OT: Inshallah - in Europa herrscht auschliesslich Allah! US-Ansichten:

verfasst von Emerald, 09.07.2005, 09:14

-->article by Peter Grier entitled,"A Crescent Over Europe." This article deals with a critical subject, and I'm going to include some quotes below.

"For well over half a century, America has enjoyed exceptionally close securities ties with Europe. However, this Atlantic partnership might not survive a basic change in Europe's basic nature. Few ever believed such a thing could happen, but within the next several decades, Europe could well undergo such a change. The Continent's restive Islamic minority is poised to grow in number and hence in political power, and it is overwhelmingly anti-American.

Incredible as it might seem, some experts predict that Europe will have an Islamic majority sometime well before the end of this century. Thus, the US may at some point look across the Atlantic and see not the familiar, nominally Christian, and largely secular partner it has known for many decades, but something else entirely: an Islamic Europe.

Europe today is home to some 23 million Muslims. That is about five percent of the Continent's population. These numbers, however, do not include Turkey to the mix and Islam's share of the European population bumps up to 15 percent. Furthermore, European Muslims are concentrated in a few nations -- France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Muslims now make up more than a quarter of the population of Marseilles, they are 15 percent of Brussels and Paris, and 10 percent of Amsterdam. For the most part they live in enclaves in the poorer sections of town.

Over the last 30 years, Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled, and its growth rate continues to accelerate. Current projections hold that the number of Muslims immigrating illegally into Europe are estimated to be 500,000 a year. In European communities, high birth rate is the norm. Forty percent of the Arab world is under 14. Demographers tell us that the fertility replacement rate for Muslims is 2.1 children per woman. Europe is frightfully below this level.

Should Europe fear internal jihad? After all, the al Qaeda cell that spawned much of the Sept. 11 plot was formed in Hamburg, Germany. Spanish authorities put more than 20 Muslims on trial in the largest criminal prosecution anywhere for Sept. 11-related crimes.

European foreign policies already have been affected. Chirac's adamant stance against Washington's drive to war in Iraq no doubt stemmed, in part, from opposition of France's Islamic residents.

The US will continue to confront Islamic terrorists around the world. At the same time, Washington's oldest allies will be engaged in a different kind of struggle with Islam, one with world-significant consequences.

The outcome of this other struggle cannot be predicted. Europe may in the end by reinvigorated by its influx of Muslims, just as America repeatedly has been renewed by immigration and new cultures.

Either way, the West should be probably prepared to bid farewell to the old, comfortable, transatlantic world of the last half-century.

Russell Comment -- I don't know if the above story makes me feel any more comfortable.

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I just read an interesting report by Richard Benson of the Specialty Finance Group, LLC out of Florida. Benson appears to agree with me about housing. In fact, Benson believes that the cost of carrying a house will militate towards wiping out the middle class.

I've said all along that when you buy a house, figure that it will cost you 10 percent of the price of the house to carry your house. This includes the mortgage cost, the loss of income in the money you put into the house, the insurance, the repairs, and the taxes. But nobody believes my 10 percent rule -- until they own their house for a few years or so.

The house Faye and I live in was built in 1938. We just put a new roof on our house, and I hate to tell you what that cost. Now one of the rooms has"lost" its electricity, and I need an electrician. Also, when the new roof was put on we found termites. The house needs to be tented.

This is how Benson describes the potential problems in owning your own home."Indeed, homes have a tendency to actually make you poor because the need to be financed and furnished. Older homes become deep money pits: roofs need replacing, drains clog, termites gnaw at the foundations, while squirrels and mice move in. Pipes break, furnaces fail, and in the south, mold and mildew can't even be insured. Walls need paint, bricks cry out for tuck-pointing and yards need constant care. Worse yet, when it comes to the state and local governments, they are always looking for someone to tax. As soon as you buy a house, you have just raised your hand and announced, 'please tax me.' While some localities offer tax breaks to primary residents, second home and investor property owners get hit full bore on tax increases."

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