Islam in Europe: perception and reality

[Thumpalumpacus]

Here in the UK, the national statistic is "only" something like 4% - but that ignores how a large proportion of that "4%" tends to band together into Muslim-majority neighbourhoods.

How dare they, since every other neighbourhood would welcome them with open arms.

4 percent don't get larger because an unknown percentage tends to bend together. News for you,, jewish communities, at least the more religious ones, tend to do the same. It's only (rightfully) out of fashion to criticise them for doing it. That hate train has moved on to a different minority, who obviously can't do anything right in the eyes of the ones needing someone to despise or at the very least eye suspiciously.

Yes, they tend to move into certain neighbourhoods. But the reasons for doing so are many, if one feels the wish to look closer. It's often run down districts where rents are cheap, since they simply can't afford to move anywhere nice. Being an unskilled worker in todays world, and many of them are, doesn't earn you a fancy loft in garden city. It just happens.

Not to mention the "there goes the neighborhood" factor, and the active dislike we see displayed in this very thread.

I wouldn't want to live in a neighborhood where my neighbors refused to judge me as myself, but only as a group they label "scum", to use another poster's term. I would certainly seek out neighborhoods where I was accepted, and those would be neighborhoods where people like me live.

It raises the question -- are these enclaves bent on expansion, or are these ghettoes where undesirables find themselves?