It may have been Jane Kramer but don't hold me to that. I pass the issues on after reading them.


>Do you have the title of the article or author name handy? I've really like some of the New Yorker articles I've read recently.
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>Some of the analysis that I read of the problems France had with Muslims also pointed what you are saying. France made an effort to recruit Muslims to come to France to serve as cheap labor. When the economy went a little south there was no support structure in place for the newly unemployeed and they rebelled.
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>>>Getting awful quiet in here. So, for your Thursday marshmellow-toasting pleasure, I offer this:
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>>>Swedish Welfare State
>>>Collapses as Immigrants Wage War
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>>>This is from a conservative European blog, and probably suffers a little slant. However, I'm curious if things are as bad as this guy's suggesting. Also, this is not the first time I've read of the kowtowing by European governments towards towards their internal Muslim communities, and I think its going to backfire one of these days.
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>>>Flame on!
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>>There was an excellent article in The New Yorker a few weeks ago. Apparently many of the European countries have the same problem. Workers were originally brought in from the Arab world with the expectation that they would be temporary cheap labor, except they have stayed on and are rebelling against the majority population/culture.