Posted on 01/09/2009 5:56:46 PM PST by Steelfish
Europe: Unfettered Muslim immigration driving people to the political right
Posted by acorcoran on January 9, 2009
Here is a lengthy and thoughtful article in something called Women’s International Perspective about how the resurgence of the right in various European countries is being driven by anger over uncontrolled Muslim immigration.
We often hear people say that Europe is ten to fifteen years ahead of the US in the swinging of the political pendulum. This article makes me think there is something to that.
First Europe happily opened its gates wide to immigrants from everywhere, multiculturalism ruled, now inexorably the pendulum is swinging back with more Austrians, Dutch and Danes standing up to save their cultures and their economies. There is also great fear that the generous social welfare system is being sunk by the influx of unemployable foreigners. So, as the US swings way Left, Europe is heading to the Right.
Author, Handan T. Satiroglu, begins:
Not too far from the Baroque palaces and Gothic cathedrals that made the city of Vienna famous, a group of jubilant men and women are packed into a café. Glasses clink with each congratulatory toast. Jubilations like “long live populism,” and “Austria is the Freedom Party” fly randomly across the room. On that memorable September evening, I watched the celebration of the far-right triumph in Austria. It was the Austrian ‘extremist’ right’s best performance since World War II.
If the old face of the Far-Right in Europe resembled that of a combative fascist, these new ordinary faces put those images to rest. Gone are the days when support for the radical right came from neo-Nazi elements in European society; they now come from ordinary citizens, concerned not only about bleeding social welfare programs, but also from worries about the continued influx of immigration – a feeling that is likely to worsen as recession hangs over the continent.
“I voted for the Freedom Party to stop immigrants from burdening our social welfare system,” says Lukas, a grandfatherly figure and government employee. A former supporter of the Social Democrats, he gestures towards the rushing pedestrians outside the café, “Austria has inhaled enough people. We are full.”
There is quite the recipe for radicalization across the Western world. It’s almost as if *somebody* wants to destabilize certain countries.
Europeans who try to protect their countries from violent invasion by voting for a certain political party in peaceful elections are vile “far-right” extremists who must be stopped at any cost, yet the Islamists who attempt to convert these countries to their way of thinking by murdering anyone who disagrees with them and destroying private property are “misunderstood youth” fighting for “justice and equality”.
Ping
I don’t think a civilized, well-meaning people - regular people, not far-left fanatics - can continue to extend an open hand and a social safety net to any and all immigrants. Not in America, a jobs-producing country (well we used to be), and certainly not in Europe. There are too few jobs and way to many poor, uneducated immigrants to be absorbed without undue financial and cultural strain. The worldwide recession just makes it more impossible. They must be prepared and stalwart enough to use whatever force that is necessary.
Add to the normal problems brought by too many immigrants, the Euros now have the dangerous, inflexible demands of the muzzies and their extreme so-called religion. Can’t say they didn’t ask for it for years by welcoming the cheap labor but now that it’s out of hand I wish them well in waking up and trying to reclaim their countries and societies.
oops - The last line of the 1st paragraph is misplaced, it should end the 2nd paragraph.
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