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Remember "creeping Sharia Law" that far-right hysterics were warning about 10-15 years ago? Of course it was always ridiculous, but now something pretty amusing has happened.
‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
What stood out to me was the support of right-wing activists from nearby towns. So this isn't just a moslem issue, even white Republicans are joined up. Here in Europe, populists like Geert Wilders were often warning about how too many moslem immigrants would threaten liberal values but they've been supplanted by a newer generation of populists that appear to increasingly take a page out of America's right-wing playbook by uniting with moslems against the LGBT crowd.
For liberals it also creates a bizarre spectacle. They've been obsessed with white Christian "fascists" and often turned a blind eye towards immigrants. Many of these immigrants rarely had much in common with them on social issues. They just voted left because of economic interests and the fact that the white left is more likely to let their entire family back home settle in the West.
Another ironic twist is that the supposed "Great Replacement myth" is largely what facilitated this change. Moslems are now a clear supermajority in the city and the change happened relatively quickly. Liberals were demographically replaced by the people they brought in and now feel like they've been hosed. Can't feel much sympathy for those who use immigration as a political weapon against their domestic political enemies.
The future of American demographics has little to do with Muslims, Africans, Asians etc. It has everything to do with Central American migration.
The European situation and American situation with mass immigration are quite different. In Europe, the signs of mass immigration become more immediate flashpoints: regular terrorism both small and large scale, radicalization, various local-but-also-not phenomena, like the Kurdish, Turkish and Lebanese crime families in Germany, the radicalized banlieues in Belgium and France, the grooming gangs in the UK and Netherlands, the Mocro Mafia in the Dutch port cities, gun crime skyrocketing in Sweden etc.
In America, the endless stream of Central American migration is less ‘obvious’. Guatemalans and Salvadorans don’t have a religion deeply foreign to American shores, they dress largely the same as the rest of the white, black and native American underclass. They speak a different language, but this largely disappears by the second to third generation. The problems of mass immigration (crime, lower trust, lower productivity, general Brazilification) take longer to recognize, many members of the public don’t even think consciously about them at all.
This is probably why anti-immigrant movements find more fertile ground in Europe than in the US, even if they don’t succeed there either.
The general dialectic surrounding immigration into the US is almost always a sleight of hand argument that goes: 'At least they're not as bad as the blacks.' Usually accomplished by creating a category called 'Americans' and comparing it to a category called 'Immigrants'.
In a pound for pound comparison, there is nothing viscerally worse about arabs compared to Mexicans. The most notable thing with regards to foreigners is not the dress or religion. It's the color of their skin and the shape of their face. People notice their neighborhoods becoming less white. To that end most muslims in Europe that are out and about dress western. It's really only the women who make a statement with a headscarf and more modest dress. The more orthodox muslims don't exist to most people since they generally live in very muslim areas to begin with and are mostly out and about when the Europeans are at work.
The real reason America isn't throwing a bigger fit is that America has had the worst 'immigrant' group of any western country nagging and gnawing their way through a functioning society. I mean, just compare the alleged 'No Go Zones' of Sweden with any sufficiently black inner city in the US. There's simply no shock to the system possible.
The most notable thing, by far, is their language, assuming it isn't English or it's some obviously-foreign version of it. Next is likely behavior. Physical appearance is no better than third, unless we're talking pygmies or something.
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