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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
It simply continues to be ridiculous
There's going to reach a point where even those in Muslim countries will say enough is enough. Religious oppression is retarted.
Which is why I largely discount the whole supposed rise of Islam. They themselves will turn on their oppressors. Technology is enabling everyday people to reach a worldwide audience.
Muslim kids love their Blackberries, their Techno music, their jeans and everything rooted into a global culture.
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But its difficult to turn against oppression when its religiously based, since the state or the religion uses God to justify their methods and madness. Just look at the most oppressive regime in the world, N. Korea; even with the horrible starvation and fear they still mostly adore their dear leaders as near god like figures.
In a lot of the theocratic Islam nations there is a real fear of not conforming to the religion and of course fear not only of angering their God but probably even more fear of angering the religious authority in their country.
This is the single most problematic thing for the nations of Islam which do not have democracy and the freedoms we enjoy. Turkey is a nation which shows what a nation can be like if it moves more secular and respects all religions, but Turkey is the exception, not the rule in the Islamic world.
So for people fearing Islam's rise in Europe there is really only the concern that as they grow in numbers they grow in political influence and eventually will have enough voting power to enact and turn the society to more in the line of the Koran and even Sharia Law. But I'm sure that EU nations will never allow that point to be reached, it feels like we're going to see some radical right elements grow in power and we'll see possibly something a long the lines of persecution of the Jews in the early to mid 1900's.
Its interesting for me since I moved back to Iceland to see how often tensions with Muslims in Europe is in the news, and having watched a lot of Al-Jazeera it gives one a perspective I didn't get in Canada; that of a lot of the fear being irrational. However we can't deny the facts that if EU nations continue these immigration policies and Muslim families continue to have twice as many children as the Europeans you will eventually face a very different Europe which is what people greatly fear out here.
I don't know how you preserve a secular Europe against this slow war of ideals without a pushback of Christianity or racism which is always bubbling below the surface in many EU nations.
Hmm, that was more than I intended to say lol.
