Dear Jake:
I appreciate that you are willing to regard this as a serious, even if minor, problem. And you are right to put things in context. Nevertheless, here are my concerns.
1. The problem is getting worse, not better. More immigrants stream in, and their birth rate is higher than that of native Europeans.
2. The problem is understated. I assume the worst abuses happen where Muslims and whites live near each other. But those whites are likely to be poor, and the dominant culture pays no attention to what poor whites say.
3. Most of the time, anyone who talks about this problem is shouted down as a racist.
4. There is no assimilation because the dominant culture doesn’t encourage it and because Muslim enclaves, especially with satellite tv, allow people to remain within their own cultures.
5. The threats of violence ensure that many people remain silent.
6. Native Europeans who are fed up with the situation are leaving, thus slowly tilting the balance of the population in the Muslims’ favor.
Maybe you have some good news to relate that counters these trends. For example, I’d like to hear about moderate Muslims making threats against traditional Muslims. But the only threats I’ve heard about go the other way.
