The Ummah

The unrest we have seen on the streets of Paris is a symptom of a wider problem, world wide.
The conflict between the Muslim ummah and the rest of the world society is the result of a number of things.
The economic condition of many Muslim countries is extremely poor and made even worse by despotic cruel rulers.
The growth in population and the articulation of the conditions in the country through the Internet and the social connections such as Facebook make the individual grievance a binding force between millions of disaffected youth.

This commonality, this perceived injustice is the recruiting Sargent for Al Qaeda and its many affiliates. 

The West, in its recent wars against, predominantly Muslim countries has become the butt of much of their resentment, skilfully manipulated by Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas and now ISIS.  

Counter terrorism has played into the hands of the takfiri  (the Sunni Muslim who accuses another Muslim or any believer in an Abrahamic faith of apostasy) by projecting, not only force of arms but represent the kafir, the unbeliever, as discrediting their brothers and therefore a deeper more profound enemy has to be destroyed in the name of Allah.
It's a profound clash of, on the one hand, religious ideology bound into legitimate disharmony brought on by a burgeoning population and poor economic outlook, against the focus, through the prism of the American way of life and its freedoms, of a degenerate society.
Historically there has always been this clash of fundamental values but it was always contained within segregated national boarders within the Middle East and parts of Asia. Now with the upsurge since the end of the Second World War and particularly the phenomena of the rush of large numbers of predominantly Muslim people to head for Europe, one wonders if the hand of
Al Qaeda isn't behind it all. It only takes propaganda and route planning to get this march to start especially with the economic enticement of a properly functioning society to aim for.
And so we have the strange dichotomy of the Jahidi, stimulated by his hatred of all things western and the ordinary Muslim emigrant, fleeing to the very centre of the kafir homeland with all the potential tensions that that will envisage further down the line.
It all depends how the forces within the faith play out. If there was an accommodation and a willingness to get along then perhaps the two sides can live in harmony but the crucial test will be when the Muslim nation reaches parity in numbers, about 2050.
Will they vote, since they will be the largest block vote we have ever experienced within our democratic history, for religious changes that will change the face of this country for ever or will we simply ameliorate the religious aspects of their way of life and begin to blend in, much as the more traditional religions have done into a pluralistic society.
Somehow I doubt it since the strength of the format under which they celebrate their exclusivity is very strong in the call to prayer many times a day. Mohamed was indeed a clever far sighted man.