The_Walrus wrote:
I don't know where the OP lives, but most Western Muslims don't pray 5 times a day. He'd probably just have to go to the Mosque and play along there.
Oh, you were worried about violence against Muslims? There is much more anti-Semetic violence in the US (although that could just be because there are more Jews).
Muslims face a lot more open prejudice than Jews in the United States, people can pretty much publicly call for their persecution whereas you might not ever work again in the country if you said the same about the Jews. I would say that the US as a whole is much much less anti-Semitic than Europe. Jews are very proactive when it comes confronting discrimination and I would imagine that is probably the biggest reason why they rank so high in these observations. I think Muslims just deal with more and there isn't really sympathetic shoulder to cry on so probably a lot don't bother reporting relatively minor things. Americans in general " have an overwhelmingly favorable view of Jews, large amount of Americans actually believe we have to proactively protect the Jewish people and the state of Israel for when Jesus comes back. Seriously. One thing tho, I think a good portion of violent incidents towards Jewish people in this country are actually from Muslims or whatever random people upset about Israeli/Arab conflict. This typically happens on college campuses, I imagine it might be similar in other countries.
17 Jul 2015, 1:51 pm
