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Let’s lay down some facts here.
1) Europe WILL BE Muslim demographically and politically in 20-40 years, even Europe is starting to wake up and realize that. As a 31 yr old I fully expect the west to become a minority well before I die.
2) Islam as it stands today and sees it self today has at its very core the scriptural authority AND THE MANDATE to wipe you and me off the planet. This is fact people.
3) For the Islamic world to not continue to flow in that direction it needs to pull away from the intense gravity of it's own sacred text, one that very very clearly states that every good Muslims job is to wipe you and me off the planet.
So....in 20-40 years Islam will have the power geographically (Europe) and economically (oil) as well as the scriptural authority nay mandate to destroy or Judeo-Christian ethic, which weather you like it or not IS the basis to “our very way of life” that our boys (and girls) are bravely dying for in the box and elsewhere. -Scimitar
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I’m not sure the above can be labeled facts, but for arguments sake lets say they represent accurate trends. For the record I think our nation’s enemies and terrorists need to be terminated with extreme violence and prejudice, the terror threat is real, and won’t be solved by negotiating or sitting around holding hands singing Kumbaya, so I’m grateful for our troops.
Respectfully however if the question is how do we deal with Islam as a whole, the danger is giving into the fearful perception that Islam instead of being subject to human nature is a mindless killing automation like the Borg or the Terminator. (Forgive the Sci-Fi references.)
For example let’s say this trend of rapid Islamic population growth in Europe is your concern, this is quite valid, but also quite an opportunity for the West, if you believe as I do that Islam is extremely vulnerable on the issue of gender. If you are in range, so are they. Islamic immigrant children should be forced to attend public school like any other kid, no veils, no special treatment, just education to the world at large, this is the key.
Culture is defined as learned and shared behavior. People are the sum of their experiences and their environment. Eddie Murphy the comedian had a routine years ago where he was tired of materialistic American women. In the skit he goes to Africa to find some rural bride with a bone in her nose, and brings her back to the States until assimilated a few years later she says “BLEEP You Eddie, I want half !”
I detest Hillary Clinton, but could you imagine her reaction to an Afghan man telling her, ok woman, from now on you are my property and servant, no education, no rights, no career, you have to wear this burka and be covered at all times, I will beat, take and kill you as I please. Now go make me a kebab before I sell you for 3 goats?
Now some 10 year old girl from an isolated village in Afghanistan would probably accept this fate as the way of the world. There are no other sources of input or education, no one to inform her it is possible to have rights/freedoms in a western liberal state, or protect her, so nothing to disturb the status quo here for ages.
That same little girl Muslim raised in France or England will see the world quite differently if given an education, and while she may remain Muslim she will reject the fundamental trappings of the past as a raw deal, freedom is the most addictive drug. If Islam were impervious to this there would be no female doctor’s, lawyers, or engineers in secular Turkey. I’ve been there, the place is not perfect, but they still consider themselves Muslims who still pray 5 times a day, they however separate religion from state which is the goal. Even if this little girl’s parents stifle this thought, teens rebel and with her own eyes she would see other little girls and the freedoms they enjoy. 40 years is a long time, even if this little girl doesn’t embrace freedom and thus force an evolution in Islam, will her kids be more or less likely to? My point is human beings are social creatures and inevitable culture exchange ensues with interaction. If we play our cards right Muslim immigrants in Europe will be equally subject to modern Western influence. So the strategy is educate and expose them to freedom. It’s actually much easier in Europe. If we also have to go into Afghanistan and kill all of the Taliban fighters in a region, that’s probably a good idea, but then improve the civilians' quality of life, and most importantly educate the children so you aren’t fighting the same war 30 years later. The danger is Liberal laws where these immigrant communities aren’t forced to assimilate.