Obama says Europe should integrate Muslims to curb terrorism

The Los Angeles Times ^ | January 16, 2015 | Kathleen Hennessey, White House Correspondent

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President Obama warned Europeans "not to simply respond with a hammer" in working against radicalization among its Muslim populations, and argued that the United States had an advantage on this front because American Muslims are better integrated into society..

“Our Muslim populations, they feel themselves to be Americans. There is, you know, this incredible process of immigration and assimilation that is part of our tradition that is probably our greatest strength,” Obama said Friday, as he stood next to British Prime Minister David Cameron at a news conference. “There are parts of Europe in which that's not the case, and that's probably the greatest danger that Europe faces.”

The comments were an unusually public bit of cultural analysis and counsel at a forum typically reserved for demonstrations of support and solidarity. In this case, Cameron politely disagreed with the American president's assessment of immigrant communities in the United Kingdom.

Obama went on to urge caution as European law enforcement authorities conduct broad counterterrorism sweeps in Belgium, France and Germany, a response to the recent terrorist attacks in France. The president suggested the crackdowns, along with economic disadvantages, would add to a sense of alienation among Muslim communities and feed their recruitment by jihadist groups....

[houeto]

I left out the most important part. It is not causing them to want to be Americans but causing them to want to know God’s Truth!

[Taxman]

I agree that “causing them to want to know God’s Truth!” is a worthwhile cause.

How do you propose to do that in such a way that they will want to become Americans rather than Moslems living in America?

[doc1019]

Got’cha LOL!

[samtheman]

I think he’s very close to coming out of the closet.

[GOPJ]

Assimilating Moslems into the American culture is several orders of magnitude harder than assimilating blacks, IMHO, and will test us to the max.

Actually America's done a pretty good job assimilating Muslims. The problem comes when their numbers hit a tipping point and their 'leaders' start preaching hatred and sharia.

If we're not so 'open minded' our brains fall out we can stop the ill effects of radical Imams.

Until we figure out what in the Islamic religion causes radicals to flourish, we need to STOP all immigration from that part of the world. On blacks, I'm beginning to feel they'll never assimilated into the mainstream culture. Look at Holder and Obama - as successful as they've become they still identify with black street criminals - based only on skin color. That's tribal - it's starting to look like we'll never overcome that...

[Taxman]

WHOA! I’ll need to see a lot of positive information about your claim that “America’s done a pretty good job assimilating Muslims.”

Assimilating to me means “to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust” Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assimilating.

I don’t think the Moslems I have seen or read about care a whit about assimilating into our society.

I wish I were wrong, and I wish that Moslems truly wanted to be Americans, but I don’t believe they want to be or, for that matter, are capable of assimilating like, for example, the Irish, Germans, Poles, and yes, even the Oriental and Spanish immigrants have.