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Old 11-19-2006, 05:22 PM   #16
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I would expect that it generalizes. They don't want Greeks wearing the shoes with the pom-poms on them either.

Welcome to Holland, we have 1000 years of culture, wooden shoes, tulips, art, music, and all that. It's part of of our identity.

I wouldn't go to work for McDonalds and expect to wear a hat left over from my prior experience at Burger King. When in Rome, etc. etc.
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Old 11-19-2006, 05:26 PM   #17
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I would expect that it generalizes. They don't want Greeks wearing the shoes with the pom-poms on them either.
I'd be interested to knjow, but I suspect it doesn't generalise
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Old 11-19-2006, 05:32 PM   #18
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It's probably a statement to the muslims because they're the ones causing the majority of the problems. They want to keep out trouble makers, and guess what demographic just earned itself a place in that catagory
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Old 11-19-2006, 07:29 PM   #19
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It's not a statement to immigrants.....it's a statement to moslems.
... who want to be immigrants.
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Old 11-19-2006, 07:59 PM   #20
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Dana C , I have not even bothered to read the above . You pose as
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:03 PM   #21
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Oh no, Dana, Buddug says you pose as! Whatever shall you do!?
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:06 PM   #22
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a British woman all the time . You try to sell what 'we' do in Britain to the Yanks on this forum . Except that I do not see you as being part of my 'we' . I stated this fact earlier , and your sugar-sweet coating soon disolved . I think you told me to destroy my private ( British) organs on a sharp stick ?

I think that you and your ilk are part of a Trojan horse which menaces the free world .
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:08 PM   #23
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I sure hope Dana's a better representative of you lot than you are, buddug.
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:10 PM   #24
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Jesus Christ, just ignore the thing. Trolls should be entertaining, at least. There is literally nothing to see here. Move along...
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:12 PM   #25
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Aww, but its so fun tearing it limb from limb, over and over and over and over and over!
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:19 PM   #26
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Dana is a Muslim who lives in Britain . There is no such thing as a British Muslim . Muslims put the idea of nationality behind their idea of being French / American / British or whatever . They see us as impure whilst enjoying the priveliges that our civilization offers them . They try to destroy our system from within .

We have to understand this ( geez , I even feel friendly towards bloody Americans within this context )
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:20 PM   #27
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When people are forced to give up part of their belief system, they are being asked to give up part of themselves.

We live in a time where culture is being destroyed faster than ever before.

Every 6 minutes a dialect is erased from the face of the earth.

How much faster must this process become?
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:20 PM   #28
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yeh, but there's no challenge in easy-meat.....


as to Dana's viewpoint, I'm not sure I see eye to eye with it.

We should be free to dress as we like? Perhaps...... but when was the last time you got into....

a nightclub wearing trainers?

a bank wearing a crash-helmet?

a shopping mall wearing a hoodie?
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:21 PM   #29
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DanaC poses as British , has always posed as British , and she aint British . She be a mad muslim .
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Old 11-19-2006, 08:23 PM   #30
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yeh, but there's no challenge in easy-meat.....


as to Dana's viewpoint, I'm not sure I see eye to eye with it.

We should be free to dress as we like? Perhaps...... but when was the last time you got into....

a nightclub wearing trainers?

a bank wearing a crash-helmet?

a shopping mall wearing a hoodie?
The only one of the above three you can't do here is go into a bank wearing a helmet, but who goes into banks these days anyway?
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