[Systemz]

Go Ronnie Go.
I Wish Nixon had taken the wall down. If Realpolitik had won, the world would be so much more 1984.

And as for YOU, abcd, the reason people keep bringing up cliches is because they're true. And your cultural warfare idea is bullshit. Immigrants from developing states have a right to retain their culture if it doesn't harm their host country, just as I have the right to mark down my religious affiliation as "jedi" if I want to. Your claims to be downplaying the issue of race you should quit talking about "systematic cultural warfare". If the EU isn't threatened by the influx of race into their borders, what are they afraid of? The cooking? People taking the jobs Europeans can't bear to do? Honest folk who work hard, destroying the total lack of competition that Europe has enjoyed for the past 50 years? So if its not economic, is it social? Are Euros afraid of hearing another language on their streets? Music they haven't heard? For a supposedly cosmopolitan atmosphere you're casting Europeans as about as emancipated as North Korea. If they so fear the influx of Arab nationals into their soil, they should think about the fact that Islam has had a pretty decent time of it in North America - remember that not a single American national was a perpetrator in 9/11. They were Saudis, mostly. So if you're worried about their borders, tell 'em to tighten their visa system, not immigration. And I think anytime you start talking about a group of people who are infecting and altering a once-proud society I can pretty much refer to Hitler - certainly that's what he was talking about in Mein Kampf? So now we've got ourselves an International Islamic Conspiracy. That's what they must be chanting in those mosques! Secret code!
Islam has a proud and honest history. Prior to the colonial era, Islam was one of the most vibrant and advanced civilizations in the world. Hell, they even read Aristotle and Plato! It wasn't until Marcus Aurelius rediscovered the classics via Muslim-dominated Spain that we got on the road to the rennaisance. If you want to look at a religion well-suited to conquest and destruction, how about we look at Christianity? Crusades, anyone? I don't see Tunisian tanks lined up on the shores, ready to attack France at a moment's notice. A few fundamentalists and crazies get a piece of the pie in every culture - simply because the West has turned to Islam to be the bad guy now that the USSR is in tatters doesn't mean the scenario's any different - now we've got the Green Menace, instead of the Red. It's all bullshit to drum up support and contain the population by fear.