A treacherous path?

A pessimist’s view of what Islamic immigration may be doing to Europe - Christopher Caldwell is an American journalist who writes for the liberal Financial Times as well as the conservative Weekly Standard.

He has spent the past decade studying European immigration, travelling widely and reading voraciously in an impressive variety of languages. His controversial new book repeatedly echoes Powell’s warnings all those years ago. Mr Caldwell argues that “Western Europe became a multi-ethnic society in a fit of absence of mind.”

.... Policymakers were even more mistaken about culture than they were about numbers. They assumed that immigrants would quickly adopt the mores of their host societies. But a surprising number of immigrants have proved “unmeltable”. [Economist.com] Read more