300 Million Watching Europe

There are a lot of Americans. The Census Bureau says we are on the verge of 300 Million individuals, most of them citizens, living within our borders. As a country we were settled by Europeans who decided they wanted what Europe didn’t offer. That wave of immigration completely changed everything that existed on this continent.

Both Power Line and Atlas Shrugs point to a Paul Belien essay in The Brussels Journal discussing the wave of immigration in Europe. The author asserts that western media is at best misunderstanding and at worst deliberately lying about the large Muslim enclaves in every major city. A few snippets for illustration but do read the entire article.

Show Them Who Is the Boss in France: Unlike their fathers, who came to France from Muslim countries, accepting that, whilst remaining Muslims themselves, they had come to live in a non-Muslim country, the rioters see France as their country. They were born here. This land is their land. And since they are Muslims, this land, or at least a part of it, is Muslim as well. The society they live in is a homogeneous Islamic one. For them that is society, there is no other.

Europe willingly opened the door to the Muslims, not just by allowing large-scale immigration on an unprecedented level, but also by encouraging the newcomers to retain their culture. Several million Muslim immigrants allowed in at a speed and scale that was unique in history.

The French government is failing completely in the basic task of government: maintaining law and order so that each citizen can live and work in safety. What is more, the government has abdicated.

A foundation concept for open borders advocates is that residence, culture and even citizenship are less important than jurisdiction. What we are seeing in Europe is a rejection of jurisdiction by large established populations who have been encouraged to retain the social aspects of their ancestors. In past human migrations, new arrivals are pressured to change, adapt and assimilate by their immersion in the new environment. With modern technology, however, there is no real need to significantly disconnect from the homeland.

Today the forests of satellite dishes on the apartment blocks in the suburbs of Western European cities link the immigrants to the culture of their countries of origin, whose television programmes they watch day after day.

There are a lot of Americans but we are outnumbered 21 to 1 on the planet and roughly 23 percent of our global co-inhabitants are Muslim. All of this would be less a concern except for their demonstrable propensity to create almost completely homogeneous communities where the only acceptable way of life is submission to the laws of Islam.