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| German deputy threatened after attack on headscarves |
| 2006-11-05 |
| A Muslim woman who sits in the German parliament has been given a police bodyguard after she received death threats over her public appeal for other Muslims to abandon headscarves. Turkish-born Ekin Deligoz, 35, has occupied a Greens party seat since 1998, the year after she was naturalized as a German, but she only gained national attention last month when she assailed the scarf as a symbol of backwardness and submission to male dominance. That has turned her life upside down. After anonymous hate calls by phone, Berlin assigned two federal policemen to protect Deligoz at all times, even when she goes out for walks with her husband and child or to do the shopping. 'It's the little things that have changed,' she said wistfully this week. Recalling the 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamist, German authorities believe they cannot be too careful. But Muslims in Germany worry that they are once again being portrayed in the media as violent and incapable of debate. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I know they think (because our University Professors and papers say so) that we are paper tigers. Maybe they should pick up a few history books and really start to get a grasp on the scenario that they are setting up for themselves. The problem is that they look at the history of the last 30 years and have every reason to believe the West is so decadent and riven with self-hatred that it really is a paper tiger now. Thank John Kerry and Jane Fonda for their work on behalf of North Vietnam. Thank Ramsey Clark. Thank Jimmy Carter, big time. Thank Reagan for the withdrawl from Lebanon. Thank the Church commission for gutting intelligence actions. Thank Clinton, for turning a blind eye to the sale / theft of military and other technologies while campaign monies flowed to him and Gore from Chinese sources. Thank him for appointing a head of the Los Alamos lab who was more concerned with putting down "white boys" than in maintaining security there. Thank him for gutting immigration controls too. Thank Gore and Kerry for doing everything they can to undermine confidence in our democratic processes since the 2000 election. I was a Democrat for 30 years, but I cannot emphasize how important it is to get out and vote R this year. Hold their feet to the fire afterwards, but if you don't want MORE of what has encouraged and abetted Islamofascism, then for the sake of all that is holy and sane, for this election at least, get out and vote R on Tuesday. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-11-05 08:07 |
| #2 Muslims in Germany worry that they are once again being portrayed in the media as violent and incapable of debate. No shit. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-11-05 07:57 |
| #1 It is funny to me that the Muslim populations in western societies don't grasp that every time one of their members says, "call us the religion of peace or we will kill you", that they are creating their own hell. I know they think (because our University Professors and papers say so) that we are paper tigers. Maybe they should pick up a few history books and really start to get a grasp on the scenario that they are setting up for themselves. Throwing rocks at police or troops is only fun until they start shooting back. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-11-05 05:19 |