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To: tejek who wrote (38327)	10/16/2008 1:24:47 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

you think what I thought until I had to spend a lot of time in the EU in the past few years. Now I am aligned with the french. It absolutely is discrimination in france, because the french learned about Muslim society and don't like it and want the Muslims to leave, basically. Yes the muslims are citizens of france, but firstly they are citizens of Islam. The reason the french are outlawing those head scarfs is because the christian little girls were coming home from school crying that they were going to be murdered unless THEY wore head scarfs. All the little girls are scared to death, there have been significant numbers of murders of teenage french/algerian girls - they take them to Africa on holiday and they "disappear". In other words Muslim barbarism towards women is bringing violence to the kitchen table of french families. Sally's sister was killed, then Mrs. Raffati was killed, blah blah blah. The french want to get rid of these people and are discriminating against them. There you have it. Anyway a lot of informed writers treat Islam completely differently than just another "minority", usually people that live in Europe. This is an article from Christopher Hitchens in defense of Denmark for that ridiculous violence incited by Muslim clerics that ended up killing 100 people, due to an offensive cartoon. When these same "leaders of the faith" were confronted about their behavior, they said something like "well what would you do if we denied the Holocaust" AS IF violence would be acceptable in western culture of somebody denied the holocaust. How ridiculous and bizarre! Stand up for Denmark! By Christopher Hitchens Posted Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, at 12:29 PM ET It was the arrogant Danish mullahs who patiently hawked those cartoons around the world (yes, don't worry, they are allowed to exhibit them as much as they like) until they finally provoked a vicious response against the economy and society of their host country. For good measure, they included a cartoon that had never been published in Denmark or anywhere else. It showed the Prophet Mohammed as a pig, and may or may not have been sent to a Danish mullah by an anonymous ill-wisher. The hypocrisy here is shameful, nauseating, unpardonable. In a mindless attempt at a tu quoque, various Islamist groups and regimes have dug deep into their sense of wit and irony and proposed a trade-off. You make fun of "our" prophet and we will deny "your" Holocaust. slate.com