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In reply to the discussion: Many millions of Muslims 'fundamentally incompatible with the modern world', says Tony Blair [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)But we can't be played for suckers or put in a box. Blair, who I despise, can still be right about some things once in a blue moon.
The combination of past decades, centuries, of Western colonization, followed by multiple interventions politically and militarily, treating them like third world peoples, demonizing their culture in Hollywood and elsewear, together with the fact that most peoples under duress turn to religion even more, has resulted in an almost Inquisition type dominance in the vast majority of Muslims whether here or abroad. The new immigrants to not suddenly disbelieve all the anti-western, anti-liberal society propaganda they have been brainwashed with their entire lives.
If a Christian evangelical fundamentalist family (a family of which I grew up in so I know) moved or immigrated to some other country, like Sweden, where this kind of fundamentalism hardly exists, this family's head, who would be the husband, would not simply start going to some United Church or other more liberal congregation that does not share his "values". He would find the small, basement meeting evangelical community and worship with them. The idea that an indoctrinated Muslim family coming from countries with such radical (to us) anti LGBT, anti women's rights, where the majorities favor the death penalty for apostates, have just thrown off those ingrained beliefs once they cross our borders is naive, and frankly dangerous thinking.