jesi wrote:Umm. . . , France already has a large muslim population (10% in 2010 according to a Pew study). This has little or nothing to due with the current refugee crisis in Syria and Iraq. Reportedly most refugees want to get to England or Germany rather than France as France has a reputation of being inhospitable to muslims going back a long way. As for uptick in crime and murder. France's murder rate is pretty stable at 1.0 per 100,000 according to a 2013 UN study. So, yeah it does not seem that a muslim influx causes a rise in the murder rate here.
Hmm... I had actually looked this up myself earlier and found one claim that France is 5% Muslim, that being the religion, whether or not that coincided with a particular ethnic group, the site didn't say. The PEW site said 7.5% and that that is also
the largest percentage in Western Europe, which doesn't really agree with your claim of Muslims being unwelcome, that site also did not include anything about ethnic groups. The US CIA said between 5 and 10% in France. So, you can see statistics are a bit variable and also less than you think.
I had originally searched to see the percent of Arabic people in Europe, but mostly it just assumes I want 'Muslims', hmm... The total I got from Wiki, the only one that actually said 'Arab', was something less than 1% overall so it seems most Muslims in France and other parts of Europe up until now are Caucasian? Your same ethnic group?