What will America do?

Submitted by Marc Joris (Belgium), Mar 5, 2007 at 05:47

Even among the most radical right-wingers, killing Muslims or sending them ... isn't an option. I never heard discussions about that. The most radical option I ever heard about, is sending the Muslim immigrants home to their old fatherlands. There will only be violence if Muslims react with terrorism or Iraq-style mass murder.

Scenario 1 is the most likely and the most frightening. Scenario 3 is impossible. Scenario 2 is possible, but unlikely. In my view this will only happen after a catastrophic event that awakens Europeans from their deep sleep and makes them react in an ultimate act of self defence. America woke up after 9/11, but Europe will need a far more severe shock therapy. Maybe an act of terrorism with a "dirty bomb" or poison gas, or a war in the Middle East spilling over to Europe.

All this sounds horrible, but I see no alternative. If such a catastrophic event doesn't occur, Europe will become a Libanese-style Eurabia, with Christians in a dhimmi-status and Jews expelled or slaughtered. An expulsion of most Muslims, even at the price of a short civil war, will be the lesser evil. Such a war or turmoil will have one historic precedent: the Israeli's war of Independence. Nations can recover from wars or civil wars. But a nation in the grip of Islam can never recover.

The most crucial question is: what will America do if scenario 2 occurs? Will it support the Europeans in their struggle against Islamic domination? Or will the Americans use their political and military power to uphold the myths of multiculturalism? Will American press depict the Europeans that fight Islam as allies in the struggle against a common enemy? Or will it depict them as "fascists", "racists" and thugs like Milosovic? Will you call it an act of self-defence, or an ethnic cleansing? I think the answers to this questions are unsure…

You saved us once from the German Emperor, and once from the nazi's. For half a century, you protected us against the "empire of evil". Will you save us again from Islam? Much will depend on the influence of people like Daniel Pipes.

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