Lefties--including many liberals--simply cannot even consider the possibility that some groups are incompatible with the Western liberal political order. They are morally committed to the belief that all people (and all religions) are equal in all important ways. To filter people out--or more finely, at least--on the basis of religion or ethnicity is bigoted--racist and whatnot.
This view will/would almost certainly lead to the destruction of the West.
The West is not magic. Importing vast numbers of non-Westerners who refuse to assimilate will turn the West into the non-West. There is a slim chance that it won't happen--too slim to take seriously.
A view on the right is: people on the left would rather bring about the destruction of the West than be called racist. Or to even be thought racist. Or thought possibly racist. Even by themselves...
So, even if those on the left could allow themselves to even so much as think that some people and groups might not be perfectly our equals...they'd rather blow up the world than admit it.
Much of Europe opened its doors to vast numbers of Muslims and people from the ME and Northern Africa. As a matter of now-virtually-undeniable fact, this has caused great harm to those nations. And it may have sown the seeds of their destruction.
This, of course, simply cannot be admitted.
At least there seems to be no number of rapes of young English girls great enough to make leftists reconsider...
This is the sort of thing that grounds the belief that people on the left start with moral and political beliefs about what they wish the world were like--that all groups are equal in all important ways--then they conclude that the world is and must be like that. And anyone who disagrees about what the world is like is racist.
Conservatives are more likely to let unpleasant facts influence their worldview. (Though perhaps not as likely as they should be.)
Consider the obviously false view that men and women are athletically equal. This view flourishes (though it is far from universal) on the left, but is derided on the right. Such an athletically "equitable" world might be happier--but it isn't real.
Even in the U.S., 51% of Muslims think that Muslims should be subject to Sharia law, and 39% think they should not be subject to American courts. There can be no doubt that these numbers are much worse in Europe.
The conservative view of all this is more like: we have our place and our country and our culture, and others have theirs. We run things here; they run things there. They may not want to let any of us in--and that's their right. (And almost no one here want to move there anyway. The reason being: here is objectively better. But drop this point if you like.) Our view is different. We think that some people from everywhere share our sensibilities. Politically--and spiritually, if you like--they are us. And we're happy for such people to come here and live and become us in fact as well as in spirit.
But that doesn't go for everyone everywhere.
To think that it does...that believe is not only false, but catastrophically so.
Blah blah blah.
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