the beginning of the end of Europe

Actually, it is probably way past the beginning... maybe more like the start of the second of three acts. Anyway, I'm referring to a post at the Corner by Mark Steyn where he has several noteworthy news items: first, that radical imams are able to take their welfare money from the UK and set themselves up in relative luxury in the Middle East. According to an article that Steyn cites, such "welfare imams" are probably accelerating the fall of the European welfare state:

"... the best way to destroy such welfare systems is to take in large numbers of immigrants from poor, oppressive, and corruption-ridden societies, whose rule of the road is to grab everything you can get your hands on. And third, the system will be wiped out even faster if many of those immigrants are fundamentalist Muslims who view bankrupting the West as a contribution to jihad."

He then cites the leader of Norway's Independent Labour Party- Ghufoor Butt (does it blow anyone else's mind that the leader of a political party in Norway is a Muslim?) who is pushing for segregation of Norweigans and immigrants when it comes to health care. In Steyn's book, he was talking about the end of Europe and I think we're seeing it's demise come even faster than we might have thought.