Are Muslims Immigrants or Settlers?
I can’t recall where I read this, so I haven’t any citation. But it is an interesting train of thought.
An immigrant is someone who comes to a new country and adopts it’s laws and culture. This doesn’t mean immigrants give up their culture or attitudes entirely. It just means they conform to the general population and to the specific laws of their new home.
Settlers are entirely different. They keep the laws and culture of their original homeland and do not conform to the laws and culture of their new home. The reject the old adage “When in Rome do as the Romans do.”
Europeans settled North America. They were not immigrants. They brought their own laws and culture and eventually displaced the native inhabitants. Often by force.
So the question is are Muslims who move to a new country immigrants or settlers? It’s hard to tell sometimes. The majority appear to be immigrants. Many become citizens in good standing in their new homeland, including the United States.
But many do not appear to want to conform to the mores and laws of their new countries. They bring with them intact the laws of their religion and reject secular laws that are adhered to by the majority of citizens in their adopted country. These folks are not immigrants. They are settlers.
There’s something of a Diaspora going on with Muslims in recent years. Millions of them have fled from the oppression and strife in their homelands. Most have fled to nearby European countries where the question of whether these new arrivals are immigrants or settlers is far more than merely an intellectual question.
Entire Muslim communities in France, Spain, England and elsewhere live under their religious laws, not the secular laws of their host countries. They reject their host’s laws. In fact some have successfully demanded that they be allowed to live under their own laws.
One wonders what the reaction will be in the United States if Muslim immigrants reveal themselves to be, in truth, settlers?
Tags: Diaspora, Europe, Muslim Immigration, Settlers
February 12th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
They’re attempting to be conquerers and in already many areas like Detroit have succeded. Europe already is having a problem with the fact the muslims are unable to accept their laws. It’s comming here and because of the political correctness of the libeals will eventually succede.
February 13th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
We’ll see Herb. I hope you’re wrong. I hope we will protect ourselves, which we can do, while maintaining our crucial freedoms.
March 18th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
If people don´t want illegals, a good idea would be to stop hiring them. Illegal immigrants don’t cross the border because they love US, they cross because they get better paid jobs than in their countries. We don´t like illegals but we hire them. We don´t like the war against the drugs but we are the number one consuming drug country of the world…i need a nap.
May 7th, 2010 at 4:30 am
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June 23rd, 2010 at 2:20 am
Illegal immigrants were causing an increase in crime, taking jobs that would once have gone to longtime residents, and changing the character of their quiet city.