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I have to challenge Erin Wildermuth. She is wrong in her conclusion that Europeans are not against immigration or Islam per se. It is exactly Islam and Muslim immigration we are against, as we learn more about the Koran, and especially its call for Muslims to migrate to countries of the infidels and how they're to behave in order to win the trust of the population and then how to strive to qualify for influential positions, all with the specific named end purpose of Islam to be able to take over control. Do all the immigrants have this in mind? Of course not. But neither did the Germans expect to start a world war, when they voted for Hitler, nor did the common Russian long for a Soviet, but they did get it in spite of that in both cases no God was involved, not even a massive belief in the goals. Experience with such overtaking achieved since the Koran was written has perfected the tactics to such a degree, that Islam already after a few decades has got a strong foothold in all of Europe, also in the northern parts, that never have had any experience with Islam before, which of course has been exploited. So far the Koran's advice has been followed by the letter.

p>Wildermuth is right, though, in writing that we have to get our knowledge from the net. There is plenty there. Let me point out just a single one: www.islam-watch.org . br> -- Arild Ejsing br> Danish people's pensioner /p>

As far as it goes, Erin Wildermuth has provided a modest tableau of changes, both imminent and already taken, by the leaders of several Western European nations in dealing with their problems created by illegal immigration. Such as it is, her article emphasizes what is being done to deal with this issue among the major countries where such problems, especially those created by mass Muslim immigration, have required politicians to take a stand. What she has left out, such as the implications of the defeat of Ken "the Red" Livingston as Mayor of London, or the election of Gianni Alemann as Mayor of Rome, the first non-Socialist in more than 50 years to hold that post, who actively seeks to remove all illegal aliens from "the eternal city," as well as what can be added to her reportage, would better complete the picture, and paint a more realistic portrait of how some nations of Western Europe intend to proceed in avoiding the path toward becoming "Eurabia."

Of all the countries that Wildermuth describes in her story, there is, in my judgment, no more active and pointed effort to deal with the problem than in Italy. Although Italy does not have the numbers of immigrants, especially Muslims, that France has, or the level of violence initiated by these immigrants, or their children, as in England or the Netherlands, the sense that Muslim and Eastern European illegal immigration was destroying the fabric and unity of Italian society has been evident for more than a decade. But as Wildermuth pointed out, the flash point usually came with the increase in personal violence: in Italy, the cause celebre was the murder by bludgeoning of Giovanna Reggiano, the wife of an Italian admiral, in her home in Rome by a Rumanian illegal immigrant. That murder shocked the nation.

It is a stretch, but not by much, to say that Reggiano's murder was the sole reason the Socialist government, which had done precious little to address the issue, fell, and replaced by a Center-Right coalition that intends to confront squarely the problems created by illegal immigration, because as Wildermuth briefly notes, the difference is the meteoric rise of the Lega del Nord, or Northern League. Headed by Umberto Bossi, who, when I served in the U.S. Embassy in Rome, was considered a "madman," and who for more than 20 years has decried the lax attitude of Italian governments in dealing with this issue. On a practical level, what is decidedly different is that of the 22 governmental positions in the cabinet of the (4th) Berlusconi government, Northern League officials hold only two, but they are the key to dealing with illegal immigration: Roberto Maroni is Minister of the Interior, or chief law enforcer of the nation, and Bossi, Minister without Portfolio, who will deal with federal affairs, not the least of which is how the nation will deal with illegal immigration. No other current government in Western Europe is so positioned to deal with this contentious issue as is the current Italian leadership. Will they succeed?

The issue will be joined when, or if, the EU intervenes, which I expect it will, to alter or cancel current policies of the Berlusconi government. But Bossi will hold Berlusconi's feet to the fire, and there will be a lot of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth before the issue comes close to being resolved. Still, it will be Italy, then, that will serve as the testing ground to see if illegal immigration to the European continent can be resolved. The stakes are very high.

p>Pax tecum

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