“Immigrant” does not equal any of these things: non-white, Moslem, rapist, circumcised female, pedophile, criminal, thief, unemployed, unemployable, homophobic, murderer, prostitute, stupid, lazy. It seems from these comments that some of you are assuming it does – all these and a lot of other things besides.

“Non-white” and “Moslem” also don’t equal each other; nor does either of them equal any of those other things on the above list.

Stop judging people on the basis of one of the many labels they bear. Stop spreading bigoted hate and associating whatever you find repulsive with people based on their legal situation. There’s terrible power in such associations. Let each person’s actions speak for himself; not the actions of others in his situation.

Written by a Finnish immigrant to Belgium who neither does drugs nor is a prostitute.

If anything, this case merely illustrates a peculiarity of the Finnish social security system. The outcome will come as no surprise to anyone who understands the corresponding system in the UK, for example, where it has always been perfectly legal to claim benefit under a false name, provided that the applicant’s financial circumstances are correctly reported and the applicant does not claim the same benefit twice over.

Nothing in this case suggests that the defendant was not genuinely seeking work and/or training, so it is far from clear how the idea of a “welfare bum” can apply.

Of course we do not want to copy them because we are an example of a well-functioning society. However, I do not agree with your predictions on what multiculturalism will do to Finland. It does not take into account that people change and actually may like living in this country. Multiculturalism in my opinion means an acknowledgment by the dominant culture that it accepts and respects minorities. By respect I mean MUTUAL respect.

–Finland is racism and xenophobia and blaa blaa blaa. We must embrace dysfunctionality and celebrate it!

Your sarcasm has a tragic-comic flare to it.

But you do – thats multiculturalism. You want us to respect their dysfunctional ways and let Finland be destroyed as theres a few thousand dysfunctional countries in the world. Because wanting Finland to stay Finland is racism and xenophobia and blaa blaa blaa. We must embrace dysfunctionality and celebrate it!

At least we know now that you support female circumcision… after all it’s some peoples culture and we must learn to accept it. Right?

I’m not going accepect your constant bitching.

When machine does not work, it does not work. You do not fix it by staring at parts which DO work, but looking at parts which do NOT work.

Same with cultural conflict. Closing your eyes and hiding head in sand will not make problems go away. It will just let them fester and grow bigger and more radical.

Until there is no longer any way to prevent violent outburst.

Cultural contact SHOULD pay lots of attention to differences, because if those are ignored they will lead to conflict. And in immigration, it should be made clear from day one to everyone that native culture has right of way. Immigrants adjust.

Because no alternative works on long term.

As for Muslim achievements. Yes, they managed to present much scientific stuff in ages long gone, large portion of it was actually just preserving Greek knowledge which was lost in Europe.

So what?

That time was centuries ago. Back then, Islam was perhaps progressive. But then they hit the brakes and stopped still. Europe did not.

Today Islam tries to live as if world was still in Middle ages. What have they given to this world TODAY?

Last century?

Let’s sum it up as nothing. Terrorism, violence, barbaric practices…

Today Islam does not demonstrate any of the things Barak tries to complement. It does not show great tolerance, where Islam manages to gain strong hold it tries to squeeze the life from all competition. It does not show peace, it seeks to spread through violence. It does not show progress of knowledge, it seeks to deny science and stick to old book full of fairytales about God.
It denies social progress, GAYS MUST BE STONED AND WOMEN MUTILATED FOR IT IS WILL OF ALLAH!

If this was Middle Ages, I would admire Islam. But this is not. This is 21st century, Islam is by and large still stuck on 12th century. They have to work really hard to switch those numbers around.