Thread by @seshanm

#FailedIntegration
"Sweden’s failed integration creates ‘parallel societies’, says PM after riots | Sweden | The Guardian" amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr…

"Sweden’s prime minister has said the Scandinavian country has failed to integrate many of the immigrants who have settled there over the past 20 years, creating a nation of “parallel societies … living in different realities”.

She has spoken the truth.
And it's time for all of us to face a very simple truth.

We think because we live in the same country, we share the same reality.

That is totally FALSE.

All of us live in our minds. If all that is fed into it is the same, we share the SAME REALITY.

If as is the case with Islam, what is fed is not just different but militates and differentiates itself in every which way, from the larger society of which Muslims are a part..then the Muslim kids, even as they physically grow up in Sweden, actually live in an 'Islamic Reality"

The criminal behaviour etc arises not so from Islam, as the alienation brought about by the strict rules of Islam, enforced at home..One Reality versus a 'morally loose & free society" they are taught to detest....Another Reality..but see as contemptible & easy victims

1500 years after we first peacefully welcomed Islam, which came to Kerala with the early Arab Traders, Muslims are yet to integrate into the larger Indian society in the way as Parsees, Jews, even Christians to a great extent have.

This is all the more shocking because upwards of 85% of Indian Muslims, are physically the same as the rest of us and have the same DNA.

And we still have the problem of integration 1500 years later.

What is preventing them from integrating is the Alternate Reality that Islam, not just provides, bit INSISTS on providing,
in Madrassas, in mosques, at home...

From Arabic names, to distinctive dress, to Adhan, to learning Arabic, to an insistence on speaking Urdu, to

Madrassas, to namaz, to food choices are all fundamental to internalizing a fierce exclusiveness, contempt, if not hatred for the kaffir.

All of this with the Haj, the concept of Ummah or world-wide Muslim brotherhood, fashion an Alternate Reality for Muslims.

Petro dollars from the Gulf have in the last 60 years or so fuelled increasing orthodoxy (Tablighi Jamaat) among Indian Muslims.

That is to say, they have re-inforced this Alternate Reality. And just when prosperity, education & development MAY HAVE begun to dilute this

ALTERNATE REALITY, the rising tide of Hindu resurgence in the last 8 years may have caused them to retreat into this very same ALTERNATE REALITY.

There no easy answers to the conundrum. There are no real commonalities, only temporary adjustments based on relative strength.

ALTERNATE REALITY, the rising tide of Hindu resurgence in the last 8 years may have caused them to retreat into this very same ALTERNATE REALITY.

There are no easy answers to the conundrum. There are no real commonalities, only temporary adjustments based on relative strength.

Given the nature of Islam there is nearly no hope of any fundamental reform.

How tamper with the words of God himself.

What is happening to Christianity in the West could,however, slowly happen to Islam.

A steady decrease in the numbers of those who truly practice it.

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