I know France is not America. But I can guarantee you that France will continue to experience much greater difficulties integrating their Muslim population than America experiences so long as they carry on with these childish games about how people dress.
Mind you, I find the aggressive secularism counter-productive, but for different reasons: suppression of religion by force seldom produces the result you want.
It's nothing like what goes on in Europe, and the respect they are shown has a lot to do with it.
what goes on in Europe
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What does go on in Europe?
Neighborhoods are not segregated, although there are enclaves that are very heavily Muslim.
When I was in London I spent 4 years in a "heavily Muslim enclave" (my landlord, my next-door neighbours and my hairdresser, greengrocer, newsagent, post office clerk, convenience store owner... for the last 3 years, and one of my three local Councillors, were Pakistani). However it was not a "segregated neighbourhood".
Is this a case of "I have enclaves, you have segregated neighbourhoods, he has ghettos"?
Madrid also has "heavily Muslim enclaves" but I am not aware of "segregated neighbourhoods" either. Does Paris have "segregated neighbourhoods"? A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
Apparently in Europe we have segregated neighbourhoods, whereas in the US they have "heavily Muslim enclaves".
Yes, sort of like how in Yurp you have "used cars" while in America we have "pre-owned vehicles".
;) Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
It's nothing like what goes on in Europe
