Why Do Europe’s Muslims Hate The West?

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• Occidentophobia: Europe’s Muslims despise the West and its culture, surveys show. The only thing surprising is that European governments continue to invite hundreds of thousands more of them to make Europe their home.

  Recent terrorist attacks on Paris, Belgium and Britain, and a wave of brutal sexual assaults in at least six countries, raise a logical question: Why do members of the “religion of peace” so despise the place that has embraced them, allowed them cultural and religious freedom, given them welfare and even tolerated the growing violence in their communities?

  There’s no easy answer. Europeans — and many Americans — routinely self-flagellate over terrorist attacks, asking themselves: “What terrible thing have we done to deserve this?” The sad answer is: nothing.

  A 2013 survey by Ruud Koopmans of the Berlin Social Science Center found significant hostility of Muslims in Europe and an unwillingness to integrate with European society. “Almost 60% agree that Muslims should return to the roots of Islam, 75% think there is only one interpretation of the Quran possible to which every Muslim should stick and 65% say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live,” he wrote.

  And, despite the welcome they get in Europe and the largesse doled out by the EU’s expansive welfare state, 54% of Europe’s Muslims believe that the “West is out to destroy Islam.”

  Dutch author and journalist Leon de Winter, writing in Politico’s European edition, calls this “Occidentophobia” — hatred of the West.

  “What did ‘we’ do to ‘them’?” de Winter asks. “We opened up our cities, our houses, our wallets. And in our secular temples of progress — our metro stations and airports and theaters — their sons are killing themselves and taking our sons and daughters with them.”

  There are an estimated 44 million Muslims in Europe, or roughly 6% of the total population. That will rise to about 58 million, or 8% of the population, by 2030, estimates before the recent flood of newcomers show. Given the depth of their antipathy toward the place they now call home, it’s only surprising that there isn’t even more terrorism.

  Nor is the Koopmans survey a statistical outlier. Repeated polls in recent years show a powerful undercurrent of anger and resentment toward Europe that is nothing short of shocking. After more than 70 years of experimenting with bringing millions of Muslims into Europe to become Europeans, surveys find instead an implacable population of unassimilated, unacculturated people who share few if any of Europe’s Enlightenment-inspired beliefs.

  For example, a 2013 poll of young Muslims in Belgium — where the most recent Islamist terrorist attacks, killing 34, took place — found that 16% believe terrorism is “acceptable.” A poll of young Muslims in Britain by Pew Research in 2007 showed a shocking 35% believe that suicide attacks against civilians are justifiable.

  Maybe we shouldn’t be shocked. After all, the beliefs of Muslims around the world are starkly at odds with those in the West. For instance, a poll of Turks in 2009 found 31% support suicide attacks against Westerners in Iraq — and Turkey is a member NATO. Inside Europe, 42% of France’s Muslims believe suicide attacks are OK. Feeling a bit smug about the U.S.? Don’t. Here, 26% of younger Muslims here in the U.S. believe suicide bombing is justified.

  Actions follow beliefs. Those who are intolerant, who hate infidels (i.e., all non-Muslims), who believe they have a special historic grievance, who think violence is not only acceptable but called for, and who don’t share the same ideas about civil society, individual rights and tolerance as the rest of the West, will be almost impossible to assimilate.

  “As a consequence of demography, history, ideology, and policy, western Europe now plays host to often disconsolate Muslim offspring, who are its citizens in name but not culturally or socially,” wrote the Council on Foreign Relations way back in 2005. As recent events show, things have only gotten worse.

  Europe can’t be safe until it cinches up its borders and sends those who don’t want to become Europeans home. Either that, or they can give up on the whole idea of Western culture.

France: Exodus of 10,000 millionaires amid rising Muslim tensions

Religious tensions post Paris attacks are on the rise in France leading to millionaire exodus. (Representative image)Reuters

Millionaire inflow

As for inflows, Australia was the favourite destination with maximum inflows in 2015 – a total of 8,000 new millionaires. The US was ranked second with 7,000 inflows, followed by Canada, Israel, the UAE and New Zealand.

