Posted on 12/19/2004 12:30:03 PM PST by quidnunc
St.-Denis, France – Butchered piglets hang in tidy rows at the open-air market, and shoppers haggle over cheese and oysters in a scene hardly altered since the last Bourbon king was buried at the Gothic church on the corner.
But slip out of the market on a Friday, and a quarter-mile up the road you will find a very different France: Hundreds of Muslims squeezed hip to hip into an unheated canvas tent, bowing in sacred silence toward Mecca, the birthplace of Islam, which few of them have ever seen.
The worshipers at this makeshift mosque on the edge of Paris are men and women, dressed in the latest fashions and traditional robes, Arab, European and African. They are moderate, conservative and fundamentalist. They are first-, second- and third-generation immigrants. They are content and they are enraged. They are the future that Europe is straining to handle.
What is happening in Europe may provide a partial preview of what lies ahead for the United States and its fast-growing Muslim population.
For the first time in history, Muslims are building large and growing minorities across the secular Western world — nowhere more visibly than in Western Europe, where their numbers have more than doubled in the past two decades. The impact is unfolding from Amsterdam to Paris to Madrid, as Muslims struggle — with words, votes and sometimes violence — to stake out their place in adopted societies.
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I'd like to see a few of those butchered piglets fired at the mosque.
ping for a later read
Arresting any Muslim who has suspicious ties is a good start. Maybe they'll take the hint and leave of their own accord.
If Muslims dominate Europe, the non-Muslims will become the butchered piglets.
I saw a clip of the Spanish prime minister saying that they didn't need any laws about fighting terrorism (or singling out any particular nasty group who shall remain nameless), since Spain's already fighting terrorism 100% all over the place. He looked nervous. A bad liar.
With unrestricted Muslim immgration and high Muslim birthrate, the Muslims could be a majority within 10-20 years in Europe. They could rise up and take over. The Europeans are sheeps, pretty easy job.
The U.S. is no better. The basic disease is the same in both places: multiculturalism and multiracialism as a religion, which in practice is objectively nothing more than genocidal racism towards white people. Gas chambers or immigration, the end is the same.
By midcentury, at least one in five Europeans will be Muslim. That change is unlike other waves of immigration because it poses a more essential challenge: defining a modern Judeo-Christian-Islamic civilization. The West must decide how its laws and values will shape and be shaped by Islam.
For Europe, as well as the United States, the question is not which civilization, Western or Islamic, will prevail, but which of Islam's many strands will dominate. Will it be compatible with Western values or will it reject them?
Tell me again why I should get all excited about the GOP introducing a cut in the capital gains tax. Tell me why any young man with a lick of sense would volunteer to die in Iraq for leaders who refuse to do anything about the above and take the demise of Western Civilization as just some sort of mildly interesting occurrence that has nothing to do with them (I mean, standing up for the civilization and the nation won't get you the big donations, will it? You can't line your pockets with patriotism, can you? Only a fool would waste his time with that when there's gravy to be sucked and sheep to be sheared.)
Of all the people to ever be conquered in history the story of today's Europeans will go down as the most pathetic of all.
A people so brainwashed by socialism and tolerance that they accepted and aided their conquerers.
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