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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (282587)	3/31/2006 1:32:55 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571924

just the beginning. Muslim neighbours force censorship on Paris cafe AFP/expatica ^ \| March 31, 2006 expatica.com PARIS, March 31, 2006 (AFP) - A gang of young Muslims wielding iron rods has forced a Paris cafe to censor an exhibition of cartoons ridiculing religion, the owners of the establishment said Friday. Some 50 drawings by well-known French cartoonists were installed in the Mer à Boire cafe in the working-class Belleville neighbourhood of northeast Paris, as part of an avowedly atheist show entitled 'Neither god nor god'. The collection targeted all religions — including Islam — but there were no representations of the prophet Mohammed such as sparked the recent crisis between the West and the Islamic world, according to Marianne who is one of the cafe's three owners. "We used to give glasses of water to a group of local boys aged between 10 and 12 who played football across the street. On Tuesday a few came in, flung the water on the ground and accused us of being racists," said Marianne, who did not wish to give her family name. "Later more of them came back with sticks and iron rods and tried to smash the pictures. They managed it with a few of them. With the customers we chased them away, but they kept coming back," she said. Later the cafe-owners were approached by a group of older youths. "They said they did not approve of what the youngsters had done. But what we were doing was unacceptable too. They warned us that if we didn't take down the cartoons they would call in the Muslim Brothers who would burn the cafe down," said Marianne. "They kept saying: 'This is our home. You cannot act like this here,'" she said.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (282587)	3/31/2006 6:58:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571924

Comrade Jaeger, But let's get serious, "culture" is about a lot more than pigging out.... I just attended two World Baseball Classic games, one in Anaheim, the other in San Diego. Lots of Japanese and Korean flags being flown there. Same thing with the 2002 World Cup. Lots of foreign flags being flown by those cheering for Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, even Spain and Germany. All right here in America. You can Google all the B.S. articles you want, but in the end, you still can't argue against the multicultural reality I see first hand every single day. Tenchusatsu