We should be terrified by the enormous mosque which Qatar and Turkey are erecting in Strasbourg. Just a few kilometres from the European Parliament, this wrecking ball of democracy is a symbolic and practical threat to the very values its sponsors claim to uphold.
The Eyyûb Sultan mosque’s funding comes mostly from Turkey’s Millî Görüş political foundation and from Qatar. It is a disgrace that either of these countries is allowed to sponsor vast civic and cultural projects in European cities. Turkey’s government continues to occupy the EU’s Republic of Cyprus, while Qatar’s government hosts Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders in five-star Doha hotels. Put simply, it is the policies and financing of these two governments that are hostile to the West, and thanks to Western freedoms, they have been allowed to promote their political ideologies, in their own languages, to their own communities living in our capital cities. Needless to say, such public expressions of Christianity would be entirely illegal in Qatar.
The impact of this foreign sponsorship on Europe’s democratic stability has already been significant. The Eyyûb Sultan mosque is just one of 113 mosques, Islamic centres, and Muslim-organisation projects across 14 European states funded by Qatar. Yet, as millions of migrants arrive from the Islamic world, socialist politicians openly celebrate the effect their alliance with these foreign sponsors is having in the polls. Non-European voters disproportionately vote left, and the political sway mosques hold over Muslim communities in Europe should not be underestimated.
In Bradford, a heavily Islamic town in Northern England, a major local election was fought in 2012 by the main parties, whose posters appeared around the city as usual and whose delegates debated each other in public. The winner was a man called George Galloway, whose campaign was almost invisible, he had simply struck a deal with the mosques to represent Islamic interests in matters of foreign policy.
Sweden, too, has received a particularly large number of migrants, and socialist authorities gleefully inaugurated vast mosques in Malmö and Stockholm. In this month’s national election, the Social Democrats and the Left Party received just over 80 percent of the support among Muslim voters [https://kvartal.se/nyheter/artiklar/s-och-v-far-80-procent-bland-muslimska-valjare/cG9zdDoxNzMyMzA]. It is probable that, without migrant voters, the right would have won that election. It is a tragic irony that the votes required for a national left-wing victory are counted from zones of cities no longer recognisably part of that nation.
Denmark’s socialist government has not stopped migration, contrary to its claims. In Copenhagen, the Hamad Bin Khalifa Civilisation Center mosque, named after the Emir of Qatar, at a cost of €20m, makes it highly likely that what has just happened in Sweden could repeat itself here.
A free democratic society cannot coexist with the patronage of radical Islamist states, but the parties from the left who benefit from the migrant votes, are more concerned with the next election than with Europe’s demographic profile a decade from now.
The cynical red-green alliance is doomed to fail, because Islamists abolish democracy once they have used it to take power, crushing their socialist partners in the process. Just look at Iran, where high-minded socialists and progressives teamed up with the Ayatollahs to overthrow the Shah.
European democracy is at risk unless we push back against the aggressive political lobbying of foreign governments that are actively occupying our territory and financing our terrorist enemies.
