Muslim Immigrants: Western Populations

Doug Saunders Dept: Generally Muslim immigrants are converging with Western populations in the same way Jews and Catholics did when they were the latest and most controversial wave of immigrants -- probably a little bit faster actually, he told s Canada AM on Wednesday, according to CTV. Among those false beliefs, Saunders says, is that Muslims immigrants have a proclivity for religious extremism. He points to numbers suggesting otherwise in France, a country which has one of the largest Muslim populations in the West and pushing back against anti-immigration sentiment, journalist Doug Saunders says there s little evidence to support the notion that Muslim immigrants to the West have a propensity for religious extremism and are growing in large numbers. Misconceptions about Muslim immigrants -- whether it s their loyalties, cultural behaviour or population growth -- are the focus of Saunders new book The Myth of the Muslim Tide. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.