I don't like to say it because I've often said that it's just a minority, a tiny minority and not represenative of the majority who are just like you and me and would decry this affair if they could and they just wanna live in peace... then I kinda started thinking that maybe this tiny minority is actually enabled by the silent majority who either silently approves or isn't doing any significant effort in painting a different image(there are isolated cases but they're an even tinier minority)and now I'm kinda convinced that maybe it's pretty much a hopeless case and that the mindset should be "prove that you can fit in and until then, no go".
And it's awful but it's true.
So for the past 10 days there have been riots in France, not just in paris but other cities that are heavily populated with arabs and north africans. Like the one in 2005 and the one just last year, this one too is violent, it's disruptive and destructive and it's massive. And ofc, it's fueled by muslim religious nationalism which is a combination of religious zealotry and ofc, pan-arab and pan-islamic nationalism.
So that sucks.
So where is Europe heading? Lets look elsewhere in the world to see what's up.
Are we heading in the direction of Malaysia who had adopted sharia? The islamic majority there is a small majority, just 60% and they enforced a religious doctrine on everyone. So they're not interested in respecting other peoples' faiths, but rather, just their own. But already, in europe, most european countries with heavy islamic populations made huge concessions that only they demand. "but rainman, the burka!"; yes, the burka was banned because it was an obstructionist clothing, much like ski masks and other face covers.
Because it sure as **** doesn't seem to be the islam of urban indonesia who is quite liberal by islamic standards.
Or will it be the islam of the philipines who have been doing a civil war in that country for 50 years despite the fact that the islamic population is just about 8%.
The reason I ask this is because we seem to be importing the crazy islam in Europe. We have islamists from iraq, northern africa and turkey which I'll grant this, they seem to be the least fanatical or predisposed to fanaticism. And ofc, then there are islamists from africa like somalia or eritrea or other places. It seems that in the past 5 years, every year, there has been a massive riot fueled by islamic fanaticism in the wake of something that upset, even by a bit, the muslims.
Ofc, they weren't the only rioters but ofc, they're the focus point of this discussion.
I think it's an endemic problem and I don't see how it can be solved. I really don't. I said that education won't solve it in another thread and I gave the example that most of the people who did the terrorist bombings in spain and the UK were intelligent muslims who would seem integrated by any measurable metric. They had an education, they had a job, some even their own business, they had money, a family, so you can't get more integrated than that. So they didn't do riots, they did terrorism.
And ofc, this will only get worse. The fact that there has been a record number of "refugees" from northern africa into italy, this year was a record high and the year isn't over, without having any method to verify these people, how many of them do you think were in fact, jihadists? Or just criminals who wanna come and set up a crime network. I don't know numbers, but I'm willing to bet that it was a significant amount to make a difference in the statistics. There is no way to screen the refugees who were picked up, god knows how many evaded the patrol boats, to identify if they're really valid refugees or criminals. So I think we're going to see a lot more problems. I'm just not sure it's worth putting up with it. There has been a riot in one or more european countries every year for the past few years. Riot, not protest, riots. And I'm not even counting regular crimes.