Australian cities Sydney, Melbourne and Perth saw a significant millionaire inflow in 2015 from China, Europe, the UK, the US and South Africa, with Sydney topping the chart with 4,000 new millionaires or 4% added to its existing millionaire population, according to the report. Melbourne and Perth had 3,000 and 1,000 new millionaires in 2015, respectively. Tel Aviv, Dubai, San Francisco, Vancouver and Seattle also featured among the top eight cities with millionaire inflows.

Brexit impact on millionaire migration

The New Wealth World survey found that the UK leaving the EU will not lead to an outflow of millionaires. Rather, they will remain in the country because a Brexit would likely result in re-introduction of two-year working visas for citizens from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and inclusion of the US in the list; stronger alliances with countries like Australia, the US, Canada and New Zealand, India and China; and weaker alliances with EU countries, Turkey and the Middle East.

The report highlights a trend that saw many UK-born wealthy people relocating their bases to other English-speaking nations like Australia, US, Canada and New Zealand. "This may be a trend that continues in future as several wealthy UK-born people that we spoke to said they were concerned about the way London and the UK in general had changed over the past decade or so. Australia seems to be their preferred destination," the report says. In 2015, London saw an inflow of 3,000, but an outflow of 2,500 millionaires, who moved to small towns in other parts of England or other English speaking countries.

Germany On Alert As Islamic State Urges Airport Attacks

At least FIFTY ISIS supporters are working as baggage handlers, cleaners and catering staff at Brussels airport, claim police

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  · Officers said they have warned about terrorist sympathisers at airport
• · They say badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed
• · Airport police are threatening to go on strike over 'security deficiencies'
• · See more news on ISIS threats at www.dailymail.co.uk/isis

By JOHN STEVENS BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 14:31 GMT, 31 March 2016 | UPDATED: 10:28 GMT, 1 April 2016

Police at Brussels airport have claimed at least 50 Islamic State supporters are working there as baggage handlers, cleaners and catering staff.

In an astonishing open letter, the officers said they have warned about the terrorist sympathisers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed.

The airport police, who are threatening to go on strike because of security deficiencies, also said they have raised the issue of terrorists scouting the airport to plan possible attacks.

In an astonishing open letter, the officers said they have warned about the terrorist sympathisers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed

‘In the past, a number of people had their badges revoked because they had IS sympathies. But clearly not everyone, especially in store personnel, cleaning services and baggage where we find the most suspicious people.’

Police raised concerns about inadequate security at the airport just four days before the attack took place.

The Belgian police union, NSPV, told the interior ministry on Friday 18 March that they would go on strike unless it was improved.

Alain Peeters, the general secretary, said: ‘The sad events of 22 March demonstrate that our concerns are justified. We demand more security and more staff.’

Officers have said that they will not return to work when the airport re-opens unless staffing numbers are increased and that no vehicles can approach within 100 metres of the temporary check-in hall that is being built.

The airport police, who are threatening to go on strike because of security deficiencies, also said they have raised the issue of terrorists scouting the airport to plan possible attacks

The police have complained that they are not sufficiently resourced and do not have enough new uniforms to go around let alone the most up-to-date weapons.

An uncle of Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui last week told how the brothers had been employed at the airport and would have gained intimate knowledge of the terminal destroyed in the carnage.

The man, who asked not to be named, told the Mail: 'They worked cleaning at the airport and in a restaurant. They didn't finish high school in the end. They cleaned the airport in the summer months.'

Ibrahim, 29, and bomb-maker Najim Laachraoui detonated suitcase bombs in the airport. A third man, only known as ‘the man in the hat’ or ‘the man in white’ was also seen on airport CCTV but ran when his bomb failed to explode.

Khalid, 27, blew up a nail bomb on a Metro train at Maelbeek station shortly after the airport attack.

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'First Time in Human History': People 65 and Older Will Outnumber Children Under 5

By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 31, 2016 | 3:20 PM EDT

People in line at an ATM machine in Athens, Greece, on July 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Spyros Tsakiris)

(CNSNews.com) - Sometime in the next four years the global population of human beings who are 65 and older will surpass those under 5 for the first time, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

“For the first time in human history, people aged 65 and older will outnumber children under age 5,” says the report, entitled “An Aging World: 2015.”

