"One could surmise that it was those that forced them into the group by attacking them as a group, and the media, who decided which group leaders to take statements from."
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I don't know if you are deliberately misunderstanding; but I referring to people who group themselves in insular communities as a lifestyle, not in reference to this specific crime.
Islamic people who live in insular communities as such are not forced into living that way, alienated and non-assimilated from non-islamic peoples. It is a chosen lifestyle and is detrimental to them and to their non-islamic neighbors as it breeds mistrust and lack of cultural understanding.
But it is of course, their choice.
RS just wants to play Devil's Advocate until it kills him.
No matter how eloquently you present the facts he'll misconstrue them.
"It is a chosen lifestyle and is detrimental to them and to their non-islamic neighbors as it breeds mistrust and lack of cultural understanding."
It only breeds mistrust among the uneducated - the Amish don't seem to have any problems, there are chinatowns in most major cities, and New York probably most of all has major ethnic neighborhoods.
It's a natural tendancy in cities for people of the same background to cluster, I'll bet Jersey City has a "Copt community". ( in an attempt to bring things on-topic)
If your attempt at "cultural understanding" leads you to the conclusion that they are tools of satan bent on your destruction it's hard to find common ground.
... and the muslims knowledge that there are many out there that have jumped to that conclusion leads to further clustering.