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	<title>Comments on: Ayaan Hirsi Ali praises Swiss minaret ban</title>
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		<title>By: d1001</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-189020</link>
		<dc:creator>d1001</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>seriously Camill who is the intolerant one here, spouting hatred and tarnishing all people in Islam with one brush?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;have you interviewed all muslims so you can say all that garbage? No-one is saying there is perfection...yes im aware of issues in muslims countries just as there are issues in non muslim countries.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;anyhow...i can&#039;t be bothered to enage with someone ever so narrow minded as this. My mere point was why the hatred??!!&lt;br&gt;can&#039;t you just be a bit more rational about all this...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>seriously Camill who is the intolerant one here, spouting hatred and tarnishing all people in Islam with one brush?</p>
<p>have you interviewed all muslims so you can say all that garbage? No-one is saying there is perfection&#8230;yes im aware of issues in muslims countries just as there are issues in non muslim countries.</p>
<p>anyhow&#8230;i can&#39;t be bothered to enage with someone ever so narrow minded as this. My mere point was why the hatred??!!<br />can&#39;t you just be a bit more rational about all this&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Soso</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188589</link>
		<dc:creator>Soso</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What could Sunny possibly know abour Islam that a women born and raised ( and mutilated) in Islam wouldn&#039;t. She is far from the only ex_Muslims to support the ban because she understands the symbolism behind minarets and the grab for terrirotry they represent. MInarets aren&#039;t the quivalent of a Church steeple; they are the equivalent of a burning cross....as in KKK. Italy recently banned crucifixes from every classroom in the country, and this despite the fact Italy is almost entirely Christian. That banning was celebrated by the very same progressives who denounced the baning of minarets in Switzerland as a repressive and bigoted move. I&#039;ve yet to see any pressure being placed by progressive and the myriad of HR groups on Saudi Arabia to allowe the construction of at least one church in a country that counts nearly 4 million Christian guest workers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;IN the meantime, Switzerland which counts only 300,000 Muslims ( half of whom don&#039;t even work) has dozens and dozens of mosques that operate openly and freely.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The size of the hypocrisy on the part of Muslims when it comes to reciprocity inthe filed of religious ointolerance can quite rightly be described as being pathological in its intensity</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What could Sunny possibly know abour Islam that a women born and raised ( and mutilated) in Islam wouldn&#39;t. She is far from the only ex_Muslims to support the ban because she understands the symbolism behind minarets and the grab for terrirotry they represent. MInarets aren&#39;t the quivalent of a Church steeple; they are the equivalent of a burning cross&#8230;.as in KKK. Italy recently banned crucifixes from every classroom in the country, and this despite the fact Italy is almost entirely Christian. That banning was celebrated by the very same progressives who denounced the baning of minarets in Switzerland as a repressive and bigoted move. I&#39;ve yet to see any pressure being placed by progressive and the myriad of HR groups on Saudi Arabia to allowe the construction of at least one church in a country that counts nearly 4 million Christian guest workers.</p>
<p>IN the meantime, Switzerland which counts only 300,000 Muslims ( half of whom don&#39;t even work) has dozens and dozens of mosques that operate openly and freely.</p>
<p>The size of the hypocrisy on the part of Muslims when it comes to reciprocity inthe filed of religious ointolerance can quite rightly be described as being pathological in its intensity</p>
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		<title>By: camilla </title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188342</link>
		<dc:creator>camilla </dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>do you think that anti-diffamation resolution was promoted by muslims to stop themselves to persecute other religions?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>do you think that anti-diffamation resolution was promoted by muslims to stop themselves to persecute other religions?</p>
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		<title>By: camilla </title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188341</link>
