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”a Europe with a high unemployment isn't very likely to import more workers for jobs that don't exist.”

good point but not accurate, it is much like the illegal argument where people don’t want to work for near nothing.

” Seems to me that those who see some kind of prophetic vision in Steyn's piece are, by association, arguing against success in Iraq.

No, you must of miss understood what I was saying earlier. The Muslim majorities become complacent if they are under Shari laws even if it is a tyrannical government. Obviously from the migration of Muslim’s to western countries they don’t mind a free society given the chance. I believe most in Iraq are taking advantage of that opportunity.

"Steyn says that Europeans will be reluctant to give up the perks they have gotten."

This is true. The Europeans have learned to vote themselves 'freebies', they are not going change.

” why would they (Europeans) be any less reluctant to give up perks, or liberties for that matter, if there is a larger population of Muslims on the continent?”

I don’t understand this question. I am misunderstanding this question because perks are not liberties. Unless you consider a tax a liberty. I get stuck on that point and I cann't move on.

In other words, Steyn argues that Europeans have grown accustomed to a certain way of life that he says will eventually prove fatal. Are Muslims included in that population that has become familiar with whatever that may be?

If I understand what is meant by "sharia?" "Shari?"--a more fundamentalist-radical kind of Islam--I don't buy that idea that Muslims in Europe would embrace the concept. Seems to me there are a number of Muslims, everywhere in the West, who are "faithful" to their religion w/o being fundamentalist. So why would a vocal minority of fundamentalists sway all and any of them in country? Not all Muslims are that way in countries where Islam is predominant.