Margaret Molland Sanden. Valdresexpressen 2013

In one of the latest videos Iranian-born Ali Tabrizi has posted on his YouTube channel, he advances 25 predictions about Islam’s further advance in the West. It is not cheerful reading, but necessary shock therapy for a Western population that is still slumbering. What Tabrizi forecasts ought not to come as any surprise; it is based on empiricism from 1,400 years of Islam, current religious practice in Muslim countries and tendencies that are already making themselves felt in the West. Tabrizi asks us to prepare ourselves for the fact that if nothing happens, everything we have taken for granted in our Western societies will disappear.

Here are the 25 predictions with my own comments in italics:

Crime. The more mass immigration, the more Islam, and the more crime. We have seen this for a long time. But it will become worse, much worse. One may envisage scenes like those from Ceuta playing out on a large scale across the entire West, especially in Western Europe. One may expect brutal dominance behaviour and in many places complete anarchy.

Loss of quality of life. Crime, an overburdened health system, pressure on the housing market, competition for jobs, the slumification of the cities, rubbish floating about, general decay – all this contributes to a decline in quality of life across the entire West. We may add the loss of quality of life that comes from feeling like a stranger in one’s own country, from the general feeling of insecurity and concern for one’s own and one’s descendants’ future.

“Brain drain”. Those who have money and the opportunity to do so will begin to leave Europe. In due course we may expect a mass flight, mainly to the USA. Is the USA ready to receive millions of fleeing Europeans? Will they at some point close the gate?

Sharia courts and increasing Islamic influence. There are already many Sharia courts, for example in Britain. We shall first get a dual legal system in which Muslims cannot be judged by anyone other than their own. We may imagine that Western, secular law will thereafter be phased out, and that everything and everyone will be subjected to Sharia. Politicians will increasingly have to take account of a growing Muslim population.

Democracy will come to favour Muslims in all areas, and the favouritism will become institutionalised (see also prediction 8).

The royal houses will convert. In order to retain their power and remain relevant, Europe’s royal houses will be forced to convert to Islam. King Charles has already converted; there ought to be no doubt about that. On YouTube one can find clips of a speech back to 1994 in which he praises Islam. When he has now redefined his own role from protector of the Christian faith to “defender of all faiths”, it is only a necessary intermediate stage before he becomes protector of “The faith”, which of course is Islam.

Flags are changed. All crosses and Christian symbols on national flags will be removed. First the flags become “neutral”, thereafter they will receive Islamic symbols.

Covering of head and hair. Women in public, for example newsreaders, meteorologists, presenters, reporters, politicians etc. will increasingly use head covering in order to avoid discomfort and harassment, thereafter it becomes obligatory for all women.

Difference in civic status. Non-Muslims will become second-class citizens. We already see this with the clear practice of “two-tier justice” in Britain. A non-Muslim obtains the status of dhimmi. It becomes in practice an apartheid system.

Prohibition of Christian practice. Christian ceremonies, Christmas markets, Christmas trees, cribs, Christmas streets, school services, Bible reading, hymns, crosses, Christian symbols on buildings – all this disappears from the public sphere. First it is vandalised, then forbidden. Christmas arrangements have been renamed the neutral “winter festival” etc.

Architecture. New buildings will have Islamic architectural details and motifs built in, be equipped with prayer areas etc. The visual expression of the urban landscape will change. The West will become more and more like the Middle East.

Censorship. Books, music, film and art will be subjected to religious censorship. Museums and galleries will be altered. Offensive monuments, sculptures and paintings will disappear. This applies particularly to depicted nudity, the female body, Christian art and Greco-Roman sculptures. Everything we are fond of in our European cultural heritage will disappear. It will gradually lose relevance and interest, since no one will learn about it either. As Tabrizi says: “Say goodbye to all that”. We have every reason to fear Muslim hordes of iconoclasts roaming about and going completely Taliban on rampages of destruction in order to destroy, smash and burn irreplaceable art and cultural treasures. Something may be saved and kept in secret places, but the destruction will be unimaginable.

Halal. There will first be restrictions on alcohol and pork, thereafter this will be completely forbidden. All food will become Halal. (Halal is that which is pure and permitted; the opposite is haram). Will this point perhaps frighten Norwegians most of all? No roast pork, aquavit or Christmas beer. No summer lager on the quay.

Clothing restrictions for women. It is not only a question of headgear. Fashion designers and clothing chains will offer ever more clothes adapted to Islamic standard. Mannequins in shop windows will be covered, otherwise one risks vandalism. Women can simply forget going in a bikini on the beach.

Gender segregation. Swimming pools, gyms and public transport will be divided according to gender. Tabrizi mentions from his childhood in Iran how men and women sat on each side of the buses.

Dog jihad. The hatred of dogs in Islam ought to be well enough known. It has religious causes that are completely absurd. Walking the dog in parks or other places where Muslims move or gather for prayer will involve danger for both dog and dog owner. Dog food will disappear from grocery stores, so as not to offend Muslim customers. But animal cruelty in Islamic culture does not apply only to dogs. The cruelty Islam can show towards human beings is no less when it comes to animals.

Everyday language is changed. Islam will influence speech and language. We shall for example get Islamic ways of greeting one another.

Change of social etiquette. The behaviour between men and women will change drastically. There will be an end to shaking hands with women.

