There are several American ’security experts’ and weirdos who say, that Europe is the real threat to American security - because it is the perfect breeding ground for terrorists.

The shoe bomber was a British national - right! The killer of the Dutch director van Gogh was also born in the Netherlands - right! Didn’t Germany harbor a cell of 9/11 terrorists - right?!

According to some sources somewhere between two to seven million Muslims live in the US - while Europe has around twelve to twenty million.

First of all they are not just ‘one kind of people’. Germany is host to many Turks, while Britain has people from many Arab nations as well as Asian Muslims. France and Spain are of course closer to African Muslims, because of their history (remember Spain was once conquered by Muslims). They sure are all Muslims, but they share very different backgrounds and languages. Just as many white Europeans are Christians - but hardly all follow the catholic church.

These bloody protestants - all terrorists! Burn them all! We need to protect our communities!

Many Muslims are living at the fringes of normal European societies, which is normal for most immigrants that have no local family connections, no money and hardly any education in modern jobs. There is obviously the language barrier and some xenophobia as well. But even ‘native’ Muslims in their third or even fourth generation live at the fringes. Why? Because many of these cultures simply stay within their own ghettos. We have Turks here in Germany who lived here for thirty years, but hardly speak German, know teutonic culture or have even contact to any Germans. They stay in their little Istanbuls and prefer it that way. The same is true for many communities in France, Britain, Netherlands etc.

But makes such a strong and rather stubborn refusal against integration everyone a terrorist? Of course not.

Uhhh, scary Muslims …

First of all we simply can’t and won’t control these 20 million people. We Germans already tried that method - it was called Konzentrationslager. Yes, immigration is a problem here, but it is not a flood of Muslim hordes sweeping Europe.

Of course we have also problems with terrorists here - but which one do you mean? IRA? ETA? Red Brigades? PKK? Or even Neo-Nazis? Al Qaeda is simply the newest member of a very annoying club. And once again we refuse to let them dictate our life’s and civil liberties. And there is no protection against them: even Muslim countries get bombed by Muslim terrorists. Plus no law or a gazillion policemen will guarantee absolute security. That is an illusion.

No headscarfs and bombs allowed in European schools

So yes, we Europeans want these Muslims, even though we still stay strangers to each other and still have to learn a lot on both sides to live with each other.

If America feels threatened by foreigners, then it should remember it’s old isolationist’s traditions and maybe shutdown it’s borders - Japan did this for several hundred years more or less successful.