[extropy-chat] Edge: Thank Goodness! By Daniel C. Dennett

[BillK]

On 11/6/06, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Europe is finished.  A Muslim civilization will replace it.
>
> But in North America, the situation is less clear.
> An elite in North America can continue to "run things" for a very long
> time yet.  This is because as the class structure of the country becomes
> more pronounced, the lower classes shall respond to direction, just as
> they do in Mexico today, whereas in Europe, the Muslims have superior
> cohesion and superior will.
>
> Now, more and more people in the west are coming to see the danger,
> and so resistence, even in Europe, may mount, and in interesting ways.
> Prognostications, anyone?
>

The FT had a contrary opinion article recently which says that Europe
is now waking up to the problem of an aggresive Muslin minority.
Currently, of the 456m people of the EU, just 15m to 16m are Muslim.

<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bae746ae-5d38-11db-9d15-0000779e2340.html>

US prophets of Europe's doom are half wrong
By Gideon Rachman        Published: October 16 2006

European governments are acutely aware of this and are changing
policies in response. The British are rethinking their "multicultural"
approach to immigration; the French are considering positive
discrimination; the Danes have cracked down on arranged marriages. Who
knows – some of these policies may even work. If they do not, politics
and policies will change again. Of all the many scenarios for the
future of Europe, perhaps the least likely is that Europeans simply
sleep-walk off a cliff.
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BillK