I don't know about that either though. I can only speak from my 5 years of experience in the region.
There are some fundamental conflicts and incompatibilities between Islam and Western culture and unless thoroughly vetted, legal, Muslim immigrants agree to fully assimilate into our societies, they'll be an ongoing issue.
I have some friends who live in Hamtramck, MI (a small enclave surrounded on all sides by Detroit) and they're some of the few remaining white people in what used to be a predominantly Polish, Catholic, city. Hamtramck has gone the way of Dearborn and is now almost completely Muslim.
I'm not sure if you've spent any time in the Middle East, but I once unwittingly booked a hotel room in Kuwait City next to a mosque and I don't know if there's anything worse than being startled awake at 5:30AM to a loudspeaker blaring "ALLAH ACKBAR!!!" while suffering from a bad hangover. I never made that mistake again.
Back in Hamtramck, I had that same experience! My friend's home was a block away from a building that had been recently converted into a mosque and I was shocked to awaken to that same obnoxious yelling in the UNITED STATES of all places!
Say what you will about church bells, but those are the sounds of our culture and this is our country. I don't plan on going to Mecca and building church to ring church bells there (not that they'd allow it anyway) and I don't expect them to let me. We need to take that same approach here.
If you don't like the church bells, tough shit. LEAVE. If you don't like women wearing anything other than a head to toe black ninja suit, tough shit. LEAVE. Americans aren't required to tolerate your bullhorns screeching 6 times a day, but you sure as hell better get used to the damn church bells or guess what? You can LEAVE. I don't mind them having a mosque here and there, just like I don't mind the Hindus and Buddhists doing their thing in their temples, but I'm not going to put up with the "ALLAH ACKBAR!!!" here.
The members of my team that I brought over are what I call MOPs. Muslims On Paper. It's very similar to the COPs in Central and South America. If you're born south of the border, you're automatically a Catholic On Paper. My MOP friends want to be good Americans more than a lot of the people who were born here and they make no demands. They've adjusted to our country and ourculture, not the other way around. That's the way it should be and if they can do it, anyone can. It's a matter of will.
I think your comment is directed to someone I was commenting to (happens to me too). A town I used to live in also had a mosque that blared that Muslim gibberish, and it was creepy! I don't think they did it at 5:30am though, because there was a noise ordinance :)
I don't know about that either though. I can only speak from my 5 years of experience in the region.
There are some fundamental conflicts and incompatibilities between Islam and Western culture and unless thoroughly vetted, legal, Muslim immigrants agree to fully assimilate into our societies, they'll be an ongoing issue.
I have some friends who live in Hamtramck, MI (a small enclave surrounded on all sides by Detroit) and they're some of the few remaining white people in what used to be a predominantly Polish, Catholic, city. Hamtramck has gone the way of Dearborn and is now almost completely Muslim.
I'm not sure if you've spent any time in the Middle East, but I once unwittingly booked a hotel room in Kuwait City next to a mosque and I don't know if there's anything worse than being startled awake at 5:30AM to a loudspeaker blaring "ALLAH ACKBAR!!!" while suffering from a bad hangover. I never made that mistake again.
Back in Hamtramck, I had that same experience! My friend's home was a block away from a building that had been recently converted into a mosque and I was shocked to awaken to that same obnoxious yelling in the UNITED STATES of all places!
Say what you will about church bells, but those are the sounds of our culture and this is our country. I don't plan on going to Mecca and building church to ring church bells there (not that they'd allow it anyway) and I don't expect them to let me. We need to take that same approach here.
If you don't like the church bells, tough shit. LEAVE. If you don't like women wearing anything other than a head to toe black ninja suit, tough shit. LEAVE. Americans aren't required to tolerate your bullhorns screeching 6 times a day, but you sure as hell better get used to the damn church bells or guess what? You can LEAVE. I don't mind them having a mosque here and there, just like I don't mind the Hindus and Buddhists doing their thing in their temples, but I'm not going to put up with the "ALLAH ACKBAR!!!" here.
The members of my team that I brought over are what I call MOPs. Muslims On Paper. It's very similar to the COPs in Central and South America. If you're born south of the border, you're automatically a Catholic On Paper. My MOP friends want to be good Americans more than a lot of the people who were born here and they make no demands. They've adjusted to our country and ourculture, not the other way around. That's the way it should be and if they can do it, anyone can. It's a matter of will.
I think your comment is directed to someone I was commenting to (happens to me too). A town I used to live in also had a mosque that blared that Muslim gibberish, and it was creepy! I don't think they did it at 5:30am though, because there was a noise ordinance :)