I’m told that the Muslims who immigrate/move to western countries (especially Europe) have a tendency to turn their neighborhood (place of resident) into Ghettos
The Muslims are accused of bringing the ‘Ghetto’ from back home to their new place of residence.
I live in a nice neighborhood in a predominately white Christian area. There are some rundown areas mostly populated by the minorities (Hispanics and Blacks) who are mostly Christians. I know many Muslims who are very well off who live in nice neighborhoods.
Based on my observation, people who mostly live in rundown areas are of limited means and income. If they could afford better housing options then they wouldn’t be stuck in such places. Reasonable folks generally care about the quality of life and also other factors.
A lot of Muslim immigrants in Europe for the most part don’t come from affluent background. They kind of have to do with what they have. Even poor immigrants from Western Europe who are mostly Christians don’t live in nice houses/neighborhoods. They too have their own Ghettos.
The unfortunate part of living in less than stellar neighborhood is that no one will care much about their neighborhood. This has a ripple effect because everyone living there will have a lower quality of life. Secondly, I don't think this way of life is very health because it will promote folks who are only interested with others who are very much like them (being insular). They will cling to their race, religion, people from their own communities (people who share a common origin), language, way of life. The more insular they become, the more they cling to folks just like them, and eventually they will start to despise everyone who are not like them and hate everything that is not representative of them.
And this is the major cause of why the Muslims are accused of not being able to integrate well into western culture or unable to let go of their backward way of thinking even when something better comes along.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Hostility against the Muslims in Europe
In recent times, a number of countries in Europe and Scandinavia have been taking many immigrants (legal/ illegal, asylum seekers, refuges) from Middle-East, Africa and elsewhere. Many of these immigrants are Muslim. Naturally you will find some segment of society that will be unhappy especially when the immigrants who are so unlike them in many ways failed to ‘adjust’ or integrate in the society that is hosting them.
I’m reading about a demonstration in Germany against the Muslims
Why do Muslims who fall on hard times always run to western countries?
Islam promotes the idea of equality among all the races, more so among the folks who share the same religion as you. Islam also promotes the idea of migration or traveling for better opportunity or avoiding majar catastrophe (plenty of examples in the early days of Islam and in the pre-Islamic time). Despite this, you are not going to find many Muslim/Islamic countries that will open their doors to immigrants who are at a very disadvantaged position or poor. And this is where Europe should be commended and praised …for taking in these immigrants, many of them who are Muslim, who really don’t have many travel options.
Luckily, not everyone think immigrants deserve to be treated with such hostility
A petition backed by 80 public figures in Germany slammed the “hollow prejudices” of Pegida, a protest movement that has organized a series of demonstrations against the “Islamization of the West.”
Reference
[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/06/375385153/germany-turns-off-the-lights-to-protest-growing-anti-islam-movement?
[2] http://time.com/3655560/german-politicians-celebrities-islamization-protests/
I’m reading about a demonstration in Germany against the Muslims
PEGIDA says it is not racist or xenophobic, says it opposes extremism and calls for the preservation of the country's Judeo-Christian culture.
Group protesting what its supporters see as the "Islamization of Europe." [1]
Why do Muslims who fall on hard times always run to western countries?
Islam promotes the idea of equality among all the races, more so among the folks who share the same religion as you. Islam also promotes the idea of migration or traveling for better opportunity or avoiding majar catastrophe (plenty of examples in the early days of Islam and in the pre-Islamic time). Despite this, you are not going to find many Muslim/Islamic countries that will open their doors to immigrants who are at a very disadvantaged position or poor. And this is where Europe should be commended and praised …for taking in these immigrants, many of them who are Muslim, who really don’t have many travel options.
Luckily, not everyone think immigrants deserve to be treated with such hostility
A petition backed by 80 public figures in Germany slammed the “hollow prejudices” of Pegida, a protest movement that has organized a series of demonstrations against the “Islamization of the West.”
The petition was published in the Tuesday edition of the Bild, a German Daily. Its authors slammed Pegida, saying the movement “appeals to hollow prejudices, xenophobia and intolerance,” the BBC reports. [2]
Reference
[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/06/375385153/germany-turns-off-the-lights-to-protest-growing-anti-islam-movement?
[2] http://time.com/3655560/german-politicians-celebrities-islamization-protests/
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Conspiracies over the price of oil
Isn’t it amazing that a barrel of oil is currently trading at $50 from its highest of $120 - $130 or on the average of about $100? Why did it take this long for the price of oil to ‘normalize’?
We don’t exactly know why/how the price of oil has gone down to be at all-time low now. We are also not getting many insights from the ‘experts’. They seem as clueless as everyone else.
Generally the conspirators, mostly made up of individuals who deeply mistrust authority, attention seekers and also folks who are somewhat deluded, have readily available insight on why the official narratives/explanations are not to be trusted. You better believe that there’s a demonic plan here orchestrated by none other than Freemasons/Illuminati/Knights Templar/Rothschild/Aliens/your own government.
