Ed, Snipping down:
At 10:03 30/10/2010 -0400, you wrote:
Ray may also have a point about attitudes in present day Europe. There may be some legitimacy to concerns expressed about growing Muslim populations, but at times what is said strikes one as being more than a little racist, a little too much like historic attitudes toward Jews. And one also has to consider deportation actions taken toward the Romani. Is Europe a comfortable place for "the other"? Not really, it would seem.
There are some powerful racist pressures building up in Europe at the present time (e.g. against Turkish immigrants in Germany, Muslims in France, UK, Denmark, Holland and even Sweden, the grand-daddy of liberalism). If the present economic recession continues for more than a year or two longer there'll be large scale repeats of the many smaller race riots that have occurred so far. As state welfare benefits decline there'll not be so many immigrant applications; and as unemployment grows, particularly among indigenous young males, there'll be increasing calls for deportations just like the Romanies -- as you've already said. If the depression continues for more than a couple of years then we'll see the beginnings of some very nasty events indeed.
Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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