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barneystinson69 said:
WolfpackN64 said:

Maybe I used the wrong term. Living in harmony might be better, English isn't my first language (though I wouldn't object to moving towards Communism). A lot of these peoples ancestors worked in the coal mines and were imported as cheap labor. Today, most of these people operate small businesses but most work along the same lines as all of us.

Look, I'm can't disprove your claims since I'm not from Belgium. But from what I've read, Belgium didn't begin immigrating these people till the 1970s. And since the unemployement rate is more than double for that of foreign born people, I'm inclined to believe many don't want to work. There can be a few small businesses run by muslims, but I don't see any sort of real economic benifit these people are providing. Belgium has alot of problems with islamic extremists, and I think these people cause more of a drain than a benifit (shutting down brussel's because of an extremist attack for example). 

Anyway this is just burning me out. I'm going to leave the conversation before it goes too far.

Fair enough. I know Belgium didn't begin immigrating these people for a long time and that's a problem. I also said the unemployment rate is so high maily because of the big problem in Brussels. This has nothing to do with people not wanting to work. There is not a people that is more work-active than another one, that's sociologically just silly. There are very good explanations for this problem and they frankly never appear in right-wing rethoric (mainly because the right wing in Belgium has mainly caused the conditions for these problems). It's also quite problematic when people keep claiming a community is more of a drain on our resources then they are a benifit since that is not the case. Daesh attacked Brussels, yes, but they seem to only attack countries who help in the effort against them. Seeing as how we are bombing them in Iraq and Syria, while through Saudi Arabia, Belgian weapons have ended up in their hands, our goverment is largely to blame for the mess caused.