No european Country is "under sharia law"
I don't think that was the point, at least not as I took it. The question is, I think, 'are there
any citizens living under Sharia Law?'. Not all citizens, but ANY forcing their values on others this way?
I believe the answer is clear, yes there are such people, if we are going to be honest about it. I read about them a lot, even catch them on teley sometimes. And my friend knows a teacher (I think at the school he attended a lot of years ago in fact) who's just got the lesson first hand. Those children were successfully following Sharia Law as I see it, and forcing those 'rules' on her.
Edit: We just had a rash of gangs of Immigrants groping women on the streets (Germany?) thinking that was right. I think this is part of that? Not exactly Western Values.........
Granted 'the West' clings to their ways too, but sadly that's no longer universal I think. The EU is 'losing that battle', you have visitors living by their rules not yours.......and at least some of those expect you to 'mend your ways'. It's starting to happen here, too, of course. We, as so often happens, are just lagging a bit behind 'the old world'. Pretending it's not happening helps neither of us? That, potentially, is the proverbial camel's nose.
To a large degree this is not what happened here in our 'melting pot' experiences, the sort the Statue of Liberty is all about. Those folks learned the language, adopted the ways and rules of their new country and tried to work hard to better their condition. Many of them even got their names changed in what was known as "Ellis Island Hatchet Jobs". As they were processed through Immigration (on Ellis Island for the most part, hence the name). This was in fact fresh in my mind since a conversation over lunch Monfsy included an Engineer friend's friend who's father was a 'Johanson' from 'the old country'. He was told 'we already have too many Johansons, your new name is XXX'. The conversation started with the story of a co-worker of mine, named "Petzo". A couple generations back immigrated with a central European name he could not pronounce (his expression). We got a new hire one day, a Greek kid, who got bright red when introduced......seems it's Greek slang for the bull's foreskin? I guess Paul's grandfather gave some Greek Immigration agent a bit too much trouble....... My wife's family has a similar story, their 'family name' is less than 100 years old.
As Bob Dylan sang, 'the times, they are a changing'. Best of luck to all of us, perhaps Solo will unite us?
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I remember getting burned a time or two or a burn mark or hole on a fav shirt.
