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I loved some of the reader comments on this article:
"What a contrast between the Italian and British Prime Ministers. Berlusconi spends his time dreaming up creative ways of screwing teenagers. Cameron does the same to pensioners."
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More than 28,000 migrants reached Italy in less than three months, but many (approximately 800, but there are no official figures, so the number may even be greater) have been swallowed by the Channel of Sicily.
Hundreds of boats departed mostly from Tunisia, but also from Libya, and some sank with their human cargo.
Some 14 shipwrecks have been reported to date, the latest one today: two women drowned in Pantelleria during a landing. Immigration is a human right. Thus, by not providing immigrants from North Africa with safe passage, Italy violates their human rights. Human right violators must be bombed. Therefore Italy must be bombed. Continued on Page 47
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They join a large number of Italian Royal Navy and maritime sailors who ran the gauntlet of RAF interceptions between Sicily and North Africa, circa 1940-43.
[Iran Press TV] The recent move by La Belle France to impose a ban on burqa, a cover-all headdress some Mohammedan women choose to wear, has come in contrast with the country's tolerance of public nudity. That's not a bug, it's a feature...
The ban came into force on Monday and was followed by immediate arrest of nearly 60 women that defied the ban by walking outside the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Gay Paree, reported a Press TV correspondent from the French capital.
A recently-surfaced video, meanwhile, featured a naked male running around the country's streets while trying to cut a figure as a pole vaulter.
That's one way to quickly become skinless in a sandpaper world...
Kenza Drider, a young Mohammedan that left the southern city of Avignon for Gay Paree to participate in a television program on the day the ban became law, was among the detainees.
"This law infringes my European rights; I cannot but defend them, that is to say my freedom to come and go and my religious freedom," she said.
"This law breaches these rights," said the mother of four.
Her husband, Allal, said, "According to this law, my wife would have to remain cloistered at home, do you find that normal?"
"They come here for their liberty for their freedom to dress as they want. I thank them to come here to defend this form of liberty," said a female supporter of the Mohammedan women.
"I think the law is nonsense. Politicians have nothing better to do than attack our veils," said another Mohammedan woman that had taken his child out while observing the Islamic dress code in spite of the restriction.
Advocates of the ban in country that purportedly advocates democracy and basic freedoms say the regulation protects women's freedoms as well as La Belle France's firmly-embedded principles of secularism.
"Quite a large part of the people believe that the women are weak. So they think that the republic has to protect the minorities, the people, who are weak and then they thought that it was necessary to make a law," said Velentine Zuber, religious practices professor at Sorbonne -- the University of Gay Paree.
Based on the procedures dictated by the burqa ban, the police would take the female violators to a cop shoppe until they consents to be unveiled for identification.
A spokesperson for the coppers' union warily stated that the police have many other problems to solve.
There are fewer than 2,000 women wearing a full-face veil in La Belle France, which is home to five million Mohammedans -- the largest Mohammedan community in the EU.
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Sounds like a win / win to me. How about we make the punishment for sack wearing be that you have to go nude in public for 2 months? That should definitely lessen both issues ;^)
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glenmore, that was my badly stated intention to lessen BOTH problems!! Especially if you get some sack potatos out in the buff!! Now that's truly frightening.
Now, if it was only Carla and her like in the buff.........8^)
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