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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (284651)	4/19/2006 6:20:40 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572508

In case there was any doubt that I live in a multi-cultural part of Brussels, the local council has just put out large metal containers, on selected street corners. They are to accept the heads and skins of the thousands of sheep that my neighbours are expected to slaughter over the four day Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. If multiculturalism means permitting the slaughter of thousands of sheep or allowing people to shoot bullets into the sky, taking out innocent people as the bullets come back to earth, then you are right.........America is not multiculturalistic. And frankly, I see this example of Europe's multiculturalism not as a sign of tolerance, but rather as an example of its stupidity bordering on craziness. When you come to your senses, I will be glad to explain to you how acceptable multiculturalism thrives in the US. Though Brussels was historically a Dutch-speaking city and is also considered to be the capital of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, the city was forcibly “frenchified” after the establishment of Belgium in 1830 by French radicals who used French-speaking Wallonia, Belgium’s southern half, as a power base to conquer Flanders. Let me just say.......the French were very successful in their "frenchifying" of Brussels. Even with the kind of structures in Grand Place which clearly have a Dutch architectural influence, I never would have guessed that the city's origin was Dutch.