Recent content by Maciamo

It's one thing to compare crime rates between countries. But wouldn't it be interesting to know what percentage of the population is responsible for those crimes? Are a lot of people likely to commit misdemeanours and felonies (to use the American terms). Or is it the same small percentage of...

You may be right. The idea of converting to a religion is so alien to me that it didn't even cross my mind that they could do that. I found this article on Wikipedia about Conversion to Islam in U.S. prisons. Here they say that the percentage of Muslims in US prisons is 18% in 2003, twice more...

The stats I posted above about Germany was only for immigrant suspects arrested for a limited crimes (robberies, thefts, bodily harm, fraud, drug offenses), but did not include homicides, rapes or kidnapping. Unfortunately the German Police report does not give the figures by nationality for...

I have split the discussion about Palestinian refugees in Denmark and the subsequent debate about Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.

It seems that Italy also doesn't publish crime statistics by nationality or ethnic origin, like Spain, France and Belgium. Nevertheless I found a paper on Islam in Italian prisons, which gives the following statistics. In 2016 there were 3,146 Moroccans, 1,996 Tunisians, and 403 Algerians in...

You're a twisting my words. I said I was neutral in the conflict before Palestinians threw stones at me. This event made me more anti-Palestinian, but I didn't say I was necessarily pro-Israeli. If I really have to choose one side I would go for the Israeli who have never done me any harm (and...

Countries where people have become less happy since 2010. Among developed countries we only find Canada, the US and Ireland. And those getting happier. Most of them are in the Eastern half of Europe, Central Asia and East Asia.

I found this research article from American Law and Economics Association: Does Immigration Cause Crime? Evidence from Spain The paper is 27 pages long. It has this interesting table on the homicide rates by nationality in Spain vs in their country of origin. Algerians have by far the highest...

Denmark has very detailed crime statistics by nationality reported in a long article about the effects of immigration in Denmark. This table summarises well the propensity of committing crimes (conviction rate compared to Danish citizens) for each nationality over an 11 year period. Countries...

There is nothing sudden about this problem. If you search older the post on this forum you will see that I've been complaining about it for nearly 20 years. What do you mean by Eastern Europe is worse? What is Eastern Europe for you? Estonia, Russia, Hungary, Albania? These are all very...

There is a whole Wikipedia article on immigration and crime in Germany. Here is the section relevant to immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers from Muslim countries. "The first quarter 2019 BKA report stated that no other group is as strongly overrepresented as crime suspects in Germany as...

Even though I could not find the data for Belgium, the official crime statistics by nationality are available for the Netherlands. They analysed the propensity of each of the main nationalities present in the Netherlands to commit crimes. Their conclusion is that The people most likely to commit...

Yes, the descendants of Yamnaya attacked the Megalithic cultures, which for the most part had not even reached the Copper Age, but were still Neolithic farmers with stone tools. The people who overran the Indus Valley Civilisation around 1500 BCE (nearly 2000 years after the onset of the Yamna...

The problem when you say "Sumerian and Egyptian Civilizations" is that this encompasses thousands of years of history and could describe radically different societies. The Egypt of 1000 BCE was not at all the same as in 3500 BCE. Ancient Sumer started around 5500 BCE, in the Middle Neolithic! It...

See my reply to Gourd above for my opinion on this. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for decades and things aren't improving a bit. It is clear that the Israeli will not stop until they have regained control of all the areas they claim. Whether they are right or wrong is...