Started writting but it took me some time. Originally an answer to Morrigi, but anyone welcome to chew through this wall of text
You are so way off the target here it's not even funny. Congratz, have a cookie. Or, alternatively, take a step or two back and try to see the both sides of the coin. Again.
I won't expect you to know or keep track of every post I've made on this or similar topic, so I guess I'll say it to you directly - no, I do not think terrorism is NOT a threat. It IS. Terrorism, by definition, is designed to spread terror amongst general public, which is not responsible at best or only indirectly responsible at worst for whatever grievances the perpetrator has against said populace. It is the means of bringing war and violence to those who do not wish to have anything with it. And while saying "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is completely open for legit discussion, we shall ignore that now for the purpose of staying focused on the original misconception of terrorism being a joke or not. It is not. For the third time. We clear on that? Good, because we are moving on. Strap on, you are in for a ride.
Islamization? Tell me, what do you mean by that? Is it the amount of kebab shops that have grown on every corner of every street like fungus after rain? Is it dark skinned, bearded man that lead a group of veiled woman around shopping groceries and talking amongst themselves in non-native language? That guy Muhammed that hangs with Johan and boys down at the pub every Friday evening? Oh, wait, you mean the radical Islam that calls for sharia law, burning of unbelievers, clerics recruiting teenagers to fight for that or another khalifate etc.? Oh yeah, problem. Big time. Islam has problems, plain and simple. Only those problems aren't plain and simple. From how the whole inter-sectarian tensions due to the many interpretation of Qua'ran that make the Protestant vs. Catholicism split seems like an ordinary day at the picnic park to how Islam being official state religion in many countries does a bit more than just slightly spice up the whole mess, but there is one main problem – Islam just didn't reach the Enlightenment period yet. Or it did and it got swollowed due to many reasons, depends on your interpretation. I like hearing complaints about having the right to draw Muhammed. I can only laugh, saying how in the middle ages you too had all the rights to question the Bible. But that didn't do you any good because if you did, to stake with you. It took a whole lot of time for the scientist of yore to be able to publicly discuss heliocentric system without the fear of the Pope going medieval up their collective asses. And Islam is the same currently. Not nearly enoug moderate voices, lots of loud radicals. And it is any secular's state general fault if they do not prosecute extremist and promote moderates in return, no doubt about that. But guess what, "Islamization" is still a buzzword. A scare word. Word you can use for anything Islam related because it invokes the fear of being overcome. Globalization, Christianization, imperialism, etc. It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Tells the story of how in [insert appropriately apocalyptic number of years] we will all be reciting Qua'ran 5 times a day. You don't need to rationalize that Islam, like Christianity and ANY other organized movement with rigid, dogmatic agenda in order to not gain too much power needs to be ultimately supervised by more neutral, higher force, e.i. secular state, be it democratic or (hilariously, it works sometimes) dictatorial. It is a word of concern, a threat. It's a rallying call for the "Gasp! A moslem!" mob. Yeah, you heard me, mob. As in, a mass of hot-headed people driven by some emotion-fueled agenda.
Because that brings me to our next point in discussion - namely "tens of thousands of people protesting in the streets". I don't know about you, but I've experienced racial clashes in the past, 90's specifically. Neo-nazis vs. second-generation "southerners". Seen them both. Southerners extorting you for money on the street. Nazis doing the same but being a bit more imaginative about it by forcing you to pay for granite cubes (it's either you buy it or get your head smashed by it, the joy). My uncle got a pistol pulled on him in the middle of the nightly jog. Because he has black hair. Despite my family being "true-blood". There was talk how in [n] years we will all be speaking [insert foreign language]. Muh culture! It took years but in the end nothing happened – things just died down. But I digress, right, these people here are not nazis, my bad, just concerned citizens, yeah? My point - if there's some thing(s) history can teach us is that people are creatures of habit. And when any society, country-wide or otherwise, is experiencing an inner turmoil, be it due to economical, political or other reasons, the best way for said society from falling apart is by focusing on the OUTER enemy. 90's was Turks and Balkaners. 70's had Paki and other untermensh. 20's, 30's, 40's had jews. Going some decades further back it was the yellow peril. Further, the filthy negros who white man had holy duty of showing the light. And be my guest, take a look through out the history and you're bound to find time and again how pure-blooded society had to defend against the invasion of uncivilized, filthy barbarians, who's culture is incompatible with theirs and they mean an imminent threat to the existence of humanity as we know it. Where am I going with that, you ask (by the way, congratulations on coming this far but we still have ways to go so have some more cookies and hot milk)? The people marching down the streets shout "[insert coutry] to the [insert countrymen]!" are not here because their existence is at stake. They are doing that because they are frakking human. Despite all our fancy advances, scientific or social, we still boil down to warring tribes. We are doing better, we are. But those tens of thousand of people didn't took the the streets because each and every one of them is or was in danger caused by immigrants but because said immigrants aren't "ours". "Cultural differences" and all that. Now take a look on the other side – lots of angry bearded man talking about supremacy of their own tribe. Shocking! Hey pot and kettle, did you hear, we've just discovered people think alike!
