I'm sure that the plan sounds really good in the original French and makes perfect sense. Unfortunately for the nominally Christian Europeans, that's their logic and not the Islamists' logic. This path will turn out badly for the Europeans, as Steyn writes:
The joke about Mandatory Palestine was that it was the twice-promised land. But isn’t that Europe, too? And perhaps Russia and maybe Canada, a little ways down the line? Two cultures jostling within the same piece of real estate. Not long ago, I found myself watching the video of another “pro-Palestinian” protest in central London with the Metropolitan Police retreating up St. James’s Street to Piccadilly in the face of a mob hurling traffic cones and jeering, “Run, run, you cowards!” and “Allahu akbar!” You would think the deluded multi-culti progressives would understand: In the end, this isn’t about Gaza, this isn’t about the Middle East; it’s about them. It may be some consolation to an ever-lonelier Israel that, in one of history’s bleaker jests, in the coming Europe the Europeans will be the new Jews.
This will end badly for the Europeans, if they keep going this way. Heck, how will the Europeans complain about the tactics of Islamist persecution of Europeans once the Jews are gone if their only complaint will be that they are now on the receiving end of those tactics by the majority Moslems?
How much time does Europe have to realize it must take its place in the front ranks to defend Western civilization from Medieval forces that would tear down what Europeans have built over the centuries?
