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Muslim immigration worsens a society, not improves it.
yea yea yea.. they said the same thing about civil rights, woman lib and damn near every wave of immigration to his the continental 48. sit down and shut the fuck up, Archie.
The following was interesting in the light of the recent elections in the EU:
"The shift has two principal, and related, causes. The more significant one is that over the last three decades, social-democratic Europe’s political, cultural, academic, and media elites have presided over, and vigorously defended, a vast wave of immigration from the Muslim world—the largest such influx in human history. According to Foreign Affairs, Muslims in Western Europe numbered between 15 and 20 million in 2005. One source estimates that Britain’s Muslim population rose from about 82,000 in 1961 to 553,000 in 1981 to 2 million in 2000—a demographic change roughly representative of Western Europe as a whole during that period. According to the London Times, the number of Muslims in the U.K. climbed by half a million between 2004 and 2008 alone—a rate of growth ten times that of the rest of that country’s population."
"…European cities increasingly dangerous for non-Muslims—especially women, Jews, and gays. In 2001, 65 percent of rapes in Norway were committed by what the country’s police call “non-Western” men—a category consisting overwhelmingly of Muslims, who make up just 2 percent of that country’s population. In 2005, 82 percent of crimes in Copenhagen were committed by members of immigrant groups, the majority of them Muslims. In Germany, reports Der Spiegel, “a disproportionately high percentage of women who flee to women’s shelters are Muslim”; in 2006, 56 percent of the women at Norwegian shelters were of foreign origin; Deborah Scroggins wrote in The Nation in 2005 that “Muslims make up only 5.5 percent of the Dutch population, but they account for more than half the women in battered women’s shelters.”
Heirs to Fortuyn? by Bruce Bawer, City Journal Spring 2009
um, do you think I CANT find up an equivilent piece relating to the growing influence of jews in America over that of a traditionally christian set of morals and values? Hell, I could trump you on the topic of PORN ALONE. Are you as willing to support concerned christians agasint the influence of jews as you are against the influence of muslims? If not, tell me why one set of christian cultural concern is bad and the other good?
While it might be a parry, it is certainly not a thrust.
Changing the subject is item one under "Juvenile Debating Techniques."
Question for debate was "Muslim immigration worsens a society, not improves it."
I specifically defended it, while you dropped it like it was hot.
Nor am I making an argument " against the influence of muslims." As a Conservative, I believe that data should inform policy. This the substance of my post. My data shows the population size of Muslims in Europe, and attempts to relate same to the crime statistics that the quote poses.
Had you offered a counter argument, it would be along the lines of disputing the realtionship, as in the fallacy of "post hoc ergo propter hoc." Difficult.
But, it seems that you are unable to counter the argument, so your only option is to slink away.
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