Author Topic: Muslims in America Poll  (Read 523 times)

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Offline SirJohn

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Re: Muslims in America Poll
« on: July 27, 2017, 11:11:36 am »
Ok, but it seems to me that a plank of your opposition in the past has been that Muslims are less likely to adopt Western values.  In this instance, for what the poll is worth, there seems to be something significant in the change that's happening.

If it's true, I owe it to the (North) American melting pot concept.

Perhaps, but as I pointed out, the poll in Canada showed that large numbers of Muslims had little desire to adopt western values, and that Muslims in Canada are becoming more religious, not less, particularly the ones born in Canada, and more, not less likely to adopt the most conservative religious views on women, including the need to always cover themselves up in sheets and towels.

Some would say, well, what they wear is irrelevant, but that's nonsense. Wearing burkas and even hijabs is a defiant statement that in a choice between Canadian values and Muslim values they choose the latter. You don't wear a hijab and believe in gender equality because the hijab is a definitive statement about the danger of female sexuality and the need for females to protect males from arousal by covering themselves at all times.

As to the 'melting pot' I do believe it has influence, as Muslims in North American appear to be less rabidly defiant in their cultural beliefs than most of their counterparts in Europe. I might point out, however, that progressives have been fairly vociferous in opposing the melting pot and in encouraging immigrants to retain their own cultures.
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