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If that’s the case, then why do they bomb their own people in their country, have wars in other countries, and try to infuse sharia laws into the countries they immigrate to? When they do that, are they not the outsider?

My answer was in reference to Afghans, not Muslims. No doubt individual Afghans have joined wars in other countries and no doubt a few Afghans would love to impose sharia laws where they’ve migrated to—although the Afghans I’ve met outside of Afghanistan tend to be glad to be out of there. I don’t believe there is a large Afghan diaspora in any of the nations you mentioned.

I guess one benefit of being able to resist joining the British Empire in the 19th century, is that they emigrated in large numbers to Britain.

In any case, I think we can agree that we are better off to be out of that shithole.
In the late 60s I was a Peace Corps trainee scheduled to go to Afghanistan. I was “deselected” before our group left. Every disease was and still is endemic in Afghanistan. All of our group of 90 volunteers returned after 30 days in country. All of them had contracted amoebic dysentery during that time in spite of being repeatedly cautioned against it. The joke was Afghans called America the ‘Land of the Hard Stools’ since diarrhea was and still is considered normal there. So yes, it is a shithole.

A total of 6.3 million Afghan refugees were hosted in Pakistan and Iran by 1990. As of 2013, Afghanistan was the largest refugee-producing country in the world, a title held for 32 years. Afghans are currently the second largest refugee group after Syrian refugees. The majority of Afghan refugees (95%) are located in Iran and Pakistan. Some countries that were part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) took in small number of Afghans that worked with their respective forces. Ethnic minorities, like Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, often fled to India.

Islam in Afghanistan began to be practiced after the Arab Islamic conquest of Afghanistan from the 7th to the 10th centuries, with the last holdouts to conversion submitting in the late 19th century. Islam is the official state religion of Afghanistan.

So when you consider that 99.7% of the Afghan people have been confirmed muslim for so many years and a majority of the Afghan people that have immigrated have gone to muslim countries and fit in like Iran, Syria, and Pakistan, then you have to consider them muslim in practice or they wouldn’t have fit in. And trying to change the UK is an example of their trying to take control of another country.

rwood