Anonymous wrote:First of f all, they are closer to the Middle East and are a better target of opportunity.

Secondly, your assumptions are wrong.


They have more immigrants, but they are less successful at integrating them. In the U.S., we expect that the children of Muslim immigrants will be Americans AND Muslim with no contradiction. I had an argument with a German guy about how immigrants to Germany could never really be German and neither could their children. And Germany is probably better at integrating them than other countries.

A lot of Muslim immigrants to Europe are poor. A lot of Muslim immigrants to the U.S. are professionals and business owners. Professionals don't have time for that.

I agree with this as a Muslim American!

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Anonymous wrote:Because jihadists aren't liberal and have no interest in a multicultural society. So, you have that much in common with them, anyway. They, like you, have a hatred of cultural inclusiveness, banning guns, liberal do whatever you want values.

So, I guess you're more like a terrorist than you thought, eh?

I'm cool with whatever but when you got violence built in to a religion that's not cool

Islam doesn't have violence built into it any more than Christianity. It only takes a few nut jobs in any faith to misappropriate the teachings.

Yes Islam does and the way it is written spurs extremism. When did the last Hindu or Christan tertiary attack occur?

Anonymous wrote:Hello, no. Europe is a way, way crappier place to be as an immigrant than the US. I've lived in both and can attest that in terms of opportunity, treatment, rights, etc. the US is way, way better.

Yes, there's a safety net and school is free. But there is a lack of access that non-native citizens face in Europe that doesn't exist in the US. Employers can discriminate on the basis of national origin in Europe. They can't do that here. Housing discrimination? Fine in Europe. Access to education -- terrible in both places, but at least in the US there's a glimmer of a shot of educating your kids because of civil rights laws requiring language access. Europe, just generally, in my view is a crappy place as a immigrant or refugee. And i say this as a Muslim woman.

The US is tougher in the sense that you have work hard to make a basic standard of living. You get the bare essentials in Europe. But in the US you can make much, much more of your life in terms of starting a business (like my family did) or getting an education (like I did). We are upper middle class and fairly successful. If we had stayed in France, I can guarantee our lives would have been much worse. That's why I love this country so much I literally work at the VA as a nurse practitioner. I love this country and helping its soldiers heal is the least I can do to express my gratitude.

Anonymous wrote:Why do conservatives post straw man questions like this?

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Anonymous wrote:Because jihadists aren't liberal and have no interest in a multicultural society. So, you have that much in common with them, anyway. They, like you, have a hatred of cultural inclusiveness, banning guns, liberal do whatever you want values.

So, I guess you're more like a terrorist than you thought, eh?

I'm cool with whatever but when you got violence built in to a religion that's not cool

Islam doesn't have violence built into it any more than Christianity. It only takes a few nut jobs in any faith to misappropriate the teachings.

Yes Islam does and the way it is written spurs extremism. When did the last Hindu or Christan tertiary attack occur?

No response, of course. Interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:Because jihadists aren't liberal and have no interest in a multicultural society. So, you have that much in common with them, anyway. They, like you, have a hatred of cultural inclusiveness, banning guns, liberal do whatever you want values.

So, I guess you're more like a terrorist than you thought, eh?

I'm cool with whatever but when you got violence built in to a religion that's not cool

Islam doesn't have violence built into it any more than Christianity. It only takes a few nut jobs in any faith to misappropriate the teachings.

Yes Islam does and the way it is written spurs extremism. When did the last Hindu or Christan tertiary attack occur?

No response, of course. Interesting.

Anonymous wrote:Do they want to assimilate? It seems to me that they do not.

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Anonymous wrote:Because jihadists aren't liberal and have no interest in a multicultural society. So, you have that much in common with them, anyway. They, like you, have a hatred of cultural inclusiveness, banning guns, liberal do whatever you want values.

So, I guess you're more like a terrorist than you thought, eh?

I'm cool with whatever but when you got violence built in to a religion that's not cool

Islam doesn't have violence built into it any more than Christianity. It only takes a few nut jobs in any faith to misappropriate the teachings.

Yes Islam does and the way it is written spurs extremism. When did the last Hindu or Christan tertiary attack occur?

No response, of course. Interesting.

Look, no response because we have better things to do than Googling stuff for you. There are plenty of Indu attacks, often on Christians and Muslims in India. As for Christian terror, what about the Lord's Resistant Army in Uganda. Anti-Balaka Christian militias in the Central African Republic massacred thousands of Muslims in 2014. The fact that these groups do not operate in the US does not mean they do not exist. Google Spanish Inquisition and you will see what was done in the name of the Christian Lord. Christianity was not inherently violent but plenty of atrocious violence has been done by Christians throughout the centuries allegedly in the name of God. A pope threatened to burn Galileo at the stake if he did not retract a scientific theory (Galileo did it, to save his life). Another Pope apologized centuries later. The Catholic Church and doctrine is the same, the Bible is the same, the time and people are different.