Kosovo today is the preview of comming attraction for the rest of Europe.
Bat Ye'or sees that future clearly.
Kosovo today is the preview of comming attraction for the rest of Europe.
Bat Ye'or sees that future clearly.
Europe is not entirely blind; rightward-leaning parties have scored huge victories in Greece, Austria, and Switzerland as of late. In France, the Front National grabbed a cool 18% of the vote in the last presidential election. In Germany, far-right parties are starting to gain seats in a rather unexpected comeback. Some prominent progressive and liberal politicians in the Netherlands are calling for a stop to the Muslim influx. The UK Independence Party is doing rather well. And in Denmark, the extreme-right Denmark People's Party enjoys status as a senior coalition partner in the government. Yet in America, we have one candidate whose party calls for a halt to Muslim immigration (actually, a call for a five-year moritorium on all immigration), and that candidate has been completely ignored by the media and is likely to get a negative-digit percentage of the vote.
It is debatable as to how much of a blessing the success of some of the afforementioned parties is, but let's face it: fighting the Islamic expansion is a mere matter of physical survival. Europeans are realizing, at least more so than Americans and unquestionably more than Canadians, that extremists may soon be the only ones willing to do what is necessary to keep them alive.
Regarding Kosovo, do keep in mind that that was a NATO-driven war courtesy the U.S. and the U.K. (thank you, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair!). Europe didn't see Milosevic as much of a threat and Greece--the third party that would have been most directly effected by the conflict (because of illegal entry on the part of war refugees)--was staunchly opposed to the invasion.