I am by no means saying that we in the West have created a model for the
perfect society. We, too, have our grim past. I am not saying the War on
Terror, fuelled by the US, is fully justified - exporting Western democracy to
parts of the world which have no history of such system is destined to face
resistance - possibly even fail.

I, however, choose not view any Islamic community as democratic in the Western
sense. From freedom of speech to human rights and legislation it is all
distorted - either resulting from the religion itself or from those who use it
as means of control and power. Bernard Lewis studies this issue in his book
"What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, a
concise and timely survey of how Islamic civilization fell from worldwide
leadership in almost every frontier of human knowledge five or six centuries
ago to a "poor, weak, and ignorant" backwater that is today dominated by
"shabby tyrannies ... modern only in their apparatus of repression and
terror."

Even though >80% of the Finns are members of Lutheran Church I never viewed
myself as Christian - No, at most I was a Finn. This is just one of the
fundamental differences prevailing in the Western religiosity and Islam today.
I was never taught a concept similar to Ummah, presence of which is strong in
the Islamic world of ideas. To give an example: "One million American Muslims
are Muslims first, Americans second", http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-
americans.pdf.

This is just one example through which one can cling to (visible) problems of
Muslim immigration - If I was to immigrate I'd naturally accept the way of
living and laws of the new homeland. But in the concept of Ummah Muslims
greatly refuse such idea of adaptation - after all the laws are set and
watched over by Kafirs. This can be seen in the whole of Europe where Muslim
minorities are demanding the introduction of Sharia and even operating their
own underground courts.

Hopefully the post proves not to be too incoherent as I just tried to
summarize a few thoughts to broaden the discussion.