I guess some on the Left are deciding that multiculturalism stops short of Islam:
By Randall Parker at 2002 November 01 06:02 PM Civilizations Clash OfYesterday, in a press breakfast at the German Embassy, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer compared the likelihood of Turkey's admission into the EU with Mexico and Central America's admission into the United States. That sounds to us like a firm and permanent veto. When a reporter suggested that EU consideration of Turkey would be helpful to the United States, the admirably honest and colorful foreign minister suggested that, while friends do many things for each other, getting married to a third party because a friend requests it is not one of them.
Well, I guess it just goes to show how much smarter Americans are than the rest of the world. The US was able to garner all the benefits of economic union with Mexico without any of the hardships. (Free trade trumps uncontrolled migration any day.)
The european enthusiasm for unaccountable, arbitrary, oppressive control continues to astonish me. Frankly, I suspect that continental europe has a far more dangerous culture to the west than any culture in the orient.