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Europe’s Heart of Darkness


September 6th, 2007 · Christianity, Europe, Great Britain and Ireland, Judaism, Law and Legal Affairs, Religion, World Affairs

The Inde­pen­dent in Britain reports:

Switzer­land is known as a haven of peace and neu­tral­ity. But today it is home to a new extrem­ism that has alarmed the United Nations. Pro­pos­als for dra­con­ian new laws that tar­get the country’s immi­grants have been con­demned as unjust and racist. A poster cam­paign, the work of its lead­ing polit­i­cal party, is decried as xeno­pho­bic. Has Switzer­land become Europe’s heart of darkness?

I’ve hinted at this in prior posts (see here, here, here and here), but now I’ll finally say it out­right: Euro­peans may soon turn on Mus­lims just like they did on Jews in the Mid­dle Ages (see here, here and here). (How­ever, medieval Jews posed no threat to their neigh­bors; extrem­ist Mus­lims do today. This is a cru­cial dif­fer­ence.) If the Islamic com­mu­nity can­not police its own, then Mus­lims will face a harsh back­lash from their com­mu­ni­ties and coun­tries. I would hate to see that day.