		<dc:creator>camilla </dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oh seriously, d1001? do I sound stupid? when open you stupid eyes, you, sheep,  but there&#039;s no use in it if  you have been so seriously brainwashed that I can fell sorry for you. or you are a muslim yourself.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; the stupidest thing is to believe that if you will be tolerant to muslims, they will be tolerant to you. they will treat you just like their religion tells them to.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;muslims demand more and more &quot;rights&quot; (actually privelieges) in non-muslims countries, but do they practice the same tolerance?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;is there much tolerance in muslim countries? on the contrary, persection of non-muslims increases every day, THIS IS THE ONLY SENCERE MUSLIM&#039;S ATTITUDE TO NON-MUSLIMS - the way them treat them in ther (muslims&#039;) homes&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;this is the only fruit of your tolerance&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I would recommend you to look for some information about christians life in muslims countries. but surely you&#039;ll say it has nothing to do with persecutor&#039;s and persecuted religion... oh yeah of course it doesn&#039;t when it come to muslims&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;unbelievable that such mentally challenged people like you dare to reproach others</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh seriously, d1001? do I sound stupid? when open you stupid eyes, you, sheep,  but there&#39;s no use in it if  you have been so seriously brainwashed that I can fell sorry for you. or you are a muslim yourself.</p>
<p> the stupidest thing is to believe that if you will be tolerant to muslims, they will be tolerant to you. they will treat you just like their religion tells them to.</p>
<p>muslims demand more and more &#8220;rights&#8221; (actually privelieges) in non-muslims countries, but do they practice the same tolerance?</p>
<p>is there much tolerance in muslim countries? on the contrary, persection of non-muslims increases every day, THIS IS THE ONLY SENCERE MUSLIM&#39;S ATTITUDE TO NON-MUSLIMS &#8211; the way them treat them in ther (muslims&#39;) homes</p>
<p>this is the only fruit of your tolerance</p>
<p>I would recommend you to look for some information about christians life in muslims countries. but surely you&#39;ll say it has nothing to do with persecutor&#39;s and persecuted religion&#8230; oh yeah of course it doesn&#39;t when it come to muslims</p>
<p>unbelievable that such mentally challenged people like you dare to reproach others</p>
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		<title>By: d1001</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188337</link>
		<dc:creator>d1001</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I consider the tolerance to islam is a bad thing - muslims&#039; appetite grow day by day&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;what on earth are talking about Camilla ??!!! unbeliavable how stupid you sound</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I consider the tolerance to islam is a bad thing &#8211; muslims&#39; appetite grow day by day&#8221;</p>
<p>what on earth are talking about Camilla ??!!! unbeliavable how stupid you sound</p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188284</link>
		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>fair enough cauldron...at least you are consistent in your ideology...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>fair enough cauldron&#8230;at least you are consistent in your ideology&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Cauldron</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188281</link>
		<dc:creator>Cauldron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Saeed:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1) I oppose all lawbreakers, so tax dodgers and benefit cheats are equally reprehensible. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2) Benefits/subsidies/bailouts should be cut for refugees and bankers alike. Both taxation and the welfare state are evil, as they discourage hard work, subsidise recklessness and encourage laziness.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3) You are correct in pointing out the educational failings of the WWC. They too are authors of their own misery, because their culture values binge drinking over education. All members of the underclass, irrespective of race, should either be denied benefits, or only given benefits in exchange for being sterilised so that they do not perpetuate the underclass and burden future generations of hard working middle class taxpayers. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4) As you can see from the above, I do not distinguish between races. However, I do accept that, in any country, indigenous illiterates ought to have priority over foreign illiterates by dint of being there first.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Saeed:</p>
<p>1) I oppose all lawbreakers, so tax dodgers and benefit cheats are equally reprehensible. </p>
<p>2) Benefits/subsidies/bailouts should be cut for refugees and bankers alike. Both taxation and the welfare state are evil, as they discourage hard work, subsidise recklessness and encourage laziness.</p>
<p>3) You are correct in pointing out the educational failings of the WWC. They too are authors of their own misery, because their culture values binge drinking over education. All members of the underclass, irrespective of race, should either be denied benefits, or only given benefits in exchange for being sterilised so that they do not perpetuate the underclass and burden future generations of hard working middle class taxpayers. </p>
<p>4) As you can see from the above, I do not distinguish between races. However, I do accept that, in any country, indigenous illiterates ought to have priority over foreign illiterates by dint of being there first.</p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188278</link>
		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Cauldron...you do know that white working class boys do the worse in school&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3708770/White-working-class-boys-worst-performers-at-school.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3708770/Wh...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Cauldron&#8230;you do know that white working class boys do the worse in school</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3708770/White-working-class-boys-worst-performers-at-school.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3708770/Wh&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
