4 attacks in 7 days. The attacks are increasing. Many of the attacks are by 2nd generation muslim immigrants. Why is that important? The fallacy of “assimilation” is the fiction that this immigration blather is driven by. Assimilation for the muslim immigrants did not work, and does not work. It’s been clear that France has a huge problem with it’s muslim underclass for 40 years, where they all live in ring slums around the outside of large cities - desirable housing is in the cities, slums are the suburbs oddly enough. Belgium has this problem, France has this problem. In Germany, the migrants are continuing to cause problems. The murderous ideology of ISIS and fundamentalist Islam lunacy has infected many in a number of EU countries. And THAT is why PEGIDA, FN, AfD, and other nationalist groups are ascendant.
Assimilation is a two way street. The government also has a duty to provide opportunities for everyone - including its legal immigrant population, rather than sticking them in outer slums and using them as a cheap source of labor.
I firmly believe that if you give young people an opportunity and a fair shake, you reduce the chance they’ll be attracted to Isis’s murderous ideology.
That being said, there is NO excuse for violence or terroristic acts.
Yeah, like the guy in Nice, who was a truck driver. He had a job. That’s an opportunity, and he killed and wounded hundreds.
The numbers of those who have assimilated and NOT become extremists or carried out attacks undermines your argument.
Really? And how many is that? You left of “yet”. Because there are many planning attacks now. We just don’t know who they are. If you believe that this is over, you are a fool. For many who are living lives of unsatisfying drudgery, the notion of the caliphate, the sacrifice to the larger “good” of the Islamic state, is very attractive.
Didn’t say it was over. But with almost 5 million Muslims in France (and almost the same number in Germany) and yet only a handful involved in these terrible attacks, it is illogical to lay the blame on all immigrants and the idea of assimilation. If your argument were correct, the percentage of those committing these despicable acts would be much higher. In fact, even if we assume 100 French Muslims were involved in these latest attacks, that is .002% of the total Muslim population in France. Even raising that number to 4500 (an unbelievable amount), still only means that 0.1% of the Muslim population in France was involved. So while the attacks are obviously despicable and the work of radicalized extremists, they are in no way a significant representation of the vast majority of Muslims (assimilated or otherwise) in France.
So instead of bemoaning immigration and assimilation as a whole, we need to figure out logical solutions and not resort to Islamic xenophobia.
You forget to mention he was also mentally unstable.
All we can do is minimize risk in a free society. Sorry there are no guarantees for safety from those few hellbent on violence.
While we need to be smart, what we don’t do is undermine our values.
We don’t hear about everyday murderers. Just the ones where there’s a narrative.