Integration

 

The problem with the Muslim community is two-fold.

The first is the large number of young Muslim men, who are unemployed. This will get worse as more East Europeans arrive and take the low paid jobs.

The second is their attitude to women. Many do not work and this gives a large economic disadvantage to the community, which means it falls further behind.

These factors cause economic depression in the Muslim community which makes them feel they are getting discriminated against, just as they are in some parts of the world. But even where they are the dominant community as in Iran and Indonesia, you can't call those Muslim countries an economic success.

Only by going back to the fundamentals of their religion, where science, equality, learning and outwardness were paramount, will the divide between Muslims and the rest of society be healed.