Sunday, October 23
"Wait a second..."
...religion matters to these people. What are we going to do???"
Europe continues its gradual realization that it has a lot of immigrants on its hands who really don't like them. I'm sure Social Democrat governments thought it felt nice to stick it to the Church with their broad-minded multiculturalism, but the problem is that multiculturalism is not always so broad-minded.
A lot of people worry, and a lot of Muslims gladly predict, that Europe will convert to Islam in the coming years. Really, I'm sure some people will, just as some people have: but it won't be widespread. Secular Europe rejected Christianity because it was sick of established Churches telling them what to do and what not to do.
I can promise you that these same people will not take warmly to tip-toeing around uber-fragile Muslim paradigms, either -- like this ten-embassy protest over an op-ed comic. As Muslims in Europe get more impatient with the non-Islamic nature of Europe (ham, free speech, etc.), they are going to continue to complain more--as we have read in the newspapers the last few months. That's going to build up a lot of tension, and that's a real societal problem. And yet the same secularists laugh at suggestions that, perhaps, immigrants who share more of their values (read: Judeo-Christian immigrants with a respect for imago Dei and individual freedoms) should be preferred. Well, good luck with that.
...religion matters to these people. What are we going to do???"
Europe continues its gradual realization that it has a lot of immigrants on its hands who really don't like them. I'm sure Social Democrat governments thought it felt nice to stick it to the Church with their broad-minded multiculturalism, but the problem is that multiculturalism is not always so broad-minded.
A lot of people worry, and a lot of Muslims gladly predict, that Europe will convert to Islam in the coming years. Really, I'm sure some people will, just as some people have: but it won't be widespread. Secular Europe rejected Christianity because it was sick of established Churches telling them what to do and what not to do.
I can promise you that these same people will not take warmly to tip-toeing around uber-fragile Muslim paradigms, either -- like this ten-embassy protest over an op-ed comic. As Muslims in Europe get more impatient with the non-Islamic nature of Europe (ham, free speech, etc.), they are going to continue to complain more--as we have read in the newspapers the last few months. That's going to build up a lot of tension, and that's a real societal problem. And yet the same secularists laugh at suggestions that, perhaps, immigrants who share more of their values (read: Judeo-Christian immigrants with a respect for imago Dei and individual freedoms) should be preferred. Well, good luck with that.
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