Where Europe is heading

I recently linked to this article in the JeruzalemPost, which among other things stated:

The first European country that will effectively become an Islamic state is the Netherlands. The numbers speak for themselves: In the four largest cities – Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague – Muslims already form a majority among those under the age of 14. Mohammed is now the most frequently registered first name for Dutch boys.

The Netherlands is not alone. The tide of immigrants to Europe from the Muslim world is driven by an acute demand in Europe and a plentiful supply in the Muslim Arab world. The conjunction of interests: Young people.

Once it was thought that exposure to liberty, democracy, affluence and modernism would generate ambition and opportunity, the twin elements that would quickly socialize Muslim immigrants to Western ways. Not necessarily so. While some have fully embraced Europe's culture and entered the mainstream of European life, a minority has fallen into the dangerous thrall of extremism.

"You would have thought that the pluralism and tumult of this open European world would spawn a version of the [Islamic] faith to match it," notes Fouad Ajami, a leading Arab scholar at Johns Hopkins University. "But precisely the opposite happened. In bilad al Kufr [the lands of unbelief], the faith became sharpened for battle."
Today, European countries are mostly schizophrenic in their response to the clamor by young Muslims to enter their countries. On one hand, they need the labor that the Muslim world can provide; on the other, they don't need the political and social fall-out that results from a pool of potentially hostile immigrant workers who refuse to integrate, let alone assimilate.

A long quote to get to the point, but relevant and necessary. The following article thru DhimmiWatch, which links to IslamOnline, where this piece goes into this year's Ramadan celebration in Paris, France. It demonstrates how pervasive the influence of Islam in the French capital has become, and how far local government goes to accommodate the believers.

Teeming with worshipers who come in droves to perform the Tarawih prayers during Ramadan, mosques in Paris carpet the surrounding area to help accommodate them. In the 18th district, worshipers line up the two pavements outside the Fatah Mosque during the prayers, with some Muslims volunteering to organize traffic moving between the two lines lighted by lampposts.

There are four other mosques in the area, inhabited by a sizeable number of Moroccan workers.

As Muslim worshipers prostrate and kneel down outside the crowded mosque, "stunned" French passers-by stand to watch.

Good thing those passers-by are not so used to this sight yet that they aren't "stunned" by it. But they had better become used to it. 'Cause Islam is on the rise.

According to a recent survey, France has 1,554 mosques, most of which are finding hard times to accommodate the growing number of worshipers.

The survey, published in a booklet called "the Guide of Prayer places in France", found that most of the existing mosques need expansion and new mosques are needed.

Other neighborhoods and suburbs populated by Arab majority in Paris are usually chockablock during Ramadan with an unmistakable Arab aura.

When hawkers and peddlers raise their voices, calling to attract the attention of customers to buy Moroccan, Tunisian and Algerian goods in this popular market place, you would think of it as a traditional market in North African Maghreb states. But it is the Bellville market in the heart of the French capital, Paris.

Think "Eurabia". Think "Is this really what I want for Europe?