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It appears that Europe, which espouses human rights, liberty, peace
and democracy, is unwilling to provide these people who have no right
to life in their own countries with the means for a free and safe life.
Why is the European Union so insensitive to this humanitarian drama?
Why does it fear and turn its backs on people who come to seek asylum?

The main cause of this fear is that people do not live as true Mus-
lims in the Middle East and many places. The true Islam possesses
highly advanced conceptions of democracy and liberty that European

societies can be very comfortable with. However, circles that abandon
the essence of Islam and live by fanatical ways of thinking impose a
form of Islam that is conservative, fanatical, restrictive and opposed
to art, science and very nearly life itself. People therefore imagine that
Islam restricts freedoms, modernity, fields of art such as music, sculp-

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