Why Do You Suppose Britain Has A Higher Percentage Of Radical Islamists Compared To The U.S.A. ?

Question

Several research studies have shown that Great Britain has a significantly higher percentage of Radical Islamists than the USA . I think we all saw the studies a few months ago that indicated something like 25% of Britain's Muslims supported terrorist bombings . Most research also indicates that 10-15% of Muslim Americans say the same .
Britain has about double the rate of the USA .

WHY ?

STONY - YOU NEED A BREAK . And you didn't understand the question . 'PERCENTAGE' of Radical Islamists , not population percentage as a whole .

Here , I'll re-phrase the question . . . . . Of all the muslims in Great Britain , why do 25% of them support terrorist bombings when only 10-15% of American Muslims do ???

The research results were run on every news source in the country , and other countries , and damn near the whole world . And yet somehow a fair number of you still deny it ? Blame me for it ? Doubt what should be considered 'common knowledge' ? Insult me ?

Is Hell arriving tomorrow or something ?

Answer 1

I fear Britain's close proximity to France may have resulted in some sort of "osmotic" contamination of spinelessness and "pacifistic submission-ism"...

Answer 2

Throughout the 90s, Britain allowed radical Islamic groups to use London as their recruiting ground. Even when the British government was warned by the intelligence/security heads of other countries, including France and America, this continued and the British government stood by and did nothing.

A prime example is the radical group Hizbut Tahrir - it is banned in most Arab countries but permitted on every single British University campus. Hizbut Tahrir preaches hate and racism and actively recruits, but the British allows this group to stay.

So I think the answer to your question is partly: there is more support for terrorism in the UK because the radical Islamists have FAR more of a platform. You can see them speak on TV all the time and their call to arms is aired and then heard by all those who who are disaffected or just evil.

Another problem in the UK is that there is no sense of national pride, as there is in America.

Political correctness has run riot in Britain: anyone can claim 'human rights' just go get their own way. Thus female Muslim lawyers have now won the 'right' to wear the full veil - in court. Absurd!

Meanwhile, British people are not allowed to hold Christmas pageants, for instance, in case it 'offends' those of other faiths. For 'other faiths', read Muslim. Because nobody else minds; it is, after all, a Christian country.

I hope this helps to answer your question. Picking up on another answer you got: how can you be 100 per cent sure that American Muslims are answering totally honestly?

Though having said that, I hear from friends who recently visited New York that American Muslims are very proud and happy to be American. Sadly the same cannot be said of British Muslims; they have no respect for the customs and laws of Britain.

Answer 3

I think what people fail to realize about this is that Great Britains motives for being more lenient on immigration most likely, at least partially stem from it's colonial past and a lot of the racial problems in the UK also originate from the ridigity of their class system which may not be as rigid today as it was in the 1960s and before, but still affects the mindsets of people terminally relegated to their particular class, and their children as well.

It has been easier to come to the UK if coming from being born in a country where one was a "subject" of the queen, than if one wasn't. So from this, you can assume that it has been easier for a lot of Islamic people (regardless of extremist believes or not) to make a home there.

Combine this with a class system less evident today, but still culturally engrained especially in a lot of older folks, and imagine that unlike America there is not a perception that one can move up if one tries. Suddenly the biggest threat to the working classes well being is a flood of more people starting out in the working classes.

So immigrants are more likely to stick together than to integrate into the general population and these situations breed resentment on both sides.

That's my educated guess, anyway.

Answer 4

Because we in America "walk softly and carry a big stick." We welcome others, but they definitely can not come over here and expect to take over and rule the roost. We have our own ways, and we are not about to let radical Muslims take our country!!!!! I think that they are more than a little afraid of us. The British have too many bleeding heart liberals and I don't know if they have conservative voices like Rush, Sean, Savage, and the like. We have an independent spirit and won't take crap that the radical Muslims try to dish out. They thought that since we had the great hippy (Bill Clinton) running the place, that they could run roughshod over us. Clinton let all the attacks (the U.S.S. Cole for example) go by without an answer (just like the flower children always do - you know - love, peace and all that jazz). They weren't bargaining for George Bush.

Answer 5

Maybe the US doesn't recognize the various religious sects as we have more religious freedom and don't really care what people believe as a nation as long as their religious beliefs don't interfere with the rights of others.

We also have more stringent immigration laws that are not as easy to get through whereas the UK has open borders which invites anyone who wants to take over through infiltration and then attack as has been happening more frequently.

If you have open borders, how can you control who is entering and what their intentions are. This is why the North American Union is a horrible idea. Why would the US or Canada want to put themselves in harms way by allowing terrorists into their countries from the open borders of Mexico? We already have enough terrorists coming through the US southern border and that needs to stop!

