By Lewis Loflin
The riots in Greece expose a toxic blend of leftist violence and unrest from Muslim illegal aliens, a reality the New York Times glosses over with its biased “youths” label. Not all Muslims are at fault—many are simply escaping hardship—but we can’t ignore the radical fringe among these illegal entrants, nor the anti-Western hate driving their clashes. Supporting reformers within Islam to counter this is crucial, yet Greece’s chaos demands we also tackle leftist agitation and the flood of illegal aliens head-on. This piece cuts through the sanitized spin.
In Greece, recent riots by "youths," as the New York Times dubs them, reveal their left-wing slant—part of why they’re teetering on bankruptcy. These weren’t random flare-ups but the result of communist agitators and, often, hordes of illegal aliens—mostly Muslim and African—swamping Europe. Every Western nation faces this unless we grow the spine to deport third-world criminals, block illegal entry, and dismantle the violent left. Still, their home countries need real change; these are human beings, not mere threats.
The 2008 riots seem leftist-led, with no solid evidence of Muslim or African illegal aliens this time—unlike earlier cases. Greece’s 2015 election of communists, reacting to EU austerity, stoked the fire. History repeats: radical ideologies, illegal alien unrest, and Western denial collide, echoing the 2008 Mumbai attacks or Germany’s 2006 bomb plot.
BBC Report - African illegal aliens blamed Greek police for a Nigerian man’s death in Thessaloniki after he leapt from a building, fleeing a crime—selling pirated DVDs in a café. This parallels Muslim riots in France, where two thugs died hiding in a substation, sparking outrage. Here, police used tear gas against stone-throwing African illegal aliens protesting the Nigerian’s self-caused death. AP reported initial clashes outside the café, with illegal aliens tossing stones and chairs at police—a common pattern of deflecting blame onto authorities.
Worker Freedom, November 8, 2008 - Illegal aliens, mostly Pakistani, teamed with local anarchists to erect barricades after riot police charged an asylum-paper queue in Athens. Socialists cried oppression, but these illegal entrants rioted for Greek citizenship to access the EU, not for justice. Two weeks earlier, a clash killed one Pakistani instantly, with two more dying later, prompting a rally. This time, over 500 illegal aliens and anarchists blocked a major avenue for five hours, demanding the release of three arrested comrades. Police yielded, agreeing to talks—appeasing rioters only bred more trouble.
In Mumbai 2008, I noted "no Muslims protested the use of Islam to justify mass murder," yet here, illegal aliens and leftists exploited a death for leverage. Daniel Pipes’ "Muslim exultation" fits—riots as a stage, with Western leaders too weak to respond firmly.
New York Times, December 8, 2008 - The trigger was 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos’ death in Exarcheia, a leftist-anarchist den. The Nation cast him as a "chubby-faced child" shunning malls, but he was in a volatile zone. Their story: officers cursed his group, Alexis threw a bottle, and a cop shot him. The NYT clarified: 30 youths, many hurling stones, attacked a police car; officers fired three shots—one fatal—facing the mob. These "youths" routinely fight police with gasoline bombs and rocks, seeing them as establishment foes.
“Dozens of officers were injured sealing off streets around Athens Polytechnic University in Exarcheia, where rioters retreated… hiding behind blazing trash bins and university gates, pelting police with stones and firebombs… Masked youth torched a French car dealership, threatening apartments above.”
Leftists target Western symbols—like that dealership. Indymedia.org boasted of "rallies, direct actions, and riots" across Greece, from Thessaloniki (banks burned) to smaller cities, planned for December 7. Far from spontaneous—pure orchestration.
December 10, 2008 Reports - Riots hit a fourth day post-Grigoropoulos’ funeral. Militant youths threw gasoline bombs and smashed windows in Athens and Salonika. In Patras, residents guarded shops as rioters blocked the police station. Athens police reported 12 officers wounded, 87 arrests, and 176 detentions from Monday’s clashes. Rioters torched 160 garbage containers, prompting Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis to warn against entering the city center. PM Karamanlis decried the violence: "No one has the right to use this tragedy as an alibi for raw violence against democracy."
“Tolerance backfired,” said Nikos Kostandaras of Kathimerini. “The riots are radicalizing everyone.” The NYT pushed “right-wing” distractions, ignoring the leftist root of this havoc.
Greece isn’t alone. In Germany, 2006, Lebanese Islamists Youssef el-Hajdib and Jihad Hamad plotted train bombings over Muhammad cartoons—an "attack on Islam" pretext. Officials said their goal was to "kill as many nonbelievers as possible," foiled only by bad bombs. In Mumbai, I wrote of killers smiling into cameras, unchecked for 40 minutes—Greek police show similar hesitance. Pipes’ Pew data revealed 13% of German Muslims backing suicide bombings—imagine that among Greece’s illegal aliens.
Western denial reigns. The NYT’s “youths” dodge “leftist” or “Muslim” tags, just as they shunned “Islamist” in Mumbai. Pipes cited 20 euphemisms for Beslan killers—Greece’s “youths” are the same dodge. Multiculturalism shields radicals, leftist or Islamist, while radicalizing societies through inaction. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia stoke global jihad—Greece’s porous borders import it.
Pipes warned only a "WMD attack with 100,000 deaths" might shake the West awake. Greece’s riots—leftist-driven, sometimes fueled by Muslim illegal aliens—demand we halt illegal entry, especially from unstable regions, and crush violent ideologies. Reform in Muslim nations could reduce the flow, but caving to riots, as Greece did, invites more. Mumbai’s Muslim silence contrasts with cartoon riots—reformers need backing, but the West must name the enemy: radicalism, not “youths.”
“Western denial: The fact that terrorist fish are swimming in a hospitable Muslim sea nearly disappears amidst Western political, journalistic, and academic bleatings.” —Daniel Pipes
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Thanks to Grok, an AI by xAI, for aiding in expanding this article with prior material. The perspective and edits are mine. —Lewis Loflin
