Islam in Europe

adidasss · 10-29-2020, 06:29 AM

There will be a lot of experts talking about what could and should have been done, my opinion is that maybe France and all of the rest of the developed world could do a little more in listening and respecting the other side and engaging in dialogue, trying to understand what the problems are and how better integration and peaceful cohabitation can be achieved, instead of having just a knee-jerk reaction which leads to escalation, which is pretty much exactly what crazy people are hoping to achieve. But hey...that's just my two cents. :/

SGR · 10-29-2020, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

There will be a lot of experts talking about what could and should have been done, my opinion is that maybe France and all of the rest of the developed world could do a little more in listening and respecting the other side and engaging in dialogue, trying to understand what the problems are and how better integration and peaceful cohabitation can be achieved, instead of having just a knee-jerk reaction which leads to escalation

Would you ask the same of the people doing the beheading?

Going into a church and beheading people who had ****-all to do with an offensive cartoon seems like quite the knee-jerk reaction to me.

OccultHawk · 10-29-2020, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

There will be a lot of experts talking about what could and should have been done, my opinion is that maybe France and all of the rest of the developed world could do a little more in listening and respecting the other side and engaging in dialogue, trying to understand what the problems are and how better integration and peaceful cohabitation can be achieved, instead of having just a knee-jerk reaction which leads to escalation, which is pretty much exactly what crazy people are hoping to achieve. But hey...that's just my two cents. :/

Or maybe... people who don’t want to be French can try staying the **** out of France.

adidasss · 10-29-2020, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Would you ask the same of the people doing the beheading?

Going into a church and beheading people who had ****-all to do with an offensive cartoon seems like quite the knee-jerk reaction to me.

I would ask the question, what lead this person to a place where he thought beheading someone is a valid option.

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Or maybe... people who don’t want to be French can try staying the **** out of France.

I think what you don't understand is that France, like most of western Europe, is increasingly multiracial and multicultural so what it means to be "French" is evolving. I have French Muslim friends who are genuinely some of the nicest people I have ever met. Should they also "stay the fuck out of France"? How do you determine who should stay and who should go? Do they need to commit a crime first or should all non-white French citizens leave?

Etc. It's a complex situation that requires more nuanced thinking.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-29-2020, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

maybe France and all of the rest of the developed world could do a little more in listening and respecting the other side

Unbelievable tbh.

OccultHawk · 10-29-2020, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Cuthbert

Unbelievable tbh.

The French need to own their share of the blame. They drew a cartoon dude.

**Frownland** · 10-29-2020, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Cuthbert

Unbelievable tbh.

Snowflake.

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