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		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oh BTW the academic achievment of young somali girls is more than that of white working class boys...academic and vocational underachievement of in the  somali community is experienced by boys...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh BTW the academic achievment of young somali girls is more than that of white working class boys&#8230;academic and vocational underachievement of in the  somali community is experienced by boys&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188270</link>
		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ cauldron of course they are working they are also claiming state benefits as well LOL...you really are very naive LOL...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;do you also get as worked up at rich white peoples tax evasion as well or is it just the blacks that you hate!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ cauldron of course they are working they are also claiming state benefits as well LOL&#8230;you really are very naive LOL&#8230;</p>
<p>do you also get as worked up at rich white peoples tax evasion as well or is it just the blacks that you hate!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Cauldron</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188265</link>
		<dc:creator>Cauldron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes yes Saeed keep on shouting. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;m fully aware of Somaliland thanks. And Puntland. I also wish that foreign nations would grant Somaliland de jure recognition - its a pity the AU won&#039;t let it happen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But what does that have to do with the academic and vocational underachievement of Somalis in western Europe relative to other immigrant groups? Forgive my idiocy in asking this question: I am too stupid to understand why my taxes are going to these benefit recipients.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes yes Saeed keep on shouting. </p>
<p>I&#39;m fully aware of Somaliland thanks. And Puntland. I also wish that foreign nations would grant Somaliland de jure recognition &#8211; its a pity the AU won&#39;t let it happen.</p>
<p>But what does that have to do with the academic and vocational underachievement of Somalis in western Europe relative to other immigrant groups? Forgive my idiocy in asking this question: I am too stupid to understand why my taxes are going to these benefit recipients.</p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188263</link>
		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>where is cauldron now eh...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>where is cauldron now eh&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: douglas clark</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188261</link>
		<dc:creator>douglas clark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>saeed,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks for the links. I didn&#039;t know about Somaliland. Bit of an eye opener, and in a good way.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Others might enjoy this link:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWoa9VAmX4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWoa9VAmX4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;d have thought a democratic state in the Horn of Africa should be getting a lot of international support!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>saeed,</p>
<p>Thanks for the links. I didn&#39;t know about Somaliland. Bit of an eye opener, and in a good way.</p>
<p>Others might enjoy this link:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWoa9VAmX4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWoa9VAmX4</a></p>
<p>I&#39;d have thought a democratic state in the Horn of Africa should be getting a lot of international support!</p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188257</link>
		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do not apologise at all for suggesting that Somali culture is particularly ill-suited for the modern world and that the presumption ought to be that Somalis ought not to be top of the list of desirable migrants.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;you&#039;re an idiot...look at somaliland a democratic, secular peaceful country made up of somalis...look up peter tatchell on somaliland...again you are an idiot...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;the stoning to death of that girl was by the shabab a crackpot lunatic islamist outfit...armedand outfitted by eirteria...i don&#039;t expect you to understand anything</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do not apologise at all for suggesting that Somali culture is particularly ill-suited for the modern world and that the presumption ought to be that Somalis ought not to be top of the list of desirable migrants.</p>
<p>you&#39;re an idiot&#8230;look at somaliland a democratic, secular peaceful country made up of somalis&#8230;look up peter tatchell on somaliland&#8230;again you are an idiot&#8230;</p>
<p>the stoning to death of that girl was by the shabab a crackpot lunatic islamist outfit&#8230;armedand outfitted by eirteria&#8230;i don&#39;t expect you to understand anything</p>
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		<title>By: damon</title>
