Europe's Muslim Question

I replied to the CS Monitor which said:

"Nov. 2 - the day provocative Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered ..."
"How could such a crime occur in one of Europe's most tolerant countries?"

My letter to the editor:

It isn't a perplexing question at all. The Van Gough murder happened in part BECAUSE of Dutch 'tolerance'.

Immigrant groups do not cease to lead seperate lives until they integrate. The problem is that many or most of the Muslim immigrants to Europe did not come with the intention of integrating.

The first EU challenge is they don't believe in a melting pot at all. America has been enriched by immigration due to our melting pot. Europe, which had immigration without the melting pot (and in fact celebration of the fact no melting was required), will find that immigration destroys them.

If Europe doesn't Europeanize Islamic culture then either it will expel its Islamic immigrants or be Islamicized.

The title of your paper is "Christian Science Monitor". Here is a prediction: The great Cathederals of Europe will be Mosques in 50 years. I don't believe the Europeans believe in their heritage enough to defend it and insist on Europeanizing their Islamic immigrants.

But it is wrong not to encourage them to try. Wrong for Christians. Wrong for Civilization itself.