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7.5% is a big number. It's nowhere near as a majority, bit it's significant, especially for the culture from another continent. It's not like that 23% of the worldwide population comes from Europe anyway.

It’s only significant if you think that the population should be homogeneously native, which is completely unrealistic for any country with any kind of immigration system. We live in an interconnected world where people can cross borders, you’re going to have more diverse populations. If that’s scary to you then

I bet there are atheists who'd gladly murder religious people if they had an opportunity. Being an atheist alone does not make you a civilized person like us.

Um, OK?

How saying the percentage of muslims in France indicates you're biased towards them?

This isn’t hard to figure out: by surveying people’s estimates of the Muslim population and their rate of growth, then comparing those perceptions to reality, we can see if people overestimate those numbers. If they do overestimate, then we can compare that with the existing culture where Muslims are often demonized and we get into internet arguments about how them being a percentage of the population is scary or worrying somehow, and theorize that the wider anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant/xenophobic rhetoric that’s been on the rise the past few years is having an effect on people’s perceptions.

Put simply: if people are greatly overestimating the size of the Muslim population in their country, that’s a sign that they are worried about that population, and also that they have been misled about its size.

Read it. The narrator gives valid arguments for the position then changes his mind purely due to virtue signalling from his friends whom he considered SJWs. The whole thing makes no sense.

“Virtue signalling” is such a stupid insult, don’t use it. also lol if you think that article describes any valid arguments for hating Islam

Plus, there's that one guy who claims he made up the article as a joke. He didn't explicitly prove it, so that's in no way a hard evidence, but considering the inconsistent nature of the article, I find his claim very plausible.

Oh well a guy on Twitter claims he did it so it must be true.

How big does the prison population need to be to satisfy you? 70 thousand people are a reliable sample for statistics.

Except it clearly isn’t since it’s hugely unrepresentative of the overall demographics of France. You can’t draw meaningful conclusions about the population from such a skewed sample of the country’s population.

Also, it's not France's fault the Muslims in prison weren't willing to integrate. Do you think the migrants would continue migrating to France if it was so hostile towards them?

“France has well-known and persistent problems in some of its rougher suburbs, which tend to disproportionately lean Muslim. Poor schools, social isolation, and stigmatization mean it is hard for residents to feel like they have a future that involves a steady job and a path to somewhere better. These neighborhoods are often plagued by drug use, vandalism, and sometimes riots. This has been coupled with racism and Islamophobia that has marked people from every walk of life.”

It’s generally the state’s responsibility to tackle the issues described there – if one area of the community is disproportionately poor, isolated, poorly educated and stigmatized then is it unreasonable to think that the state should try to fix those problems?

How does what Vlam posted make him a fascist?? Are you insane? I thought YOU were the one accusing ME of making strawmans.

Please point out where I claimed vlam was a fascist or “alt-right” hint: I didn’t, I was replying to Nep