Texas should allow Muslims to create Muslim-only settlements in Texas?”)
Let’s see how the good people of Texas feel about this.
*My original thought was that I’d test the Muslims’ protestations by recruiting a few beautiful Texas gals, dressing them in the skimpiest-yet-legal clothing, and have them strut past the EPIC mosque during Ramadan, just to see the locals’ response. (Of course, they’d be accompanied by a few good ol’ Texas boys — carrying concealed guns, as is our right under both U.S. and Texas law — just in case someone might want to harass our young ladies for only doing what they are allowed — nay, encouraged — to do here in the Lone Star State.)
Alternatively, I’d support the application of any Christian church, ditto a few Christian bookstores and a parochial school or two, to apply for building- and business permits inside the boundaries of EPIC City, just to test the veracity of their “Oh noes we’re not exclusively Muslim!” claims.
I welcome a discussion of the Christians’ chances of success.
And yes, I’ve spoken about this topic before, and also here.
