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The European Powder Keg
Michael Yon ^ | October 26, 2015

Posted on 10/26/2015 8:36:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As refugee invaders continue to swarm into Europe, reports of violence continue to pour in from across the continent. I have been communicating with many Europeans from many countries ranging from Norway to Greece. Some I meet in person, others on the phone or email.

Yesterday, I spoke with two Finnish people for about two hours. A man and a woman. Both expressed anger and frustration. They said that reports blindly call the invaders Syrians, but that most in their area are Iraqis and Somalis, or from other parts of Africa.

The Finns told me that the refugees have a sense of entitlement, are rude and demanding, and the vast majority are young men. They said that many Finns are becoming angry.

Many of us who have seen conflicts and wars are greatly concerned. Most of us who know something about the sorts of people flooding in, and their host nations such as Germany, are extremely concerned.

Examples:

1) The invaders will not understand local laws and customs, and most will not care. They will do what they can get away with.

2) They will bring fights from home that most locals do not care about or want any part of. For instance Sunni vs. Shia. Arabs vs. Kurds. Arabs and Muslims vs. Jews. These fights will spill onto local streets in places like Sweden, Germany and Italy.

3) They will bring intolerance toward women and others such as homosexuals.

4) They will throw trash on the streets.

5) Some cultures from the source areas are apt to react suddenly and violently to little more than rumors. For instance, many Iraqis are easily provoked to violence. Been there, seen that many times. That is not xenophobia, that is reality.

6) Sense of entitlement that will certainly anger many European cultures, such as Germans.

7) Economically, this is a disaster unwinding. Even without violence – and there will be violence – housing, feeding, and educating possibly millions of invaders will cost as much as a war.

8) Many will not assimilate at all and will create ghettos, as normal.

9) Outsiders will inject money to build mosques, but not to help care for the invaders.

10) Some will use these mosques to create hate centers and to spread the caliphate beyond even their dreams. There will be attacks on Jews and others.

11) As they gain in numbers and citizenship, voting demographics will change and forms of democracy will become less attractive.

In small concentrations, the host nations can absorb this and keep moving.

At some point a critical mass will be reached, causing at first local extremists to rise up and grow. First locals argue and bicker with each other – such as normal Germans becoming angry with the rapid growth of neo-Nazis that can be flamed by the refugee invasion. So Germans will likely first argue with other Germans.

The inevitable sparks will fly, violence from refugees towards Germans (or whomever), or from Germans towards refugees can spark backlash. The security forces such as police cannot control widespread discontent, and suddenly normally peaceful Germans and the peaceful elements of the refugees are inflamed.

Provocateurs will pour on the gas as they always do. We saw this endlessly in Iraq. And remember…many of the invaders are Iraqis.

Eventually in Iraq the Coalition had to install miles of concrete barriers to separate various groups not from attack us so much, but from attacking each other. Someone would blow up a mosque, as example, and in a thirst for revenge, Iraqis would grab their AKs and knives and in the morning there were heads in the streets.

There is some idea that the US caused all this to happen in Iraq, but in reality a study of their history easily reveals that this is just part of the Iraqi backdrop.

There were no “good ole’” days in their modern history.

The wisdom of US involvement is a separate question, yet more broadly the endless fighting in the Middle East and parts of Africa pre-dates US involvement.

They fight. Some fish just do not get along in the same aquarium. This is not xenophobia – coming from someone who has been to more than 70 countries for about 25 years -- this is experience talking. I and many others have been direct witness many times in many countries.

I spent more than 10 years in Europe and the Middle East. It is clear that many sorts of cultures are flooding in, and not all are the same.

For instance Kurds normally easily get along with westerners, but Arabs and Kurds often fight – even though most Arabs and most Kurds are Muslim. Most of the fighting is Muslim on Muslim, sectarian, ethnic, tribal, power fights, criminality, etc.

In many cases it is just blood feud. Iraqi Kurdish Muslims tend to get along great with Israeli-Jews, but many Iraqi Arab Muslims would kill every Israeli and every Jew on earth.

Those who are reacting cowardly in the face of this threat often deflect by saying, “But it’s the fault of America!”

The reality is that it does not matter who started the fire at this point. And America did not start the many blood feuds. Some were going long before the Pilgrims landed in America. There no end in view to some of the blood feuds that will spill onto European streets.

The fire is on. Europe will either fight it or not. Let the historians sort out who started it. (Hint: Religious and cultural.)

