It’s comments like these that sadden me:
It’s one thing to let people into your country when they want to be fellow countrymen, but it’s something completely different when they just want to live there. ¹
There was a little bit of discussion on Community:2005-11-06.
My take on the issue: With no economic perspectives, no political perspectives, a lot of anger and frustration, and a minister of the interior with no people-skills – where do you go about reforming the system in peaceful ways? If you’re young and hot-headed, you lack the resources to make changes, you lack the skills to articulate your demands, and you have lots of negative examples from your neighbourhoods turned into ghettos and slums. I’m not surprised.
It starts small: There’s questions of religious insignia such as headcover (which is not only relevant for muslim women), of constraints placed on burial grounds (in Switzerland graves are reused and not pointing in any particular direction), language courses being discontinued due to budget constraints, etc.
To shift all of the blame onto the immigrants is stupid. What kind of problem-solving attitude is that? I don’t get it. Why be part of the problem when you can be part of the solution?
(I wonder whether there is any relation to عيد الفطر? See Eid al Fitr.)
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