Wednesday, March 22, 2006

I fear this will grow rather than shrink

Reports that Neo-Nazi's intend to turn this year's World Cup into a blood-bath should not be taken lightly. It is thoroughly depressing to think that we gave the lives of almost a half million men to rid the world of this and a similar (i.e. Japan) menace. These thugs need to be stopped, but I am afraid Europe doesn't have the fortitude for it.
What is even more depressing is that it needn't be this way. Europe is being radicalized in a way we can't fathom in the US (yes, I have travelled often to Europe and have many friends there who say the same thing, so don't accuse me of being a provincial American). The problem arises from two facts: the youth can't find jobs or disdains them and masses of unassimilated immigrants are menacing Europe in a way it has never known. Europe has let in millions of Muslims, and not only has it made no effort to assimilate them, it actually glorifies their culture whilst denigrating its own (google the 1977 Strasbourg Concord). When pressed with economic depression (to which they are very close-25% unemployment for youth), Europe tends to go nuts. The last 60 years that has manifested itself in Communist and Socialist politicians rather than the far right. However, they usually were too inept or corrupt to do any Soviet style destruction, so Europe just chugged along. This all changed with the advent of mass immigration from Muslim countries.
The average European sees their culture seamingly falling apart where the authorities are terrified to do anything about the festering problem of unassimilated Muslims besides build them new mosques. Many neighborhoods in Europe are now verboten to the police. To the police!!! Sharia is being implemented in many of these neighborhoods and the government does nothing. A clash of cultures between the East and West is being waged in the banelieus (sp) and Europe's leaders refuse to stand up for their own culture. When people feel that their government is not protecting them, they tend to try and take matters into their own hands. It's usually destructive, random and full of malice. I'm not excusing the Neo-Nazi thugs. Far from it. What I'm saying is that Europe's elites have been ignoring the problem for about three decades and as the conflict escalates, people will take more and more radical paths.
Government's first job is to protect it's people, not provide them jobs or health care or homes. When government fails in its primary role and also fails in its secondary roles, people, especially Europeans will look to the extremes of the political landscape. As much as it saddens me, I expect much more blood to flow in Europe in the years to come.

1 Comments:

At 10:42 PM, Blogger Steven Fitzpatrick Smith said...

The problem in France has to do with "assimilating" muslims into the French culture. There is not as much as a denied rift in England- not that there is no friction. The situation becomes more heated when the government mandates assimilation into the culture like France has required.

 

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