Time will be the litmus.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alexistsipras; eurabia; europeanunion; france; germany; greece; hijrah; hirah; iran; iraq; kurdistan; nato; syria; syriza; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 10/26/2015 8:36:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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2 posted on 10/26/2015 8:38:36 PM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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3) They will bring intolerance toward women and others such as homosexuals...

No, that’s the CHRISTIANS, remember? Especially those Crazy Cowboy Boot Wearing Christians from the US!!

Good luck, Europe.


3 posted on 10/26/2015 8:43:07 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is how countries, societies are de-stabilized, balkanized etc. The resulting turmoil then results in takeover by any strong man who can promise or maybe even deliver order. The best that they can hope for is that man is western and nominally Christian. Putin is a good example.

How Merkel is still in office is amazing.


4 posted on 10/26/2015 8:44:12 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Muggers, rapists, pedophiles, bureaucrats, and POLITICIANS want you disarmed.)
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How Merkel is still in office is amazing.

Germans are as addicted to the welfare state as Americans are.

Sometimes you just have to let the kid stick the butter knife into the electrical outlet.

5 posted on 10/26/2015 8:47:43 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Kill them Europe before they rape and kill you.


6 posted on 10/26/2015 9:10:01 PM PDT by gwgn02
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“3) They will bring intolerance toward women and others such as homosexuals...”

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Why always bring up women and homos when discussing the joys of Islam and not mention the mass murder that accompany the spread of this vile religion?


7 posted on 10/26/2015 9:14:48 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Blue Jays

Maybe, just maybe...a complete and utter meltdown in Europe just might open eyes in the United States?
Difficult to say for sure, yet trying to see some silver lining to the very dark cloud.

8 posted on 10/26/2015 9:20:23 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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I guess they dont mind if they kill Christian men.

But NO women and gays!

Women wont be killed so much as owned and gays will be thrown from rooftops.

you know, as much trouble as we have with the swarms at our border, I’d rather have them next to us than any muslim country.

Had a lot of illegals in my cab when i drove, none loved America, none hated America. It’s just a place to make some bucks.

They still have to go, every one, but they dont consider us the great Satan. More like the Great Sucker.


9 posted on 10/26/2015 9:20:23 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: MinorityRepublican

Europe your civil war begins now. And don’t expect America to bail your sorry butts out again.


10 posted on 10/26/2015 10:27:59 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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Europe your civil war begins now. And don’t expect America to bail your sorry butts out again.

That's because we'll be too busy fighting our own civil war against largely the same sort of traitors and the throngs they have been allowing to invade OUR country.
11 posted on 10/26/2015 11:24:44 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: MinorityRepublican
9) Outsiders will inject money to build mosques, but not to help care for the invaders.
10) Some will use these mosques to create hate centers and to spread the caliphate beyond even their dreams. There will be attacks on Jews and others.

Read...
Oil rich muslim countries, closed societies ostensibly our "allies" funding terrorism and everything attached to terrorism.

12 posted on 10/26/2015 11:32:44 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: Slyfox

Has anyone ever found a large, clear (legible) version of this map?


13 posted on 10/26/2015 11:40:07 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To me it’s legible at the source (http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/TheBlogFromTheCore20060309Lg.jpg)


14 posted on 10/26/2015 11:50:47 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Blue Jays
The US’s eyes should have been wide open from 1983 (Beirut Marines barracks attack) onwards till now but, sadly,m they are not.

Sept. 11th 2001 SHOULD have caused a major upheaval in US policy but that too, fell by the wayside.

IF, G-d forbid, Hilliary is elected, it's all over fro the US and the West.

Putin and the Axis of Evil will make bold moves around the world. What they are doing now are preparatory prepositioning. We have yet to see the major moves.

President Ovomit has facilitated the end of US power, prestige and influence around the world but then again, isn't this what the majority of dingbats in the US voted for - twice!?

National and International suicide?

15 posted on 10/27/2015 12:47:56 AM PDT by Netz
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To: Netz

...sorry for the typos...


16 posted on 10/27/2015 12:49:23 AM PDT by Netz
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To: MinorityRepublican

For over a decade Michael has given us great snapshots of what is really happening abroad. This is powerful.


17 posted on 10/27/2015 1:01:25 AM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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18 posted on 10/27/2015 4:03:32 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I see this as a positive.

Europe was asleep until the invasion.

They are about to awaken with a bucket of ice water poured on them.

19 posted on 10/27/2015 4:32:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
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My hope is that "radicalized Islamic jihadist momentum" does not spread over the ocean to the United States.
That is the one natural barrier that I thank goodness is there to prevent hordes of them from easily reaching us.

20 posted on 10/27/2015 6:58:33 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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