Syrian Refugees: Europe Shouldn’t Take Them

Syrian Refugees: Europe Shouldn’t Take Them | National Review Online:
"Allowing millions of Syrians and others from the Muslim Middle East into Europe will end up as a catastrophe for Europe, and therefore for the West. 
This may be the most difficult sentence I have ever written.
Little seems more obviously moral than to allow these benighted Syrians, Iraqis, and others to flee from hell into heaven.
Therefore, arguing against allowing large numbers of them into Europe (and the United States) seems to be advocating for something that is heartless and just morally wrong.
Also, as a Jew, I am particularly sensitive to any parallels to the Holocaust.
And looking at photos and videos of families trying to escape Syria, where two monsters — the Assad regime and the Islamic State — are devouring each other and hundreds of thousands in their way, how can I not think back to a time when Jews sought to escape the Nazi monster devouring them?
...In contrast, most of the Muslims of the Middle East — and the largely Muslim population (from non-Arab countries) already in Europe — hold values that are not merely different from, but opposed to, those of Europe.
It is not as if Europe has no experience with large numbers of Muslim immigrants.
And the experience has been largely negative.
Most European countries are bad at assimilating people from other cultures, especially from Muslim cultures. 
And large numbers of people from Muslim cultures are bad at assimilating into non-Muslim cultures. When good intentions trump experience and wisdom, you’re asking for trouble — in this case, civilization-threatening trouble..."