Max Boot tweets: “Problem in EU is failure to assimilate Muslim immigrants. US has done better job, but Trump attacks alienate Muslims & threaten security.”
* So the solution for Europe is more Muslim immigration, to show we care. That will solve the problem of Islamic terrorism in Europe.
If more Muslim immigration does not work in stopping Islamic terrorism, it is the fault of Europe for not caring enough about the needs of its new Muslim residents, or for acting as if terrorist outrages might be the fault of Muslims rather than the fault of the white European power structure.
* Maybe Boot could explain how Stalin would do a better job of assimilating immigrants?
* Uncle Joe had his solutions for recalcitrant minorities:
Kenneth Christie, Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy (2002)
Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonians (1940-41): 85,000 deported, of which 55,000 killed or died
Baltics executed during reconquest (1944-45): 30,000
Postwar partisan war
Lithuanians: 40-50,000 k.
Latvian: 25,000
Estonians: 15,000
Richard Overy, Russia’s War (1997)
Deaths resulting form ethnic cleansing operations (Chechens, etc) in WW2: 231,000
Ethnic operations during the Great Terror (1937-38): 247,157 deaths, of which 111,091 were ethnic Poles.
* Yep, clearly the best thing to do with people who will murder you if you anger them is to get as many of them as possible to come to your country.
* Their first principle is to prevent nationalism for Europeans while supporting it for Israel. All explanations for all events must conform to this priority.
* The problem in Israel is its failure to assimilate its Muslim citizens.
* Most Belgian people are extremely politically correct Liberals and do not bash Muslims like Donald Trump does, yet their security was still threatened by Muslim extremists. How would Max Boot explain this?
* Too bad Boot didn’t say he would have voted for Hitler over Trump. Then he would have been declared persona non grata, and we would never have to listen to him again. But no, he only said he would have preferred Stalin to Trump. So not only did he not get deported to a political Siberia, he is still treated as someone whose opinion matters.
* US has done a better job because Muslims are still a very small percentage of the population.
A very small minority assimilates better than a big one does. In some European cities, Muslims are the MAIN minority. Also, ultra-liberalism of EU tries to make whites assimilate to diversity than other way around.
Also, US has less culture and history than Europe. It’s easy to ‘assimilate’ to eating Big Mac and watching Hollywood movies if that has indeed become the essence of American Culture and identity.
If black population had been 1%, who knows? They might have melted into rest of America.
But being much bigger, assimilation has been difficult.
More Muslims that US has, more Muslims will assert themselves and assimilate less.
Also, Neocons certainly didn’t assimilate well into the GOP base. Had they done so, people like Boot wouldn’t be throwing a fit because many white conservatives don’t want to be bossed around by Jewish conservatives who make up less than 1% of conservatives.
One thing for sure, Israel hasn’t done such a great job in assimilating Palestinians. Walls seem to keep going up on the basis that assimilation is futile.
