| LurkerJ said: But what happens once Muslims living in democratic countries become large enough they start to influence foreign policies? That is going to happen after all, may be not soon, but not late either. While Palestinian have been betrayed by everyone, Muslims as whole will never let this go, and once they get to power or become a large enough majority that politicians in the west start pandering to them to get their votes? Anyone's guess what that future is going to look like. Looking at the strongest European countries; Germany's Muslim population stands at 7%, France at 8% and this only continues to rise rapidly. Accordingly, a solution in which Israel gives major concessions to Palestinians is better for everyone especially Israel... or maybe nothing Israel will do is gonna matter in the eyes of a futuristic Islamic west. |
Well first off, it has risen rapidly because of the Syrian Civil War. That's not something that happens every few years.
Secondly, the German Muslim population is estimated to be between 6.4% and 6.7%. But that ignores the fact that only a small fraction of that can vote in an election because many don't even have German citizenship. Only 2.6% of the people living in Germany are Muslims with German citizenship. And finally, you'd have to remove all Muslim children with German citizenship as they're obviously not eligible to vote. So that leaves the base of voters at around 2%.
I don't see any politician going for that tiny size when there's a chance to piss off the other 98%...
And that's not going to change much in the coming decades.
