Oh, and the article also reports:
In related news, the results of a survey conducted recently in Britain and
published in the Sunday Telegraph revealed that Muslim youth in the United
Kingdom are increasingly radicalized.
The report noted that radical Islamic leaders operating in the UK are having far greater success than in the past in attracting young Muslims to their causes. The researchers who conducted the survey warned that the trend is so severe that they fear the number of British Muslims willing to participate in terrorism may have increased significantly.
Welfare states have a way of reducing populations to a deadening materialism, and every such nation generates those who, having retained a sense of something higher in human life, rebel against the established order. In America, many of these--ironically--are those who call for a still more expansive welfare state. In Europe, Muslim youths are increasingly becoming radicalized against this materialism, but they aren't fighting with folk songs and large protests; they're fighting with metal rods. And unlike American conservatives, like myself, who call simply for limited and decentralized government, they call for theocracy. It will be interesting to watch the interactions between a materialist/multiculturalist society and a violently intolerant religious minority.
Having almost completely vanquished an amicable domestic conservatism, will Europe fall prey to a barbarous foreign one?
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