Well Daph, looking upon the scene from within Europe itself, the picture that emerges isn't encouraging.
The truth about Islamic "domination" of other other societies is the Muslims can be a small minority and still deeply influence a society. I think Sweden is around 8% Muslim or so. What was once one of the quietest countries in Europe is now in social crisis because the crime rate has skyrocketed, and includes murders, grenade attacks, and so forth.
Europe's politicians are for the most part profoundly ignorant of the issues associated with rapidly bringing in significant number of other peoples who have very different ideas about culture, behavior, individual rights and freedoms, etc.
The issue is nothing new. Back in 2003, when Iraq was invaded, Spain had a brigade of troops there as part of the coalition. Soon thereafter there was a bomb attack in Madrid attributed to Muslims, and -presto-, the Spanish troops pulled out and came home. The "so what factor" in that is in a country with again, about 8% of its population Muslim, the foreign policy was dramatically altered by one act of violence. 8% of anything shouldn't have such disproportionate influence.
It doesn't help that the current Pope is some kind of woke globalist agent, or that most of the European countries eagerly curb the power of the Christian clergy while acting like the Islamist scene is mostly a creation of rightist propaganda.
I think Douglas Murray got it right when he said the actions taken by European politicians over the decades were not deliberately meant to weaken their societies ... the pols just took the path of least resistance because they didn't want to face the political fights with the Left etc.
Regardless of how it happened ... here we are.
Cheers
The truth about Islamic "domination" of other other societies is the Muslims can be a small minority and still deeply influence a society. I think Sweden is around 8% Muslim or so. What was once one of the quietest countries in Europe is now in social crisis because the crime rate has skyrocketed, and includes murders, grenade attacks, and so forth.
Europe's politicians are for the most part profoundly ignorant of the issues associated with rapidly bringing in significant number of other peoples who have very different ideas about culture, behavior, individual rights and freedoms, etc.
The issue is nothing new. Back in 2003, when Iraq was invaded, Spain had a brigade of troops there as part of the coalition. Soon thereafter there was a bomb attack in Madrid attributed to Muslims, and -presto-, the Spanish troops pulled out and came home. The "so what factor" in that is in a country with again, about 8% of its population Muslim, the foreign policy was dramatically altered by one act of violence. 8% of anything shouldn't have such disproportionate influence.
It doesn't help that the current Pope is some kind of woke globalist agent, or that most of the European countries eagerly curb the power of the Christian clergy while acting like the Islamist scene is mostly a creation of rightist propaganda.
I think Douglas Murray got it right when he said the actions taken by European politicians over the decades were not deliberately meant to weaken their societies ... the pols just took the path of least resistance because they didn't want to face the political fights with the Left etc.
Regardless of how it happened ... here we are.
Cheers
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