Western Europe is a good question. I am not called to missionary work so I can't really explain why they are being overlooked. My guess is that socialism is a big part. Seems that other than their growing muslim populations most of Western Europe is without religion. That will be their demise.
All Jews and Christians need to all pray and work toward a world that does not allow hate as a reason for genocide. It is a big job but together we can do it.
I did not just fall off the banana boat and know it is a stretch but that will not stop me from praying that we all wake up.
That was my guess too. In fact, it is my firm belief that is was the gradual retreat of religion since 1800s --- both Christian and Jewish --- that allowed socialism (invented by the French at that time) to creep in.
I am both optimistic and pessimistic: optimistic that we will prevail in the end, and pessimistic that that will not happen until we incur catastrophic costs. We are already doing so: who will return the thousands of our fellow Americans that dies on Sep 11? Terrorism had been going on in Europe since 1970s --- did we pay attention? In 2000, an extremist was arrested In Turkey on the suspicion (proven) that he wanted to fly an airplane into the mausoleum of Attaturk --- a symbol for the Turks far exceeding in importance our WTS to us. Algerians were arrested in France (after storming the airplane) on the way to fly an airplane into the Eiffel tower? Did we pay attention? Knowing this, I find no excuse for all of us --- myself included, of course --- for losing 3,000 thousand people that September. And half of the country is still not clear; they want to "explain" themselves to the terrorists and then sing songs together around the campfire, united in brotherly love. We will lose more, I am afraid.