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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (279944)	7/24/2002 1:32:30 PM
From: SeachRE	Respond to of 769667

My opinion of Bush is based on personal experience. Can't tell much of what happened before 1950 or so. Those were my years of innocence...

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (279944)	7/24/2002 3:50:12 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

Carter. Nixon.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (279944)	7/24/2002 4:48:13 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Ladies take note. If you see a man from an Arab country coming your way, cover yourself up or you deserve what you get: Multiculturalists to Rape Victims: You Had It Coming Yesterday we noted a New York Times article in which reporter Sarah Lyall opined that a Turkish immigrant's murder in Sweden of his 26-year-old daughter because she "dishonored" the family by adapting to Swedish mores is a "tragic emblem of a European society's failure to bridge the gap in attitudes between its own culture and those of its newer arrivals"--not of Islamic immigrants' failure to conform to civilized norms. Writing in Partisan Review, Bruce Bawer tells a story that shows where this kind of thinking leads: In September 2001 (only five days, in fact, before the destruction of the World Trade Center), the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reported that 65 percent of rapes of Norwegian women were performed by "non-Western" immigrants--a category that, in Norway, consists mostly of Muslims. The article quoted a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo (who was described as having "lived for many years in Muslim countries") as saying that "Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes" because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative. One reason for the high number of rapes by Muslims, explained the professor, was that in their native countries "rape is scarcely punished," since Muslims "believe that it is women who are responsible for rape." The professor's conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite: "Norwegian women must realize that we live in a multicultural society and adapt themselves to it." opinionjournal.com