[milwguy]

The last paragraph I excerpted tells all in my opinion. Europe is a sowing the seeds of their own destruction by allowing unfettered immigration, segregating these immigrants, and providing a welfare state to support them while they are indoctrinated with islamofascist ideology. Hopefully the french, danes, swedes, dutch, etc will realize this soon enough to stem the tide.

[ncountylee]

A significant proportion of immigrants are on welfare

Have plenty of time to riot and tear down Chistian values.

[Cicero]

Yes, but as usual Fukuyama doesn't come to grips with the central problem: Islam itself.

Also, he doesn't seem to realize that it's not just multiculti that's the problem, its the meld of Islam with totalitarian secular ideologies that have incubated in Europe. Islam crossed with leftist victimology and the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

I'm not at all sure if the solution is to be nicer and to try to turn Europe into a melting pot. I'm not sure if that's possible. The solution may be to expel the Muslims, something Fukuyama abhors thinking about.

[BadAndy]

In the US, the media and the school systems promote anti-americanism by smearing American history and or heroes, and promoting every disfunctional barbaric culture as superior to our own.

[rlmorel]

An excellent analysis. I saw this snippet:

"A significant proportion of immigrants are on welfare, meaning that they do not have the dignity of contributing through their labor to the surrounding society. They and their children understand themselves as outsiders."

Well, yes. They ARE outsiders. They have deliberately made themselves that way. They migrate into these societies that value (maybe) who they are and what they are, and they spit on all of it. They condemn all of it. They do not add anything to the society they enter. They do not become citizens,and they DO NOT want to be citizens. But they do not present an alternative to non-muslims.

It is a form of nihilism, although they would argue it is not. They prefer anarchy to anything except their own religion, which is a form of skepticism, rejection, or unbelief (in anything except Islam)

Note: This is not directed at Muslims who have no issues integrating into and living in a non-muslim society. I know many and work with people who are American Muslims, not Muslim Americans. This is a reflection on the Islamo-facists and other extreme fundamentalists. Some may argue (and do) that there can be no distinction. I say that there can.

[Chanticleer]

Religion is no longer supported, as in a true Muslim society, through conformity to a host of external social customs and observances; rather it is more a question of inward belief. Hence Mr. Roy's comparison of modern Islamism to the Protestant Reformation, which similarly turned religion inward and stripped it of its external rituals and social supports.

Interesting comparison. But Baptists and Lutherans bring toaster ovens and salad tongs to weddings -- not bombs.

Faith turned inward is no danger if it is based upon the Truth -- real Christianity is all about the heart, and the outward rituals and traditions should only serve to reinforce inner truths.

I see no reason that the internalization of the teachings of Islam should precipitate violence unless these teachings themselves are violent.