Some interesting points from a beautiful young woman

But don’t get me wrong, I am not going to defend Mormonism. It is an organized religion and uses some similar tactics to those of Islam on its members. However, Islam takes the cake. The people Mormonism produces are generally pleasant enough and make for decent neighbors. However, looking at footage from Europe, the opposite appears to be the case with sufficient members of Islam in a neighborhood.

I didn’t mean to say that our situation here is exactly like Muslim countries, I’m just pointing to the inappropriate intermingling of politics and religion here. I don’t disagree that Mormons make for decent neighbors (even if many are zoobs). My gripe with Mormonism is very similar to my gripes with any other religion, except that Mormonism happens to be more in my face so I pick on it. =)

I have spent the last 6 or so years traveling to Europe for work 4-5x per year, mostly in Germany but also sometimes Poland, Holland, etc.
I have seen glimpses of some of the neighborhoods that are often depicted on the news, and obviously it’s very scary and problematic. But I have to disagree with the idea that sufficient members of Islam in a neighborhood is the whole problem. 1 – Europeans in my experience are quite racist, to an extent that would make even a Steve Bannon type blush. Hell, they even hate each other as fellow white people. The Germans hate the Dutch hate the French hate the Polish and so on. I’ve heard some candid remarks from average Germans that are pretty shocking. The Europeans pay a lot of lip service to inclusivity and acceptance, but there is an undercurrent of racism and xenophobia that is pretty strong, even while they are generally liberal. Muslims stick out as the ”dark people”. Add to it they prey like 5 times per day and the Europeans don’t spend a lot of time in churches. The result is that the Europeans don’t integrate very well, I think we do a better job in this country of integration, and that is not exactly a high bar. 2 – Europe is taking WAY more refugees than their fair share, and they don’t spread them out to different cities/communities like we do, but rather tend to put large numbers of them in a single location. (Granted, the US is bigger). 3 – Immigrants and refugees’ economic opportunities are far more limited there than they are here. Europe may have a more generous social safety net, but the job opportunities are pretty grim, especially in places like France where the unemployment rate is already high. So the result of all this is pretty predictable.

I don’t want to sound like I’m defending Muslim extremists, because f**k those bastards who killed some cartoonists and people in nightclubs. But the Europeans could help themselves in the way they go about resettlement.

By your use of the term ‘rednecks’, are you insinuating a racial aspect? I really don’t understand this. Religion is not race. Religion is a set of ideas and has nothing to do with skin color. However, skin color is a sensitive subject to the point of being a weakness in many Euro-Americans and Europeans, and appears to be a point of attack by political Islam from what I can see.

I understand that religion is not race, but I don’t think we would be having the exact same conversation if Muslims were white. So yes, I do think there is a racial aspect to the vitriol directed to them in the US and Europe.

Islam is a religion chock full of terrible ideas. The victims of it, its members born into it as slaves and brainwashed from birth, THEY need to be defended from IT if anything, in my opinion. And yes, other would-be victims of it, as it expands, also need to be defended from it. Islam as a set of ideas is no victim. It promotes perpetration of brutal violence and rape. That is indefensible, in my opinion.

Agreed, except I would go even further and apply these qualities to Christianity as well. (and maybe other religions I am not as familiar with). Christianity has ”grown out” of the more extreme violence, but we still have things like priests raping children, gay conversion therapy, etc.