At this point, a guy has explained his ideas, and while some (including me) may very much disagree with his centralist preferences, he's clearly not in favour of any human rights violations. "Not being in favour of legally enshrining minority languages" =/= "wanting to wipe out minorities". Trying to drag out the discussion just messes up the thread. Can we drop it, and get back to mapping?
Alright, to both run with the silly theme of "controversial subjects" and at the same time wholly
deconstruct it, have a little preview of my future history scenario,
The Second Golden Age of Islam:
This is set in 2200, about a century after the world started recovering from the great political and economic collapse of the late 21st century. Yes that's a majority Islamic Western Europe. Yes, that's a hispanic-majority South-Western USA(-that-was). And yes, that's not only your run-of-the-mill "New Afrika", but one that's largely embraced Islam.
Here's the twists:
-- The Caliphate of Paris is very much like the Caliphate of Baghdad, a centre of science and philosophy that has dragged large swathes of Europe out of self-inflicted ruination. In a somewhat ironic twist of fate, the Caliphate has its hands full dealing with fundamentalist Christian/identitarian terrorists and separatists, who are backed by the Holy Union of Saint Benedict (that huge confederal thing in Eastern Europe, which is deeply reactionary and irridentist).
-- The USA has stopped existing anyway, the office of President-General of the North American League has become hereditary, and the NAU is in personal union with the Empire of New Spain. Absolutely nobody cares that certain states are direct members of both polities, since it's commonly believed they'll be outright merging within the next two decades.
-- New Afrika enjoys rather good relations with the neighbours, and seceded from the NAU peacefully and legally. The strain of Islam adopted by the majority of its inhabitants is pretty mellow, and it's fairly common to see some fresh-faced missionary going door to door with his Quran in neighbouring Appalachia. (Chances are he'll be invited in for tea, although his evangelising efforts will probably not be very successful in a country that's a bit curmudgeonly conservative and Protestant. But some of his 'collegues' will no doubt have better luck in Tidewater, which is big on trans-Atlantic trade with the Parisian Caliphate and very open to cross-cultural influences.)
(The whole point of the scenario is to take typical "doom and gloom" predictions you tend to see -- the USA breaking up, Europe collapsing, "Eurabia!!!", "New Afrika!!!", "Aztlan!!!" etc. -- and make them all come true, but have them represent a hopeful and largely okay future instead. Not that it'a utopia or something: as the far right corners of the map already hint, Russia didn't come out of the great collapse unscathed by a
long shot. But things might be looking up there, too...)