Muslims moved to our country and should be, as a condition of immigration, be expected to assimilate to OUR culture, not we to theirs. Otherwise they should go back to their islamic nations, where their true loyalties are.
Nothing racist about that. Nothing at all.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it is a racist statement. Indeed, people immigrating to a different country with a different culture should accept that the local culture is the dominating one. They should adapt to that culture and accept that this is how it is done in whatever country they immigrate to.
That is not to say that they should adopt the culture and abandon their own, not at all. But at the very least, we should expect them to respect our culture, our laws and our way of living, and not interfere with it.
That their own culture can add and expand upon the culture they enter is not neccessarily a bad thing. Surely Islamic culture has many valuable facets that can be introduced into ours to create a more diverse and colourful society.
But they have to understand and accept that certain practises common in their homelands are not welcome in the western world, others even outright banned (stoning, slavery, honour-killing, etc.)
Let us take Honour killing as an example. While it may not be legal, as we understand legality, in various islamic countries, it is many countries generally accepted. Or at the very least, people turn a blind eye. But honour killing is murder. And in our part of the world we don't do that (well, most of us don't) It is illegal. And if a muslim cannot, or will not understand such a simple principle, that in the western world we do not kill for honour, then there is no place for him here.
Raping. We've had quite a few cases here in Denmark where muslims have raped, even gang-raped danish women. And when they are caught, which they all eventually are, they are put before a judge. What is interesting to note is that the rapists are unable to understand what is they have done wrong. They are either sick, twisted and highly in need of help, or they are indoctrinated to believe that if you do not conform with their culture/religion, then you are not worthy of respect.
In Islam women are generally taught to wear Burqas, to not smile in the public forum and to avert their gaze from other men. And the boys are taught that this is how a proper woman acts, a clean woman, a moral woman. Whereas danish women are raised to be confident, to smile and laugh when they want to, to meet other people's gaze, to not look away and to be proud of who and what they.
This naturally conflicts with what these muslim boys are taught, so a natural development could be that these boys think of danish women, or even western women in general as whores who have no societal standing and thus raping cannot possibly be wrong.
But it is wrong!
Seriously Rex, would it be too much to ask for muslims, or even immigrants of other cultures and religions, to leave such facets of their culture at home when they come to our part of the world?
It's not racism, it's common sense.
Whether or not Wonderboy is a racist is a different discussion I don't much care to entertain
You know, rex, if you're going to troll WB on allegations of racism, you might want to stop saying things about how paying taxes is just "giving black people" money.
Originally Posted By: rex
I thought paying taxes was giving black people money. Now they want more?
This is far from the first time you've made anti-black statements.
Furthermore, the above-quoted post was a reply to whomod, not WB. Therefore, it appears highly unlikely you were trying to be sarcastic towards WB.
If you want to troll, WB, that's your right. God knows you have nothing else in your life to take pride in. But consider some new material that doesn't give rise to a verifiable charge of hyprocrisy.
Muslims moved to our country and should be, as a condition of immigration, be expected to assimilate to OUR culture, not we to theirs. Otherwise they should go back to their islamic nations, where their true loyalties are.
rex knows that. If anybody but WB had posted it, and a lot of us have expressed similar sentiments, he wouldn't be attacking it. But we all know that rex thinks he's Foghorn Leghorn and WB is that barnyard dog.
thing is, that'll keep happening as long as wb keeps taking the bait. whether or not you approve of reax's choice of entertainments, it seems to pay off for him pretty consistently.
thing is, that'll keep happening as long as wb keeps taking the bait. whether or not you approve of reax's choice of entertainments, it seems to pay off for him pretty consistently.
Indeed, I have long wondered why wb keeps reacting to it.
Seriously, this is the same shit with Oakley. People kept on pushing him because he kept reacting to it.
thing is, that'll keep happening as long as wb keeps taking the bait. whether or not you approve of reax's choice of entertainments, it seems to pay off for him pretty consistently.
No matter how much you try to explain that to WB, he'll never get it.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
The ACLU just doesn't understand something. We, in government...are...better then everbody else. The ACLU's worried about people's "right"( ). Guess I just don't see what the big deal is.
State and local police who help enforce federal immigration laws are targeting Latinos and "terrorizing" people across the United States, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said at a briefing on Capitol Hill on Monday.
