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Thread #101444 Message #2046087
Posted By: jacqui.c
08-May-07 - 09:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: What do we call them?
Subject: RE: BS: What do we call them?
The racist party which grew with the increased numbers of moslem immigrants in the 90's, rocketed to power after 9/11, and which now props up our government, has been consistently anti-moslem.
If this started in the 90's Bush was not in power at that time and he didn't have the excuse to go for world domination until after 9/11. He may be responsible for a lot of unpleasant things but it sounds as if the racist attitudes in Denmark were the result of increasing numbers of immigrants, possible compounded by the attack on the World Trade Centre.
I think that, if we just called them 'people' we might understand that they are more like us than they are different. I'm English, now living in the USA, and the one thing that I have found, from experience, is that, regardless of culture, colour or religious beliefs, we are all very much alike. I like and dislike without any regard to the labels placed on us by others and there are a number of people of what might be considered my own race that I would not give houseroom. Conversely, there are a lot of people of different race etc who I am priviledged to know. Depends on the individual as far as I'm concerned.