--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is, and this was eventually bound to happen, > almost a xenophobia about all this eastern at the > moment in the West. Can you blame them? > > In was only a matter of time before the West would > become intolerant of things eastern... > Mario observes: > No, I don't blame westerners at all for wanting, in this age of terrorism mostly by middle-eastern Muslim radicals, to curb dress that makes the wearer unrecognizable, but those Europeans wanting to ban sarees are just plain silly as any of them would see if they visited India. > I can't even imagine some Indian women who have never worn a dress, in a dress:-)) Shoes and socks with a saree is about the limit of what I can handle:-)) > However, only two socialist countries, Holland and France, are coming face to face with their previous delusions of tolerance and clamping down on egregious public behavior and dress. So why is the entire "West" being indicted, "for all that is eastern"? > I live in one of the largest countries in the "West" which has been attacked by Muslim terrorists, has aggressively confronted Muslim terrorists directly and indirectly, and gone to war on behalf of innocent and brutalised Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet, my Muslim friends from the middle-east who live here tell me they face far less intolerance in most of the "West" than in their own countries, where they can be killed depending on whether they are Shia or Sunni. > I see much that is "eastern" being appreciated and celebrated in the "West". Products, Made in India, China, Sri Lanka, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, fill the department stores and fly off the racks. Eastern brand names like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, Yamaha, Sony, Sanyo, Samsung dominate their markets. > Even after the most egregious and offensive public behavioral displays, the most that can happen to easterners in most of the West is some embarrassment as we saw last week with a group of Imams who decided to pretentiously pray and chant the name of Allah right in the middle of an American airport and they got all upset when hauled off the plane and questioned. For details of their behavior see: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061128-122902-7522r.htm >
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