Maros Balo on Islamic fundamentalism

Slovak economic analyst Maros Balo accuses Europe of being less aware of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism than the US. He fears "that to prevent an escalation in the conflict Europe may be tempted to give up its values, one of which is freedom. The Europeans are making another fatal mistake by underestimating their opponent. We regard Islamic terrorists as dangerous fanatics but we fail to take into account that they're also very intelligent and have studied at Western universities... Europe's Christian culture has (as a consequence of the waves of immigration since the 1970s) increasingly giving up ground to new majority societies... If Europe doesn't realise very soon what its position will be if it continues to deny its Christian values and continues to talk about dialogue between peoples and religions in the EU constitution, another culture will take the lead."

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