Further to adressing the thread title, ie staying on-topic:
The Muslim community has a responsibility to ease the path to integration. The Muslim communities in Germany have a long way to go.
Among a generation of Muslims born in Europe, significant numbers have nothing but contempt and disdain for their native lands, and allegiance only to the Muslim umma and the lands of their parents’ birth. Those who continue to arrive in Europe from Muslim countries are encouraged by the isolation, self-imposed and other-abetted, of the Islamic communities in Europe to hold to the same attitudes.
Understanding radical Islamism as a form of identity
politics also explains why second and third-generation European Muslims have turned to it. First-generation immigrants have usually not made a psychological
break with the culture of their land of birth and carry traditional practices with them to their new homes. Their children, by contrast, are often contemptuous of
their parents' religiosity, and yet have not become integrated into the culture of the new society. Stuck between two cultures with which they cannot identify, they find a strong appeal to the Universalist ideology of contemporary jihadism.
Islam is a belief which focuses on expansion
and which is fundamentally opposed to "Western values.
Muslim communities must be more
vocal against extremism, and actively counter rather than tolerate radical preachers.Young European Muslims of second or third generation who feel disenfranchised in a society that does not fully accept them and thus
search for a new identity, seem to be particularly inclined to a notably radical Islam.
Imams have frequently been educated and trained
abroad and are sometimes also paid by foreign institutions like the Diyanet, the Turkish religious authority. They are often unfamiliar with the morals and customs
of their European host countries and only stay for a limited time before going back to their countries of origin. In many cases these imams remain "outsiders" with little
interest to integrate into and understand the societies of their host-countries.
Muslims not only despise western secular values as decadent, materialistic, corrupt and immoral. They do not accept the distinction between the spiritual and the temporal, the division which in Christian societies confines religion to the margins of everyday life. Instead, for Muslims the whole of human life must represent a submission to God.
This means that they feel a duty to Islamicise the values of the surrounding culture.
Are we a western culture, or are we to become something else? If the latter, who is making the decision to wipe out our national identity? Because if we take in enough people who refuse to integrate and assimilate to western values, this belief system will not survive. Liberalism will then have disappeared up its own fundament.
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