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| Europe |
| GermanyÂ’s Intifada |
| 2008-08-01 |
| Just like France's, but in city neighborhoods instead of France's manufactured suburban ghettos. Turks and mostly Lebanese Arabs fight outsiders, police, and each other. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 While they may try to compare this with France, I doubt the comparison holds up to much scrutiny. To start with, the Turks are in Germany to work, not to get welfare. They also think themselves European, not Arabic, and generally look at Arabs with contempt and disdain. One very odd part of the story was the attack on the subway, by a Turk *and* a Greek. That was truly extraordinary, because normally the two are like cats and dogs, hating each others guts. I suspect that the "Greek" was in fact a Turkish Cypriot, misidentified as a Greek because the EU wants Turkey to relinquish its claim on Cyprus; so Cyprus would be a "Greek" island. I would also suspect that the German pensioner probably used a few choice words while he was ordering them to extinguish their cigarettes, not knowing that they probably spoke German. And you do NOT want to piss off a Turk with racial epithets. Or insult his mustache, either. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-08-01 23:01 |