Bingo, Pigilito. Countless generations of immigrants have faced challenges surrounding social integration and economic opportunity. We can argue whether it's "fair" or simply a part of the integration process. Given its prevalence in most societies throughout history, though, I'd say it's part of the process when any outsider comes into a new group. Shoot, the same dynamic is in play when someone moves from City A to City B within their own country, or Company A to Company B.
Either way, countless hundreds of thousands of immigrants have faced these challenges without resorting to terrorism.
Those immigrants that face social and economic challenges and overcome them tend to do so through integration and a willingness to work hard.
When you're the outsider going to a new place, you're likely to experience failure if you insist those already in place become like you. Instead, you have to become more like them, the prevailing culture. That doesn't mean you have to deny your origins or beliefs, or set them aside. Rather it becomes about being who you are in the mix of what is already there.
A problem with the Islamofascists is a thirst to force others to be them. It's a doomed paradigm.
"A problem with the Islamofascists is a thirst to force others to be them."
Good point. No matter where they seem to be, things must change to fit their way of life. They agitate for Sharia law in Canada, Nigeria, and probably many other places (and these are many of the mainstream and integrated Muslims).
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