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Originally Posted by ufm8
I'm from France and most of the muslims here are from North Africa. Maybe 8-12% of muslims are from ME and by experience (I am actually living with a syrian housemate) 99.99+% of them are very respectful to us and our country. Only medias are selling the 0.001% of those who cause troubles. I'm pretty sure it happens in your ****ty USA too with blacks people for example (have to say it, sorry).
I will just say that if one day some real **** happens in our countries and we'd all have to migrate some of you won't have the same speech.
I think one mistake people make in analyzing the situation is only looking at attacks and number of deaths, and concluding from that that there's very little problem within the Muslim community because attacks are so infrequent and conducted by so few individuals.
But contrary to numbers you've just invented, the spread of radical and conservative Islam is more insidious than simply terrorist attacks. Look at, for instance, the
percent of the young Muslim population within France that doesn't condemn the Bataclan attack that killed so many innocent people. It is 20,000x higher than the .001% you invented. Or, look at the percent of Muslims that think Sharia should be the law in France as polled every so often. The lack of integration and the bend toward radicalization within the second generation immigrants is a festering problem, and the reason that recruitment within these communities isn't as hard as one assumes.
And at a more basic level, conservative Islam, and the violent strain of radical Islam that is born out of it, is a religious dogma that is at odds with western democratic principles of tolerance, equality, and justice.