I&#x27;d be in agreement with you if the OP started and stopped with that first sentence, but he didn&#x27;t. And OP is not claiming that all Muslims are violent or making a generalization like that - he very specifically referred to <i>reputation</i> for same and cited a document showing a significant minority of Muslims who support or tolerate violence, especially in France.<p>I also agree that he would have been better served to clarify in his post that the problem is particularly acute in France rather than in general, but even a cursory glance at the document <i>he provided</i> will bear that out. However that is something to bring up in further discussion (as I have actually done in a sibling comment). Then you can have a conversation about what France is doing differently from other countries that are having relative success, even to the point of e.g. the US where Muslims tend to be <i>more</i> peaceful than the wider population.<p>But when you just shut down the discussion as was done here, none of that can happen. That&#x27;s why, as I say, if your goal is to integrate Muslims living in the West into Western society (and French Muslims into French society), then what happened here is counterproductive.