Saturday, March 26, 2016
Missing the point 2
Jeff Jacoby is more rational than most people who get paid to write for newspapers, but he's missed this one.
Question: Why are there Muslim ghettos in Belgium but not in US?
Jacoby runs through a bunch of ideological and political explanations but misses the simple answer. Like all other people who get paid to write, he can't break out of the leftist lie ALL PEOPLE ARE IDENTICAL PASSIVE MECHANICAL GRAINS OF SAND. All differences must be caused by ideology and political systems.
The simple answer: In Belgium most of the Muslims are Arabs. In US most of the Muslims are NOT Arabs. They come from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds: Arab, Persian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nigerian, Bosnian, Afghan, and converted natives (mainly black). Arabs are not the dominant element, and many of the Arabs here are Lebanese Christians.
Europe's problem is Arabs, not Muslims. Conflation is easy because nearly all Arabs are also Muslim, but in the whole world only about 20% of Muslims are Arabs.
Labels: Asked and answered
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