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| Anger over call for Muslim public holiday |
| 2004-11-17 |
| Via Lucianne: SNIP Bild, which is Germany's biggest selling tabloid, splashed the proposed Muslim holiday across its front page. "By the beard of the Prophet - send Trittin into the desert wilderness!" declared the paper on its front page, which included a photo-montage of the minister with a turban and thick beard. A further photo-montage showed thousands of Muslims bowed in prayer in front of Berlin's Reichstag which houses the federal parliament. Now there's a way to win friends and influence people. Can you imagine the uproar here??? So many comments running thru my mind I don't know where to begin. |
| Posted by:anonymous2u |
| #2 What's another holiday added to the already 20-something strong list of German holidays? Combine that with the grueling 35-hour work-week and you have the perfect combination for...hmmmm...emigration anyone? |
| Posted by: Mason 2004-11-17 2:44:00 PM |
| #1 Ironically, the same type of mindset that embraces such insanity is the flip side--the same type--of people who become rabidly xenophobic and racist when the line is crossed. It is the easiest thing in the world for them to jump from "everybody is equal and we all are brothers" to "kill the inhuman foreign devils". Maybe that is why they get along so well with the hard corps fundie types of Islamist, but not the moderates. They understand inviting some stranger into their tent with utter hospitality one second, then slashing them to death with a knife the next--all on some whimsical pretext. "Allah says we must greet all strangers warmly. But he looked longingly at my goat so I must kill him to avenge my family honor!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-11-17 11:19:49 AM |