I would like to propose a thought experiment about how the Western
world would respond to the following scenario:
As a result of increasing discrimination, persecution of various forms, and acts of violence against Muslim immigrants in Europe, there emerges a movement for them to immigrate to a single country where the force of their numbers will allow them some political clout and self protection. Because of its liberal immigration policies, its relatively small population and the social tolerance there, Luxembourg is selected for the European Muslim homeland.
Over a period of time, Muslims from Europe and some from other locations begin settling in Luxembourg and buying up land until they reach about 10% of the population However, despite its reputation for tolerance, Luxembourg citizens become uncomfortable with the number of Muslims in the country and there are numerous incidents of inter-religious violence. Luxembourg seeks to limit Muslim immigration, but Muslims set up smuggling organizations, which continue to bring in immigrants covertly. Throughout Europe they begin arming themselves for self-defence. At a certain point, the Muslim population of Luxembourg reaches 20% and the communal violence continues to escalate.
Finally, the UN decides that the only way to deal with this is to partition Luxembourg with Muslims on one side and Christians on the
other. The Muslim minority is given the majority of land, and immediately agrees to the division, although privately Muslim leaders say that they intend to take the entire country for the Greater Islamic Republic of Luxembourg. The Christians reject the partition, but before they can organize themselves to respond the Muslims have begun forced deportations on their side of the partition line, sending hundreds of thousands of refugees into western Luxembourg, France, and Belgium. Never happy about having a Muslim nation in the region, and concerned about the ethnic cleansing, Belgium and France send troops into the Christian side of the partition but are driven back by the Muslims, who then claim the territory they have taken by force.
The Muslims refuse to allow Christian refugees to return to their side
of the partition and they expropriate their land as abandoned property. However, they encourage immigration of Muslims from Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. And they begin buying up arms, with aid from oil-rich Muslim countries, until, despite their size, they are the most powerful military in the region.
Within 20 years they have fought two wars with their neighbors and have seized the remainder of Luxembourg, and parts of France, Belgium and Germany. They sporadically engage in unprovoked military action against countries in the region, bombing a dam in Germany because it would divert some water from Luxembourg, bombing a nuclear power plant in Austria to prevent that country from developing nuclear weapons, and bombing the headquarters of the Luxembourg Liberation Organization in Rome. The have plotted or threatened to overthrow the governments of every neighboring country and they invaded and occupied the Netherlands for 18 years and recently decimated a large part of its infrastructure because, "The Party of God," a militant Protestant group was launching rocket attacks on them from there.
They insist that they just want to make peace with their neighbors but they must continue their periodic military incursions into neighboring countries because of ongoing terrorist attacks against them. They claim that they need the occupied territories they have as a self-defense buffer zone, but they have moved hundreds of thousands of Muslims into these territories and created hundreds of towns and villages in them. Their neighbors are afraid that they will now seek more land as a buffer zone to protect the new settlements.
But the Muslims claim that Christians are uncivilized fanatics who just want to kill all the Muslims, so it is impossible to make peace with them. They quote statements from Ann Coulter, a leading American Christian political commentator as proof that this is the evil intent
of all Christians, and they cite the genocide in Bosnia as evidence that this is not just bellicose political rhetoric. But, they say, Muslims can fight back now. And they do.