[katana]

This has been a long time coming (it was obvious to me the first time I was in Paris in 1981 that the city contained too many f***ing Arabs and it's only gotten far worse since) and it is predictable that it would begin in a country with a strong (in the west, whose is older than that of Greece?) national and Christian identity with a core of memory of several hundred years subjugation under the thumb of Islam. I have yet to meet a Greek who is not a more passionate and fervent patriot than any other variety of European you could name.

Apply the kind of economic stress not seen in Europe since 1946, identify the culprits (in part correctly, but only in part) as cheap and alien and Muslim labor, and both the black fist of Fascism and its mate, the red fist of Communism will rise.

That they were coddled into this position by pseudo-intellectual Socialist politicians and a paper prosperity is hard to face up to. The pent up rage of seeing the faces of one's national nightmares walking the streets and sucking up a sizable portion of the social largesse is a much more tangible target. In varying degrees the same can be expected to start happening elsewhere in Europe as the whole edifice of the Euro and the EU autocracy come crashing down.

[Sherman Logan]

I do find the anger against the Germans somewhat amusing.

I’ve read a fair amount about the Nazi occupation of Greece, and as I recall it involved the Germans invading, occupying and looting the country.

Not their sending immense amounts of money to Greece, and then being pilloried as inhumane when they balked at sending more.