IOW:
Posted on 02/13/2007 9:12:00 AM PST by steve-b
The State Department, concerned about a "nativist surge" in Western Europe, has created a position to coordinate efforts to reach out to European Muslims and help them better integrate into society, a senior official said yesterday.
Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said U.S. embassies and consulates in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries will decide what exactly they can do, instead of "Washington bureaucrats dreaming this up."
The growing Muslim presence in Europe is "a fascinating issue and one that the American government is just now trying to get its mind around," Mr. Fried told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "It's a huge problem, we are thinking about it seriously, and we've tried to do some intellectual framing-up."...
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This is a joke, right?
reach out to European Muslims and help them better integrate into society
What a great idea. I'm sure the prospect of integrating into the failed, mealy-mouthed, deteriorating, emasculated, multiculturalism of soon to be Eurabia has an alluring charm to angry, disaffected, muslim youth.
Good luck with that fellas, I can hear the wail of the imam calling europe to prayer even now.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
>>This is a joke, right?<<
Only the first three words of the article.
no - they are moving in to smother the remaining germans, french etc etc and immerse them in mid east culture and ideology.
watch west europe fall into third world status
I can't for the life of me figure out our state department...what do they actually want?
Daniel, dear friend, the State Department generally, and you particularly, are the quintessential (useless) bureaucrats*.
Wrap your mind around that reality, together with the reality that for most Americans, the State Department, far from it's mission of serving the interests of the United States' citizens, is viewed as having evolved, over the last fifty years, as the most powerful weapon of any and all enemies.
* For this presumed overeducated idiot, elected officials are bureaucrats. Appointed or hired paper pushers are "professionals"!
IOW:
To be relevant.
I guess Kosovo is to be the model.
Is there a name for the phenomenon (tactic?) when a concerted effort is made by people of like mind or ethnic/religious persuasion to overpopulate an area in the interests of wresting control of the government away through suffrage? I absolutely support the right of anyone to pursue happiness and freedom, but if one of their stated goals is the introduction of a militant, state sponsored religion, isn't that in and of itself counterproductive to the very democratic process that they are taking advantage of?
I further realize that I am making quite a leap as to their intentions, but anytime a religion openly espouses "jihad" against all "infidels" it makes me moderately nervous. Respect and tolerance of other religions has never been a notable tenet of Islam.
State is full of diplomats, and diplomats are people who sincerely believe (for good or for ill) that the worst peace is better than the best war. It's a sector of the government that's made up of historians, philosophers, and negotiators; people predisposed to take a very slow, deliberative approach to international relations that others can find frustrating.
State actually accomplishes quite a bit; the negotiations with the NoKos are a State Department project, as were the negotiations that finally got Libya to give up it's WMD's. There are also a lot of other minor diplomatic projects that never make the news that the State Dept handles for us.
Lebensraum?
I know it has military implications, but that's the closest analogy I know.
"nativist surge"
One can only hope there is a nativist surge to brush back the invasion before all of Europe is lost.
This is not new or unique to post-colonial Muslim immigrants. Move to one of their countries, become a citizen, live there for a lifetime and you will still not be acknowledged as one of them. The U.S. perspective is not their perspective. It borders on the moronic for a State Dept functionary to fail to recognize reality. Perhaps that is part of their job description. Anyone can become an American, no one can "become" French or German no matter how long they live there.
While at first glance it doesn't seem appropriate for the U.S. to be involved in helping Muslims "integrate" into European society, it may be an effort to at least reduce the affect of the radical wing of Islam in European politics. That can only help us in the long run.
Evidence of the pernicious Saudi influence in the State Department.
Lebensraum is close...although the Muslims involved in this case are not enslaving whole sectors of the population prior to moving in.
I was going to say Prima Nocta...but that is a different also.
Any way you slice it, their tactics are suspect.
Integration will be hard. it means no more stoning women.
no more chopping heads off. No more snuff videos of the slow sawing off of infidels' heads accompanied by religious songs.
No more threatening the lives of those who tell the truth about the murderous ideology.
There's a long way to go before integration is possible.
Serbian National redux?
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