'Say nothing' culture makes Ireland an Islamic extremists' safe haven

Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 01:30 PM

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Ireland is a hotbed of Islamic extremism. Shocking, right? Of course it is. However, that's the view of Imam Ali Al-Saleh, who is the head of Ireland's biggest Mosque, the Islamic Cultural Centre in Dublin {photo}.

Speaking to the Sunday Tribune newspaper Al-Saleh said many of the extremists came to Ireland as asylum seekers and now their children are becoming adults, taking over university societies, brainwashing other students. These "indigenous" extremists are being bolstered by students from the Middle East.

This may explain why American Jamie Paulin-Ramirez came to Ireland after she told Colleen LaRose (aka Jihad Jane) in an e-mail that she would like to join her in Europe at a place that would be both a jihadist "training camp" and home. As Al-Saleh puts it, Ireland is an extremist "safe haven" and an al Qaeda "base."

Yet, unlike France, Britain, Holland and other European countries, Ireland does not have a large Muslim population. Ireland has no colonial legacy among the Islamic nations - there is no Irish equivalent to Algeria, Pakistan, Indonesia or any ex-colony among the Muslim nations.

There are only 30, 000 or so Muslims in Ireland (approx .75% of the population) and no areas where they live in large numbers. There is no Irish equivalent to Marseilles, Bradford or Detroit. Muslims are, as Al-Saleh says, "an integrated part of Irish society."

There are no Muslim neighborhoods teeming with loads of innocent Muslims just trying to fit in and get by, amongst whom extremists can hide, using the innocent mass of Muslims as a shield. So where are Ireland's Islamic extremists hiding? In plain sight, it seems.

This is why I think Jamie Paulin-Ramirez's marriage is so important to the story. True or not, I can easily see a situation where a public official might bend the rules to suit a Muslim, immigrant couple because we 'mustn't judge' and 'we must accommodate them' are two overriding themes when it comes to Ireland's treatment of immigrants.

Irish people are actually very reticent when it comes to criticizing people, despite the "fighting Irish" stereotype. Most Irish people wouldn't complain in a restaurant even if there was a worm in their soup.

This reticence combined with a relentless, dogmatic campaign promoting multiculturalism has the effect of muting criticism and thwarting questioning. Most Irish people would be very reluctant to say anything even if they heard a 6 year old boy recently arrived from America saying "all Christians will burn in hellfire," as Paulin-Ramirez's son said to his grandmother, Christine Holcomb-Mott {photo}.

Paulin-Ramirez's brother Mike described her son's school in Ireland as "a radical Muslim school." He made that assessment from 4,000 miles away.

I would bet there are plenty of people in Waterford who feel the same way about the school attended by little Christian, now Walid, but who would be very wary of saying anything publicly. This is the culture, the atmosphere, the society in which the radical Muslims are thriving.

Al-Saleh cannot be the only one. The Christian majority have to join him in condemning this sort of thing. Otherwise we risk becoming al Qaeda's European headquarters, a place where silence abets Islamic terrorism.

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teddybear | May 15, 2010, 06:23 PM EDT

Please, Please don't let them do this to Ireland.

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mandokeith | May 15, 2010, 04:35 PM EDT

makes me so mad I cannot even spell right....!!

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mandokeith | May 15, 2010, 04:34 PM EDT

Shame people SHAME! Look at America and all the muslems that inhabit her while bombing her. Ireland fought for independance from the Brits and the lets the muslems move in and corrupt the country? What a shame! This is not Mecca, throw them out. Take your rug and go! Irish culture ONLY!!

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jakeleg | May 15, 2010, 01:31 PM EDT

makes me mad as hell.. What's wrong with america and ireland leting these people take over are country.and plotting to hurt us behind our backs

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IrishAndProud | May 15, 2010, 04:36 AM EDT

'Multiculturalism' is the absolute and utter DEATH of any nation that tolerates it, because in the name of 'tolerating' others, it inevitably tolerates cultures that destroy it. 'Multiculturalism' is self-eating. It is stupid, suicidal NONSENSE, and my bretheren in Ireland need to be shaken, rattled and rolled out of it. They need to be SLAPPED awake and kicked in the butt, before it's too late.

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IrishAndProud | May 15, 2010, 04:31 AM EDT

Some of them may have been BORN in Ireland, Yank...but that doesn't make them Irish. They're still just as foreign, alien and non-Irish as their parents were. Islam itself is utterly incompatible with Irish identity and culture, and has no business whatsoever ANYWHERE on Irish soil. The fact that they are not only there, but that the Irish people themselves are so ho-hum about it is utterly tragic. The Irish in Ireland who are apathetic about this are, quite frankly, self-destructing buffoons.

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