Massive Muslim Immigration Was Mad, French Learning

1/7/2015

Muslims pray during Eid al Fitr to mark the end of the Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan in Marseille, France, on July 28, 2014. AP

Importing Terror: Immigration into Europe has a lot to do with terrorism. The French, sadly, have just been reminded of that fact the hard way. And a great many years too late.

'In the middle of the 20th century, there were virtually no Muslims in Western Europe," Weekly Standard senior editor Christ Caldwell pointed out in his 2009 book on Islamic immigration, 

"Reflections on the Revolution in Europe." "At the turn of the 21st, there were between 15 and 17 million Muslims in Western Europe, including 5 million in France, 4 million in Germany and 2 million in Britain."

The Associated Press reports that French police have named "Frenchmen Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, who are brothers and in their early 30s, as well as 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad," nationality unknown, as suspects in the horrific terrorist attack killing a dozen of the editorial staff of a Paris satirical magazine.

The terrorists shouted "Allahu akbar!" — yet "also spoke fluent, unaccented French," according to AP.

So much for assimilation and melting pots when it comes to importing millions and millions of Muslims into Europe.

"Only 19% of Europeans think immigration has been good for their countries," Caldwell points out. "73% of French people think their country has too many immigrants ... Even before September 11" the French were "three times as likely to complain of 'too many Arabs' in the country than of too many of anyone else."

And he quoted Princeton Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis, who in 2004 declared that Europe, by the end of the 21st century, "will be part of the Arabic west, of the Maghreb."

This mass immigration, however, has been undemocratically sustained over decades. In spite of Western Europeans being "resolutely opposed to mass immigration," even "hard-line legislation against immigration in the 1970s" did not stop its acceleration.

Large Islamic populations have pushed hard against the European way of life and become what Caldwell calls an "adversary culture" that rejects the tolerance and secularism modern left-leaning Europe has so aggressively embraced in its laws, often in fear of non-Muslim religious influences on contemporary lifestyles.

The French are now being reminded just how deadly an adversary some of the elements of that imported culture can be.

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