Reply #13: Europaean immigrants are not 'overwhelmingly Muslim' [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

In the UK, about 14% of the population are of foreign descent of some sort; the proportion of Muslims in the population is under 3%. In Germany, about 19% of the population are of some sort of foreign descent; about 4% of the German population is Muslim. Moroever, the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Germany are of Turkish origin, and Turkey is not exactly a theocracy (e.g. wearing the burqa in public is officially disapproved there, though some women wear it anyway).

And such things as decriminalized pot and prostitution in the Netherlands are hardly part of the 'historical patrimony'; they are of recent origin, and more at risk from the Traditional Values voters who are numerous in Europe if less so than in America, than from the relatively small numbers of Muslims.

The term 'Eurabia' comes from right-wingers who are just as against legal pot, etc. as Muslim fundies are. They include some specific Islamophobes: some Europeaeans who dislike all immigrants (e.g. Melanie Phillips); and some Americans who dislike all or most Europaeans - and sometimes seem to attack us for being secular and Islam-influenced in the same breath! Apart from anything else, the term is highly misleading as most Muslims in Europe are not Arabs.