Have I Somehow Missed Europe's "... severe restrictions on Muslim immigration.." ? Where - Germany, France, GB, Denmark???!!!???

Submitted by mariana (United States), Apr 17, 2008 at 11:10

Jennifer:

Your arguments are interesting and definitely appealing; however, I see no evidence ">...that severe restrictions on Muslim immigration.." [into Europe?] "...is already happening." Particularly since the EU has wide-opened borders, and there's nothing to stop anyone entering the Continent or going from country to country.

Since in major European cities "no-go zones" for police and law enforcement have been established, where Muslim radicals are left to the "supervision" of lunatic imams and mullahs, there's no telling what's being stockpiled in those areas. [We've seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, S.Lebanon, Gaza and Judea & Samaria, that Mosques have been housing bomb-making factories and armories].

">It is my opinion that large groups of Muslims do not have the capacity to exist in "freedom" without eventually self-destructing."

This is possibly closer to the mark than we'd wish, because it's doubtful Islamists can actually "wrap their minds around" the Western concept of "Freedom". Freedom is what their Imams and Mullahs tell them it is, and it's mostly Freedom to do what they're admonished to do [by Allah via the Mullahs]. How does this benefit European Europeans and non-Muslims in general? What does "self-destruct.." mean in this context?

The large numbers of [Muslim] Arabs immigrating into America raised no "red flags", because the American experience with previous waves of Arab immigration was extremely positive. Kurds, Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians and "Palestinians" [before them Albanians, Bosnians, Bohemians, etc] -acculturated thoroughly keeping customs at home, and sharing with neighbors, and thrived mightily. The missing datum in this calculus, unfortunately, was that most of these "Arabs" were Christians, other non-Muslims and Muslims who were either displaced or who "individually" made the deliberate decision to "escape" the oppression of Islam in the "Paradises" they left.

">To think a "Muslim majority" in Europe will take place peacefully is very doubtful."

Is a "Muslim majority" necessary? Hitler had nowhere near a "Majority" when he took over Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, France and the rest of the Continent, projecting his power and influence over even parts of Ireland, South and Central America, North Africa, etc.

In my experience, Europeans are "reactive" rather than "proactive"; and in fact, they're damned nasty whenever they are "warned"- whereupon, they collectively and individually throw up as many roadblocks as they possibly can to thwart preemptive attempts to "rescue" them. Their history for the past Century demonstrates that by the time they are sufficiently exorcised, it's too late and America has to come in to "save their bacon".

I'm sick to death of Americans having to pay for Old Europe's Defense; sick of their deluded attitudes of superiority; and nauseated at the German Press' read on the NATO conference and their apparent carte blanche to insult my president and my country. Nothing would please me more than for GW to announce to EU [and UN] that Americans will immediately begin to re-deploy out of all countries in Old Europe which refuse to get behind our initiatives; Yes, a "blank check", since it's from our bank account and with our military that "the check" will, as always, be paid. mariana

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