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		<dc:creator>damon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That book I mentioned is actually about 2003 and the rise of the Shia militias and the insurgency. I&#039;m not going to denigrate anyone&#039;s culture like Cauldron has done, but they were a difficult people to govern under occupation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I do wonder if mosque building is always in line with genuine need. If it is then saying &#039;&#039;no minerets&#039;&#039; or being hostile to mosque building is Islamophobic.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But I have no doubt (as people will always want to do business deals that make them money) that there could be deals done and permission asked for from the local authority (in Switzerland for sake of argument) to build a mosque, hotel and shopping complex in the mountains by a lake that would be a popular destination for muslim tourists. &lt;br&gt;In their business model, they showed that they had financing from rich Gulf Arab states, and the Emir of Dubai had pledged money. There was also to be money from Saudia Arabia and Iran.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It would be a destination that would become famous across the Gulf region and would attract business meetings and conferences from across the muslim world.&lt;br&gt;I could see why some people might not like the plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the people who want to expand influence are wahabis and salafis, and it is understandable if their wishes were not always accommodated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That book I mentioned is actually about 2003 and the rise of the Shia militias and the insurgency. I&#39;m not going to denigrate anyone&#39;s culture like Cauldron has done, but they were a difficult people to govern under occupation.</p>
<p>I do wonder if mosque building is always in line with genuine need. If it is then saying &#39;&#39;no minerets&#39;&#39; or being hostile to mosque building is Islamophobic.</p>
<p>But I have no doubt (as people will always want to do business deals that make them money) that there could be deals done and permission asked for from the local authority (in Switzerland for sake of argument) to build a mosque, hotel and shopping complex in the mountains by a lake that would be a popular destination for muslim tourists. <br />In their business model, they showed that they had financing from rich Gulf Arab states, and the Emir of Dubai had pledged money. There was also to be money from Saudia Arabia and Iran.</p>
<p>It would be a destination that would become famous across the Gulf region and would attract business meetings and conferences from across the muslim world.<br />I could see why some people might not like the plans.</p>
<p>Some of the people who want to expand influence are wahabis and salafis, and it is understandable if their wishes were not always accommodated.</p>
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		<title>By: Cauldron</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cauldron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sticks and stones and all that Saeed. And of course Somalis knows all about stones, especially alleged adulterers.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you&#039;d bothered to read my last post you&#039;d of course seen that I completely agree that there are good or bad people in all cultures. So what? When making comparative judgements about cultures (not individuals) it&#039;s averages that matter and on average it strikes me that Somalis, when living overseas (I don&#039;t really care what happens in their own country) don&#039;t appear to produce a lot of Silicon Valley entrepreneur types but do appear to struggle educationally and vocationally.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I do not apologise at all for suggesting that Somali culture is particularly ill-suited for the modern world and that the presumption ought to be that Somalis ought not to be top of the list of desirable migrants. Hard to think of any country that, when given a choice, would prefer to embrace migrants from Somalia relative to migrants from say Vietnam.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of course, if you have any real evidence to the contrary then I will happily stop making value judgements. I&#039;m pleased that Somali culture has a better attitude to women than that found in the middle east. Wow. BFD. But I guess you have to start somewhere. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you have evidence of, on average, Somali over-achievement in education and employment for example please point to it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In any case, it matters not now. The UK is finally moving to a points-based migration system rather than a chain-based and smuggling-based system. Let&#039;s see how many Somalis make the cut.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sticks and stones and all that Saeed. And of course Somalis knows all about stones, especially alleged adulterers.  </p>
<p>If you&#39;d bothered to read my last post you&#39;d of course seen that I completely agree that there are good or bad people in all cultures. So what? When making comparative judgements about cultures (not individuals) it&#39;s averages that matter and on average it strikes me that Somalis, when living overseas (I don&#39;t really care what happens in their own country) don&#39;t appear to produce a lot of Silicon Valley entrepreneur types but do appear to struggle educationally and vocationally.</p>
