See Europe Part I here.

One of the few countries whose government did ‘get it’ in Europe about the perils of multiculturalism and rapid expansion of a Muslim immigrant population has been swept from office.

From The Economist:

A DECADE in the political wilderness for Denmark’s left, and a steady series of election losses for Europe’s left-wing parties, ended yesterday when Helle Thorning-Schmidt led her Social Democrats to a narrow victory over Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s liberal-conservative administration. A jubilant Ms Thorning-Schmidt will take office as Denmark’s first female prime minister.

Opening the “welcoming” gates to preserve its “image” of tolerance?

Once the winners of yesterday’s election have worked out how to share the spoils of victory, they face a daunting in-tray. As well as the keys to his office, Mr Løkke Rasmussen’s is leaving behind Scandinavia’s worst-performing economy, a widening budget deficit and, by dint of the immense influence of the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party over the last ten years, a tarnished international image of Denmark as a welcoming and tolerant society.

The Christian Science Monitor had a very detailed (but convoluted) article this week about what the results of this Danish election might mean for the European rightwing which would like to slow the flow of immigrants.  The CSM attempts to make the case that if Denmark goes Left (which it did) then that is Europe’s reaction to Breivik’s murderous rampage in Norway earlier this summer.   It is worth reading, but draw your own conclusions.

Update:  Here is a Muslim who says many (?) white Danes are converting to Islam, however, in the US most increases in Muslim population come from immigration or black converts.

Readers:  I have a series of posts on Europe today, this is the first.

A former refugee warns Europe (again) that the Islamists do not respect multiculturalism and are on the cusp of victory in Europe.

Cliff May writing about Bat Ye’or’s new book “Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate:”

For more than 30 years, Bat Ye’or, a refugee from Egypt, has been writing about dhimmis — Christians and Jews living under oppression in Muslim lands for over a millennium. Now, she has a new book, “Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate,” that looks at Muslims living in lands that once were Christian but today call themselves multicultural.

She predicts Europe will not remain multicultural for long. She is convinced that Europe, sooner rather than later, will be dominated by Islamic extremists and transformed into “Eurabia” — a term she has popularized but did not coin. It was first used in the mid-1970s by a French publication pressing for common European-Arab policies.

Immigrants can enrich a nation. But there is a difference between immigrants and colonists. The former are eager to learn the ways of their adopted home, to integrate and perhaps assimilate — which does not require relinquishing their heritage or forgetting their roots. Colonists, by contrast, bring their culture with them and live under their own laws. Their loyalties lie elsewhere.

Ye’or contends that a concerted effort is being made not only to ensure that Muslim immigrants in Europe remain squarely in the second category but also that they become the means to transform Europe politically, culturally and religiously. Leading this effort is the Organization of the Islamic Conference, established in 1969 and which, a few months ago, no doubt upon the advice of a highly compensated public relations professional, renamed itself the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

No multiculturalism when Islamists get power:

Ye’or offers this explanation [as to why Europeans don’t get it]: Committed to a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-lateral ideology that rejects patriotism and even national identity and cultural pride, afflicted by guilt over their imperial and colonial past – and ignorant about more than a thousand years of Islamic imperialism and colonialism — Europeans have become dhimmis in their own countries: inferiors who accept their status and submit. The OIC, by contrast, rejects multi-culturalism, openly professing the superiority of the Islamic faith, civilization and laws.

Read it all.