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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Danish politicians want Charlie Hebdo taught in schools

So, while we are at it, how about Danish schools become fair & balanced, & also teach about holocaust (not just the "official" version as dictated by the Israeli organizations), Spanish Inquisition, Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands, & there are so many other topics (slavery & looting of African resources by Europeans, killings & gross violation of Natives' human rights by Europeans, brutal invasion & occupation of Americas & Australasia by Europeans etc.)

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“The cartoon crisis, the Charlie Hebdo killings & the latest terrorist attack in Copenhagen on February 14 are such an important part of history they should have a permanent place on the school curriculum,” Conservative People’s Party spokeswoman Mai Mercado wrote in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Another opposition party, the Danish People’s Party (DF), which has 19.6% of voter support, according to a recent poll, also supported the idea of ‘Mohammed cartoons lessons.’ Party members say that studying the Charlie Hebdo related crisis & its aftermath should be mandatory in all the country’s schools.

“If you live in Denmark you should also be able to tolerate seeing the drawings,” party spokesman Alex Ahrendtsen told the daily Berlingske daily newspaper.

While the Conservatives want the cartoons to be taught in history class, the Danish People’s Party say it should be done in religious studies.

"One of our time's great challenges is the threat from Islamism & the pressure on freedom rights that have built up over many years,” said Martin Henriksen, the DF immigration spokesperson.

John Rydahl, president of the Danish Association, thinks the cartoons should be reprinted in students’ textbooks.

"The Muhammad crisis is an obvious topic for R.E. [religious education] teaching, & I'm surprised that so far no textbook has reprinted the cartoons. That should happen - & sooner rather than later," Rydahl told DR News.

However, Dennis Hornhave Jacobsen, president of the Danish Association of History & Social Studies Teachers, says a Mohammed cartoons class is a bad idea as “it could end any real discussion about the nature of freedom of expression, because there are children in schools who believe the Muhammad cartoons are objectionable & the discussion will stop there.”

Reportedly, many Danish schools already teach the Mohammed crisis in grade 9, but it’s not compulsory.

http://rt.com/news/238621-denmark-mohammed-cartoons-schools/

Monday, March 30, 2015

France identifies its terrorism breeding grounds

As I have blogged in some of my previous blog posts that assimilation is a 2-way street. Most, if not all, countries of Northern & Western Europe, & North America, are being chosen by immigrants, from South Asia, Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, & even Middle East, as their new adopted home.

These immigrants come with so much hope & so many dreams to these countries. They all range from different backgrounds; religious, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic etc. But, once they land in these countries, they are relegated to the back of the society by the indigenous or born-nationals of that country. These immigrants are subjected to discrimination in education & jobs.

When these immigrants or their kids are sidelined by their new adopted country, regardless of how much they want to assimilate or love their new country, they grew hatred towards their new adopted country. And that time, they are easy to be radicalized & molded by people & organizations who can get them to do whatever these kids can do.

Blaming those kids or their families for not assimilating or hating their adopted country is not the solution to resolving the issue of uprooting criminality & terrorism out of the country. That blame unjustifiably will only radicalize those youths even more.

The solution is to provide education & jobs to these immigrants & kids; not doing them any favours, but based on objective merits. Then, immigrants can't complain if they don't get a certain job or degree, because they can see that they themselves don't posses the skills for those jobs. But, in reality, we see hurdles / demands which are clearly been put up to sideline these immigrants & their kids; networking, relevant work experience, education obtained from that country's institution (math is same everywhere, Newton's & Einstein's theories are same everywhere, Debits & Credits are same everywhere, in the world).

For example, in Canada, we can see in any major city that taxi / cab drivers are, overwhelmingly, South Asians. Once you start talking to them, you come to realize that most of them are quite educated; doctors, engineers, PhDs, CAs, MBAs etc, but they are told to bring Canadian education & experience to get any job in their field.

Their kids usually suffer almost similar fate. Since, they have Canadian education &, in most cases, work experience, too, they get better jobs than what their parents are able to do, but, not better than, the similarly educated & experienced Canadian counterpart. Compared to that born-Canadian (esp. a Caucasian), that immigrant's kid is actually underemployed. That's why, we see immigrants, esp. South Asians, Africans, & even Eastern Europeans, gather several designations & degrees to move up the corporate ladder, but only a few are able to do so.

Some people of these European & North American countries counter that why don't these immigrants leave their country, if their conditions are so bad. Where they are going to go? Back to their own country? They may not have any financial means to go back; spent all their money to get in their new adopted country in the hope of a better future. We all have heard stories of people scrounging money to pay to human smugglers to get into a country.

Those people, perhaps, can't go back to their own homeland. Most people love their homelands, but due to civil wars & terrorism, they are forced out of their homes in their homelands. We can't say to those people that it's their country's fault, because in most cases, those civil wars & terrorism & their governments' heavy-handedness is supported by these Western countries.

For example, take the example of Yemen & Egypt right now. Egypt arrested many of its citizens during Arab Spring demonstrations, & imprisoned them on false charges. Their ruler has the full blessing of Western countries & the government receives millions in aid from these Western countries. Yemenis are being killed by Saudi Arabian army. Saudi Arabia doesn't have any arms-manufacturing facilities in its own country. It buys all of its arms & weapons from US, Canada, & several European countries, including France, Germany, UK, Sweden etc. Those arms are also used by the country's rulers on their own citizens to subdue any dissidents & opponents. We all know this. So where will or can these immigrants go? They certainly can't go back their own countries.

So, the solutions are that either these Western countries stop arms selling to these corrupt countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central & South America OR accept these immigrants in your countries with open arms & get them education & jobs, which they worked hard for & they rightly deserve.
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French counter-terrorism experts have identified 64 suburbs in dozens of cities that act as breeding grounds for Islamic extremism.

So-called 'ghettos' with high rates of youth unemployment, immigration and single-parent families, such as L'Ariane near Nice, have been linked to the radicalisation of young & vulnerable people.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls last month admitted that the country had collapsed into social & ethnic 'apartheid' - the first time a senior politician has conceded that economic marginalisation & religious tensions have led to serious divides.

In total 64 French suburbs have been identified as breeding grounds for extremism, each of them sharing startling similar characteristics, according to Sky News.

Unemployment, for example, is on average 23% in the suburbs, rising to a staggering 45% among the young. Up to half of all families in the 64 suburbs also have just one parent.

For those lucky enough to have work, the average income is just €11,000 (£8,300) a year, leaving many with barely enough money to survive.

As many as 50% of those living in the suburbs are also first generation immigrants or their children, many of them having travelled to France from war-torn nations.

Such patterns of have now proved to the French leadership that vast swathes of the population are falling behind economically, resulting in ghettoised suburbs where mental & social attachment to France as a nation holds little sway, & where criminal & religious leaders often wield power.