The God question

Submitted by Octavio (Italy), Mar 9, 2007 at 05:19

Sorry for mentioning God: I shouldn't. But, one of the key differences between Europe and America is God. No European politician would quote Isaia, and the Bible in general. European politics is more secular than American politics. Some people argue that that is the reason why Muslims will take over our continent. Europe has forgotten God.

Old Christian churches are empty, and Muslims are here to fill in our spiritual gap. This is a religious explanation of the phenomenon. But I disagree. Christian values are deeply rooted in our social fabric, whether we like it or not. There are other issues to confront. Our dependency on petrol made us dependent on the Muslim world, and we didn't have the guts to stop mass immigration. Now, the boys from Casablanca have moved to Europe, and we are failing to integrate them into mainstream European society. In the city where I was born, second generation Moroccan kids do very badly at school (that is in Italy, by the way). All over Europe, second generation Euro-Muslims form the lowest social class. They look to God, to Allah, as a way out from their ghettoes. They might become Islamists, or even criminals. We need to turn these losers into Europeans.

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