Yep, looks like the terrorists are finding a comfy home in Europe:
Lingering Muslim Extremism
Perplexes Tolerant Germany
Nazi History Inhibits Debate About Men
Living on the Dole and Cheering Jihad
September 20, 2002
By IAN JOHNSON
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
HAMBURG, Germany -- Riad Barakat sits in a small restaurant shaking his head at the almost entirely Muslim clientele. "Look at the women, their shoulders showing," he says. "They will not go to heaven. These people are dirt."
But one former local Muslim, he says, is surely in paradise: Mohamed Atta, thought to be the pilot of the first plane that hit the World Trade Center. "After the attacks, 71,000 people converted to Islam. That will give him a pass to heaven," Mr. Barakat says. "He was a true martyr."
Mr. Barakat is a regular at al-Quds Mosque, spiritual home to three of the Sept. 11 pilots. It was in this extremist setting, where imams advocated death and al Qaeda recruiters paid frequent calls, that Mr. Atta and his two friends embraced terrorism. Police and intelligence services have watched, bugged and searched al-Quds and several dozen other mosques across Germany, trying to prevent future attacks. Worshipers have been detained and arrested.
But more than a year after the attacks, German cities are still home to extremist Muslims. That's raising the question here of what, if anything, should be done about men such as Mr. Barakat: immigrants who live off welfare, hold their new homeland in contempt and are in awe of bloody martyrdom. On the eve of national elections, it is clear that Germany -- even though it served as an incubator of the Sept. 11 plot -- hasn't figured out the answer.
...One reason Muslims flock to Germany from the Middle East and Central and South Asia is that it is relatively easy to get into the country and stay indefinitely. Germany has some of the most tolerant asylum and guest-worker laws in the world. Many immigrants are allowed to bring over their families and are provided with generous welfare benefits. Moreover, the country's universities charge only nominal tuition, even to foreigners. It was higher education that initially attracted Mr. Atta and some of his colleagues to Hamburg, before they turned to terrorism.
"It's no coincidence that the hijackers came from Germany," says Bassam Tibi, a scholar of Islam at Goettingen University, who is himself a Muslim immigrant from Jordan. "Here, they could live outside of society. No one even expected them to work." Historically, Germany hasn't made much effort to integrate immigrants. For example, it remains more difficult for foreigners to become citizens there than in many other Western countries...