“This crossing is just around the corner, before 2020,” says the report.

“These two age groups will then continue to grow in opposite directions,” it says. “By 2050, the proportion of the population 65 and older (15.6 percent) will be more than double that of children under age 5 (7.2 percent).

“This unique demographic phenomenon of the ‘crossing’ is unprecedented,” says the Census Bureau.

(Screen capture of chart in Census Bureau report.)

The Census Bureau report included a ranking of “The World’s 25 Oldest Countries and Areas” in 2015 based on the percentage of the country’s population that was 65 or older.

While Japan ranked as the oldest country, the other 24 in the top 25 included 22 European countries, plus Canada and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

The world’s youngest countries were in the Persian Gulf.

“The percentage of the population aged 65 and over in 2015 ranked from a high of 26.6 percent for Japan to a low of around 1 percent for Qatar and the United Arab Emirates,” said the report.

“Of the world’s 25 oldest countries and areas in 2015, 22 are in Europe, with Germany or Italy leading the ranks of European countries for many years, including currently.”

After Japan, with 26.6 percent of its population 65 or older, Germany ranked No. 2 with 21.5 percent of its population 65 or older. Italy ranked No. 3 with 21.2 percent of its population 65 or older; and Greece ranked No. 4 with 20.5 percent of its population 25 or older.

The Census Bureau report estimates that between now and 2050, the population that is 65 and older will more than double while the population under 20 years of age see almost no growth.

At the same time, those in what the report calls “the working age population”—people who are 20 to 64 years of age—will increase by only 25.6 percent.

“Among the 7.3 billion people worldwide in 2015, an estimated 8.5 percent, or 617.1 million, are aged 65 and older,” says the report. “The number of older people is projected to increase more than 60 percent in just 15 years—in 2030, there will be about 1 billion older people globally, equivalent to 12.0 percent of the total population.

“The share of older population will continue to grow in the following 20 years—by 2050, there will be 1.6 billion older people worldwide, representing 16.7 percent of the total world population of 9.4 billion,” says the report. “This is equivalent to an average annual increase of 27.1 million older people from 2015 to 2050.

“In contrast to the 150 percent expansion of the population aged 65 and over in the next 35 years, the youth population (under age 20) is projected to remain almost flat, 2.5 billion in 2015 and 2.6 billion in 2050,” the report says.

“Over the same period, the working-age population (aged 20 to 64) will increase only moderately, 25.6 percent,” the Census Bureau says. “The working-age popula­tion share of total population will shrink slightly in the decades to come, largely due to the impact of low fertility and increasing life expectancy.”

While there has been a global increase in human longevity, it is not the primary force driving the global population toward a demographic where the elderly will outnumber young children.

“The main demographic force behind population aging is declining fertility rates,” says the Census Bureau report. “Populations with high fertility tend to have a young age distribution with a high proportion of children and a low proportion of older people, while those with low fertility have the opposite, resulting in an older society.”

“In many countries today, the total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen below the 2.1 children that a couple needs to replace themselves,” says the report. “In 2015, the TFR is near or below replacement levels in all world regions except Africa.”

Europe has a particularly low fertility rate.

“The more developed countries in Europe, where fertility reduction started more than 100 years ago, have had TFR levels below replacement rate since the 1970s,” says the Census Bureau report. “Currently, the average TFR for Europe is a very low 1.6.”

In the United States in 2015, according to the report, 14.9 percent of the population is 65 or older. In 2050, the report estimates, 22.1 percent of the U.S. population will be 65 or older.

The Census Bureau report includes a sidebar on “Support of Childless Older People in an Aging Europe.”

“Traditionally, children are the mainstay of old age support, espe­cially when only one parent is still living,” says this sidebar authored by researcher Martina Brandt at Dortmund University and Christian Deindl at University of Cologne. “However, people are not only living longer but also having fewer children, with rising childlessness among the older people.”