shadow_hk
Watchdog
First off, most Arab satellite TV is not "full of hatred against the West." In fact, I can only think of two such channels off the bat -- Hezbollah's Al-Manar and Hamas's Al-Aqsa. However, like most propaganda channels, they're pretty boring and therefore don't get all that big a viewership. Most Arabs watch Al-Arabiyya or Al-Jazeera, which are considerably less hostile towards the West than most Western news channels are towards Arabs. Even the American-run Al-Hurra channel has been surprisingly successful among Arabs.
Yes, I believe you're right about that but I think (I might be wrong) that these radical TV stations your mentioned (and such I had in my mind) are the most popular (or at least the most influencing) right in these radical sububrs.
Second: obviously gangland suburbs mean that something's gone wrong with them. However, that "something" has nothing to do with Islam per se -- ....
I woudn't be so sure about that. Maybe it doesn't have anything directly with Islam itself but I really wouldn't exclude various psychological and behavioral factors like muslim mentality. I don't want do wrong to muslims but just compare tfor example with Vietnamese immigrants in Europe.
Third: if you look at Arab immigrants to France as a group, and follow their assimilation into French society over three generations or so, you'll find that they're following exactly the same curve as any immigrant group. They start out at the bottom of the ladder and make their way up. By the third generation, they have more or less adopted the mores and language of the majority, and, for example, intermarry.
"More or less". That's the key question here. A lot of islamic immigrants in Europe still stick to traditionalistic and authoritarian values of their original societies. There's no big problem if they are still only a minority but it becomes a problem when such minority transforms into majority and that's what I'm talking about.
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