About Those Muslim Refugees

I’ve been watching some interesting You Tube videos recently, and from both the content of those videos, as well as the accompanying comments, it seems like there’s a lot of vitriol against the Muslim and Arab refugees flooding into Europe from Syria, Iraq, North Africa, and elsewhere.

Europeans and residents of the US view the encroachment of these Arab and Muslim refugees into their countries as a threat to European civilization, traditions, culture, and Christianity. Numerous nationalist groups are taking to the streets to protest against the refugees’ arrival, and warning them to stay away, or else.

The European anti-refugee activists and nationalists are afraid that with the arrival of more Muslims, their societies will become Islamized, and Islamic extremism will spread.

In addition, some Muslim immigrants have been calling for specifically Islamic laws to be adopted as national laws in their host European countries.

This has really sparked angry reactions from the native populations, who see this demand as evidence of an Islamic conspiracy to subdue Europe, and turn its people into Muslims.

Now, as far as adopting religious laws of any religion goes, it’s not a good idea, whatever the religion or religions involved.

Why should someone abide by laws dictated by a different religion?

If Europeans have a problem with an alien religion foisting its laws onto a public that by and large doesn’t share them, then forget Muslims. For example, just look at the Jewish Kosher food certification racket that’s been going on in the US and Europe for pretty much forever. Do European and US Christians like the fact that every time they go to a supermarket they’re forced to pay money to support an alien religious minority’s belief system? Why isn’t there an outcry against this in the streets of European cities? 

Of course, Christians have no compunction about foisting their religious views, dogmas, laws, and symbols on others who aren't Christians. Remember the crusades and the colonial periods when Muslims and other non-Christians were subdued by the sword and gun, and forced into abiding by European, Christian ways? How did those people feel? Now that the shoe's on the other foot, Europeans and US citizens don't like it. But it's history coming back to bite them.

Nevertheless, those Muslim refugees don’t belong in Europe. The reasons are strictly pragmatic and practical. Their increased presence will cause tensions and problems in the long-run due to cultural, traditional, religious, and ethnic differences. It will mean discrimination against them in non-Arab/Muslim societies. This will make their lives more difficult than they need to be. They eventually need to go back to their native countries, and fight for what they want there. Fleeing to Europe or the US won’t solve their, and their countries' long-term issues.

But again, this European anger at both the arrival of Arab and Muslim refugees to Europe, and those refugees’ demands that Europe should adopt Islamic laws is hypocritical.

Because why are these refugees even in Europe? They are there because of European and North American interference in the affairs of Muslim countries, destabilizing Muslim societies, overthrowing Muslim governments, bombing Muslim cities, telling Muslims there how they should run their affairs, and sponsoring Islamic fundamentalists as proxies against certain governments in the region. All this turns those Muslims into refugees, which then flee to Europe for safety and make demands of their own. 
 
Islam isn’t the problem. The problem is Islamic religious fundamentalism, and it is no more disgusting, pernicious, cruel, and stupid than Jewish or Christian religious fundamentalism-which certainly exists today.

The vast majority of Muslims aren’t terrorists. Ironically, Arab Muslims today are the main victims of terrorism-Islamic, Christian, and Jewish! No other group suffers more from acts of religiously-inspired terror on an everyday basis than Arab Muslims in the Mideast.
 
They are victims of Islamic terrorism in their midst on one hand, and violent foreign armed interventions and regime changes on the other. This is something the ignorant and silly Islamophobes need to consider the next time they decide to do a You Tube video about the ‘Muslim Menace.’

So if anyone from Europe and the US doesn’t want these Muslim refugees swarming into their countries and telling them what to do, perhaps the citizens of European countries and the US should demand that their governments leave those Muslim countries alone, so that the Muslims living there stay where they are, which is surely what they would prefer anyway.

Now isn’t that a good idea? Who would’ve of thought?