What are the causes of recent swarm of immigrants to Europe?

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That's just Russian propaganda.

The sooner we acknowledge that Islam is everyone's problem, the better.

Why don't the (super)majority keep them in check, then?

Also, why do countries with majority muslim populations always have such problems?

If you can judge a tree by it's fruit...

There is no doubt, that Arabic countries could have been well civilised and economically stable if not US, France, UK and Germany. Once they were an empire, they were very pro western in 1960's and they have natural resources to live good - the kind of resources that in our age form the base of civilised progress. Isn't that ironic that lands providing the most valuable resources are the most destroyed? Western countries greed destroyed the region for generations. I don't understand how one can doubt the destructive part on the side of western governments. How can one believe that invading and bombing a country is an act of liberation? This is western propaganda (that's for another thread).

All in all, I find it fascinating that the greatest mind in the field of human nature - Steven Pinker - wrote his recent book about how angelic we people become, walking away from our cruelty and inclination to war. All that despite it was him who reminded us that human nature needs a few factors to turn to cruelty:
- Economic crisis / shortage of resources
- Overpopulation / overwhelming immigration / ethnic tensions

Every major war started with these. Now we live during the times when these two factors increasingly gain presence in Europe, governments turn against each other, become protective of their borders, people become hostile towards immigrants and increasingly vote for nationalist parties.

In my view, left-wing European governments and their stubborn ideology of taking all refugees, legal and illegal immigrants alike can't work in their favour - when their citizens get poorer and feel increasingly more endangered. They had a good 70-year long ride on the corpse of Hitler, but they missed the point - although Hitler was one of the major players in Second World War, the causes lay in the human nature. Stalin - the western ally - was much greater evil. Jewish genocide was not the only genocide during IIWW. But we learn cherry-picked history. Although each country's history focuses on its conflicts with neighbours, Second World War was a war caused by similar problems we face today. Some wars are over money or political domination, but the biggest wars are over long-time resources (such as land) and genetic dominance. The book "Kings and Cannibals" nicely described how human populations go through these cycles in history - discovery of new resources, progress, population growth, stagnation and shortage of resources, tensions, war and cruelty, reduction of population. Anyone who studied history of wars or genocide, will know that these events reoccur during our history and form stable part of it, and therefore of human nature. In many ways, war is how human populations progress.

These are problems requiring deeper consideration and understanding, being able to accept evolution, being able to admit to being part of this earth's animal kingdom. What left-wing governments are doing instead, is telling us that we are noble, we are pure, we are so super humane that we have nothing to do with this earth. It is a crime to speak your mind, or to feel certain immoral emotions (hate crimes, xenophobia, islamophobia). They decide on whether "swarm" is offensive when used to describe refugees - now they are protecting humane nobility by banning certain words from application to our greatness. But one thing won't change for sure - they won't accept that in a large part we belong to animal kingdom, in large part we are driven by instincts and evolutionary behaviours. Too bad, because perhaps then we could understand this world better, understand ourselves better and work to resolve the underlying causes and prevent future conflicts. Instead we live in denial and think in systems downloaded directly from media.