As was already posted in this thread, the number of murderous acts committed in the name of Islam far exceed other religions. My experience with the Bible when I was young was that although church bored me to death I never remember any scripture being quoted that advocated violence or murder. I haven't looked at a Bible in a long time as an Agnostic. If the Bible is innately more violent then I guess we'll just have to chalk it up to the West being innately more civilized as a people and collectively more mature than our generally more prone to violence Muslim cousins. There's a correlation here regardless of whether some choose to ignore it or not. Do we not do anything with that knowledge?


My point on assimilation is best illustrated in a hypothetical example of the U.S. deciding to allow 50 million immigrants over the next 5 years from either Muslim or non-Muslim population samples but not both. Logistics aside, which one would present the smallest threat to this country as it currently stands and which would present the greatest threat and would the threats each one posed be significant in their differences? I think the answers to those questions are obvious and I think it's ok to identify that and choose what's in this country's current citizens' best interest. This is an extreme hypothetical I know, but I use it to illustrate the point that immigration isn't necessarily and automatically a good thing. There are immigration policies that could be used to, in essence, conquer a nation.


Regarding your Ginger example, it's apples to oranges, no pun intended. Perhaps my use of the word trait was incorrect or misleading, but equating a belief to a physical characteristic for comparison purposes doesn't hold water in this instance. One is a choice the other is not. I also get how difficult it would be to prove that someone is a Muslim that didn't admit to it upon entry especially one that means to do harm once inside our borders. I'd like us to be more selective on who is allowed in but maybe that's not feasible in the generalized way I'm describing it. I'd prefer policies that enable people that want to come here and be a part of what has been built over generations and contribute to that rather than enabling those who want to turn us into their homeland or their father's homeland. I'm not one that believes there isn't an answer to this problem, but it's clear there is a problem in the Muslim community.

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