Your argument is quite sensible except that Islam doesn't expect to take over by military means. They (muslims) are waging a war of religious and cultural attrition. They also wage war on many fronts at once.
They use the cultural sensitivity of the west as a lever to gain recognition of their culture and at the same time they seek to reduce Judeo/Christian/western cultural influence by calling the symbols of that world insults to Islam. They take territory by creating and expanding ghettoes that become "no go" areas for their host country's police. They expand their population with high birth rates and they influence politics by voting as a bloc.
Furthermore, the imams teach the young men that it is an insult to Islam to take a job with the infidel (working at a productive job strengthens the infidel economy). Young men are encouraged to be a drain on their host by going on the dole (which they see actually as the Jizya, or dhimmi tax).
Their last attempt to take Europe militarily failed because of "The Hammer" at Tours and Jan Sobieski at Vienna.
This time, using the technique of a multi-front religious war, they have surrounded Paris and their enemy's leaders are trying to figure how to appease them.
Your argument is quite sensible except that Islam doesn't expect to take over by military means. They (muslims) are waging a war of religious and cultural attrition. They also wage war on many fronts at once. .......
The post that you are answering to was a reply to an ongoing discussion with fishtalk and, taken by itself, is somewhat out of context.
My analysis of the current situation is stated in Post 225
Fishtalk was worried that the current violence will lead to the "takeover" right now. Right now, in the year 2005 round of the conflict, that is not a realistic outcome.
As I pointed out in Post 225, the current violence will get much worse before it gets better with a cycle of French appeasement and Muslim violence that will end in a pretty nasty fashion.
In the end, I see this as a valuable lesson for France that may derail the current path that you describe. France has not learned from the errors of others and it now learning from its own errors.
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"I have recorded these events in the hope that the reader may profit from them, for there are two ways by which all men may reform themselves, either by learning from their own errors or from those of others; the former makes a more striking demonstration, the latter a less painful one."......... Polybius (200-118 B.C.), Universal History, Book I, Chapter 35
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The Muslims may have played their hand to soon and, in giving the French "a more striking demonstration", may awaken the ancient European demons that drove them out of Western Europe once before.