Public calls to prayer. From ever more mosques the call to prayer (adhan) will be heard from the minarets five times a day. But there will also be prayer in television and radio broadcasts. This is pure brainwashing, in addition to noise pollution. When the calls to prayer resound, it will become impossible to feel that one is in Europe and not in an extended Middle East.

Islamic festivals. Christian festivals are discontinued. Sunday loses its significance. Islamic festivals become official. We see how the big cities already decorate for Ramadan, to the merry enthusiasm of the Western intelligentsia. The sense of time and the rhythm of the week become different. We obtain a different chronology.

Working life is adapted. When the whole of society is adapted to Muslims, working life will be no exception. There will be adaptations to daily prayers, Ramadan etc.

The school curriculum is changed. On the curriculum there will be Islamic theology and history. Islamic terrorists will obtain hero status, Hamas and Hezbollah become “freedom fighters”, and Hitler is rehabilitated. We have seen this for a while at the universities. Western culture and history are rewritten or obliterated.

Blasphemy laws and restrictions on freedom of expression. We see that the space for expression shrinks year by year.

Ceremonies are opened with Islamic prayer. National events, sporting events and much else will be opened with Islamic prayer, speeches with praise of Allah etc. Tabrizi mentions as an example Mamdani, who was sworn in as mayor of New York on the Koran instead of the Bible. Can we not envisage that the opening of the Storting will be introduced by an imam chanting a prayer in Arabic and a king who thanks and praises Allah?

National identity is shaped by Islam. The nation will be defined ever more with references to Islam, and ever less to the Christian heritage. With the Olav Festival in Trondheim we see how Christian traditions are neutralised. The vessel is emptied in order to make it ready to be filled with new content.

Geopolitical adaptation. Alliances with Islamic states and organisations. Tabrizi mentions this as the most important point, the one with the deepest consequences. As Western countries become more Islamic, the political leadership will form closer ties with Islamic countries such as Qatar and with organisations such as the Muslim Brotherhood. They already envisage this, and therefore Western governments are so unwilling to condemn the regime in Iran or terrorist organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Not only do they fear terrorist attacks from “sleeper cells” in the West, they are in addition afraid of losing the Muslim votes. For the USA it will become a difficult situation if Europe becomes part of Islam and forms a hostile front against the USA together with China. As regards the European political elite, it has become over-clear that the socialist parties have entered into agreements and alliances with Islamic organisations, possibly under the illusion that they are to share power with Islam. It must be mentioned that the USA has now obtained its own Islam problem, something that complicates the picture and makes the situation even more serious.

The predictions Tabrizi advances are entirely logical; several of them are merely projections of tendencies that are already making themselves felt in the West. There is no reason to assume anything other than that they will be realised, step by step, if nothing drastic happens. Under the battle cries of “dialogue”, “diversity” and “tolerance” Islam is being forced upon a passivised and demoralised Western population. What can stop this development? That is the greatest question our civilisation has ever been confronted with.

Islamisation is not the cause of the crisis in which the West finds itself; it is a symptom of something more serious. The crisis we are now experiencing is merely the manifestation of a deep spiritual crisis, which is the root cause of all this other. The West no longer believes in its own values and principles, and no longer knows its own identity. Everything is relative – morality, culture – yes, even truth. This relativism has hollowed out and paralysed the West. We find ourselves in so advanced a phase of decline that all societal problems – political, economic and social – have in practice become insoluble. Political correctness paralyses all attempts to judge the situation correctly and to come forward with real solutions. Instead our leaders either fall into ignoring the problems or into hopeless symbolic solutions. The fear of making choices and the reluctance in the face of difficult decisions can only end in submission.

Liberalism has shown itself to be self-destructive; its final, nihilistic death throe is to abolish itself in civilisational suicide. We have chosen childlessness, we have chosen to refrain from reproducing ourselves, we have chosen away the possibility of having any future. The demographic vacuum is filled by other peoples, and it will destroy the identity of the West. There is a tremendous asymmetry in the relation between a West that does not believe in itself, and that finds nothing of value in its own culture that is worth fighting for, and an Islam that has an absolute belief in its own value and its truth.

We have lost our spiritual depth and renounced that which gave our civilisation direction and meaning. We have lost ourselves in the labyrinths of the materialistic civilisation. We have cut off our roots, and our tree of life withers. The peoples of the West appear incapable – at least for the time being – of returning to the values that created and preserved our civilisation. We no longer promote positive values, but have given ourselves over to pure negativity, to radical criticism and self-hatred.

Caught in this compact negativity’s gravitational field, which we no longer have the moral clarity or intellectual creativity to escape, we now stand before a revelation and a judgement upon the West’s own inner history. We find ourselves at the end-point of processes that have unfolded their inner dynamic to the absolute maximum, and we are forced to live through the full consequences of a series of fatal missteps, sins of omission and misjudgements, committed under the influence of false philosophies, megalomania, utopias and hubris.

Eva Vlaardingerbroek has mentioned a complete immigration stop and remigration as the very last possibility of a (relatively) peaceful solution. She may be right, but how realistic is it? However things may come to unfold, it appears clear that we stand before dark times. In order to have any hope of being able to stop Islam’s advance, we must pass through purgatory. The alternative to purgatory is, as is well known, hell.