[TheMercenary]

You know I read this and I am just not sure what to think about it. Switzerland is not that big of a country and they did elect a pretty right wing government in the last round of elections. I guess I am not all that surprised.

Christopher Caldwell, in his 2009 book “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe”, writes that Europe has faced mass immigration in the second half of the 20th century and does not know how to deal with this new population, which in some countries accounts for about 10% of the population. He compared this immigration to mass immigration to the United States from non-northwest European countries from the late 19th century until now, and how the United States had to adjust the image of itself and “become” a nation of immigrants. Europe, he writes, has yet accepted the fact that it has to adjust to this reality. And unlike the growing and boisterous America of the late 19th century, 21st century Europe is a continent in decline: with low birth-rates and a culture that may be termed as relativistic. The culture of Islam is confident in itself and its values, and when the two face each other, European liberalism seemed to have shirked back in mild accommodation. The best example of that is the Archbishop of Canterbury proposing that sharia law be accepted as a precedent in deciding cases in Britain like English common law.

http://www.examiner.com/x-27914-Newa...o-ban-minarets