RE: Up to 5,000 Europeans joined jihad,
The even more important question is this — how many “Europeans” ( note the quotes ) actually SUPPORT their doing so?
“Will the threat of Islam be the glue that keeps Europe together?”
They first have to start electing leaders who will open their eyes to the threat that allowing immigration from Muslim countries is.
5,000: AKA “A small insignificant minority”.
Just because they were born in Europe (of foreign national parents) does not make them Europeans.
The fact is that the disbelief of many real Europeans that a person born and raised in a European country would go against their “country” is an indicator that this has nothing to do with their country of birth and everything to do with their islamic beliefs.
The conflict at hand is an islamic war against the rest of the world and none of them has any loyalty to any particular country regardless of how long they’ve been there.
France allowed this infestation of cockroaches and it will take drastic measures to clean out the nests.
The French fought this infestation and won in 732 but they have forgotten that lesson of history and forgotten what it took to defeat the muslim’s Nazi brethren in the last century.
It took the Spaniards 200 years to finally rid themselves of their infestation in 1492.
It was a hard fight to finally run out the last of the invaders from Prague in 1648.
The modern world is already late in understanding that there are no moderate or peaceful muslims, only those taking actions and those supporting them and/or waiting to take action.
I'd bet my house the number is way less than 10% if you eliminate the Balkan contingent.