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The first I heard of riots in Denmark was today (06 Nov 2005), otherwise there has been nothing at all in the UK press. Even the Paris reports are very limited. I'd agree with the news blackout theory.
As for the European countries inviting the wolf in - I'd like to say that it wasn't the day-to-day people who allowed this to happen, that was down to government and EU policy. But it's the day-to-day people who have to live with the consequences.
From the minute the bombs went off and were recognised as terrorism, the media and government went into action telling us how it was just minority loonies who were not representative of the Muslim community as a whole. I could go for that, I mean David Coresh in Wacko was not representative of all Christianity.
I thank the Lord we now live in a society where rules and laws have been created to protect people from discrimination, be it racial or sexual or whatever. Things have come on leaps and bounds in the last decade or more to create an equal society where people are appreciated for their contribution and abilities and even just the fact that they are human beings. I enjoy the freedoms of the West and certainly would fight to keep it all.
I believe assimilation is the only answer. My Hindu neigbour has no problem with it, nor has my Catholic Irish neighbour. And they are not a minority. Most people come to England to improve their prospects, aiming to live well alongside everybody else and enjoy things like religious freedom.
I don't mean to sound rude but I cannot tolerate people who moan about their problems and don't take any positive, constructive action to remedy them. I am sick of people covering up their own inadequacies with things like the race card - even stretching back two hundred years to prove their point. In England everybody is entitled to free education and health care etc, and social security benefits. I'm sure it's basically the same all over Europe for day-to-day people. Granted, the benefit system is under great strain and the cash received by claimants is very minimal - but at least it is there. My own family are working class and have struggled for many generations - but none of us took to the streets to riot.
I don't mean to sound harsh but I think the governments are going to have to get harder on immigrants in general. Zero tolerance leading to mass deportation is the only way forward. Countries need to put their own nationals first, and that means within the whole infrastructure of society.