this leads to a culture shift in the country, where islam is getting a foothold.
The experience in the UK is that Muslim immigrants’ level of religious observance (e.g., mosque attendance) and degree of religious conservatism both decline based on how many generations the immigrant’s family has been in the country. Out-marriage (with respect to both religion and ethnicity) also increases with each successive generation. There’s an issue with a small minority of second-generation youth becoming extremists in reaction to difficulty in assimilating, but the overall trend goes the other way.
And the right’s solution is to add more barriers to assimilation. That makes it look to me like their goal is not to solve the problem, but to be sure they have a steady supply of marginalized scapegoats.
The experience in the UK is that Muslim immigrants’ level of religious observance (e.g., mosque attendance) and degree of religious conservatism both decline based on how many generations the immigrant’s family has been in the country. Out-marriage (with respect to both religion and ethnicity) also increases with each successive generation. There’s an issue with a small minority of second-generation youth becoming extremists in reaction to difficulty in assimilating, but the overall trend goes the other way.
And the right’s solution is to add more barriers to assimilation. That makes it look to me like their goal is not to solve the problem, but to be sure they have a steady supply of marginalized scapegoats.