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In reply to the discussion: Rise of far-right in France after Paris Attacks [View all]politicman
(710 posts)2) I always laugh when people use the assimilate or integrate argument. Who decides what culture everyone should assimilate or integrate into? Is the process the same as an election where a vote is held to see what the majority of people decide the French culture is? Or do some elite people get to decide this and everyone has to follow suit to be considered part of the host society? Is it like the Borg where everyone has to be the exact same?
Once a person becomes a citizen of a country then they have the exact same amount of ownership of that country as any other citizen. Especially if a child of an immigrant was born in France then they are the exact same as any white child born in France, because you know they were both born on French soil.
The point being that a society and its culture is made up by every citizen living in that society (the same way that a chain is made up of every ink in it), thus no one should have to integrate or assimilate to fit into a society/culture that they already make up.
3) Again, you must be getting all your info from people who are really anti-Islam or you are one yourself?
The Quran is the word of God, and it is perfect. And it preaches that no man person is better than any other person except through their deeds and actions.
This applies to both men and women, and each has rules that they must follow in the religion. Its not that men are superior to women in the eyes of the religion, its just that each gender has rules that apply to it.
I'll freely admit that Islam is not that concerned about having equal rights for both genders the way we are obsessed with doing in todays society even though each gender has certain things that they are more suited to do.
4) If you read what I wrote I gave you 2 sayings in the Quran that don't contradict each other if interpreted correctly.
The example I gave of a terrorist interpreting those 2 sayings to the way he wants, was just to show how a terrorist can use mental gymnastics to get at any justification that fits his goal even if its not the correct interpretation.
Like I said, a terrorist will use mental gymnastics to justify his killing of innocents as the West having no innocents because the west is a democracy who elect their leader, and that leader bombs Muslims, ergo after extreme mental gymnastic by the terrorist he has justified his actions in the eyes of the religion by believing that he is not killing innocents and isn't committing the sin of killing an innocent which is tantamount to killing all of man kind.