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Why is this not happening in Canada?
As has been observed in Europe the issue is numbers. The Muslim communities generally tend to be just fine until they reach about 15% of the population in a neighborhood, city, region, or etc. and then it seems they attain a kind of social critical mass.
While their numbers in a selected country may be relatively small...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... populationlike France where they are still only 6% of the population, it should be noted that they dominate in certain urban areas. Parts of Paris and Marseilles, for instance, are effectively under Islamic rule anymore, thus the recent backlash in France against headscarves and etc. even from otherwise liberal French.
That 15% figure is illustrated in Ghana where until the last four years there were no problems with the Muslim population. Now they want Sharia law imposed and people are dying in what used to be a stable country.
Other countries on the cusp of the 15% mark that have Muslim problems include Russia, Liberia, India, but then on the other side of things the country that has a very peaceable 16.7% domestic Muslim population is...Israel.
The US and Canada are only now starting to see issues where the Muslims are concentrating and that's in places like Toronto, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York City, and, weirdly, Lodi, California. So far we are not seeing the problems that are occuring in Europe and that's a good thing, but not a promise of continued stability.