Posted on 12/04/2010 5:48:39 PM PST by moonshinner_09
The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.
It was Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, and the group that calls itself "Invitation to Paradise" was mounting a defiant response to weeks of public protests against construction of a religious school to teach its austere, militant interpretation of Islam.
In Germany, where the racial crimes of the Nazis have bred extreme sensitivity toward the rights of minorities, such confrontations would until recently have been limited to the far-right margins. The weekly rallies in this city of 250,000 near the Dutch border these days look decidedly mainstream.
It's part of a trend seen across Europe: Spooked by what many see as a terrorism threat, ordinary people are becoming increasingly vocal in opposing radical Muslims. They are ditching traditions of tolerance and saying no to cultures that do not share their democratic values. Some lament the decline of multiculturalism - "Utterly failed," in the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel - while others say Europe is defending its way of life against those who would destroy it.
In the Netherlands, anti-immigrant sentiment has risen steadily since the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic. In elections this year, the anti-Islam "Freedom Party" of Geert Wilders emerged as the country's third-largest political force and is helping a conservative government keep campaign promises to ban the burqa, cut immigration and imprison illegal aliens.
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I see I addressed my “hey, moron” comment to you when I meant it for the idiots worried about “oppression” of the Islamist “minority.”
So in essentials I agree with you.
My apologies.
You are rambling along way off the track, doofus. My whole point was that if they really want to be different from the National Socialist German Workers Party and all its works and pomps, the Germans would not coddle Islamists. Get it now?
You seem to have opinions on everything, and think yourself really smart. Maybe you should think before you mouth off next time.
...yup... started as one man, then a small group, grew and then combined forces with the Islamics to kill the Jews. When it came to an end, the German Nazis were held responsible while the Islamic NAzis slithered back to the mideast. Now they let the islamic Nazis walk amongst them unrepentant and unpunished and reveling in their “religion”.
Ever notice how some of the mideast armies goosestep and salute Nazi style?
ordinary people are becoming increasingly vocal in opposing radical Muslims.
See America - we can do the same - and we need to do it NOW!
I hope that Americans wake up about the Jihadist threat before we reach the point that Germany has.
“Words and their definitions are not always logical.”
Correct! The “connotation” of a word is very often different from its “denotation”.
When does tolerance turn into stupidity and weakness? The Germans are finding out.
Oh yes! I don’t just wonder about America—I’m scared out of my wits by what is happening............
Did you voice your opinion to the most powerful muslim in the world living in the Whitey’s House?
Semite is a term applicable to people who speak Semitic languages, but anti-semitism applies only to Jews, not to Arabs or others who speak languages that are part of the Afro-Asiatic language group.
Semite does not apply to just any East Asian "culture" ~ you'll want to use the terms which begin with "Sino...." ~ or identify them by language groups ordinarily used.
That sort of talk just drives those Moslem guys out of their nuts.
You didn't really think they paid good money to read political stuff? They get that for free. Softcore porn is another matter entirely.
Unlikely they will stave it off. Will we?
Yes, indeed, how sad.
Contact a local pig farm for a tanker full of "liquid sludge" and spray it all over the market square...
And...post a sign saying "irrigated with non-potable recycled water"
“Unlikely they will stave it off. Will we?”
Will we have to stave off PC first? Can we? PC is the reason we are foolish enough to even have the Muslim problem. Drive a stake through the heart of PC, and the Muslims who don’t want to behave themselves would go home. America’s average IQ would go up 50 points.
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