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People who are capable of that are a small minority in any population so, obviously, Muslims included.

Gad Saad, a Lebanese Canadian Jew and YouTuber who had to flee Lebanon with his family as a child, explains that once a Muslim population reaches a certain percentage of a country's population, the dynamics change. The behaviour of the Muslim group changes. This is a matter of numbers. It's one thing to look at the group as many individuals and another to look at the between group effects, between Muslims and the other groups of people living in that country. This is something like looking at qualitative versus quantitative data.

I'm failing to express this very well.

I've been living with Muslim friends, students, neighbours, colleagues for nigh on 40 years. This is not abstract or academic for me. I could tell you many stories.

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1. I ❤️❤️❤️ Gad Saad! been follerin' him fer a few years now! He's such a DEAR soul, brilliant, funny... all that. I know he's spoken 'bout some'a his Muslim soccer friends (some that call him "one of the good jews" lol)--yup, not all git it...

2. no no, yer tellin' it clearly... that's sad then (vs Saad!)... bein' from NYC I used ta SEE Muslims daily jus' on the train, walkin' the streets--but in my profess'shin' (thee-ate-er & film) there are NONE that I knew! (some secular Arab performers of course but no Muslims I ever met an' I'm no spring chicken lol) In our whirled of homeschoolin' my girls, there were very few Muslim famblies--a few shy laydees joined science club but even within our GIANT community of all sorts of people & backgrounds... there were near-none (not sure why 'cept that perhaps what we did an' how the kids were allowed ta play 'n such didn't jibe with their faith)....

So ironically as a city gal always--my exposure was near nil--tho' I saw women in hi-jab all the time... I don't git 'em at ALL... an' it's only with Karen's help here I larned how much "us joos" are hated by them even tho' I did nuttin' at all 'cept "exist"--really learnin' 'bout Islam NOW! I had no clue most've my life.

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