Such BS. After the normal reactive oppession, Dar-as-Salam will render it all mute. Better learn some Salat, blanko now or kiss your Caucasian arse goodbye.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Given that the thorny subject of immigration has come up > here, I'll comment on the latest immigrant backlash in > Europe. It seems to be taking place in Toulouse, France. > In recent days several paratroopers (all North African > ethnically) stationed there were killed by drive-by > shooters, and now a Jewish school has been similarly > targeted, resulting in the deaths of one rabbi and > several children. > > The French will portray it as terrorism, not anti-Semitism, > and crack down hard. I've lived in France. You just cannot > imagine how hard they come down when the word "terrorisme" > is invoked. The reaction will not be pretty. > > But neither are the shooters, whoever they were, and what- > ever drove them to do what they did. If I had to put a > name to the mindset I think is driving such acts, I would > not associate it with any belief system or religion or > anything like that. I would call it Generalized Impotent > Rage. The people who do things like this -- in any country > IMO -- are just ANGRY. They feel oppressed, or discriminated > against, or part of a "special" minority that isn't treated > as "special" by the majority of people in the country, and > in their hearts they know that they are largely incapable > of doing much about any of these things. In desperation, > they take advantage of the media and descend into terrorist > acts such as these. And then the governments overreact, and > the situation perpetuates itself. > > All of this reminds me of seeing the Alfonso Cuaron film > "Children Of Men" in a theater in Dublin. My brother and I > found ourselves surrounded by an audience primarily composed > of immigrants, watching a film about what the UK was going > to eventually do to handle the "immigrant problem." That is, > round them up, ship them off to internment camps, and then > put them on boats and "send them back where they came from." > What added to the poignancy of the film was the knowledge -- > in my brother and myself and in all of the immigrants in > the theater with us -- that the UK was *already* well > underway into making this film a reality. > > Immigration is IMO the biggest problem we'll ALL be facing > in the next few decades, no matter where we live. There are > few graceful solutions to it, and many horrific ones. My > suspicion is that the horrific ones will be more common > than the graceful ones. >
