I see there has been a lot of activity while I was thinking. Anyway, here's me thoughts prior to those new posts.
I have already lost one highly regarded FB friend so I shall try to choose my words with care. Maybe the strong emotions in everyone's heart and mind serve as a filter that won't let some thoughts come through intact.
Bill, my response to any text is always to try to ascertain WHO said it and WHERE did they say it and WHY. I was not familiar with the author of the link you posted but I've (quickly, albeit not thoroughly), looked at his creds. I get the feeling that he is rehashing an old mind set.
I started searching for his creds when I got to this:
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More surprising yet, the professionals respond to the public's move to the right by themselves moving to the left, encouraging more immigration from the Middle East, instituting more "hate speech" codes to suppress criticism of Islam, and providing more patronage to Islamists. This pattern affects not just Establishment figures of the Left but more strikingly also of the Right (such as Angela Merkel of Germany); only Eastern European leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orbán permit themselves to speak honestly about the real problems.
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Well, if I had to choose between putting my future in the hands of Angela Merkel or Viktor Orbán it would not be a difficult choice.
In 2008 The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the EU and the World Bank granted Hungary a rescue package worth $25bn (£15.6bn). In 2015 Orbán erects a fence of razor wire in a spectacular show of selfishness.
As history plainly shows, demonizing any group as "the other" can quickly get out of hand and lead to unforeseen consequences. The aftermath of the French Revolution and the ensuing conflict between the Girondins and the Jacobins led to killing in the streets of Paris and mass executions including the guillotining of 16, 594 people.
In the Rwandan genocide the Hutu majority in around 100 days murdered between half a million and a million Rwandans.
A little over twenty years ago Bosnian Serbs slaughtered 80,000 neighbors in the course of the Yugoslav Wars. Eight thousand of these were men and boys from Srebrenica, a town supposedly under the protection of the United Nations.
It is surely not necessary to remind anyone that six million Jews throughout Europe were annihilated by their neighbors and other Christians.
In short, I am simply warning about demonizing fellow humans. The vast majority of the Muslim community in Europe are just like the vast majority of humans all over the world.
There are, of course, jihadists who want, as the media thrillingly put it, "to destroy our way of life".
Even without them, our global community includes home-grown madmen who want to destroy "our way of life" or segments of it; just as the jihadists do, these homeboys want to stone, to flay. (Warning. This is so disgusting you probably won't be able to watch until the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBDbGyv6SIQ )
Apart from the current influx of immigrants, the number of home-grown (a.k.a. native) psychopaths in our greater community make up about 1 percent of the general population and as much as 25 percent of male offenders in western correctional settings according to some studies.
Roughly that is about 1000 per 100,000 of our general population to be feared in varying degrees. Most of them won't cause major harm, but some do. One of our homegrown terrorists who targeted immigrants was known in the media as Lasermannen ("the Laser Man"), murderer, bank robber, and attempted serial killer. From August 1991 to January 1992 he shot eleven people in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, most of whom were immigrants, killing one and seriously injuring the others. He first used a rifle equipped with a laser sight (hence, his nickname), and later switched to a revolver. He was arrested in June 1992 and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 1994. His strategy was that no immigrant should feel safe, so he targeted them at bus stops, by aiming through the window of their homes, and other private sites.
What hope I have made clear is that danger is all around us. It is impossible to protect ourselves with higher walls, deeper moats, or by letting immigrant families freeze to death this coming winter because no one will allow them a safe haven.