We are told by Jack Straw, and others, that to 'tie the knot' with Turkey is to bind the heritage of the Christian West to the heritage of the Islamic East, and thereby avoid a clash of civilizations.
This reminds me of one of ÆSOP's fables. The one about misplaced confidence!
The halcyon is a bird that loves solitude and spends all its life over the sea, nesting in rocks on the coast, so they say, where men cannot pursue it. Once upon a time, a halcyon which was about to breed came to a headland and built her nest on a rock overhanging the water. But one day when she had gone to find food, the sea was whipped up by a squall, and a high wave washed over the nest and drowned the nestlings. Woe is me!, cried the bird when she returned and saw what had happened. I was on my guard against the traps that might be set for me on dry land, but this sea, to which I fled for refuge, has proved still more treacherous.
The moral in the story: Some men act in a similar way. In their anxiety to protect themselves against their enemies, they fail to realize that they are running into the arms of even more dangerous friends!
©Mark Alexander
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To quote a more erudite American poster at JihadWatch.org:
The entry of Turkey into the E.U. would be the end of Europe not as a "Christian club" but as a part of Western civilization. It would damage free thought, art, everything else. There is no reason to think that such admission would transform the Muslims of Turkey.
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It is obvious that Turkey's present secular society is rapdily eroding. Europe already has more Muslim immigrants than can be assimilated.
Amending my previous post. Scholars and posters more erudite than I am have much to say on this subject. Part 1 ofAndrew Bostom in the American Thinker. No clearthinking person would want to see Turkey enter the E.U. for the possiblility of Sharia becoming precedent and eventual law in any part of the E.U. is more frightening that terrorism.
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