<p>I do not apologise at all for suggesting that Somali culture is particularly ill-suited for the modern world and that the presumption ought to be that Somalis ought not to be top of the list of desirable migrants. Hard to think of any country that, when given a choice, would prefer to embrace migrants from Somalia relative to migrants from say Vietnam.</p>
<p>Of course, if you have any real evidence to the contrary then I will happily stop making value judgements. I&#39;m pleased that Somali culture has a better attitude to women than that found in the middle east. Wow. BFD. But I guess you have to start somewhere. </p>
<p>If you have evidence of, on average, Somali over-achievement in education and employment for example please point to it. </p>
<p>In any case, it matters not now. The UK is finally moving to a points-based migration system rather than a chain-based and smuggling-based system. Let&#39;s see how many Somalis make the cut.</p>
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		<title>By: camilla </title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188215</link>
		<dc:creator>camilla </dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>she is right. minarets are political stuff. period. there is nothing to discuss here.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;and who gave you that stupid idea that if a person is tolerant to islam - she or he must tolerate it&#039;s intervention to his life? must tolerate it&#039;s arrogant declaration of it&#039;s demands and ambitions, embodied in architecture? who told you that?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;actually that&#039;s the reason I consider the tolerance to islam is a bad thing - muslims&#039; appetite grow day by day&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;in Russia, we have a good proverd for that - &quot;give him a finger - he bites the whole arm off&quot; ...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;there is nothing hypocritic about her reaction...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;the majority of people would be tolerant to islam if only muslims knew where to stop</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>she is right. minarets are political stuff. period. there is nothing to discuss here.</p>
<p>and who gave you that stupid idea that if a person is tolerant to islam &#8211; she or he must tolerate it&#39;s intervention to his life? must tolerate it&#39;s arrogant declaration of it&#39;s demands and ambitions, embodied in architecture? who told you that?</p>
<p>actually that&#39;s the reason I consider the tolerance to islam is a bad thing &#8211; muslims&#39; appetite grow day by day</p>
<p>in Russia, we have a good proverd for that &#8211; &#8220;give him a finger &#8211; he bites the whole arm off&#8221; &#8230;</p>
<p>there is nothing hypocritic about her reaction&#8230;</p>
<p>the majority of people would be tolerant to islam if only muslims knew where to stop</p>
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		<title>By: damon</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188206</link>
		<dc:creator>damon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ayaan Hirsi Ali is stupid for saying that for sure. Or just deliberately provocative like Rod Liddle. This is a blanket ban on minerates I take it?&lt;br&gt;And not sensible planning decisions that might be made against buildings (of what never kind) that were deemed to be inappropriate? So really dumb and offensive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;m sure that there are plenty of people who might think that building things builds their standing wealth and career. And some of them I&#039;m sure are Muslims too who are keen for more Islamic infrastructure and places of worship. Like the disputed (so called) &#039;&#039;Mega Mosque&#039;&#039; that Tablighi Jamaat wanted to build next to West Ham underground station.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;m nearly through Rory Stewart&#039;s book on spending a year in Iraq in 1993 as the deputy governor of Maysan Province just north of Basra, and his time seems to have been plagued by local people petitioning his office for funds for all kinds of building works and referbishment (including of mosques.) Many of whoom he thought were chancers trying it on.&lt;br&gt;He keeps quoting Machiavelli at the top of each new paragraph as I think that&#039;s how he felt dealing with the tribal culture of the sheikhs was like.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Occupational-Hazards-Time-Governing-Iraq/dp/0330440497&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Occupational-Hazards-Ti...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ayaan Hirsi Ali is stupid for saying that for sure. Or just deliberately provocative like Rod Liddle. This is a blanket ban on minerates I take it?<br />And not sensible planning decisions that might be made against buildings (of what never kind) that were deemed to be inappropriate? So really dumb and offensive.</p>
<p>I&#39;m sure that there are plenty of people who might think that building things builds their standing wealth and career. And some of them I&#39;m sure are Muslims too who are keen for more Islamic infrastructure and places of worship. Like the disputed (so called) &#39;&#39;Mega Mosque&#39;&#39; that Tablighi Jamaat wanted to build next to West Ham underground station.</p>
<p>I&#39;m nearly through Rory Stewart&#39;s book on spending a year in Iraq in 1993 as the deputy governor of Maysan Province just north of Basra, and his time seems to have been plagued by local people petitioning his office for funds for all kinds of building works and referbishment (including of mosques.) Many of whoom he thought were chancers trying it on.<br />He keeps quoting Machiavelli at the top of each new paragraph as I think that&#39;s how he felt dealing with the tribal culture of the sheikhs was like.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Occupational-Hazards-Time-Governing-Iraq/dp/0330440497" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Occupational-Hazards-Ti&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188193</link>
