From my experience with Europeans, I think they are thoroughly brainwashed that the "Religion of Peace" practicioners really want to co-exist peacefully with them.
I had a penpal from France a few years ago. The elections came up in 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen (campaigning on a platform of deporting illegals) was gaining momentum, gaining something like 30% of the vote in the first round of elections. I commented that Le Pen is not an extremist or a racist. Even my ultra-liberal penpal admitted their Islamic population is responsible for alot of the crime, some of whom are illegals. She experienced so much cognitive dissonance that she did not write to me again after my positive comment about Le Pen.
Even though most French are wimps, I got to admit Le Pen has a pair.
Well she must have been of the PC variety... Because French people just loathes arabs (do you know how they are called? Les ratons, the rats!)
This summer a couple in Brittany called them in the middle of the restaurant "le cancer du monde...
It won't be pretty for the muslims when this will explode...
i remember le pen well. i have a distant cousin in alsace that i have been in contact with for several years. she supports chirac, but said that le pen is gaining some momentum again as the french economy is tanking. (us business and tourism is down by as much as a third).
to be fair to the europeans, they have been ruled by tyrants for centuries. just about every village in western europe has a festival, most of which celebrates the removal of a local tyrant from the middle ages. given that, the stories about the devastation of the 30 years war and the more recent memories of world war II, i can understand why they believe in the "religion of peace". i just don't happen to agree with them and i hope, for their sake, that they wake up.