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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Second generation Muslim immigrants in Europe feel alienated for a number of reasons:
Extremely high unemployment. Their parents are mostly poor and uneducated, and most countries in Europe have high labour costs, so the bottom of the ladder jobs young people latch onto in North America to get work experience aren't there.
Geographic isolation. They live in homogenous enclaves with other poor Muslim immigrants.
Social isolation. What do young people in France (and Germany, the UK, etc.) do a lot of? Drinking? Nope can't do that. Dope? Can't do that either. Drinking and dope and trying to get laid? Nope, nope, nope. The life of an average 21 year old native Frenchman must look at once enticing, inaccessible, and depraved to a young Muslim raised in a conservative household. In a lot of cases you end up with a volatile cocktail of resentment, alienation, and shame. Oh but look - here on the internet are some jihadists who are expert at recruiting just these sorts of angry young men, and they have all the answers right there in the Koran.
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According to this article there is also the issue of prejudice. Whatever term people use for intolerance, it seems the out group bias has some part according to this report.
http://america.aljazeera.com/article...migration.html