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To: Clemenza
Where did I say that I favor "anti-miscegenation" laws? (For the record, I do not, and I am certainly aware that the Catholic Church in Latin America had a better record on race relations than Anglo-Saxon Protestants.)

Islam is a religion, not a race. Therefore it cannot possibly be racist to oppose the mass immigration of Muslims to Europe. The growth of militant Islam in Europe is certainly not a good thing from a Catholic point of view, and those earlier Catholic regimes would not have allowed it.

As for immigration in general, the real root of the problem is that Europeans, having rejected Catholic morality, are not having enough children to replace themselves. Therefore their civilization is in danger of dying out. It can hardly be un-Catholic to oppose this.

If Europe's population becomes dominated by "Indians and Asians," whatever their religion, the continent and its culture will no longer be European or Western in any meaningful sense. It will simply be an extension of Asian civilization. I have nothing against Asian culture; I simply want European culture to survive too. What's wrong with that? There is nothing in Catholic doctrine that requires civilizations to dissolve themselves in the name of multiculturalism.

87 posted on 12/12/2004 6:18:43 PM PST by royalcello
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To: royalcello
The fact remains that Euro-monarchs had a long tradition of granting citizenship to subject peoples, long before any large scale immigration took place.

If Europeans go the way of the Hittites, Sumerians or the Wapanogs, so be it. Peoples and civilizations have disappeared before and will continue to do so.

In other words, as a staunch believer in American exceptionalism, I really don't give a damn if French/Japanese/Kurdish culture disappears. I am concerned, however, at the growing influence of Islam, which is a true threat to us here in the USA.

91 posted on 12/12/2004 6:27:16 PM PST by Clemenza (Gabba Gabba Hey!)
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