Hat tip to Islam in Europe and Karen Lugo
Karen Lugo has sent me this video from a recent conference at Brussels Free University (UBL) on the subject of assimilation. It highlights the pitiful state of the Europeans in dealing with a Muslim population that is opposed to assimilation and, in fact, has no respect for the traditions and culture of the country they have immigrated to. Watch the disruption that takes place on February 7. The video is in French, but the article summarizes the dialogue.
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2012/02/brussels-university-debate-disturbed-by.html
I don't know whether to feel sorry for the Europeans or laugh at them. They have no clue as to how to deal with these disruptors. This, of course, is the country that gave Europe not only its worst drivers, but EU President Herman van Rompuy. No wonder British member of the European Parliament, Nigel Farage, refers to Belgium derisively as "half a country".
Heretofore, the Belgians have been divided on the issue of language, French vs. Flemish (a variation of Dutch. That is nothing compared to what they have to deal with now.
From one European country to another, the issue of assimilation is front and center when it comes to their militant Muslim immigrants. Assimilation, of course, has always been a principle we have insisted on in American immigration. This modern-day idea of "multi-culturalism" has challenged that concept. One by one, European nations have realized that it has failed in their experiment.
According to the American experiment, a nation can consist of different races, religions and national origins as long as they accept the idea of assimilating into Americans. We should never give up that principle. I don't think the Europeans have any grasp of it because when the immigration began decades ago, they never thought it was important. Now they are reaping the catastrophic results.
Is the cultural competition between Flemings and Walloons particularly different than Muslims who don't wish to assimilate? In fact, what common national culture IS there to assimilate to?
ReplyDeleteWhile there are dangers in the situation, Europe brought this on itself by
a) colonizing people of markedly different cultures, inevitably bringing them into the ambit of various empires, and drawing people from the former colonies who simply chose to "follow the money," and,
b) having all kinds of cultural battles of their own, sense of superiority, and resistance to "assimilating" with each other.
Our traditions, while always challenged by each new wave of immigrants, are markedly different.
Karen spoke at the ACTforAmerica meeting tonight and mentioned this episode. If you will notice, there is another link to "Islam4____" You fill in the name of the country. It seems to be some organization or affiliation of like minded people who want to turn one country after another into a Muslim, Sharia compliant, country.
ReplyDeleteJust as the Englishman who addressed the CPAC conference said, over there some are waking up to the disastrous problems of entitlement, assimilation, free government handouts, national debt, etc. and a few of them are trying to apply the brakes just at the edge of the cliff. Then they look in their rear view mirror and see America gaining on them on the same path. See what's happened to us, he says! Don't go there!
This video of a disruption is just one aspect of life if we follow their lead. We've already seen it at UCI first hand.
If you don't see what is happening to us or try to minimize it, you are doing it with wilfull disregard of the evidence. I suppose the reason is so you can continue to pray at the liberal altar ... no matter what. Vote for Obama again and you will see how fast we can catch up to Europe.
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Yes, Miggie, and there are American Christians who assure you that someday "every knee shall bow, every tongue confess" that a minor rabble-rouser executed by the Romans during the governorship of Pontius Pilatus "is Lord, the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity." You find them in every religion... even the ultra-Orthodox Jews who spit at school girls and throw rocks at people driving on Saturday.
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