Quote Originally Posted by nightflier
All that we know is what is true now. The links you posted make predictions based in hysteria. They repeatedly interchange terms like foreign-born, Muslim, and Sharia law to make the supposed threat that much more fantastic. And the sources are right up your alley, too, from overly conservative and paranoid sources. Look, I can find sources that make all sorts of amazing predictions on the net, and they will still be just predictions from debatable sources. What we do know is that Muslims make up a small fraction of the population in England and other Western countries (between 2 & 4%, in most cases). Likewise, the numbers of those who practice of Sharia law is a fraction of that, and of those, the ones who participate in violence is infinitesimally small.

You are just fear-mongering, plain and simple and it comes from a rather disturbing political position. You are just ignoring the facts and letting your paranoia dictate your judgment.
I don't think your numbers are quite right. In France alone its 6-9% of the population. In Germany 4.9%. In Cyprus its 18%. Denmark its it 2-3.7%. In Belgium it's 4%. In Albania its 65-70%. Italy 1.7%. The Netherlands 5.5-6%. Sweden its 3%. Switzerland its 4%. England its 3.3%. Spain 3.3%. This is just for Western, Eastern and Southern Europe.

When combined together, that is significantly more than 2-4%. France alone exceeds that. That is not to say these are all sharia law practicioners, but just the Muslim populations in these individual countries.

It is VERY widely believed that no country really practices Sharia law. What they practice now is a Sharia law interpreted solely by weak males looking to keep control of women and children. The real Sharia laws do not do that. This Sharia law we are seeing is a bastardized version of the original.

This is a hard one to call. When one religious group migrates to another country, and then demands that their laws guide their own people in that country, it does give the impression of a law hijack, and ultimately leads to more demands of control. As the migrating population increases, and the native population decreases, a takeover can happen, and if radical enough, with the population permissive enough, it will happen. Any where there are freedoms, this possibility does exist, and one cannot discount it.

Then of course there is the paranoia of the other side to consider as well.

We have seen it in Britian, France, and Canada.