Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
In some ghetto and growing up with the "locals" never wanting to talk to them?
Aren't those the areas where a lot of the recruits come from? Then you'd have to say the mistakes were made long before multiculturalism was even a word. At least here we imported the first Turks purely out of greed and to be competitive, which may explain why the Germans tried to ignore them. I'm not sure why France, Britain and the Netherlands for example have so many immigrants from their colonies, do they have free movement or easier immigration? Or do they just prefer their former colonial overlords because they already speak the language?

I don't think anyone can seriously claim that all the muslims in Britain and France only came with the recent waves of refugees, even in Germany we had some very few black people who already lived here under the Nazis, I'd assume in France and Britain there were quite a few more, and that the French used them as soldiers who could never become officers in WW2 should be known as well. Another reason they are often disenfranchized by the way. One may say the situation for them improved with multiculturalism, but they were already burnt by that time and the ghettos established. Multiculturalism doesn't close ghettos in practice.

I know Arabs and Turks who were born here and are basically Germans with a few quirks, apparently the people in the banlieus (forgive me if I forgot a letter that you don't spell anyway) for example are not like that, why?
That still leaves some who think being an islamofascist is a cool underground fashion thing to defend their master race or something, but as Fragony always says, nothing we can do, other than maybe make it appear less cool in general. They seem to argue with the West treating its immigrants like second class people as well.

So what do you think the reasons are?

PS: The reason I don't quite buy purely religious reasons for such zeal might be that I grew up going to very fundamentalist Christian churches, I actually know a guy who went to Texas and preached on campuses there... (you may not want to believe it, but he's actually a cool guy in general, I'm not saying I don't like him)
And I somehow got the impression that these Christians also often have their rather personal reasons to invest this much into their religion, it's not just the religion alone, it can be a fear of permanent death, really bad experiences with the general atheist world and their "friends" outside the church, so that they need a reason why it is this way, and so on. And muslim people are not genetically different from Christian people so that it could explain a completely different behavior I think. The major difference is probably that they have a much larger percentage that grows up in this more fundamentalist muslim world.
AFAIK there aren't any ethnic ghettos in the UK. Ghettos, such as they are, are inhabited by class, not race. Where cultural separation exists, it does so because of choice on the individual's part. Older generations, where the cultural gap can be expected to be greater, fit in quite well with the general older population. It is the younger population, who were born here and grew up as British as everyone else, who provide most of the troublemakers. After the ethnic tensions of the early 1980s, blacks, who are even further removed from the native white skins than brown skinned people, have merged into the general British identity, so that there is less of a distinct Afro-Caribbean culture left nowadays among the younger population (it's all part of the young British culture). In contrast, young Muslims who emphasise their Muslim identity react against the cultural merger, maintaining through their own choice a separation between Muslim culture and British culture.

Other cultures have merged within a general British culture, to the point where there is greater difference between different generations of the same ethnicity than between different ethnicities within the same generation. Why is it the fault of the host culture if some aliens, born in their midst and with the same upbringing as everyone else, decide to separate themselves?