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2005-08-04 Terror Networks & Islam

Trading Cricket for Jihad (David Brooks)

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-04 11:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Countries that do not encourage assimilation are not only causing themselves trouble, but endangering others around the world as well.

That's clever advice NY Times. So why are police tip-toeing around muslim houses with muslim supervisors and standing on their heads trying desperately not to offend muslims they are arresting? Why is CAIR tollerated at all? Why is it fine for a muslim to be totally rigid about their religion and at the same time regard ours as shit? Why cant the INS even look at a muslim without them crying foul? Assimilate, my ass. They don't want to assimilate, they hate everything we and our country and our freedom stand for.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-04 11:45|| 2005-08-04 11:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Third, terrorism is an immigration problem. Terrorists are spawned when educated, successful Muslims still have trouble sinking roots into their adopted homelands. Countries that do not encourage assimilation are not only causing themselves trouble, but endangering others around the world as well.

The problem with this piece is that it misses something obvious. If people are educated and successful, then clearly their "adopted homelands" have done little or nothing to hold them back -- they're certainly not being denied educations, being excluded from economic activity, or being victimized in any real way. Why, then, do they have problems assimilating?

Perhaps it's because they choose not to assimilate? Perhaps it's because they choose to remain isolated and outside of the society they've moved into?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-04 13:13|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-04 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Why, then, do they have problems assimilating?

Perhaps it's to Mark Steyn's point that they have nothing to assimilate to given the utterly watered down "I'm okay, you're okay" post-modernist rubbish that Europe has been reduced to.

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-08-04 14:06|| 2005-08-04 14:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmmm, DN, interesting observation. Nihilism is obviously an acquired taste in fates. One would presume it takes generations of devout and dedicated submissive toolishness to inculcate such a brain-dead response to life. On the other hand, considering the parallels between nihilism and Islam...

Posted by .com 2005-08-04 14:20|| 2005-08-04 14:20|| Front Page Top

#5 That's not a bad theory.

But given the practice of arranged marriage and oddball concepts of "honor", I think they're holding themselves apart.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-04 14:21|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-04 14:21|| Front Page Top

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