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Fear of brown people crap.
by redstar on Wed Jan 23rd, 2008 at 05:32:00 PM EST
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If you assume all Muslims are brown, apart from the obviously racist stereotype, you have probably never actually traveled east of Vienna. Lots of Bosniak muslims are white as snow, and the Serbs kill them anyway.

Personally I have no problem with the Islamification, infertility, and graying out of Europe (average age 52 in 2050). The American dollar is so low that I can't afford to travel anywhere except Mexico, where the (slightly more distant) future of North America is visible in shanty-towns from Juarez to Puerto Escondido.

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Wed Jan 23rd, 2008 at 06:17:25 PM EST
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You know little about me.

I studied in Pakistan in the late '80's. Guess what - in Peshawar, where I was, they're not brown either.

But you should watch your language. Surely you must be aware of your "islamification" rhetoric is straight out of Horowitz and has no place in any serious discourse on Europe.

And is, 9 times out of 10, at root racist.

by redstar on Wed Jan 23rd, 2008 at 06:48:06 PM EST
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More like 99 out of 100: based on the assumption that immigrants and their descendants keep to the ancestral culture as if it were in their genes. In truth, Islamist fundies are concerned about the strong secularisation of most immigrants to Europe...

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 09:31:32 AM EST
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There are plenty of people here in the U.S. (probably well over half) who think that a brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking North America is not really "America." They are undergoing a lot of stress recently...

I met a guy last week who teases his arch-conservative friends by saying "Hey, amigo, you're in America now--so speak Spanish!"

by asdf on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 12:59:31 AM EST
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There's some poetic justice in it, if you consider how a single country appropriated the name for the entire continent. (Think of the restrictive use of 'Europe' for the EU, and how many Europeans rightly object to it.)

You're clearly a dangerous pinko commie pragmatist.
by Vagulus on Sun Jan 27th, 2008 at 10:40:46 AM EST
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