RE: Muslims' behaviour in developed nations.
March 9, 2011 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2011 at 4:45 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 18, 2011 at 5:48 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: ......are there any numbers indicating that Muslims are, because of their faith and because of that factor alone, more prone to crime or violence than the rest of the population ?
The question is of importance, because if they are not it means that the religion itself, given the right context, can be peaceful, and it is the countries and cultures that are built around it that are flawed.
As such, it would mean that Islam is not more violent or primitive than Christianity, or any other belief system.
Inappropriate metric for what you are trying determine. Since none of the developed countries of the world (there is none in South-east Asia, BTW) is either currently majority Muslim or has had any long tradition of major endogenous Muslim minorities, such Muslim population as is in developed nations likely represent a social and economically distinct and relatively poorly integrated recent minority. Poor social and economic integration is often strong reasons for discontent and criminal violence in themselves. So it would be difficult to distinguish whether it is Islam or poor social and economic integration that is responsible for any distinctive tendency to crime or violence on the part of such a minority.
