What a mess...

[gaijindabe]

A cut-n-post from the WSJ:

An interesting debate of sorts is going on about the future of Europe. In the New York Post, Ralph Peters, responding to "a rash" of unidentified "pop prophets," disagrees with those who think the Continent is in danger of falling under Shariah:

The notion that continental Europeans, who are world-champion haters, will let the impoverished Muslim immigrants they confine to ghettos take over their societies and extend the caliphate from the Amalfi Coast to Amsterdam has it exactly wrong.

The endangered species isn't the "peace loving" European lolling in his or her welfare state, but the continent's Muslims immigrants--and their multi-generation descendents--who were foolish enough to imagine that Europeans would share their toys. . . .

Don't let Europe's current round of playing pacifist dress-up fool you: This is the continent that perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing, the happy-go-lucky slice of humanity that brought us such recent hits as the Holocaust and Srebrenica.

The historical patterns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened--even when the threat's concocted nonsense--they don't just react, they over-react with stunning ferocity. One of their more-humane (and frequently employed) techniques has been ethnic cleansing.

And Europeans won't even need to re-write "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" with an Islamist theme--real Muslims zealots provide Europe's bigots with all the propaganda they need. Al Qaeda and its wannabe fans are the worst thing that could have happened to Europe's Muslims. Europe hasn't broken free of its historical addictions--we're going to see Europe's history reprised on meth.

Over at PowerLine, Mark Steyn begs to differ:

The native European population is split three ways: some will leave, as the Dutch (and certain French) are already doing; some will shrug and go along with the Islamization of the continent, as the ever-accelerating number of conversions suggests; and so the ones left to embrace Fascism will be a minority of an aging population. It will be bloody and messy, as I write in America Alone, but it will not alter the final outcome. If you don't breed, you can't influence the future. And furthermore a disinclination to breed is a good sign you don't care much about the future. That's why the Spaniards, who fought a brutal bloody civil war for their country in the 1930s, folded instantly after those Madrid bombings. When you've demographically checked out of the future, why fight for it?

Think about this: Peters is predicting a rebirth of European fascism, possibly including genocide--and he's the optimist of this pair.

[Aurel]

What a load of drivel...if you want to look at a mess, look at Iraq and look at who caused it. The only genocide I see are the ones occuring in Sudan, and the Shiites killing the Sunnis.
Someone has an axe to grind with Europe, but also lives in a glass house.

Aurel