Unintended Consequences

The riots in Paris, the subway terrorists in London, the train bombings in Spain, the murder of Theo van Gogh in Holland and, this week, the arrest of an Amsterdam man who wished to blow up an El Al airliner — these have one glaring common denominator.

The perpetrators are all immigrants — or their children — in the respective countries, part of an underclass that originated in the desire of the host country to increase its supply of cheap labor. It was never anyone's intention that these immigrant workers should learn the language and assimilate into the host country's culture and way of life, so that didn't happen. Instead, ghettos grew and too many immigrants withdrew into them. And as the jobs left and the immigrants stayed and became even more separated from the greater society, there was anger and ample time for its expression.

Think about it.