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2004-05-19 Home Front: WoT

Pipes: European Muslims Pose Major Threat to America

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-19 1:47:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 of the 212 suspected and convicted terrorist perpetrators during 1993-2003, 86 percent were Muslim immigrants and the remainder mainly converts to Islam.

I need a new surprise meter; this one's dead.

Posted by Raj 2004-05-19 12:52:37 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-05-19 12:52:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 European involvement in the "Food for Oil" scandal plus their continued and willing participation with Syria are solid indicators that the Madrid atrocity was insufficient to persuade them of terror's threat.

Pipes illuminates a central issue amongst many well know ones that is given little air time here or abroad. The resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe is symptomatic, not just of increasing Islamist activity, but also of a continuing undercurrent of bigotry that has yet to be eradicated from Continental cultures.

It is this discrimination that serves to marginalize Moslem populations in Europe and help feed more jihadists into terror's pipeline. To be sure, America still has its own crop of bigots, but it would seem more integration and stricter judicial measures have gone a long way towards both suppressing and slowly culling such benighted behavior in our country.

This more cosmopolitan approach has served to defuse the sort of virulent Islamist mentalities that still flourish across the Atlantic. This breeding of militant Islam is a direct reflection of Europe's ingrained parochialism and the bigotry that is endemic to it. Austria's Jorg Haider is a sterling example of how this inbred mentality has yet to be extinguished. The inability of Germany to rid itself of neo-Nazis and the skinhead culture of Britain all serve to exacerbate the discontent of Muslim immigrants across Europe.

The same blind eye that was turned towards Jewish people during the Holocaust's ramp-up is mirrored in Europe's current inability to embrace multiculturalism. As an immigrant nation America, per force, has had to moderate such parochialism for larger parts of its history. Should Europe remain unwilling to reexamine it's role in enabling international terror, both by it's own cultural intolerance and economic ties with countries who facilitate it, they are effectively breeding up their own large scale terror atrocity.

Hamburg already delivered to us those who would use loaded passenger jetliners as weapons. Madrid has obviously not served adequate notice to all of Europe that it is time to rethink their foreign policy. One can only expect that the continent will have to suffer something on a far larger scale than Madrid before they awaken to this fact. Britain narrowly escaped such an unwelcome demonstration of Islamist unrest. Europe continues to ignore their own self-induced vulnerability and thereby renders America exposed to the malignancy being bred up in their own backyard.

Should this continue, at some point we will be obliged to scrutinize all European passport holders to the same degree as anyone from the Middle East.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-19 2:16:22 PM|| 2004-05-19 2:16:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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