Another reason for a higher percentage of radicals in the UK is the obvious - location. It is easier for the middle eastern radicals to attack a country that is closer and would eventually enable them to attack the US easier. Who does the UK have their borders opened to and where are the IT support centers of the world? Is a physical attack or a computer attack worse? Think about it and what computers control today.

The radicals want to take over the world and have all of the women wearing those horrible coverings to "lower them to their rightful position - lower than man". Their world is a world of hate and control. They have no love for their God who they call Allah. They are lovers of themselves, their personal goals and self gratification which can be seen in any country they dominate. Their highest goal is to control the world rather than obey Allah.

Answer 6

Legally freedom of speech would not exist in Britain. the genuine situation is public cowardice. while you're no longer arranged to stand as much as those insignificant bugs then they are going to strengthen in huge type and self belief. i do no longer agree that the e book is efficiently being banned. there is not any longer something extremely combating the author merchandising the e book in this united states of america. only because of the fact one writer now no longer sees it as an investment, would not forestall the e book from being imported or revealed someplace else in the U.ok. i've got faith that it only isn't a stable adequate e book to be nicely worth anybody's whilst bothering with.

Answer 7

Am I the only person who reads the news stories on Yahoo and follows the links? This was just on there in the last ten days or so.

They (the mysterious they--you know, the ones who come up with all the data on everything from what type of underwear women say is most comfortable to the right stuff for a guy to say to get a second date) say it's because the Muslims in the UK are not as well-assimilated as the Muslims in the US. If I remember correctly, they said that Muslims in the UK tend to stay in their own neighborhoods and groups, not by choice, but because there is discrimination against them by the majority. The US is a bit friendlier when it comes to people moving half-way around the world and wanting to become part of our nation. I believe there was some mention of statistics about how happy Muslims are in the UK versus how happy they are in the US, with those in the US saying in greater numbers that they feel they have been taken in by the country and the people, and have been allowed to both keep their traditional culture while adopting the American one.

Just from personal experience, I would say I support that view. Our state university has a really good engineering department, and we get a lot of students from the Middle East who come to school here for graduate school. For being the middle of nowhere, USA, we do have a fairly good-sized Muslim community. The thing that's always both surprising and pleasing to me is that so many of them come and like it so much they decide to stay. I like it because that's how my own father became an American--he came to go to school, liked the people and the way of life, and just stuck around. Because of my mixed heritage, I used to talk with a lot of Arabs (Muslim and otherwise) when I was in college (they always thought I spoke Arabic). They tend to find the freedoms we have here intoxicating, but they like the people, as well. They come to go to school, decide they like it, and decide that what they really want to do with that engineering or medical degree (we also have one of the best teaching hospitals in the Western US here) is stay here and carve off a bit of the American dream for themselves. It's hard for them at first, but they acclimate fairly quickly because they WANT to be Americans. They want their wives to be part of the PTA, and they want their kids to play soccer, and they want to learn to appreciate the finer points of baseball so they can sit down and enjoy a game.

Apparently, that "come join us" attitude is lacking in the UK. A lot of the people I met while in college actually started out going to school there, but they met with a lot of racism and hatred, so they decided to come here, instead. Generally, they were happier and liked it better here.

Answer 8

Just all hypothetical...but I think it's because the U.K. in general has a higher Muslim / (Asian as in Indian + Southeast Asian) population than in the United States. London has always been such a multi-national metropolitan and has integrated many religions of many parts of the world. It could be that Muslims in the U.K. suffer more prejudice from their neighbors, however, that could be the same or even worse after 9/11 in the states.

I don't know, but I think Europe seems to have a harder time in general in accepting Muslims into their society over the past hundreds of bickering that has happened between them. Generally, in America... if you're Muslim, you're most likely living in the more liberal parts of the States (if possible) where we do try to accept Muslims into our communities.

The U.S. is generally a more Christian nation than the United States and from what I've seen (I live in the NY/NJ area so it may just be my area), many Muslims seem to me more moderate on their views and tend not to be as radical.

Answer 9

Muslims in Britain tend to meet more hostility towards their religion, nd being a religous person, than in the US, such as not being restricted on wear birqa's stoping to pray a certain times, ect.... However, the main reason is that most Muslims in this country have a better standard of living than in Britain and feel that if they work hard they can succecced

Answer 10

Most of them come from immigrant families from Pakistan because Pakistan is a member of the Commonwealth, like Canada, Australia, South Africa, India etc.
Years before Islam became associated with extremism people migrated throughout the Commonwealth.
America has no historical ties of such with an Islamic nation, so there are less Moslems there. It is a simple as that.

Answer 11

I think that historically Britain has made the mistake of being too lenient on it's immigration and temporary stay guidelines.

I have known several Middle Eastern people who have wanted to come to the US, but ended up in GB because they couldn't get in here.