As usual with US commentary, is that it is so much better for Muslims in America than it is in Europe. On the contrary under the multicultural system that many European countries have adopted European Muslims have had it very good. The problem is that most have chosen not to take advantage of it ~ as was expected. But many have. The idea was that you come in as an immigrant, and you look to building a life there over the generations. But instead many sought to use the benefit system to continue with the life they once knew in the Islamic world. Instead of sending their children to school, the focus was on marriage. Which works out well in the Islamic world, but in Europe, one needs more than a good marriage. And further it was how these marriages were taking place; in order to choose a bride or a groom, the youngster is sent back to the old country, and the arrangement was made. The new spouse, most times a relative, was brought back to live in Europe, helping another family member to immigrate. And once their children grew up the focus was to do the same. So there was never a separation or break, long enough to allow these people to fully integrate into western society.
This perpetual immigration comes at a price. Not only do these families show a reluctance to integrate, now the radicalized belief system is also being imported along with these newcomers. These marriages are taking place between those in the most intolerant parts of the Islamic world and with them comes this new, militarist anti-western thinking.
The main London bomber was also educated, as a teaching assistant he was trusted with people's children. I can hardly how this fits into discrimination. The medical doctor who rammed his exploding car into the Scottish airport, was educated in the UK and working within the NHS. I am really not sure what more anyone could have done. For any Westerner getting a doctorate, or a Masters degree or a Bachelors would be seen as a road to progress. But for these men, what western society had to offer was not enough. In France there was a nuclear physicist involved in a terror plot.
What Muslim nations do after they are attacked, like the Maldives, is that they strive to make their countries more Islamic. The rationale being that if a country is truly Islamic, the jihadist should not focus on it for attack. Since their attack. no non-Muslims are allowed to hold citizenship. It is very likely that these educated Muslims are rejecting western offerings, for Islam, for that uptopic vision surrounding Islam, that Islam will solve it all. This is something western governments and people can't give. In Europe, with all that Muslims have been given, their reluctance to join in with their adopted society, is like a big billboard, with Muslims saying what we will work for instead is to get Islamic law established. A part of the so called European discrimination and racism, is not that at all, it is a genuine show of being fed up, with Muslim attempts to overhaul and chip away at the bedrock of western society.
It would be better for the US to try and learn more of what Europe's concerns are around Islam. The aim is to avoid some of the problems. For ex. there have been several honor killings in the US connected to forced marriages, this looks no different from Europe. It is not the American mindset, or the Europe mindset, it is the Muslim traditional religious mindset that can pose serious problems.
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