This website is intended to function as a clearinghouse for national initiatives to oppose the Islamisation of Europe, with a focus on policy initiatives, legislation, legal test cases and political activism.

The Counterjihad Europa website is a project of the Center for Vigilant Freedom. We are dedicated to the preservation of national democratic constitutions and the rights of the individual, we oppose racism, anti-semitism and violence, we actively support Israel’s right to existence, to defensible borders and to self-determination, and generally conduct ourselves with common sense.

We are only one of hundreds of efforts around the world working to preserve human rights against Islamisation and jihadism.  Other efforts may be similar or different from ours, some more focused or others more far-reaching.  Whenever we can we support another groups’ efforts, we are eager to do so. Our goal is to help build relationships between groups, and to assist groups and individuals who are working against islamisation  in developing their capabilities.

The Center for Vigilant Freedom sponsored a conference on October 18 and 19, 2007 in Brussels to bring together writers, academics, activists and politicians who are working on counterjihad initiatives across Europe. Due to security concerns, the meeting was invitation-only. To make it possible for local European activists (many with little or no budget) and writers to attend, we did not charge participants. All participants and even several speakers paid their own way and accommodations. We met at the European Parliament and Flemish Parliament buildings in order to provide secure building access (metal detectors, bag searches etc.) and secure meeting rooms for speakers and participants, several of whom have enhanced security requirements due to their publicly stated policy positions on Islamisation. Members at the European and Flemish Parliaments sponsored our use of “space-available” rooms in those buildings, as they can for groups meeting for purposes of general public benefit. Around seventy people attended the first day of the conference (about fifty the second day of working groups).

A number of follow-up initiatives have already started – mutual translations are a n immediate benefit of the networking. For example, work is underway to start translations of anti-jihad books from English into other languages, and for translations into English of European documents. We will post research papers, publications, draft legislation and other documents that can be shared by activists within and between countries. We will also provide public information on the efforts of these groups attending.

Many groups who are vitally important to working against Islamisation in Europe were not invited. Sometimes it was for the simple reason that we don’t know about you – please email us and tell us what you do, so we can include you in future activities. Our limited budget also created a constraint – originally we anticipated 30 people, then 40…finally over 70. The Center for Vigilant Freedom is a small, virtual, non-profit, voluntary group of activists, writers, and just ordinary citizens who want to protect liberty, counter jihadism and prevent sharia laws.

In the short term (until we raise more money…) we will be developing more invitation-only conferences, to be held online, on various topics relevant to preserving constitutional liberties and preventing Islamisation.