My prayers are with Paris, France

[Leasky]

I think it is wrong to try and draw conclusions about whole nationalities, communities or religions based on the actions of a few people at the extremes.

What I find difficult to accept is that some people come to certain countries and expect to be able to carry on with the same customs and practices from their home country and which are, at least in part, responsible for them wanting to leave that country.

If people want to live in a country or society where it is expected or accepted that absolute commitment to a chosen interpretation of a religion or love of a God trumps everything, including democracy, laws of the land, love for family members and so on, then there are countries where they can do that; generally the countries from which they are so desperate to get away from.

The relative prosperity of 'the West' cannot be detached from the culture that exists here, and which some immigrants seem determined to change; it's a generally nice place to live because we are law abiding, operate broad equality for people of different races, creeds, gender and because we do not run our lives based on the claims or interpretation of some holy book from thousands of years ago, even if we still espouse some of the broader principles contained in them.