Mass expulsions of Muslims could fracture the Western alliance

Evidence

On the one hand, the mass expulsion of Muslims by European states could put the U.S. in an extraordinarily difficult situation and even precipitate a break-up of the Western alliance. A U.S. government might find it simply impossible before the American people and the rest of the world to justify retaining close relations with a militantly illiberal Europe. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 299

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the standing thesis that democratic states’ treatment of Muslim minorities reshapes great-power alignments, as in Base Nation’s account of host-nation backlash to U.S. basing.
• SEED: Essay angle: ‘The Alliance That Ran on Liberalism’ — how shared democratic identity, not shared threat, has underwritten NATO and what happens if one member abandons it.