It’s hard for me to personally believe in some of these conspiracies because in order to actually manipulate oil price, you have to either flood the world market with lots of oil (to sell it cheaply) or significantly cut down the world demand (having less people buy it).
So far, these are the top three reasons given to us by the expert on the declining of the oil price.
We don’t exactly know why/how the price of oil has gone down to be at all-time low now. We are also not getting many insights from the ‘experts’. They seem as clueless as everyone else.
Generally the conspirators, mostly made up of individuals who deeply mistrust authority, attention seekers and also folks who are somewhat deluded, have readily available insight on why the official narratives/explanations are not to be trusted. You better believe that there’s a demonic plan here orchestrated by none other than Freemasons/Illuminati/Knights Templar/Rothschild/Aliens/your own government.
It’s hard for me to personally believe in some of these conspiracies because in order to actually manipulate oil price, you have to either flood the world market with lots of oil (to sell it cheaply) or significantly cut down the world demand (having less people buy it).
So far, these are the top three reasons given to us by the expert on the declining of the oil price.
- Saudi Arabia is keeping the price low to deliberately punish Iran and Russia for their support of Assad regime in Syria. Iran and Russia depend very much on very high oil price for running the country’s budget/operation. Has Saudi been flooding the world market with cheap oil? Most experts don’t think so. They claim that whenever the price of oil starts lowering significantly, Saudi Arabia with some consultation with OPEC cuts their production to artificially keep the price high. Based on a number of responses from Saudis spokesmen, they haven’t done that and are not planning to do that even if a barrel of oil reaches $20.
- Some are saying that the USA is keeping the price of oil low to punish Russia for interfering in Ukraine/Syria and Iran with Venezuela for being hostile nations. Since the United States oil industry has not been nationalized and the government of USA is not running the day-to-day operation of any of the oil companies and the US administration don’t even have enough power to sway the congress much less private business, then I don’t know how the government can get the oil companies to disregard the core mission of the organization (of making as much profits as possible) for altruist mission of punishing a foreign power like Russia.
- The third explanation is that the oil companies in US and Canada has been over drilling and flooding the market with more oil than anyone else. Perhaps the American oil speculators are finally realizing that a really free market (without artificially pegging the supply to the demand or some other way to control the market) doesn’t really favor them at all. It seems that massive layoff in North America is very much in the pipeline.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
End of the Year 2014 Report
Total number of posts for 2014 was 67 or as much as number of posts made in 2013.
Most of my visitors are from the following countries: North America (USA, Canada), Europe (UK, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe), South/East Asia (India, Pakistan, Australia, and South-East Asia), Russia, Ukraine, Middle East and others.
Most of my traffic originates from google search.
Even though I didn’t write much about Muslim sects or school of thoughts this year, still a lot of folks have arrived on my blog while searching for keywords relevant to them, such as Sufis, Zaydi, Nusayris, Alawi and Yazidi
Readers are interested to read a variety of topics here, too numerous to identify them all.
The majority of my posts were about Islamic Extremism or Terrorism because the war in Syria has dominated most of the reporting out of Middle East.
On the other religion segment, I was exploring Atheism and Paganism. I hope to continue the discussion this year.
I’ve also written a number of posts about women: Silly girls aspiring to be Jihadi, contesting in beauty contest, feminism, fighting for human rights as well as Islamic rights and others.
Philosophical discussion about God’s existence and the necessity of religious beliefs.
http://researchintoothersects.blogspot.com/2014/01/does-god-really-exists.html
http://researchintoothersects.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-one-true-religion-truth-or-fantasy.html
http://researchintoothersects.blogspot.com/2014/12/would-religion-exist-if-god-didnt.html
Most of my visitors are from the following countries: North America (USA, Canada), Europe (UK, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe), South/East Asia (India, Pakistan, Australia, and South-East Asia), Russia, Ukraine, Middle East and others.
Most of my traffic originates from google search.
Even though I didn’t write much about Muslim sects or school of thoughts this year, still a lot of folks have arrived on my blog while searching for keywords relevant to them, such as Sufis, Zaydi, Nusayris, Alawi and Yazidi
Readers are interested to read a variety of topics here, too numerous to identify them all.
The majority of my posts were about Islamic Extremism or Terrorism because the war in Syria has dominated most of the reporting out of Middle East.
On the other religion segment, I was exploring Atheism and Paganism. I hope to continue the discussion this year.
I’ve also written a number of posts about women: Silly girls aspiring to be Jihadi, contesting in beauty contest, feminism, fighting for human rights as well as Islamic rights and others.
Philosophical discussion about God’s existence and the necessity of religious beliefs.
http://researchintoothersects.blogspot.com/2014/01/does-god-really-exists.html
http://researchintoothersects.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-one-true-religion-truth-or-fantasy.html
http://researchintoothersects.blogspot.com/2014/12/would-religion-exist-if-god-didnt.html
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