Posted on 01/08/2008 5:55:09 AM PST by SJackson
I knew I should read the posts before I listed the answer - good job.
This is utter BS. With our frontier (North, South, East, and West) nothing but unending stretches of unmanned, unguarded and unchecked terrain, with immigration enforcement all but nil or corrupted in its service to partisan political agendas... how can this author make such a statement? Evidently the author is not aware of the current Presidential campaigning in the US wherein candidates may call themselves OUT of the running by demonstrating weakness on the general public demand for more and stronger immigration control.
It means that it isn’t immediate fear of being shot that motivates them to leave peacefully.
They're just waiting.
US islamists may stay quiet it doesn’t mean they are doing nothing...and are not waiting for a good signal.
It could be OUSS’BAMA
Yeah, and if most Americans have their way we’re about to show the Euros another trick - namely how to significantly reduce an immigrant population. Europe has GOT to send many of these people back to their place of birth. It won’t be pretty.
Ping for later...
What I noticed here in Canada is that most of the extremists are the children of muslim immigrants who were either born here or were brought over at a very young age. The parents who actually had to live under islamic law generally want nothing to do with it while the kids romanticize jihad because they’ve never seen it firsthand.
They also know what could be waiting in response to them also, from the non-Muslims here, so they still keep a low profile.
Or any other group or individual who gets out of hand.
...Or an election of Barack Obama?
A) Higher percentage of educated class.
B) Economic opportunity that doesn’t exist in Europe
C) Work-or-perish environment unlike the European model of work-or-go-on-the-dole.
D) Existing Arabic infratructure that dates back a hundred years.
E)Forced interaction — rather than isolation — from larger American community.
I haven’t read all comments but does anybody remember 911 and the numerous thwarted attempts to murder other innocent civilians? ie — blowing up Kennedy airport, and a dozen other busts around the country? These murderers don’t get their funding and support from the Christian community.
Most of what Mr. Rubinstein scribbled is crap.
Muslims are peaceful in the USA because they’re outnumbered 300 to 1, by folks who have, or who can get, guns, and who have a tradition of shooting back.
Wait until they become 10% or more of the population and see what happens.
A view and perspective from New York: where my mother-in-law lives there is a heavy muslim presence. They are in all peaceful, stick to themselves and do not cause trouble. The only disturbing note I noted was: while all the children were playing outside in the development where my mother-in-law lives, the muslim one -*(nine and older but young, head covered by a hijab)* was looking wistfully at the children playing. The only thing I gathered from that was: she wanted to play outside, but that would never happen. Matter of fact, I do not think I ever seen the wife or child interact outside or with anyone in the development. The second observation: I was in a nail salon one day and struck a conversation with a south asian young woman, under twenty-five, by speaking voice - seemingly americanized but then we got into discussing marriage and relationships: I told her how I met and I chose my husband and I asked her situation: she said hers was arranged and that she never met or spoke to her fiance. I was quite taken back, thinking she was quite americanized but at the same time thinking: how could you just say yes, not put up a fight? Keeping my composure, thinking - if this segment of the muslim population finds Western-American values not acceptable, why come here?/Just Asking - seoul62..........
ping
It takes three generations to become Americanized.
I think Camus finished his days in Paris, so much for liberation then.
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