My 49 cents:
I support the Europeans. Many here play to this bleeding heart syndrome that we as a Western society have begun to embody. The key to immigration is assimiliation, something that we've never forced upon Muslims. We allow them to exercise their barbaric religions, often at the contradiction to our laws and ways of life. A great example of this is the supression of women and their rights. Why is a muslim family allowed to come to any nation, be it Canada, the States, or Denmark, and be allowed to supress his wife? Is this not against our nations' equal opportunity legislation? Why do we constantly make exceptions for arabs? This cartoon issue is another fabulous example. Some cartoons offend a religious group, a group the authors were not a part of, and we're suppose to feel bad? Where do arabs get off telling me, or a Dane, what we can and cannot draw? Lastly to highlight my support I draw attention to the muslim faith. This is a religion that has been so perverted over the decades that few outside the religion itself have any respect for it. This is a religion that is used to mask terrorist operations, death threats, and afronts to our way of life. How can we honestly be expected to tolerate this at the expense of retaining immigrants? We cannot, nations can only be pushed so far, and I believe the Europeans have reached their breaking point. With the riots in France and now this whole cartoon issue, the European nations simply have taken the shotgun method. Arabs cannot be trusted in their eyes, to assimilate in to society, and are deemed too much of a threat to the stability of nations to be allowed to retain residence. As I said above I support it. If you're not going to become a proactive member of society, get the fuck out. You come to my country and think you can disregard my way of life for your heathen existence that is caught in a time warp? One thing that really burns me is this whole burka thing. I'm not an intolerant person by any means, I respect religions, however I feel that arabs take it way too far. A great example of this is the wearing of burkas in the Army. I have actually seen (at CFB Kingston Ontario) a women wearing a burka in uniform. Well it wasn't a full burka, it was the head scarf stupidity. Regardless, she's allowed to afront 100 years of Canadian Army tradition just because she's a muslim. We do not allow Jews to wear their yamaka (sp?), so why can arabs wear a head scarf? Because we're too afraid to confront them. That's why, and frankly it sickens me. To sum up, i'm 100% behind Europe giving the boot to arabs that don't conform. My response to those that bitch and moan, no one made them immigrate to Europe. If they don't like it they can head back to sandland and build themselves a mudhut. Fershizzle.