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Old 10-29-2015, 04:55 PM
 
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Don't flatter yourself.

I don't want your protection. Actually, I'd prefer it if y'all STHU about religion.
You wouldn't say that to a Muslim.
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Old 10-29-2015, 05:07 PM
 
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You wouldn't say that to a Muslim.
Why? You think I have any more respect for Islam than I do for Christianity?

Here's a hint: I don't.

The difference is that I have more history with one and none with the other. Enough history to teach me to jettison it as any basis to live by.

Maybe if its adherents weren't so phony and disengenous, my experience might have been better although I still would've dumped it.
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Old 10-29-2015, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Where the heart is...
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Question Why France

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Living in France, for starters.
Like most countries today France has their own particular challenges with immigration but most notably the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. Which, of course is not indicative in and of itself of what bodes for their future but nonetheless and again...why France?

France, Islam, terrorism and the challenges of integration: Research roundup

The June 26, 2015, terrorist attack on an American-owned chemical factory in Lyon, France, has again raised concerns across French society about jihadist violence and ISIS-inspired domestic terrorism.

It comes in the wake of the January attacks in Paris, in which 12 people were murdered at the satirical news outlet Charlie Hebdo, including four journalists and two police officers, and then the killing of a policewoman and four hostages at a Kosher supermarket.

By law the French government is prohibited from asking about or keeping data on its citizens’ race and religion. A 2015 report from the Pew Research Center indicates that 7.5% of French residents are of Muslim descent, but does not indicate their degree of religiosity, however, a 2007 Brookings Institution book, Integrating Islam, estimated there were 5 million French residents of Muslim heritage, approximately 7.8% of the country’s population at that time (64.1 million).

France, Islam, terrorism and the challenges of integration: Research roundup - Journalist's Resource Journalist's Resource

I think the future can best be summed up by Bob Dylan. Like it or not...

For the times they are a-changin'

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Old 10-29-2015, 05:50 PM
 
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There will be very little integration, segregation and violence is the outcome of all this.
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Old 10-29-2015, 05:54 PM
 
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If this is the lifestyle they (refugees) want, WHY DO THEY LEAVE THEIR COUNTRIES????

I will never, ever understand this.

I never thought I would ever say this, but poor Germany.
The US is next when they get their visas and obuma allows 100,00 to 200,000 ofe these peace loving refugees to enter the US
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Old 10-29-2015, 06:10 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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An interesting point about Germay.

The refugee kids are not put directly into the school system.
They have to go to a language immersion school and are there for about a year so they can learn German.
They they are put into the German schools after they have learned the language.

That should be something the US does; an immersion school where they learn English before they get into the K-12 system.
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Old 10-29-2015, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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These same people are taking over certain parts of Paris. They make no attempt to become French and simply want to continue with their old ways. They live in neighborhoods with majority of them being from the same place.

It's like me moving to Germany and wanting Starbucks, Applebees, and buying a F250 with a confederate flag on the back. Why even bother?
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Old 10-29-2015, 08:05 PM
 
Location: North Pacific
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Leftists are in total denial about the destruction of their leftist historical themepark that is occurring. Even a country as rich and productive as Germany will be destroyed by this.

The question is: who set this off? Syrians have been living in refugee camps for several years now without a mass exodus like we're seeing today. Merkel made it worse, but someone else set it off.
Your post made me curious, so I had to look up a few things and you're right. Some one has to be at the bottom of all of this, because who in their right mind would leave this: Life inside Syrian refugee camps by way of this: Couple Spends Millions To Save Migrants In The Mediterranean : Parallels : NPR for this: Germany: 800,000 refugees - and then what? - Al Jazeera English

Was it a tweet heard around the world? Obscure German tweet helped spur migrant march from Hungary « Hot Air Headlines

However, people who risk their lives to migrate in, they also risk their lives again and return home. People are looking for a future and when they do not find that future they go home. Life is so miserable for Syrian refugees that thousands are returning home to a war zone

The link I give here is just one article on the mass exodus home again. People are so scared to give a hand out, they won't even give a hand up. That's just sad.

I find myself amazed at what one person will do to another human being and how little one is willing to share. Demoralized, Syrian refugees return home | Middle East | DW.COM | 17.11.2014



Edit: “There’s no future in Syria, in Syria there is only death,” she said. “But it’s better to die in Syria than to live here in the dirt.”

Last edited by Ellis Bell; 10-29-2015 at 08:17 PM.. Reason: add quote
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Old 10-29-2015, 08:31 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Just wondering how many of the posters on this thread have ever been or lived in Europe...


In the late 1960's
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