---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
There is potential for problems in Europe with a large influx of Muslim refugees. Muslims are not good at assimilating. Some European countries (France for example) now have considerable numbers of second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants who are outside the mainstream of society and disaffected. They do not fit in. They are unwilling to adopt the values of liberal, secular Western culture. They are also prone to violence and become easy recruits for radical Islamic jihadi groups that wish to destroy the West and impose their own values on us. I can't take your word for this. I would have to do some extensive reading to come to understand what is true and what is false in what you say. There are always problems with any influx of anybody. There are problems when too many family members get together for a holiday, for pete's sake. I feel cultural diversity is healthy and desirable. I don't want a white bread culture and although I don't welcome violence from anyone (God knows the US has more than its share between its current residents already) I can not see how anyone could possibly predict how the Syrian families and individuals will enhance or detract from a country before they even have a chance to unpack the bags they don't possess. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : It's a funny old world, really. Germany gets some pretty tough raps for having a pretty virulent neo-Nazi movement as well as having had a robust population of real Nazis back in the middle of the last century but look at the country now. It seems this country is now showing itself to be, perhaps, the most welcoming and open to the current refugee crisis from Syria. I love to see it. There is not a country on the planet that doesn't have enough space or potential to take in thousands of these displaced human beings. If you look at the birth rate in any given country, the amount of humans that are added to any country's population in one single day, you will note that it exceeds any number that would correspond to incoming refugees. The difference: strangers vs family or fellow countrymen. I personally think Canada is a great place for at least a quarter of a million of these fleeing people. God knows we have the space and we have the resources and Canadians are pretty decent folk, generally speaking. http://abcnews.go.com/International/refugee-crisis-germans-welcoming/story?id=33589179 http://abcnews.go.com/International/refugee-crisis-germans-welcoming/story?id=33589179
