Posted by
JDComments on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:22:37 AM
The European Union's
report on their Muslim population concludes they face discrimination but does mention that they
could do more themselves to connect with wider society, an observation which nicely places the blame for their problems right where it belongs: on the Muslims themselves.
Discrimination implies that a people are treated as separate and different than the majority. Part of the problem as identified by the report is the suspicion that international terrorism has cast on Islamicists.
However, let us consider the behavior of the Muslims themselves. This is a people that: insists on wearing clothes that separate them and sometimes fly in the face of European traditions and even laws; follow Sharia, a legal code that dictates all aspects of life and which conflicts with Western tradition and jurisprudence; believe all infidels [non -Muslims] must be converted,, subjugated or killed; support organizations which subsidize terrorism; often espouse a virulent Anti-Semitism ; kill those who offend their religious beliefs [i.e. Theo Van Gogh]] or issue fatwas to that effect [Rushdie]; and occasionally blow up a train or subway station to emphasize their points.
Gee, I wonder why they are treated differently?
Muslims do not want to be treated as others; they want others to acquiesce to them. This report is another attempt to appease the unappeasable and to rationally approach a problem that defies reason or even human decency. Unless the Muslim people come to accept the tolerance of Western culture, something which seems impossible, the only way to handle the Muslim situation in Europe is the surrender to their demands and accept Islam as the dominant religion or to fight the Muslims as they attempt to impose this.
This report is a study in unreality and the refusal to accept what conditions exist in hopes of attaining a peaceful solution. If I didn't know better I'd think it was another Baker-Hamilton work.