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In reply to the discussion: Rise of far-right in France after Paris Attacks [View all]2) The reason I am not taking up the evidence you presented is because it's meaningless when I believe that no one should have to assimilate, because like I said, a identity/culture of a country is made up of all the sum of its people which includes the minorities.
You argue that newcomers should take up the custom of the pre-existing majority, which can be a point only up until the newcomers assume citizenship in which case they are part of the country and make up the identity/culture of the country.
No I don't expect a tiny majority to impose its customs on the majority, but then again, I don't expect anyone to impose anything on anyone because each person in a country is a small piece of what makes the identity of a country.
For example, a white citizen does not have any more ownership of France than a coloured citizen does, because the minute that someone becomes a citizen then they assume a piece of the identity of that country.
I'll say it again, the identity of a country is made up of the sum of all its people, whether they be majority or minority.
3) The Islamic governments are not forced to do anything by the clerics, those clerics would be imprisoned if they tried to force any leader to do anything they didn't want to do. Islamic governments are that way because they try to control their populations with Islamic rule seeing as how they are unelected and don't want any challenge to their leadership.
4) I don't know how many times I need to repeat this, the Koran came down in a time that was very different from now. It was a time when what we see as atrocities were just common behaviour amongst the peoples, a time when winning wars resulted in taking all the booty and a time when different customs that we would view as immoral now was normal practice.