		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ayaan Hirsi Ali&#039;s judgements on the culture in which she grew up said Cauldron. LOL she grew up in Kenya her dad was educated at cornell uni in the US an ivy League institiuion.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wow Cauldron do you know any somalis...why don&#039;y you get of the net and go and meet some somalis...especially somali womans group.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;also why don&#039;t you consult the Centtre for Social cohesion report &#039;Crimes of the. Community. &#039; which painted a good picture of somali attitudes to women...esepcially in comparison with south asian and mid east attitudes...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I bet sunny is pissed that his comment thread is beind invaded by naive racist goons like you who see fit to damm somalis on the basis of one womens comments....why don&#039;t you bother to look at the work of other somali women like  Raquiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla, Hadiyo Jim&#039;ale,  Ayaan Osman, Roda DaudRoda Daud, Yasmin Mohamed Ladan Affi, or consult the countless womens gruops that operate in the west or back in somalia&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; i could go on but a racist jerk like you just wants to see work that confirms his own prejudices...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ayaan Hirsi Ali&#39;s judgements on the culture in which she grew up said Cauldron. LOL she grew up in Kenya her dad was educated at cornell uni in the US an ivy League institiuion.</p>
<p>Wow Cauldron do you know any somalis&#8230;why don&#39;y you get of the net and go and meet some somalis&#8230;especially somali womans group.</p>
<p>also why don&#39;t you consult the Centtre for Social cohesion report &#39;Crimes of the. Community. &#39; which painted a good picture of somali attitudes to women&#8230;esepcially in comparison with south asian and mid east attitudes&#8230;</p>
<p>I bet sunny is pissed that his comment thread is beind invaded by naive racist goons like you who see fit to damm somalis on the basis of one womens comments&#8230;.why don&#39;t you bother to look at the work of other somali women like  Raquiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla, Hadiyo Jim&#39;ale,  Ayaan Osman, Roda DaudRoda Daud, Yasmin Mohamed Ladan Affi, or consult the countless womens gruops that operate in the west or back in somalia</p>
<p> i could go on but a racist jerk like you just wants to see work that confirms his own prejudices&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: saeed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6790#comment-188192</link>
		<dc:creator>saeed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ayaan Hirsi Ali&#039;s judgements on the culture in which she grew up said Cauldron. LOL she grew up in Kenya her dad was educated at cornell uni in the US an ivy League institiuion.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wow Cauldron do you know any somalis...why don&#039;y you get of the net and go and meet some somalis...especially somali womans group.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;also why don&#039;t you consult the Centtre for Social cohesion report &#039;Crimes of the. Community. &#039; which painted a good picture of somali attitudes to women...esepcially in comparison with south asian and mid east attitudes...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I bet sunny is pissed that his comment thread is beind invaded by naive racist goons like you who see fit to damm somalis on the basis of one womens comments....why don&#039;t you bother to look at the work of other somali women like  Raquiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla, Hadiyo Jim&#039;ale,  Ayaan Osman, Roda DaudRoda Daud, Yasmin Mohamed Ladan Affi, or consult the countless womens gruops that operate in the west or back in somalia&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; i could go on but a racist jerk like you just wants to see work that confirms his own prejudices...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ayaan Hirsi Ali&#39;s judgements on the culture in which she grew up said Cauldron. LOL she grew up in Kenya her dad was educated at cornell uni in the US an ivy League institiuion.</p>
<p>Wow Cauldron do you know any somalis&#8230;why don&#39;y you get of the net and go and meet some somalis&#8230;especially somali womans group.</p>
<p>also why don&#39;t you consult the Centtre for Social cohesion report &#39;Crimes of the. Community. &#39; which painted a good picture of somali attitudes to women&#8230;esepcially in comparison with south asian and mid east attitudes&#8230;</p>
<p>I bet sunny is pissed that his comment thread is beind invaded by naive racist goons like you who see fit to damm somalis on the basis of one womens comments&#8230;.why don&#39;t you bother to look at the work of other somali women like  Raquiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla, Hadiyo Jim&#39;ale,  Ayaan Osman, Roda DaudRoda Daud, Yasmin Mohamed Ladan Affi, or consult the countless womens gruops that operate in the west or back in somalia</p>
<p> i could go on but a racist jerk like you just wants to see work that confirms his own prejudices&#8230;</p>
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