[lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama's view of the Islamist threat
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:16:04 +0100
>Judy,
>By cherry pick do you mean the following?
>Employment-Based Immigrants. Up to 140,000 visas in five preference categories,
Yes. I make the point because the socio-economic position of US Muslims
is often contrasted with that of Muslims in Europe, without its being pointed
out that
Muslims likely to do well economically are the ones admitted to the US.
(And "integration" is used loosely.)
LH>I thought it would be understood that in referring to the European
LH>immigration situation I wasn't intending to mean that every Muslim
LH>without exception in every European nation without exception
LH>does thus and so
It was, but I still thought you were overgeneralizing
LH>However I doubt that any nation that has "istan" tacked to its capital is
LH>likely to be as squeaky clean as you suggest:
("Londonistan" -- oh God, it's Melanie Phillips. She's so *stupid*. )
Squeaky clean? I said
JE>The UK is one of the most integrated countries in the world, with no ghettos
JE>and no-go areas of the kind seen in the US.
-- in response to your tra-la-ing on about integration in the US... Muslims are
less integrated
than other minorities and they are socio-economically disadvantaged as a
group; I assumed that was known (and see the data on the 7/7 people). No claim
to be squeaky clean there.
I'm interested, Lawrence, to see you laud US "tolerance" of Muslims (see also
the piece from which I quoted) at one moment and citing La Phillips, rabid
opponent of "multiculturalism", the very next post
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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