The reality is that quite a bit of islamic attitudes and culture don‘t fit in in the west. We‘ve not figured out how to counter this yet.
Many French would have you believe women wearing Hijab should be banned lest it destroy their "western culture" when even the most Islamophobic Americans don't care
A 5% Muslim population in UK is supposedly threatening to send them back to the dark ages when Singapore is at 15% with codified multicultural guarantees and somehow annihilates them in every measure of modernity and development
citation *desperately* needed
> A 5% Muslim population in UK is supposedly threatening to send them back to the dark ages when Singapore is at 15% with codified multicultural guarantees and somehow annihilates them in every measure of modernity and development
Mate, you're comparing the population of Singapore, a country among the world's strictest immigration laws and mostly local Mayal Sunnis who are cosmopolitan academics, to Britain, of which most ob its muslim inhabitants arrived there from central Africa and the ME via small boats, while also being largely uneducated *and* statistically likely to be a product of incest [1]
[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4442010.stm
Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of people, including queer people and women, do not have your luxury. They do in most Christian countries and Israel.
That of course has nothing to do with the fact that extreme-right parties look at Israel, with its ethnic suprematism, as an example. The only connection I see is backwards: Israel is undoubtedly doing its best to fuel racism against muslims because it wants us to believe we have a common enemy.