Journey: A refugee's odyssey from Syria to Sweden

Post by lllllll » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 11:12 AM UTC

bayesianhorse wrote: post #39

lllllll wrote: post #37

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IMO a culture is not just a set of protocols or rules written down by some chronist/sociologist. To me culture is more about how people live in a certain place, their routines, their customs. Again, I'm not particularly talking about Muslim population, but since you continue with them, I will do the same :) (I guess it's an easy example since they are really a big community all around EU) Now take any East London bor…

My statement was that "Islam" has virtually no influence on Europe culture. First of all, that doesn't include everything a Muslim does, for me, Islam is a religion with values and rules. The mere existence of Muslims following their own cultures in Europe does not constitute an influence in its own. Not even when they interact with other Europeans. Influence on European Culture would mean that Europeans change to ad…

Post by JesperRavn » Sat, Jun 20, 2015, 3:57 PM UTC

bayesianhorse wrote: post #40

throwaway_coz wrote: post #35

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Maybe it's something you should think about that the first attack you can think of is an ad hominem one? I am not bemoaning having a minority opinion, rather the inevitable personal attacks that follow, yours being a benign but still pertinent example. And I'm not an immigration critic: I am totally in support of allowing immigration to the people who help the country. And, before you assume, that doesn't mean they h…

If you believe you have a right to throw Muslims out of Europe, which is the only way to stop increasing Muslim populations in Europe (short of genocide), then that is only possible by believing in racist assumptions (often disguised by calling them "facts"). Under democratic values, everyone is the same before the law. Therefore there have to be serious reasons to prosecute, hunt down, imprison and deport someone (a…