If you go to a new country it's obvious that you should adjust to the new culture and way of living. It works in both ways.
Yes. I have a cousin who works in the oil industry. He came to Norway from Poland when he was 14. By the time he finished college he had all A's, was in the norwegian american football team, got a black belt in Karate and got accepted to the navy flight school. (I always hated him....). But he was a polish kid with a norwegian grandmother and everything went well. Today he is married to a norwegian woman, has three daughters and life is good.
Then three years ago, his company got a big contract in Iran. He moved his whole family down there for a 2 year period. First thing they had to do is to remove any visible christian symbols (for fear of persecution or attacks), then they had to move into a camp for westeners, where they had security checks with armed guards. His wife had to wear a burka if she moved outside the camp, and the kids were not allowed outside without supervision. They had to obey all the muslim rules to the full, and were told not to behave "improperly" in official settings. Whatever that means. His mother came down to visit him too, and she also had to wear a burka. She was stopped at the airport for wearing a short sleeved shirt. Now, it's 40 degrees down there and they want a western woman to dress up all the way. Every day the yelling from the minarets would wake them in the early morning. There was no church nearby and anyhting they wanted to do, western style, they had to do at home. This obviously was not close to any "tourist" city or site, so they just had to deal with it. And they did. So why can't muslims who come to our countries accept our way of life and laws? Why do they want to bring the one thing that made their lives a living hell in their own countries with them here?
So, they can stuff their religion somewhere the sun doesn't shine, and they can shut up about minority rights until christianity is allowed freely in their own countries. Which is never going to happen...besides "minority rights", yeah, maybe they are a minority in Norway or Poland, but there are more IRANINANS living in Iran today, than Poles, Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Danes and Icelanders TOGETHER living in our respective countries. And that is only 1 muslim country. So no minority, rather a majority.
Dariusz
Arabs are a plague. Poland needs some Israeli thinking going on....
Well, I have to admit, that the only language arabs and africans know, is violence, intimidation and brutality. If you can juggle these things, you will succeed in their nations. But if you are like Norwegian, honest, reserved and non-aggressive by nature, you are seen as a coward and weak. The violence and hierarchical behaviour in muslims come from their culture and is ingrained in their every day life. They are always in packs of three or more and enjoy using their basic primal instincts on us westeners. It's all about their "clan", or their "gang", or "their streets". They don't HAVE to be muslim to act like this, just look at the gangs in the U.S. But it's all running through their veins.
The way the Israeli treat the palestinians is from a humanistic perspective horrendous. And from that perspective I don't accept anyone treating another human being this way. But, and this is a BIG but, when you have to deal with arabs, or africans, the only language they understand is force and violence. If you don't use this correctly, they will overtake you. So, I understand that the Israelis act this way, because faced with millions of arabs, all thinking like I mentioned above, they are uncontrollable unless you use abslolute force. You see this from the U.S troops when they address and talk to people in Iraq and Afghanistan too. There is no room for "formalities" or "humanity". Just straight to the throat and hold it there. If it works, and is good for humanity...well that is another discussion.
So, I believe the Polish government needs to be really hard and brutal on the muslim immigrants that are in Poland, if they break the law. But also before they break it. They need to know that ANY kind of criminal activity will be put down, harshly! From my experience, that is only a question of time and mass before Poland is going to read about drug busts in immigrant areas and rapes of polish women. (the amount of immigrants it takes in order for them to feel comfortable enough to start breaking it is fairly low). If they break the law, take them down in the basement and let them have some polish justice, the old way, and then a one way ticket out! And the whole family with them. I heard about the polish prisons, and I don't think a muslim would feel welcome in a small room with 4 or 5 other polish guys...especially if the muslim did something to a polish person, like rape or steal. Here in Norway the majority of inmates in our prisons are muslim, so no need to fear anything from "local" norwegians. Besides the prisons here are 5 star hotels compared to a normal life in their country. So they don't give a ****.
Dariusz