How Some Migrants Import Idiologies That Destroyed Their Own Countries

Interview of Hamed Abdel-Samad

Responding to a question about a survey where 13% of Arab youth said they would want to live in the United States:

"Don't be surprised if many of those who want to live in the Unites States, in the next survey, they will approve the implementation of Sharia in the United States. That's the schizophrenia of the education, because people are not really trained or educated to appreciate freedom and to live freely, so, in the pyramid of their needs, they want to have security, they want to have welfare, and once they have this they think to roll back to religious values, to even implementation of Sharia, missionary work to convert people to Islam, so they don't really know why they are leaving their own country. The same thing with many refugees who are now escaping from civil wars, closed also by religion and religious intolerance or sectarianism, but once they arrive in Germany or any other country, they start to fight with each other, Sunni and Shia, Yazidis and Muslims, Druze and others, they start to fight against each other, and they start to implement the same religious rules which just destroyed their own countries.

So they are not aware yet that they were escaping from this mentality that destroyed their own country, and that they try to implement the same rules that were responsible that their country were destroyed that they had to leave their country. And that's a question of education.