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You think we don't know that? Anyone with half a brain in Europe knew that.
What's the fraction of people in Europe with half-a-brain then, if that's all it takes? These policies seem to have public support.
There was a great public movement in Europe to oppose the war in Iraq in 2003. It was a good movement for many reasons. Gerhard Shroeder was going all over the world telling people to oppose the war, and had great public support from Europeans with half-a-brain or more. A decade later, European leaders, with broad public support, are supporting refugee creation in Libya and Syria.
I have actually spoken to educated Europeans about this, most of them don't make the link. They believe in humanitarian bombing, they it's backed by the international community (US+UK+France), etc. They just never discuss Islamic terrorism, at all.
Americans have a similar problem. The government in the USA is seeding instability in Mexico, and now having a hard time with heavy latin American immigration. There's one small difference: in the USA, hispanics provide a very cheap labour pool which is good for capitalism. The same is not true of largely-unemployed Muslim immigrants in Europe.