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Originally Posted by The Gaijin

The greater question in the USA, Western Europe and other countries where commmunities live side by side with Muslims - is not the percentage of actual terrorists - it is how much support for those who would advance that particular religion (and attendant lifestyle) by violence are to be found in these communities? After 9/11 people started to do a whole lot of reading of history and what has and is going on in the world and don't like everything they see.

The good news for us in the USA - is that we are in fact "the great satan" for good reason. It is not as most suppose that we offer the most decedent lifestyle. It is that we are the greatest corruptors of traditional ways.

We offer much more opportunity to assimilate, to get ahead economically and not be broken (and kept down) by the nanny state. The old ways and the old mores are swept away as much as any other immigrant group.. And those with jobs and a future are not drawn to all that nonsense.

To an extent, but the true fundamentalists still keep their beliefs while blending into their society of choice. The recent UK airport bombing was composed of mostly respected professionals. If my memory serves me correctly, there were several doctors and an aerospace engineer. Amazing that such intelligent individuals fall victim to being brainwashed.