Europe is a failing continent, as a whole, but there has been a dramatic shift to right and center-right populists taking on the muslim takeover. Sarkozy is a great example of that, but it's happening elsewhere. The Guardian has a great piece on an anti-Islam politician catching fire:

A TV addict with bleached hair who adores Maggie Thatcher and prefers kebabs to hamburgers, Geert Wilders has got nothing against Muslims. He just hates Islam. Or so he says. 'Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology,' says Wilders, a lanky Roman Catholic right-winger, 'the ideology of a retarded culture.'

The Dutch politician, who sees himself as heir to a recent string of assassinated or hounded mavericks who have turned Holland upside down, has been doing a crash course in Koranic study. Likening the Islamic sacred text to Hitler's Mein Kampf, he wants the 'fascist Koran' outlawed in Holland, the constitution rewritten to make that possible, all immigration from Muslim countries halted, Muslim immigrants paid to leave and all Muslim 'criminals' stripped of Dutch citizenship and deported 'back where they came from'. But he has nothing against Muslims. 'I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim people.'

Could we apply his plan to the United States? Absolutely not. Banning the Koran isn't even something I would support, considering I am currently studying the book myself. Still, Mr. Wilders is showing that you can take on the Religion of Pieces without getting politically neutered. Read the entire piece.