Islam is not a religion like any other, here's why.

I was baffeled when hearing that for the first time. I've attended a Catholic primary school, but it never occurred to anyone until the last few years that the story about God creating everything and evolution theory conflicted. We've been told both. I was amazed when hearing about the evolution theory not being believed on some (many? I don't know) schools in America (though it might have been anywhere I guess).

Two part response: 1) There's nothing backing up those claims, and without hard data it's hard to know how seriously to take them. That said, those aren't uncommon claims to make against any poor immigrant group (in Eastern Europe, you'll hear much the same charges levied against the Roma, gypsies, with some regularity).

2) At the heart of it, the real issues are demographic and integration based, not religious. There's a reason you don't see those kind of claims in the US, Canada, or the UK: those countries are used to new immigrants and integrating them. Mainland Europe is not, and has struggled to figure out how to do so, and that lack of integration has consequences which typically manifest in crime.