Anti-Semitism: The Vote Is In!

Mark Steyn writes about the Left pandering to Islamists in Europe, quoting from a piece by Lars Hedegaard to prove his point. Steyn writes:

Why then are the Euroleft prostrate before Islam? Simple arithmetic:

They are now increasingly dependent on the Muslim vote, which they hope will guarantee them a perpetual foothold at least in the major population centers.

With Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and many other Continental cities from Malmo to Marseilles approaching majority Muslim status in the next decade, the demographic reality of a re-religionized Europe is too hard to buck. For the soft-left establishment, to be unsolicitous of Islam is to condemn yourself to a few fast shrinking redoubts. (It's strange, for example, to hear American Jews still professing bewilderment at the ever more naked hostility in Europe toward Israel. Look at the electoral math: For your average squishy Europol, there is nothing to gain and an awful lot to lose by being perceived as insufficiently hostile to "Zionism".)

So democratic parties maintain their electoral viability by pandering to the anti-democratic impulses of their fastest-growing bloc. [emphasis added]

Read the whole thing.

In his article, Hedegaard expands on the point:

This socialist-Muslim nexus turned out to be a marriage made in heaven. The swelling ranks of the Muslim immigrants could deliver the votes to fill the void left by the disappearing native working classes, and the socialist parties could reciprocate by delivering welfare benefits, cultural concessions and free immigration to their to non-working Muslim charges.

...To keep this bizarre road show running, it has become necessary for the leftist rulers to crush free speech. However much they may privately deplore it, there is nothing else to do if they want to retain the Muslim vote that keeps them in power.

Read the whole thing.

The question is whether this will become an issue in the US as well--considering the attempts by the Democratic Party to accommodate illegal aliens, this may already be starting.

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