"Local law enforcement has been given the green light to engage in racial profiling," Joanne Lin, a legislative counsel with the ACLU, said at the briefing held by the Appleseed Foundation, a non-profit network of 16 public interest justice centers in the United States and Mexico.
Reasonable people can disagree on how to best deal with illegal immigration, amnesty and similar issues. Enforcing the law as written in no way makes one a terrorist, any more than urging reform does.
The American Civil Liberties Union sent out an emergency appeal to card-carrying members and donors this week after realizing it is a victim of Bernard Madoff's self-confessed Ponzi scheme.
"We've been hit hard in a way that no one could forecast," Alma Montcla, director of administration and finance for the left-leaning advocacy group, wrote this week.
"Two foundations that have been incredibly generous and longstanding supporters of our national security and reproductive freedom work have been victimized by the Madoff scandal - forced to close their doors and terminate their grants," the plea said.
"That means that $850,000 in support we were counting on from these foundations in 2009 simply won't exist."
ACLU to sue Twin Cities charter school that caters to Muslims The Minnesota ACLU has filed suit against TIZA, a charter school in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine, claiming it is promoting the Muslim religion.
By RANDY FURST and SARAH LEMAGIE, Star Tribune Staff Writers
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed suit Wednesday against a publicly funded charter school alleging that it is promoting the Muslim religion and is leasing school space from a religious organization without following state law.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis against Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, known as TIZA, and the Minnesota Department of Education, which the ACLU says is at fault for failing to uncover and stop the alleged transgressions. The suit names the department and Alice Seagren, the state education commissioner, as co-defendants.
The department investigated the Twin Cities school last year, and the school said it had taken corrective actions in response to concerns about the practicing of religion on campus. TIZA said in a written statement on Wednesday that the school is nonsectarian and in compliance with federal and state regulations.
But the ACLU claims the school is using federal and state money to promote religion in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“TIZA has received millions of dollars of taxpayer money to support what is, in essence, a private religious school,” said Charles Samuelson, state ACLU executive director. ...
Parental Consent Policy Riles ACLU: ACLU urges California district to let kids leave school for medical services — including abortions — without consent.
ACORN canvassers are facing convictions for voter registration fraud in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so what does ACORN do?
Sue to change the statute that outlaws the fraud, of course.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and ACORN's get-out-the-dead-people-to-vote affiliate Project Vote filed a federal lawsuit today in an effort to snuff out the Keystone State's anti-election fraud law.
It's always important to read the fine print. Car dealers were reminded of that rule when logging onto the government's "cash for clunkers" Web page. In return for information about the Car Allowance Rebate System, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) required that dealers surrender all privacy on their private computer networks.
NHTSA's warning said: "When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the U.S. Government. Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected and disclosed to authorized CARS, [Department of Transportation] and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign."
The American Civil Liberties Union showed no interest in investigating the invasion of privacy and would only comment to us that "it is hard to believe that [the Obama administration] would do something like this."
ACLU Loses Donor, One-Fourth of Yearly Donations: The American Civil Liberties Union has lost a quarter of its yearly donations after a major donor cut off $19 million in annual donations because of economic difficulties.
Short of an invasion, there are only a limited number of effective weapons against terrorists in such places as Pakistan and Yemen. The most lethal are the drones.
So naturally, the ACLU is trying to put an end to their use.
The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed papers in federal court supporting Senator Hiram Monserrate’s lawsuit challenging his recent expulsion from the New York State Senate.
The NYCLU’s amicus brief, filed Wednesday afternoon in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, maintains that the Senate was wrong to expel Monserrate, effectively nullifying an election, when the more “narrowly tailored” remedy of censuring him was available. Additionally, it argues that the lack of any standards governing the expulsion of a senator endangers New Yorkers’ voting rights and First Amendment rights to support a candidate and have that candidate serve is elected.
While Monserrate was an NYCLU Board Member from 1998 to 2001, that in no way influenced the NYCLU’s position.
Between his election and swearing in to office, he was charged with slashing his girlfriend Karla Giraldo's face with a broken glass and then forcibly pulling her down the hall of his Queens apartment building on the way to the hospital.
Yeah, I can see why the NY Chapter of the American Criminal Lobbying Union jumped in to save his job.
). Guess I just don't see what the big deal is.
