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(from Atlas Shrugs) Serious, not hostile commentary welcome. Rants not desired from either end of the spectrum.
As the cartoon jihad rages on our soil, with big media and academia capitulating without so much as a murmur, we have a glimpse into the future watching Eurabia's rapid descent into complete submission and anarchy;
Not far from the rampages in France, Germany is having a rough time with the hate that dares not speak its name - MUSLIM, there I've said it. It is the 800lb gorilla omitted from every Eurabian article - ugh;
As the cartoon jihad rages on our soil, with big media and academia capitulating without so much as a murmur, we have a glimpse into the future watching Eurabia's rapid descent into complete submission and anarchy;
PARIS -- 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 on Friday. Some 50 drawings by well-known French cartoonists were installed in the Mer a Boire cafe in the working-class Belleville neighborhood of northeast Paris, as part of an avowedly atheist show entitled, "Neither god nor god".
establishment said on Friday. Some 50 drawings by well-known French cartoonists were installed in the Mer a Boire cafe in the working-class Belleville neighborhood 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.
One of the cartoons that aroused the wrath of the youths was a bar scene, in which the barman offers a drink to an obviously inebriated man who says "God is great". The caption is: "The sixth pillar of Islam. The bar pillar." In France a "bar pillar" is a barfly or drunk.
The aim of the exhibition was to poke fun at all religions, according to cartoonists who took part.
"Putting on this type of show in this place was not in the least a provocation. Unless you think that freedom of expression in itself is a provocation," the cartoonist Charb told Le Parisien newspaper.
The end of the world as we know it. hat tip tom tim
Not far from the rampages in France, Germany is having a rough time with the hate that dares not speak its name - MUSLIM, there I've said it. It is the 800lb gorilla omitted from every Eurabian article - ugh;
Berlin school violence sparks calls for change
BERLIN (Reuters) - Violence at a Berlin school has prompted calls in Germany to overhaul the country's education system and provide better integration for immigrant children.
But what if they don't want to be intergrated?BERLIN (Reuters) - Violence at a Berlin school has prompted calls in Germany to overhaul the country's education system and provide better integration for immigrant children.
Pictures of hooded pupils pelting journalists with heavy cobblestones and police officers lining the entrance of the Ruetli school in the heavily Turkish and Arab Neukoelln district of Berlin have filled primetime news since Thursday.
Four weeks ago, teachers at the Ruetli school sent a desperate letter to state authorities asking for help and the closure of their current school.
"Any help for our school could only improve the situation," the teachers wrote, saying they had been attacked by pupils and that many would only enter a class room with their mobile phones switched on to be able to call for assistance immediately.
At Ruetli school, more than 80 percent of the children are foreigners, the teachers said in their letter.
Experts said the violence showed that Germany had failed to integrate immigrant children in its school system and pondered the abolishment of this lowest school level.
Right, blame Germany. Not the perps, the faile welfare state is at fault.Four weeks ago, teachers at the Ruetli school sent a desperate letter to state authorities asking for help and the closure of their current school.
"Any help for our school could only improve the situation," the teachers wrote, saying they had been attacked by pupils and that many would only enter a class room with their mobile phones switched on to be able to call for assistance immediately.
At Ruetli school, more than 80 percent of the children are foreigners, the teachers said in their letter.
Experts said the violence showed that Germany had failed to integrate immigrant children in its school system and pondered the abolishment of this lowest school level.
"The Hauptschule has degenerated into a school for losers," said Christian Pfeiffer, head of the Criminological Research Institute in Hanover.
Lovely.
