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Europe
Saudi paper: U.S. studies Islam in Europe
2005-05-24
A Saudi newspaper said Tuesday the United States is working on a plan to protect Europe from Islamization. The semi-official daily al-Watan quoted an unidentified Dutch political source as saying the initiative was drawn up by a team of 15 political experts, security, science and social advisers, and led by a former CIA official who headed the Middle East department for several years.
"semi-official", "unidentified source", "ex-CIA official", why it must be true!
The source told the pro-government paper the initiative would deal with the actual number of Muslims in Europe and the effect their population growth will have on European demographics. He said the project is the result of American fears of the effect of Muslims on the European political systems and governments, "especially with the trend of Europeans to choose leftist and socialist governments in the aftermath of growing violence and Islamic threats."
Not a unreasonable fear
The U.S. State Department declined comment.
Like I said before, the last to know.
Posted by:Steve

#5  "especially with the trend of Europeans to choose leftist and socialist governments in the aftermath of growing violence and Islamic threats." That would be reference to Spain. We are still in the middle of act one and its far from clear where this will lead us. On a related note. The financial press is full of reports about Europe's 'baffling' economic weakness. Its not baffling at all, as low skill and low employment immigrants form an increasing proportion of your population, your overall economic performance will decline. The fog of PCism can only obscure this simple fact for so long.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-05-24 17:51  

#4  the trend of Europeans to choose leftist and socialist governments in the aftermath of growing violence and Islamic threats

So Phrance, Germany, the Low Countries, etc. were NOT socialist and leftist before 3/11? Well, that's it then. Put the Islamists to the torch!
Posted by: mmurray821   2005-05-24 17:05  

#3  especially with the trend of Europeans to choose leftist and socialist governments in the aftermath of growing violence and Islamic threats."

Now this is just silly. The ONLY example is Spain, and that not at all clear, as most Socialist voters were unhappy with Aznar before the Madrid attack.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-05-24 17:01  

#2  If not true, it's certainly not too late to get working on such a study. For us, the influence of Euro msulims' rapidly-increasing % of EU electorates is the most important Euro-issue we face. Far more consequential than the EU constitution votes.
Posted by: thibaud (aka lex)   2005-05-24 16:43  

#1  Too bad for the Europeans it isn't true.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-05-24 16:39  

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