The current crisis of mass Muslim immigration into Europe, under the pretext that migrants are war refugees from Syria, has shaken the continent and its institutions to their core. It is tearing up regional treaties, such as the Schengen agreement that had eased the travel of Frenchmen to England, and Hungarians to Italy. The influx of mostly military-age men has brought with it a wave of atrocities such as the “rape-mobs” of Germany, and demands by migrant activists that European nations amend their legal codes to accommodate the newcomers’ cultural preferences — such as the forced marriage of young girls to older men.

Breitbart News reports that

eight married children in Danish asylum centres are already pregnant, or have given birth. The government is now planning to deport migrant men who marry and impregnate children, while giving the girls refuge.

Despite the strong Danish reaction to the practice of marrying children among some migrants, Imam Oussama El-Saadi of the Aarhus mosque has said the Danish government must relax their laws and respect migrant families, whatever age the brides are.

Speaking to Danish newspaper Metroxpress, the Imam said: “One should look at these cases from a different perspective. It is an extraordinary humanitarian situation, and I think you have to take care of these families. They’re married, and even if the man is twice as old as they have built a family. We have to accept that it is a different culture. …

The influx of a million needy strangers who never paid into its generous social welfare system is straining the entire infrastructure of an aging Europe. It is throwing a fragmentation bomb into nations whose jaded, post-Christian elites lump together all patriotism with Nazism — even the national sentiments of nations like Poland, France, and England that were the Nazis’ enemies and victims. Abetted by liberal Christians who embrace a willfully crude, simplistic reading of Bible verses such as “welcome the stranger,” multiculturalists in Europe seem eager to use aggressive Muslim immigrants as a cudgel with which to beat the retrograde working classes of their countries.

Europeans aren’t all bowing down to welcome the colonization of their countries by proud young Muslim men. Loudly patriotic parties are seeing a resurgence in France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia — even beaten-down, guilt-ridden Germany. In Britain, the resistance to mass Muslim immigration is fueling the move to take Britain out of the European Union, as Louise Mensch writes in The New York Times, citing as a major impetus

the wave of illegal immigrants effectively invited into Europe by Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel. A growing proportion of Britons believes their country should accept fewer refugees; Turkey, where a majority of these migrants have come from, is already a safe destination.

We also note that many are young men, of fighting age, who appear to have abandoned their families; the recent sexual assaults on women in Cologne, Germany, by marauding groups of migrants have confirmed the fears of many in Britain. With no curbs on the free movement of migrants under Europe’s Schengen Agreement, British voters expect a wave of unwanted immigration once these migrants are given asylum elsewhere in Europe. We are unwilling to close our eyes to this, and we want our borders back.

And the crisis is only escalating. Our nominal NATO ally, the increasingly intolerant Islamist regime in Turkey, is now threatening that if it doesn’t get it desired outcome in Syria — the overthrow of secular dictator Bashir al-Assad — it will deploy up to three million more “refugees” to Europe, according to The Australian, which reports:

Europe faces another huge influx of migrants after Turkey threatened to “open the gates” for millions of refugees on its soil yesterday. …

Earlier in the day [Turkish] President Erdogan warned that his patience was wearing thin over the conflict in Syria, as a further 600,000 Syrians were posed to flee to the Turkish border as a result of the conflict.

Alarm is growing in European capitals that thousands of migrants a day are still crossing the Aegean from Turkey to Greece after more than a million made the journey last year. It is feared that the numbers could accelerate this summer.

Turkey is sheltering three million refugees, including about 2.5 million from Syria, and is under pressure from the European Union and United Nations to take in tens of thousands more escaping the advance of President Assad’s forces in the Aleppo region. At least 40,000 are trapped in an area of northern Syria where Turkey has closed the border.

Mr Erdogan said that Turkey could say “goodbye” to refugees on its soil and move them into Europe. “We do not have the word ‘idiot’ written on our foreheads,” Mr Erdogan told business leaders in Ankara. “We will be patient but we will do what we have to. Don’t think that the planes and the buses are there for nothing.”

Calls for the U.S. to lead a coalition of Sunni Arab countries to resolve the refugee crisis by toppling Assad and replacing him with an Islamist government have resonated with some Republican candidates, such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, but they face a major obstacle, The Australian reports: “Last night Russia warned of a ‘new world war’ if Gulf states sent in ground troops to Syria as part of an American-led shift in strategy to step up the fight against Islamic State.”