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[–]StillLessons 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Let's compare two stories for a second: the immigration of muslims to Europe and the immigration of Latin Americans to the US. These are two movements happening simultaneously, and I see two very different stories developing.

First, the US. While people are angry about illegal migration, I see no significant backlash against Latin Americans as such. In other words, people in the US realize that there are people from Latin America who have arrived legally, are working their asses off, and are helping our country continue to grow and move forward. These legal migrants are also - most importantly - fully adopting the ideals of the country to which they have moved; there are no stronger advocates for American ideology than new migrants. Interestingly, many of those who are most pissed off about the illegal immigration are the legal migrants. Long story short, I don't see an "anti-Latino" wave here, just an anti-illegal one. This thus is - correctly - playing out in politics; the Democrats represent illegal migration, and the Republicans are against it. We'll see where it lands.

Muslims in Europe are a very different story. The problem with the rise in the muslim population is that far too many radical muslims have no interest in assimilating culturally into their new home countries. Europe was a region with systems based in Judeo-Christian thought. The way the society is designed reflects that history. But fundamentalist muslims are unwilling to accept this system. There are countless stories about "no-go zones" in European cities where the official agents of the state can no longer operate without armed escorts. Fundamentalist followers of Islam, which started with Mohammed as a political movement (he was a general and killed a lot of people for disagreeing with him), are unwilling to adapt to their new countries. No, they are convinced it's the other way around. The new countries must be subjected to their system. This then ceases to be migration in the traditional sense - it becomes invasion and cultural cleansing.

It's outrageous watching the power structures in western European governments throw their own native populations under the bus to enable this cultural destruction. Apparently their own history has less value for them than the money they receive through cheap labor and direct payments from the governments of the oil states.

It is super depressing to watch western Europe committing suicide by islamization.

It occurs to me, though, that this is a parallel to the transgender problem. Just like transgenders learn to hate themselves in their original form and feel they must become the other gender to feel better, European leaders seem to hate themselves in their original Judeo-Christian form and aim to accept a new, more islamized version of themselves to feel better.

[–]roguecanine[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are there any countries in Western Europe that didn't drink the muslim coolaid? Austria seems to be one of those few?

The worst thing is that they frame dislike of muslims as racism/fascism. While to me it looks like a reasonable dislike of violent ideas. I have no kindness for rapists and bullies therefore by extension for muslims - no matter white black or brown. But they'd lump me and others like me with the worst alt-right boogeyman to shut us down.