I don't think theological discussions should be allowed as with the older PDF forum. We can discuss pork but then bringing too much religion into this is a bad idea.
Both my parents have been to Turkey. My mother lived in Ankara for five years and the lower income & rural class.
My father drove from Germany to Pakistan and passed through Turkiye. He wrote sometimes he felt he was in a right-wing religious country. But all from what i've seen & read it's a...
They might not close for prayer but bars are seldomly found in conservative parts of the country. Turks also drink their own beverage which I believe is called rakub or something like that.
That is in the Western part of Turkiye. And more elitist parts of the cities. Many parts of the cities are conservative as well as Eastern parts of the country. It's a mixed society.
True, but lots of Pakistanis are also driven by this ideology. Central Asians can be but not as much. Most Central Asians are not as hardcore Islamists compared to Afghans, Pakistanis, Bharati Muslims etc.
Our economy was predicted to collapse in 2023. Nothing serious happened. Now with the repatriation of Afghans by the millions, we will make a slow & steady recovery. Population growth is also slowing down.
Assimilation is not even necessary. Just integrating is required. Assimilation is fully trading your culture for another one. You can keep your culture but respect and adopt the host country's culture which is fine.
Assimilation is what happened to the people of Scotland or Wales. They've lost...
The behavior of many Muslim migrants has led to this horrible situation. And it's been going on for ages. They're stating it's too much. It didn't have to be this way but clearly many migrants have ruined it for the rest of us.
I doubt each and every one of those 14,000 Pakistanis are plain innocent.
Imagine in Japan where you live migrants start harassing locals or committing crimes. The law would be far less merciful than Europe, even towards any local Japanese.