Unfortunately when filtered through a religious lens it is immediately able to be discounted.

The truth is the demographics don't bode well for the world and the Talibanization of the world is underway. TB's comments below iare way off the mark. It's not that Muslims haven't been integrated well in Europe, it's the reverse - they've been coddled. Given apartments, given money and don't have to work to survive. The result, ever more demands, ever mor violence and the sense that Europe is a great way to get a free ride.

Everything is cycles. The Huns and their violent customs became a problem for the west because of demographics. The Muslim problem is much the same. Our western medicines, food drops have sustained them from mass diseases and famines when their own intelligence would have seen them perish.

This is the West's learning lesson - you don't mess with nature. Preserve the primitive in an altruistic gesture and you condemn everyone to imbalances. Nature doesn't judge - it balances. It doesn't feel misplaced pity on the starving or disease ridden - it preserves conditions and rewards the intelligent for creating healthy environments.

Anyone who travels to Europe often sees the writing on the walls - literally. The Arabic graffiti of today, was mirrored by the Huns destroying statues in Rome - destroy and deface that which you can't build yourself.

Ignoring the statistics, continuing the failed European attitudes and policies - is suicidal if one wants to live in a world that mimics America.

And yes, that is the bottom line - a world that mimics America is a world that is FREE.

No nation in Europe holds a candle to the US in terms of individual liberty. I know the differences and they are MANY.

So when you hear that the world should NOT become like America - that America is evil and other nations are better role models - ask yourself:

"Which ones?"

They are selling your freedom out from under you each time they try to demean America. Each time they infer that Europe is more "sophisticated" or "tolerant" - they are selling you a bill of goods.

I take no personal, emotional position, because when one does one incurs feedback. Get all bent out of shape about any group, regardless of how unintelligent, and one incurs feedback. Each discriminatory act incurs one in kind. However, that said, one also doesn't just roll over and let people walk over one.

In life one can't avoid discrimination.

Read the line above again and realize the truth of it.

We discriminate. We MUST discriminate, every instant of our lives. We choose what we wear, what we do, who we associate with, what we think about, what we eat, where we live, what car we drive.

Discrimination is the byproduct of FREEDOM.

The more free a culture is the more it can discriminate. The less free - the less it can discriminate.

When the fundamental Muslims shoot up a couple of Adulterers in Pakistan, it's not personal - it's mandatory. The folks operating the machine guns aren't free to decide what they think about adultery - its' in the Koran and the punishment is death. The people who reproduce in higher rates inherit the Earth - that is a fact. It is also a fact that the least intelligent reproduce the fastest. So, throughout history the unintelligent numbers are hordes while the intelligent exist in small numbers.

Read that last line again, for it is the reason the world is in the state it is in - and has always been in.

Natrure tries to balance things out - rewarding the intelligent with longer lives, technology, food and medicine and punish the unintelligent with disease, death and famine.

We have circumvented mother nature in our compassion for all life. Because we are not as intelligent as we could be. One does not water the weeds in the garden simply because one can't bear to seem them suffer. One needs to water the plants one wants to thrive and let the weeds fend for themselves. Otherwise the weeds will kill and choke of the life of your gentle, unaggressive, fruit bearing plants.

This is a learning experience as all things are. If one hates one will be hated. If one kills, one will be killed. If one blanket condemns one will be blanket condemned. So using the utmost of wisdom is the secret answer. Realizing all religions are NOT equal, that all nations do not share our values or FREEDOM and that if we want to preserve these we must fortify our laws, review our immigration policies and work to educate the unintelligent.

We had no problem barring communists from immigrating, based upon their politics. Here we must look at the politics of certain religious groups and accept that they are an anathema to our freedom based nation. Germany outlaws Scientology and doesn't blink an eye and yet radical Muslims are often turned a blind eye out of fear. Yes, the cartoonist incident should serve as an example of how fear now rules Europe and it's a well justified fear. They don't feel safe standing up for freedom anymore. There are too many in their lands that will kill them for exercising their freedom.

In America, that day is coming and fast. Soon, people here will fear the way they do in Europe. And when that day arrives its the beginning of the end for America and Freedom - just as Europe can already be written off because they have succumbed to fear and their own immigration policies.

It's good to be tolerant. It's not good to be tolerant to one's own detriment. That's stupid.