May I see your papers, citizen?

Exactly, the muslims in Southampton are lovely. All this rubbish about the Islamification of Europe is just that, complete tosh. It just shows how far from reality the far right in America has become. Jokes about changing our currency and religion should be treated with scorn. A joke only works if there's an element of truth to it, and in this case, there is absolutely none whatsoever.

Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.
The numbers are startling. Only 3.2 per cent of Spain's population was foreign-born in 1998. In 2007 it was 13.4 per cent. Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will have doubled again by 2015. In Brussels, the top seven baby boys' names recently were Mohamed, Adam, Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza.

So if you are claiming that Europe is not becoming Islamified then you are claiming that the Muslim portion of the population is not becoming larger.

This mornings Telegraph does not agree with your assessment.

And what you think about and why e.g. people leave Christian churches.

Please present your evidence for review.

Germany started to reform its voting laws 10 years ago, granting certain franchise rights to the large Turkish population.

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Germany started to reform its voting laws 10 years ago, granting certain franchise rights to the large Turkish population.

That is completely untrue.

Second and more importantly in relationship to German history, in 2000, the government passed a revolutionary law that allowed for jus soli, or the territorial citizenship principle. Even after reconstruction of the German state after World War II, Germany continued to grant citizenship based on the ethnic classification of someone as German in contradistinction to France, which has for most of it modern history possessed a civic notion of nationality. This differentiation has led scholars such as Rogers Brubaker to claim that Germany can only conceive of itself as an ethnic nation. Indeed, an ethnic self-conception has not been abandoned by the mainstream conservative Christian Democrats in Germany, who still often claim that Germany is not a land of immigration (kein Einwanderungsland).

Nevertheless the liberal red-green coalition passed a law which allows for both jus sanguinus and jus soli, and non-ethnic Germans can now gain citizenship through birth or long-term residence in Germany . Under the new law many Turkish guestworkers have obtained German citizenship. Even the new citizenship laws, however, have not shed the vestiges of Germany’s past, and the citizenship laws, in their overly complicated and convoluted language, represent Germany’s tortured relationship with its own self-identity and the problematic definition of what German is

Hey Izzy, do you watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm"? Last night's episode was a hoot.

I guess we could scrap the Supreme court and the constitution. Would that make you happier?

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Furthermore, I have a perfect right to desire that there not be so many people in the country illegally from a single location that my culture is alterred to include, in essence, another country within our borders.

Ahhhhhh, just keep 'em talking and racism is bound to rear its ugly head.

That's not even a joke is it? You actually believe that bollocks. Fox 'News' is rotting your brain.

Bollocks, far right demagogues like Bush who want to start a 'crusade' and holy war are the real problem.

The only people who seriously accused Bush of starting the war in Iraq for religious reasons were a few half-crazed imams and Baghdad Bob.