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No thank you. I prefer strong borders. I like the secular culture of Europe as is. Anything that even potentially threatens it is direct attack on me.
by venomsnake 11y ago
No thank you. I prefer strong borders. I like the secular culture of Europe as is. Anything that even potentially threatens it is direct attack on me.
- pluma 11y agoSecular? Angela Merkel fairly recently (in the context of whether to expand the EU to Turkey) made a statement about European values being Christian values. Not that I agree with her (the "Christian" values of modern Europe are secular values that have replaced the original Christian values because we spent centuries figuring out that they're wrong so calling our modern values Christian is incredibly misleading) but I wouldn't agree with a blanket statement like "Europe's culture is a secular culture" either. If anything, Europe's culture is incredibly diverse. Saying immigration/refugees threaten our secular culture is just a nice way of saying you're afraid of the possibility of Islam affecting our liberties -- which is fine by me, as long as you're honest about it.
- venomsnake 11y agoIt is not about Islam. It is about taking religion too seriously. The guys that read Torah all days (or the bible) are worrying too. It is about the strain of Islam that uneducated young arab males bring. Secular Muslims in Istanbul are generally fine people, as are the secular elites while the middle east was ruled by stable governments - and welcome in europe. The hijab is not.