Taking in large amounts of Muslims is NOT what the US should do. Now Europe has a historical moral obligation given that it was ESPECIALLY MOSTLY England and France that especially profited from the carving up of Southwest Asia/Middle East into inchoate nations that make very little cultural sense but were mainly useful for these two nations desire to control oil and other natural resources and trade routes.
England and France controlled most of the colonies in East Asia and Southwest Asia and in Africa. Spain and Portugal the next most in Africa and the Netherlands held Indonesia. Germany and Italy controlled portions of Africa. Belgium raped the Congo for almost a century.
With that being said, these European nations exploited the natural resources through divide and conquer politics that placed one ethnic/cultural/language group above another. This new order was then made manifest by the weapons that were supplied by each of these European nations to the side it wished to have win.
The wars occurring in Asia and Africa are the outcomes of European colonization which stated that Whites were superior in every way from culture to consumption to art and literature and especially technology/science. These colonial nations copied their exploiters and now are on consumption binges of their own. The displaced people are Europe's orphans.
Now the large Muslim influx will destabilize these traditionally Catholic and Protestant strongholds unless they force the refugees to assimilate and convert. The key is not to allow stupid cultural openness to be coupled with an idiotic tolerance then married to democracy to permit these actually pluralistic democracies to be destroyed with chants of false racism and a false Islamophobia. Democracy should not be allowed to be used to destroy democracy and multi-culturalism does not mean that traditional Catholicism and Protestantism should be made subordinate to an Islam that threatens the freedom and equality of women. The other problem is that most of Islam except for the Sufis are highly homophobic as in put to death while Catholicism and Protestantism are hemmed in, thankfully, by constitutional law and human rights concerns that lessen their homophobic impact.
England and France controlled most of the colonies in East Asia and Southwest Asia and in Africa. Spain and Portugal the next most in Africa and the Netherlands held Indonesia. Germany and Italy controlled portions of Africa. Belgium raped the Congo for almost a century.
With that being said, these European nations exploited the natural resources through divide and conquer politics that placed one ethnic/cultural/language group above another. This new order was then made manifest by the weapons that were supplied by each of these European nations to the side it wished to have win.
The wars occurring in Asia and Africa are the outcomes of European colonization which stated that Whites were superior in every way from culture to consumption to art and literature and especially technology/science. These colonial nations copied their exploiters and now are on consumption binges of their own. The displaced people are Europe's orphans.
Now the large Muslim influx will destabilize these traditionally Catholic and Protestant strongholds unless they force the refugees to assimilate and convert. The key is not to allow stupid cultural openness to be coupled with an idiotic tolerance then married to democracy to permit these actually pluralistic democracies to be destroyed with chants of false racism and a false Islamophobia. Democracy should not be allowed to be used to destroy democracy and multi-culturalism does not mean that traditional Catholicism and Protestantism should be made subordinate to an Islam that threatens the freedom and equality of women. The other problem is that most of Islam except for the Sufis are highly homophobic as in put to death while Catholicism and Protestantism are hemmed in, thankfully, by constitutional law and human rights concerns that lessen their homophobic impact.
