Islam versus Europe

Since arriving in Spain a few weeks ago, I've been trying to arrange various telecomms services, like fixed or mobile broadband and mobile phone service. It's bizarrely difficult to do this in Spain. In Britain, if you want to buy a prepaid SIM, you can walk into a supermarket, pay a quid and walk out. The transaction takes a few seconds. In Spain, however, you could easily be there for 20 minutes or half an hour, filling out forms, signing things, producing documentation, with a clerk paging through computer screens, accessing some centralised government database.

Who cares about the mundane details of your adaptation to life in Spain, you might say. Ah, but this is germane to our theme. Because the reason for these elaborate registration requirements can be traced to our Mohammedan friends. In the Madrid train bombings of 2004, you see, the Muslims used prepaid phones to detonate the bombs. So the Spanish government brought in new laws requiring every prepaid SIM to be registered. You need to produce a government-issued ID or passport to acquire one, supply address details, etc. So every person buying a SIM card in Spain has a little bit of their life wasted every time they do this. Because of the Muslims.

This caused me to reflect on the many ways that the Muslim presence in our countries gradually degrades our quality of life and whittles away at our freedoms. Travellers in Britain now routinely have to take their shoes off and get rid of containers with liquids in them when going through the airport. Individually, these various hassles and inconveniences may seem insignificant. Add them all together, though, and you arrive at a significant corrosion of our quality of life and freedom. And all of this derives from the Muslim presence in Europe. What benefits could these people possibly be providing us with that could compensate for all the problems they are causing?