The story of migration as it has been unfolding in the U.S. with Mexicans, and Europe with Muslims, is quite similar and will be more of a lasting intergenerational cultural experience because these immigrants are either avoiding or resisting assimilation. So the issue will have a long shelf life. Germany, which experienced a massive influx of Turkish Muslims in the 1960s, is an interesting example.
In a 2008 speech in Cologne, Germany, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan told a cheering crowd of 16,000 Turkish Germans to resist assimilation. (This is compatible with the teachings of influential Islamic leaders who preach the establishment of a worldwide caliphate founded on Shariah law.) On German soil, he said to Germany's largest ethnic minority, "Assimilation is crime against humanity." What chutzpah.
But recall Mexican President Felipe Calderon, with encouragement from President Obama, blasting Arizona's immigration law on American soil before a joint session of Congress. Calderon was gentler than Harper, one of the oldest continuously published U.S. magazines, which referred to the Arizona legislature as "dimwits, racists and cranks."). In Britain, The Times U.K. reported their "Muslim population has multiplied 10 times faster than the rest of society, the research by the Office for National Statistics reveals."
And this is a country whose largest ethnic minority is Indian. France has the largest Muslim population in Europe which presents a challenge to France's secular, multicultural ethos, since Islam believes their faith cannot be separated from the state — that secularism is against the law of Allah. This is probably the same belief that is causing British Muslims to resist overtures from Prime Minister David Cameron, who wants to recognize Muslims as a part of Britain's multicultural society and entice them into a coalition.
Muslims present a unique problem. Their influx into a post-Christian Europe in large numbers started in the post World War II era, yet their attitudes have been amazingly resistant to European culture as their numbers have grown. So the emerging generations in Europe will continue to witness the same negative experiences as prior generations.
It just won't go away. Or to echo Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington's thesis in his classic Clash of Civilizations, "The fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be ... ideological ... or economic ... The dominating source of conflict will be cultural." He argues Islam itself "is a different civilization who are convinced of the superiority of their culture," and as a result, "have problems living peaceably with their neighbors."
He believed the lack of "core states" prevented the growth of both the world of Islam and Latin America. Shift gears from Europe to the U.S. and our Latinos — or Hispanics, if you prefer. This is the largest and youngest minority group in the U.S., with one out of four newborns being Hispanic, partly because of "birthright" citizenship being granted to the newborns of illegal immigrants. More than half of Mexican immigrants are illegal, and its share of the student population has doubled in slightly over a decade.
The Hispanic population in the U.S., excluding Puerto Rico, is 47 million, making Hispanics the largest ethnic minority. (This compares with 53 million Muslims in Europe, with a population of 830 million — more than two-and-a-half times the U.S. — according to the German Central Institute.
It amazes me of the ignorance of some people thinking that Islam is wanting to befriend America. Islam is not Americas friend but their enemy. Muslims are believers in Islam and live by those rules. We are nothing but infidels to them.
We have an administration that has slipped into office like a snake in the grass and is setting us up to be overtaken. Look at Obama during the Pledge of Allegiance. He shows absolutely no respect for America. He will stand by the Muslims, but profess to be Christian and not allow or take part in Christian Rights Movements.
This man is a LIAR! It is beyond me on how ALL of America cannot see this.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.