An analysis from UPI, with thanks to EPG:
For, although the EU is geographically expanding at a rapid rate, it faces vast, even alarming uncertainties, from unstable and highly unpredictable neighbors on three sides.To the south, the "new Europe" faces poverty-stricken and politically unstable Muslim nations across the 2,000-mile North African coastline in which radical and often violent new Islamist movements are already powerful forces.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in anarchy and civil war in Algeria over the past decade. Libya remains under the control of the currently cautious and cooperative, but always wildly unpredictable Moammar Gadhafi. France and Italy in particular have had to deal with the pressures and uncertainties of massive peaceful influxes of immigrants, especially from Algeria. And if economic and political conditions were to take a catastrophic downward spiral in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and/or Egypt, they could face the prospect of hundreds of thousands more crowding to get in very quickly.
But the European states -- with a combined population of 20 million recent Muslim immigrants -- lack the political will and the security and military muscle to enforce any tough barricade against any such sudden mass migratory pressures. Therefore civil war, radical Islamist revolution or economic collapse in North Africa could very quickly set off security crises that could shake France and Italy especially to their core. ...
To the southeast, democratic, secular Muslim Turkey, a loyal and reliable NATO ally over the past half-century, may not always stay that way, or even for much longer. An Islamic political party won a plurality of votes in the 2002 general election and is now runs the government. And the Europeans have yet to bite the bullet on finally allowing Turkey full membership in the EU, or risk profoundly alienating her by finally saying "no."
At Copenhagen, the Turks were told, not "no," but "not just yet" about their efforts to join the union. Not even the combined efforts of EU members Britain, Spain and Italy, backed by the United States, could prevail against the old Franco-German alliance that still runs the institutions of the union with a tight grip.
Germany, with its 2 million residents of Turkish origin or descent, along with Paris, which has already far more Algerian Muslim immigrants than it is comfortable with, said "no" to allowing Turkey to join the union as full members with the May 1 entry "class" of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Cyprus and Malta.
For giant Turkey, with well over 70 million people, has a population almost equal to the 10 approved new entrants into the EU combined. And if Ankara were granted full union membership, any or all of them would be free to settle anywhere in it that they liked.
The European Union with currently 350 million people will jump overnight to 425 million by Saturday morning through the accession of the new 10 member states. But if it feels threatened by the expanding demographic population pressures of Muslim North Africa to the south and Turkey to the southeast, it could also rapidly face unanticipated problems from the demographic implosion of Russia to the east.
The Soviet Union had 280 million people when it disintegrated 11 years ago. Russia today has officially 147 million, but in practice the figure might already be below 140 million. It is probably, therefore, already less populous than Muslim, nuclear-armed Pakistan. For death rates and abortion rates remain extraordinarily high, while birthrates are extremely low, and far below replenishment level.
Indeed, USA Today reported on April 20 that if Russia's already serious AIDS epidemic metastasizes the way Africa's already has, the Russian population could drop by 50 percent, or to below 75 million, within half a century. One million Russians are already infected with AIDS and 9 million of them could die of the disease by 2045.
It is this demographic weakness, in contrast to rising Muslim demographic confidence and strength that provides the other grim shadowy specter hovering over the future peace and security of the European continent.
France I expected, but Italy? *shivers* the idea of the Vatican surrounded by a Muslim governed country.....
Come to think of it~ is there Any sign that the UN has concerns over any of this? Or am I dreaming to even think they'd consider it a problem?
If this problem were confined to Europe; I'd say and other than cowardice their problem is? But look at Canada, Shiria is equal to and in some cases above Canadian law. When will "honor killing" become acceptable?
In our country, we must insist that NO religion is above another and that includes Christianity.
As an aside, I worked with a Vietnamese-American woman whose greatest complaint about this country was CPS and their rules about what is and is not child abuse (beatings v spankings) she said if her culture thought it was ok, what right did our laws have to restrict it (beating I mean). No one, I am embarrassed to say (including me) said, lady you live in this country under it's laws, not in Viet Nam. Why were we all silent, because we didn't want to be culturally insensitive.
Same for Mexican immigrants who think we need to learn Spanish (because it used to be their land) rather than vice-versa.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200404290789.html
In the meantime, this is what they are doing to Churches in Nigeria in the sharia state of Zamfara; ordering all of them to be "closed down."
YOO HOO!!!! Spanish Muslims!! Over here!!! Build OUR own mosques in Spain. If you want to worship at a mosque in Spain or elsewhere -particularly in a western and therefore Christian nation- build your own. Yes, that's right: I said build your OWN. That is YOUR human right--not bogarting something that is already someone else's property.
p.s.-Other persons besides followers of Mahometism possess human rights, too (even in the west). Ain't that a pisser?!!!
Correction: The first line in the last Commentary should have read "build YOUR own mosques."
Dear EU Citizens:
You had obsessed about burying America for generations. Hitler even gave speeches about doing it back in the 1930s. Your old, dark tribalistic tendencies reared their ugly head in the form of anti-Americanism. Not only was it clear that you hoped to bury America but that you were 100% infatuated with yourselves. On 9/11 we Americans awakened to the terrible truth: Europeans were all too happy to take advantage of Americans' most awful tragedy in the two hundred year history of their republic. Out it gushed: 'They had it coming!' 'The cowboy nation is attacked'!!! Ad nauseum. You can forget about denials, we've been seeing it in the European media itself. One commentator after another taking endless rounds of cheap shots at the American people and the nation they built. The evidence is in and the analysis is clear. Europeans chose to bash America at what seemed the most opportune time possible: 9/11 and its aftermath.
But while you Europeans were doing this to us you also did something far worse (and more insidious) to yourselves: You ignored the deadly and growing threat of an Islamic fifth column in your societies. You continued to seek your own economic glory, continued to bash America partly for attempting to contain this menace and partly to feed your own overgrown egos, and continued to pay scant attention to the hordes of potential mass murderers in your midst (of which there may be thousands and possibly even over 1 million). The Islamic cancer metastasized in Europe. And you never stopped to think that Americans would have helped you eradicate it in time. But you couldn't give them credit like that, could you. And look where you are at this perilous moment in history--and how you got there. You may yet one day understand, Europeans are no less hated by Muslims than Americans are. It's just that America is a greater hindrance to them at this moment in history than is Europe. That's the only difference. You see, Islamic terror was never about the things the muslims claim it is. It's about eliminating non-islamic ideology from the earth. Where do you think Hitler got his ideas from? Yasir Arafat's uncle???
As they say, "IT'S YOUR FUNERAL."
In regards to what EUROPE said above: the website 'Islam Online' has an article about how the muslims are moving to have Sharia incorporated into International law, claiming that is it the most suited towards 'peace and justice'. I would imagine the EU would be the first to fall- errr, first to accept that notion.
It's europe,for hell's sake .Who gives a flying monkey's rear end.Does it make any difference if they hate us because they are french or because they are muslims?
I wouldn't write Europe off just yet. It has a history of wallowing in self-doubt, but when the chips are really down, the old girl somehow seems to always manage to throw out one more leader who can rally the troops. To wit:
Gaius Marius
Julius Caesar
Charles Martel
El Cid
Winston Churchill
Not to mention the really bad one that may have saved the West from communism in the 1930s.
Let's just hope that the one who arises to save Europe from Islam turns out to be a Churchill, not a Hitler.