The major events of history are never predicted or anticipated. Highly paid analysts who may talk at incredible lengths about world events will get astonished by what comes from nowhere and takes us all by surprise.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, Tianamin Square, The Fall of Apartheid, The dissolution of the Soviet Union, etc etc. Nobody expected or predicted them and yet they were major events in the history of our planet. My contention is that this Muslim migration is the current world changing event that no one saw coming. Its crept up on us and I don't think we understand the gravity of it.
In the last few years the press found a few Arab Counties that seemed to becoming more democratic and tossing out their old despotic leaders and it was hailed as "The Arab Spring". Anticipations were that there would be a domino effect of liberalization of the Arab World. Instead we have an "Islamic Explosion". The Muslim world is exploding and its people are fleeing to the lure of the west.
Today there is this huge wave of migrants from north Africa and Asia who are storming the borders of Western Europe seeking refuge from their own culture and yet faithfully transporting it with them. So many of their countries are in chaos, or on the brink of it. And in countries where they are a significant minority there is turmoil and strife around them.
Can the West absorb this mass influx of poorly educated, people into countries where they usually cannot even speak the language? Western cultures have a strong ethic of compassion and tolerance and most of us naturally want to help. Yet that is not the way of the migrants. Islam preaches intolerance with a heavy dogma. Most of them are peace loving people who want to become citizens of the West.
I have traveled a bit around Asian Countries. Muslim and non Muslim. In the process have met wonderful people from both sides, been to a Ramadam feast, and I have always felt uneasy in Muslim cultures. The feeling of degradation and control of women gives me the creeps. Women in garbs which they have little option about whether they wish to adopt or not. Its a culture which I find deeply oppressive,
The I am not going to try to compete with the well educated analysts trying to forecast the outcome of all this. My choice is to stand back as an observer wondering how it is all going to pan out in the years ahead. It good to converse with people who have a positive view of where this will lead to. It is certainly going to be the greatest challenge the West has faced.
I am kind of glad that I live on an Island surrounded by water not so easy to cross. Europe is facing an incredible dilemma. Is being compassionate and invitation to the devil to wreak your household? Or will these migrants turn out to be an incredible asset. I don't know but you can probably guess which way I lean.
I remember the days when Communism was seen as the big threat on this planet. It was seen as a creeping virus infecting the free world. And in the course of time we can see that it was never really a threat. In countries that adopted it, it worked well for a few years and then fizzled. And today we look back in amazement at the phobia there was about it. Am I just being Islamaphoic? Becoming neurotic about something that will resolve itself in time. Hell I really don't know. I really hope I am wrong because the conflict between the Islamic and the Christian world goes back a long way in history and it has caused some incredible conflict.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, Tianamin Square, The Fall of Apartheid, The dissolution of the Soviet Union, etc etc. Nobody expected or predicted them and yet they were major events in the history of our planet. My contention is that this Muslim migration is the current world changing event that no one saw coming. Its crept up on us and I don't think we understand the gravity of it.
In the last few years the press found a few Arab Counties that seemed to becoming more democratic and tossing out their old despotic leaders and it was hailed as "The Arab Spring". Anticipations were that there would be a domino effect of liberalization of the Arab World. Instead we have an "Islamic Explosion". The Muslim world is exploding and its people are fleeing to the lure of the west.
Today there is this huge wave of migrants from north Africa and Asia who are storming the borders of Western Europe seeking refuge from their own culture and yet faithfully transporting it with them. So many of their countries are in chaos, or on the brink of it. And in countries where they are a significant minority there is turmoil and strife around them.
Can the West absorb this mass influx of poorly educated, people into countries where they usually cannot even speak the language? Western cultures have a strong ethic of compassion and tolerance and most of us naturally want to help. Yet that is not the way of the migrants. Islam preaches intolerance with a heavy dogma. Most of them are peace loving people who want to become citizens of the West.
I have traveled a bit around Asian Countries. Muslim and non Muslim. In the process have met wonderful people from both sides, been to a Ramadam feast, and I have always felt uneasy in Muslim cultures. The feeling of degradation and control of women gives me the creeps. Women in garbs which they have little option about whether they wish to adopt or not. Its a culture which I find deeply oppressive,
The I am not going to try to compete with the well educated analysts trying to forecast the outcome of all this. My choice is to stand back as an observer wondering how it is all going to pan out in the years ahead. It good to converse with people who have a positive view of where this will lead to. It is certainly going to be the greatest challenge the West has faced.
I am kind of glad that I live on an Island surrounded by water not so easy to cross. Europe is facing an incredible dilemma. Is being compassionate and invitation to the devil to wreak your household? Or will these migrants turn out to be an incredible asset. I don't know but you can probably guess which way I lean.
I remember the days when Communism was seen as the big threat on this planet. It was seen as a creeping virus infecting the free world. And in the course of time we can see that it was never really a threat. In countries that adopted it, it worked well for a few years and then fizzled. And today we look back in amazement at the phobia there was about it. Am I just being Islamaphoic? Becoming neurotic about something that will resolve itself in time. Hell I really don't know. I really hope I am wrong because the conflict between the Islamic and the Christian world goes back a long way in history and it has caused some incredible conflict.
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