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While there is reasonable Islamophobia, there are terrorists out there, but on the other hand, I think right wing Christians in the US and right wing Jews along with the fanatical Muslims enforce the ideas in each other that they are right and feed off the negative energy. We must counter that with something more positive, bridge building, and there are people from all three communities fighting against stereotypes. I saw this Arab organization that would invite Jewish speakers to speak on behalf of Palestinians. Many of the Arabs were surprised, because they didn't believe a Jewish person would actually care for them, and the Jewish speaker who is rather well-known now had one of the largest audiences he ever had thanks to the work of that Arab group. The house was packed. People need to get beyond trying to easily pigeon hole Jews, Muslims, or Christians and finding ways to add fuel to the fire.

I was browsing on-line for polls to look at the views of Muslims, in general, in Europe. And you know what, in so many cases, they mirror that of the general European population. That flies into the face of stereotypes many people have. Stereotypes are stereotypes.
Many Arabs think Jews promoted the War in Iraq and were generally behind it. The truth be told, the Jewish community, in the United States
opposed going to war, and they were right. The Jews on the right who helped push for the war were wrong. The mainstream Jewish population had it right. Most Muslims in Europe have their thinking right, I would suspect. In my experience, also Arabs think that Americans know what is happening in the Middle East, and have for years hated them. This is not true. People who are very familiar with many cultures can probably back me up on this happening in other areas with other cultures.

I will post what this article in 2006 said about the views of Muslims in Europe. Again, this is not an endorsement of unchecked immigration, not monitoring mosques, encouraging mostly skilled immigrants, and making sure immigrants from whatever continent are suitable for immigrating to countries such as Canada, Sweden, or the U.S. There are problems with accomodating immigrants, for sure. The Swedes are having a hard time with assimilating an influx of Christian Aramaic (Suryoyo speaking) Christians called Assyrians who fled Iraq, not that they wouldn't be educated. They are still not Swedes. At least, not yet.

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The greatest concern among Muslim minorities in all four countries is unemployment. Islamic extremism emerges as the number-two worry generally, a concern shared by Western publics as well as Muslims in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan. The decline in the importance of religion, adoption of modern roles by women, and influences of popular culture upon youth are generally lower-ranked concerns. Overall, British Muslims express the greatest level of concern about the issues tested.

The majority of European Muslims do not see many or most Europeans as hostile towards Muslims. But substantial numbers of Muslims do perceive such hostility. This belief is most widespread in Germany, where more than half of both Muslims and the general public see many or most Germans as hostile toward Muslims. At the same time, however, German Muslims are the least likely to report personal experiences with discrimination.

German Muslims are also far more inclined than those elsewhere in Europe to see new immigrants as wanting to be distinct - 52% take this view - and German nationals overwhelmingly (76%) share this view. In contrast, in France, 78% of Muslims say that Muslims there want to adopt French customs, though 53% of the general public feels that French Muslims want to remain distinct.

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I suffer from what bleeding heart hyper liberals like yourself would call Islamophobia, and so do all the very intelligent and well educated people I know, and guess what, we're all liberals.

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Don't ever instruct me to read what you have written after I have responded you condescending little nerd.

Second, I find that you in particular RARELY look at things from a factual and well informed point of view.

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That's odd becuase I've noticed the exact opposite.

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