The current tsunami in Europe is a mixture of both. Besides, regardless of the initial reason, their baggage remains the same.
Not quite the same. Most were persecuted by their Muslim (some of the Sunni faction others of the Shia faction) fellow countrymen, others by people who happen to have other faiths, and others were bombed/gassed by the Western forces or Russian or Turkish forces.
Are you saying no refugee has been involved in terrorism?
Are you saying that
all refugees have been involved in terrorism (which would be logical if just being a Muslim automatically leads the majority to become Jihadi), or could there perhaps be other reasons for some, very few, of the people turning to Radicalism / Extremism? We see similar things with (alt-)Right-wing Extremism / Left-wing Extremism / Environmental Extremism / pick your flavor of extremism. These are not normal people, they can have (and some act driven by) all kinds of faiths/beliefs/misconceptions/dogmas. Some could believe in the flying spaghetti monster as their deity, it does not make a real difference. The only thing that matters is that these losers
got actively radicalized by other extremists to do their dirty work.
The process of radicalization is becoming better understood as we take the time to study it, and not just label it with something convenient, like Islam.
There are dozens of examples in Europe and here.
Examples of what? Extremism/radicalization? That's a process, one isn't born as an extremist, and just having one faith or another is also not determining that outcome.
Are you saying that refugees are somehow a different breed than their brethren? That they feel a special type of gratitude toward those who helped them and received them with open arms and would never respond to the siren call of their faith?
No, that would be the lazy approach, not trying to understand their individual motivations.
Then why terror attacks in Germany and Sweden, for instance, two countries known for the warmest welcome?
Which demonstrates your lack of understanding, the lack of investing in finding out what the
real motivation is. Slapping on a label, e.g. Muslim, is downright lazy and stupid.
The recent lorry attack in Sweden was done by a guy who was denied a refugee status (because he apparently was no refugee) and thus was supposed to have left the country for months already, except that he went into hiding. He was an illegal, without work, without legal access to money/food, no medical care available, no prospects whatsoever. These people are easy targets for actors who's job it is to recruit and radicalize these people.
Germany has suffered a number of terrorist attacks over decades, some of the perpetrators had mental issues, some were traumatized with no proper treatment, some were illegals, some were right-wing extremists, some claimed to be religiously inspired. Again, also easy targets for actors who's job it is to recruit and radicalize these people if they needed more steering than the internet to self-radicalize.
France has a very different situation with many people coming in from the former French colonies, and not being well coached/integrated/assimilated into the French society. Adding to that, they (temporarily) took in a large number of refugees from the Near Eastern countries. Large numbers of these people, if even legal immigrants or citizens, have low social status, are unemployed, have no future prospects, and are easy targets to actors who's job it is to recruit and radicalize these people.
The UK also had problems with the radicalization of people without prospects (or with mental instability).
Belgium also had problems, with local criminals with prior convictions, no prospects, the rest of what developed is history.
If people like Trump start discriminating based on faith or even country of birth, it will only feed these sentiments of exclusion, a good foundation for radicalization. US judges do not agree with Trump.
In blow to Trump, U.S. appeals court refuses to reinstate travel ban:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-court-idUSKBN18L2IO"In a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump, a U.S. appeals court refused on Thursday to reinstate his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority nations, calling it discriminatory and setting the stage for a showdown in the Supreme Court.
The decision, written by Chief Judge Roger Gregory, described Trump's executive order in forceful terms, saying it uses "vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination." "Cheers,
Bart
P.S. ‘Final act of bravery’: Men who were fatally stabbed trying to stop anti-Muslim rants identified
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/27/man-fatally-stabs-2-on-portland-ore-train-after-they-interrupted-his-anti-muslim-rants-police-say/?utm_term=.20d1f176b237"Two men were stabbed to death and one injured Friday on a light-rail train in Portland, Ore., after they tried to intervene when another passenger began “ranting and raving” and shouting anti-Muslim hate speech at two young women, police said."So who's the terrorist here?
