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It takes a nation to protect the nation

Pains me to see our President make such statements but you wonder, where did it all go wrong?

Although there are few Islamic monuments in Portugal, five centuries of Islamic rule left deep traces in Portuguese language and culture.
Last year, Lisbon's Islamic Community celebrated its 50th anniversary. The community was established by migrants in the 1960s, but Islam has much more ancient roots in Portugal.
"Islam is in Portugal's soul," said the Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa while standing at the entrance of the Central Mosque of Lisbon for the 50th anniversary commemorations.
Most of what is now Portugal was under Islamic rule for over 500 years. In 711, Muslim armies sailed from North Africa and quickly took control of large parts of Portugal and Spain, which became known in Arabic as al-Andalus.
"We might at times not be fully aware of the profound heritage left by Arabs in Portuguese society and culture," the president said. "But it was and continues to be very important."

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Permalink Responder até Alan Lake em 5 agosto 2021 at 23:35

There's only one thing a society can do with leaders like that.

Permalink Responder até Joe em 7 agosto 2021 at 18:50

I remember Orlando telling us about his home town of Porto, and how the entrance to the train station had walls festooned with epic battles of the Reconquest on the walls of the station. The station was only built 100 years ago. The idea being that in their daily travels the people of Porto should not forget the efforts required to drive Islamic proto-Fascism out of Portugal over 500 years earlier. I guess the Portuguese Oligarchy will find a reason to paint over those tiles in the station foyer.

https://listverse.com/2016/08/16/10-overlooked-facts-about-the-span...

When I was in Madeira a few years ago I visited a stately home with massive gardens.  Sure enough on the walls of those gardens were murals documenting the Reconquest.

https://montepalace.com/desktop/

Permalink Responder até Kinana em 9 agosto 2021 at 23:29

"Islam is in Portugal's soul" like a cancer revived after a long remission. Ignorance and cowardice will kill a nation. 

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Most Western societies are based on Secular Democracy, which itself is based on the concept that the open marketplace of ideas leads to the optimum government. Whilst that model has been very successful, it has defects. The 4 Freedoms address 4 of the principal vulnerabilities, and gives corrections to them. 

At the moment, one of the main actors exploiting these defects, is Islam, so this site pays particular attention to that threat.

Islam, operating at the micro and macro levels, is unstoppable by individuals, hence: "It takes a nation to protect the nation". There is not enough time to fight all its attacks, nor to read them nor even to record them. So the members of 4F try to curate a representative subset of these events.

We need to capture this information before it is removed.  The site already contains sufficient information to cover most issues, but our members add further updates when possible.

We hope that free nations will wake up to stop the threat, and force the separation of (Islamic) Church and State. This will also allow moderate Muslims to escape from their totalitarian political system.

The 4 Freedoms

These 4 freedoms are designed to close 4 vulnerabilities in Secular Democracy, by making them SP or Self-Protecting (see Hobbes's first law of nature). But Democracy also requires - in addition to the standard divisions of Executive, Legislature & Judiciary - a fourth body, Protector of the Open Society (POS), to monitor all its vulnerabilities (see also Popper). 
1. SP Freedom of Speech
Any speech is allowed - except that advocating the end of these freedoms
2. SP Freedom of Election
Any party is allowed - except one advocating the end of these freedoms
3. SP Freedom from Voter Importation
Immigration is allowed - except where that changes the political demography (this is electoral fraud)
4. SP Freedom from Debt
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An additional Freedom from Religion is deducible if the law is applied equally to everyone:

  • Religious and cultural activities are exempt from legal oversight except where they intrude into the public sphere (Res Publica)"

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