Subject: Re: Sharia
Uhhh...no, it's not. It is the absence of faith/religion.

This is the central tenet that you take on faith. Because you can't prove it one way or the other. Nobody can. Until we die that is - and get to see who's right.

I do agree with much of the rest of your post, especially the European assimilation (or, more precisely, the lack thereof). It's been several years, but I do remember a story that France (specifically Paris) was taking in Muslims, and then relegating them to a sort of ghetto without much opportunity. Not sure if that was more universal in Europe as a whole.

Very much. Germany let in a lot of Turks...then didn't give them much of a shot.