There is yet again a flurry of angry voices against building mosques in European cities. It really is hard for me to understand this. People are afraid of a radicalized muslim population living down the road, and who wouldn’t be? I wouldn’t like to share a postcode with Osama. But not building mosques is not going to keep that from happening.
Here’s the newsflash: muslims are living, meeting and praying in your local cities, right now. That isn’t going to change. It’s as if people think that if you refuse to build a mosque, the muslims will scurry away and leave you with an Aryan Homeland. Of course not. People also seem to think that all muslims are just itching to get fundamentalist and start spouting jihads. This isn’t true either.
If you are worried about turning muslims into terrorists, I would try to AVOID marginalizing them and forcing them to meet in secret prayer rooms where they can stew together over the intolerance of the west.
Not accepting the actions of moderate muslims is a recipe for making fundamentalists. It’s as simple as that.
So build the mosques, get over yourself, and you might even learn to like the look of them one day.
?! I feel something like being blackmailed, if I would ‘believe’ that logic.
Strange logic, anyway: “Either you will build me nice mesjids/mosqes quickly or I am forced to build bombs, and your`re the guilty one”.
Shari’a-fans are allowed to leave Europe, we don`t force them to live here.
PS
Ever heard about arrangad marriages? I hope, imams will preach against that tradition. You don`t find anything bad in Shari’a-law? You should, read twice. Even the book qur’an says: “a women`s heritage shall be 50% of a man`s, and before a judge, in every court, her voice shall be as 50% of a man`s voice”. THAT ist ‘mosque’, that`s why I`m against huge mosques. The architecture is fine.
Islam has to change!
I see many problems with the current interpretation of Islam (and, in general, religion). But I am not saying anything about Islam in particular. I am simply pointing out that marginalizing a group tends to radicalize the group. If you don’t want that to happen, don’t marginalize.
Coynil,
Thanks for the sensible post. You have to do a lot of work before Europe, or should I say the white race, will learn to tolerate.
When will they ever learn?