And with everything said above it should be obvious no Poe's law has to be invoked on the topic of what will happen in the future. Seamless, no-problems integration? You wish! There will be riots, there will be violence. But not because of one side, but because there is NO sides. It's just people pushing the "I'm better than you" on each other. No, some people simply don't get along with each other. And when fecal matter hits the propeller, they go outside shouting slogans, waving flags. There is nothing new about. As is there no "new face of the right". This right has been here since before uncle Adolf swam in his fathers balls. And since beginning of the economical crisis we've seen rise of the far right, dissatisfied with the politics at home and those at Brussels. And it has become increasingly common to use native culture and native blood as an excuse to further various political goals so all this political changes are not surprising, "only" frakking troublesome. See above – inner crisis and outer enemy. Anyways, the right has reared it's ugly head yet again, for it was never dead. So if you think there is anything new about the right then it si you who must be joking.
But speaking of jokes – you got one thing kinda right. I was not taking things seriously in my previous post. To be exact, I did not take the video seriously. Because it's a joke. It's a piece of one-sided propaganda and that's so obvious it's funny. The far right isn't new, it only got modernized a bit. When in the past it was up to nazis and such using connections, personal favors and violence to gain publicity, everyone can use internet now. Everyone can use multiple outlets to further their cause, even the people from Daesh. Everyone can show only one side of the story and paint the picture in 256 shades of gray if so desires. That's called propaganda. Be it guy talking about his balls [insert clip of innocent Aryan girls here], the one who can't get woman in a camp [insert clip of innocent Aryan girls here] or the news about southern-looking rapists [insert clip of innocent Aryan girls here], various clips of black people beating on white or just a lone desperate housewife begging the Europe to do SOMETHING because she is the victim here, boy does it look like Europe is about to collapse yesterday. The video is shit but you know what – it's problem is not only that it's such ridiculous propaganda. The problem is it doesn't offer a damn solution. And by solution I mean taking a step back and looking at the both sides of the coin. There, we came full circle. All the angry marches from either "nationalists" or jihadist won't solve the problem. And what is the problem? The problem is two-fold: first, we need a cool headed approach. Right now, this whole mess is an emotion driven idiocy. We need to cool the frakk down and say – listen, we can't just completely open borders. These people need to be processed in orderly fashion. And on the other hand, building fences and letting people camp on your borders is stupid. There are tons of people out there and what are you going to do? Send them back? Oh so after all that "no miggrants living off muh money!" you are after all using my money on migrants, only that instead of finding a solution you are just sending the problem back to it's starting location. Good job. Those people are here and what will you do with them? Educate them, socialize them, get them a job and off benefits as soon as possible so the start giving back to the coutry. Sure it's not so damn simple, I know that, and mainiac will probably jell at me I don't know shit about economy. But if EU was so interested in solving this it would do that back when the majority of people was back in Greece. Or stop being such a sorry excuse of a "union" and actually do more to make all of the countries equal instead of spending years of saving the sinking Greece. A pipe, dirty communist dream – relocate wealth so the Greece would offer the same choices money-, job- and just general life-wise as Germany. Fantasy, pure fantasy! But if Greece wasn't in such sorry state then there would be no need to even discuss the Dublin convention. People would stay where the money is. Because you can tell me tall tales about economical migrant but even when the war-refugees would pick Germany over Greece then you know where we at.
Oh, and the second part of the problem? The world is more connected than we want to think. If crapper hits ventilator on middle East the aftershock WILL hit the EU. But we were fine with that so long as the refugees didn't reach us, then suddenly it's the end of Europe. Dunno, maybe we should all just start cooperating with each other or something, different culture my bottoms. I don't know where I'm going with this fantasy, but I for one know I will advocate we put more effort into solving problems that are "not our own" rather to go outside and cry about my culture. Because that's what I want, a concrete solution, not some well-packaged fuel to the fire that should have died down long ago. Also pro-tip, my culture has been eroded a lot more by American talk-shows than by kebab.
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