maybe not so simple

Submitted by Winston E. Smith, JR (United States), Mar 3, 2007 at 10:10

...Philippe de Villiers's 'Movement for France', one of the most influential non-nazi antiimmigrants, at least in France, as well as the role of Putin et all, who might be tempted to conqure Europe by proxies. I doubt that islam is the decisive factor here. If it were not islam it would be something else. Say communism or nazism or just no-name savagery.

Islam functions reasonably well in many countries, while pretty terribly in others. The key in my opinion is the importation of the people of vastly different background in the environment they have no chance to be part of. This can apply to third world immigrants to Europe, but equally, to any impoverished, uneducated and not very bright immigrants anywhere in the world, be it the slums of Rio or Buenos Ayers, Johannesburg or Beirut, Moscow, Tel Aviv or Mexico City. I would guess this applies to the big cities of muslim world as well.

Indians should be best familiar with this phenomena, as their radical peacefulness produced precursor to what has happening everywhere else. The flight of educated and well to do masses from many formerly successful countries to the North America, indicates that the Europe is still a long way to go. Although the size of emmigration from Netherlands is a start. The key, in my opinion is uncontrolled multiplication of uneducated masses versus fertility decrease in educated ones. This phenomena has been known, analysed and dealt with successfully for millenniums. With the ready made solution well described in well known books. Machiavelli anyone?

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