[backhoe]

Of the half-a-dozen or so explanations of "why Europeans are on the wrong side of this," all make a certain amount of sense, but the big, mostly unmentioned one is- fear.

They are mortally afraid of the hoards of unassimilated immigrants, many of them Muslim, who have flooded their countries.

[Phillip Augustus]

Good point, and it's one that Euro-bashing Freepers need to take into account- not that I agree with the European hand-wringing. Let's face it; if Israel was having problems with Africans instead of Palestinians do you think for a moment that US politicians would not pay very, VERY careful attention to the concerns of African-Americans? Better believe they would. And, while the Muslim population of Europe percentage-wise is less than half of the US black population, it's still a very important consideration over there, and I'm not really talking in terms of votes, I'm talking in terms of riot prevention.