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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Max M</b> <<a href="mailto:maxm@mail.tele.dk">maxm@mail.tele.dk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Robert Bradbury wrote:<br><br>><br>> On 2/10/06, *Dirk Bruere* <<a href="mailto:dirk.bruere@gmail.com">
dirk.bruere@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dirk.bruere@gmail.com">dirk.bruere@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> What can they do?<br>> Turn every society in which they take residence into a mirror
<br>> image of N Ireland at its worst, with every critic having to fear<br>> imminent death. For decades.<br>><br>><br>> There are days when I look at those generally peaceful Mexican<br>> Catholics migrating largely to the southern and western
U.S. as not<br>> such a bad thing -- compared to the situation the Europeans are facing.<br><br><br><br>Ok, I need to add a little something here. There are about 200,000<br>muslims in Denmark, out of a population of 5 million.
<br><br>Of these, about 10-20% are practicing. Meaning that they are attending<br>"churc". That is 10-20,000 in all.<br><br>Attending church regularly does not exactly make one a religious<br>fanatic. So all in all, there is only a minor group of "fanatics" and of
<br>these even fewer are prone to violence.<br><br>The problem we have is the fact that the more extreme imams have been<br>speaking on the behalf of all muslims. Most muslims are moderate and<br>even secular, and are just going about their business. One of the good
<br>things that has come of this cartoon idiocy is that a group of moderate<br>muslims has formed, as a counter meassure to the religious leaders.<br><br>So perhaps we can begin talking about political based integration<br>
instead of religious now, as the imigrants do have substantial problems.<br>About 50% of the prison population are imigrants, and they have high<br>unemployment due to low educational levels. Although the immigrant<br>girls! are educated at about the same level as "native" danish girls.
<br><br>It will be interresting to see how they will cope in the future with<br>their families cultural bias against marrying outside their religion,<br>and the males having lower levels of education.</blockquote>
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<div>Have some more figures.</div>
<div>In N Ireland the 'hard core' IRA never numbered more than around 300 people.</div>
<div>The war there continued for decades because of the passive acquiescence of many Catholics, and the active support a significant minority.</div>
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<div>How many militant Moslems does it take to emulate that? </div>
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<div>Dirk</div></div>