OPINION:
Remarkable recent admissions have been made by the most influential European leaders of France, Germany and Great Britain that multiculturalism has failed in their respective nations. These admissions are in plain reference to the inability of Islamic populations in those countries to assimilate into their democratic cultures.
The reason for this is the inevitable clash of civilizations. Theocratic Islam and democracy cannot blend harmoniously on the same national turf. Unless these democracies are capable of self-examination and reversing the influx of the values imposed by theocratic Islam in their midst, these cultures as we now know them may well cease to exist.
The explosion of the global Islamic population, now about 1.6 billion, gives theocratic Islam a strategic foothold from which to further propagate and give root to Shariah law, which will destroy all that is essential to the freedoms and liberties of democracy. It is the principle of tolerance inculcated in the democratic ideal that could spell its downfall before the rapidly expanding dogma of Islam.
BOB JACK
Las Vegas
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