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Originally Posted by sworkhard
Any other suggestions?
Your right, I'm not as concerned with their well being as I don't know these people. However, I am concerned with their culture as that's going to have a big effect on how well the ones that move to Canada or other western countries in general are going to be able to integrate. Integration is important if we wish to maintain the kinds of freedoms people in our countries have enjoyed the last 50-100 years.
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I would share some suggestions but they dont really apply if ones viewpoint of the 'problem of Islam' only really matters to them when it affects their life in the western world through global terrorist attacks and people from different cultures providing some shock when they move to the west.
To me thats kind of like continually filling a cup with holes and wondering why it wont hold water or mopping up a leak before you've cut the source and stopped the leak.
Part of the reason many people dont want to have this discussion is because it takes place by and large between middle aged white people in the west who are more interested in their own politics than helping opressed people reform their religion and societies. The scope is always a western one and not a global or humanist agenda to have people living in equality around the world. We dont care if its a rabbid dog in the desert as long as it never bites us.
As long as we deal with Islam from the west and look to solve only the problems Islam poses for the west we will never really 'deal with Islam' or liberate people in these countries so they can choose to be more secular; we will only deal with the individual issues that we find troubling about Islam. Not the ones that actually trouble Muslims.
Its a pretty selfish way to look at it. I'm not concerned with helping these people, I'm concerned with ensuring they dont hurt me or challenge my way of life. Basically I'm only concerned with the well being of people I know or can relate with culturally, religiously etc.