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Perhaps we might also look at the aggressiveness of some Muslims who, of their own free will, migrate to countries that are considered to be Christian and then proceed to try and force their beliefs and customs on the original population. The recent events in Switzerland attest to this.

In Australia an 11 year old schoolboy who was a Christian was chased and beaten by Muslim students for having the audacity to eat pork during the Muslim Ramadam.

Anyone who has read Kazantsakis knows of his experiences when he was a young boy. He witnessed the massacres by the Turks of the Christians trapped within the walls of Megalokastro, Crete. Most of the massacres took place during the Muslim Ramadam.


Europeans, in the past, travelled to many other countries in search of a better life. This is praiseworthy because only those who seek to better themselves take the trouble to do this while experience the pain of leaving their mother country. The big differerence is of course that the countries receiving these migrants requested them and only after undergoing strict medical tests were they permitted to embark on ships to their new country. These people, on the whole, were law abiding and fit in with the general population of the countries they migrated to.

Something different is happening today. Yes, to religious freedom, yes to migrants, but for God's sake, please respect the country you are migrating to and just as you want to be respected for your beliefs, respect the beliefs of others.


I am quite pessimistic about the future of Europe and countries like Australia that have a large percentage of Muslim migrants e.g. in France the population is 10% Muslim. Muslims have lots of children, sometimes up to 10, and this ensures that they do not need to work because they receive child endowment payments higher than an average working wage. It also means that they very quickly become a force to be reckoned with and start to cause trouble as they did in the Kosovo area of Yugoslavia.

I am not aware of Christians attacking Muslims - although I am sure that there might be isolated instances of this. What is worrying is the increasing attacks on Christians, on their homes, their businesses and their persons.

I'm rereading Mother Gavrilia's book The Ascetic of Love and it was with sadness that I read that. as she travelled through the Middle East by bus, at every stop she was graciously offered a chance to worship God in the small Muslim prayer rooms attached to all the bus stations at that time - early 1950's. What a change from the militant Islam that is now prevalent, and for which, in my opinion, the actions of some powerful countries are to blame.

I believe that the West is reaping the seeds it has sown and that this is only the beginning.

Effie