Islam in Europe: perception and reality

[Regina]

And don't think I'm letting other cultures off the hook with that logic either. The USA is the same, conflict everywhere, it says something.

Yes, it says something. That the primitive fearmongers are winning everywhere, since there's an abundance of primitive people refraining from looking any deeper than their primitive instincts and fears tell them to.

There's no excuse for condemning any given group of people for just for belonging to that group. There's also no argument to make it look better or more civilised. If someone isn't able to judge on an individual basis, that person is severly lacking social intelligence and common decency.

As far as I remember, you're gay. So you should have your own experiences with being broadbrushed in a negative way.

Whose broadbrushing anyone in a negative way? I'm not talking about individuals, as I've said several times now, I'm talking about dominant cultures. There's a difference, you don't see that nuance.

I don't go about my day assuming individual Muslims think anything, but as an overall whole culture Islam is highly conservative and reluctant to integrate. In fact, often it's Muslims who are the first victims of that ultraconservatism (case in point, a Muslim guy I dated once who was scared to death of his parents finding out he was gay). That is an observable trend you can see in any given society where Islam has a presence, I'm sorry about it.