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I agree with Frenchy's post that the riots in France were not religiously inspired. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Last Updated: Wednesday, 5 January, 2005, 17:42 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Mohammed enters top boys' names Jack has been the most popular name for the last 10 years Mohammed has become one of the most popular names for baby boys in England and Wales. It entered the top 20 most commonly chosen names for 2004 baby boys for the first time ever, according to the Office for National Statistics. But there was little change at the top with Jack and Emily retaining their status as the most popular name for newborn boys and girls. Charlie was a big climber in the boys' chart as was Evie for the girls. ........................................ I cannot substantiate the author's claim for it being the fifth most popular. you are correct. I'm wrong. I did find this from the BBC news online. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I'd be interested in seeing figures, but I'd bet immigrants today integrate much faster than they used to 100 years ago. There are much more means to do so. As for Europe being "raped" by Islam: I've heard similar things since I was a kid. It used to be mixed with the "watch out the Soviets are coming to rape Europe", a hint of "watch out Americans are culturally raping us". I can't speak for all countries, but in France, there are not that many practicing muslims. Usually, the ones making the news are descendents of muslims, yet have probably never set a foot in a mosque. Nothing to do with the religion. 100 years ago immigrants, for the most part, came here LEGALLY. They knew they had to assimilate quick or they would face poverty. It was a money thing. There was no free health care, no bilingual education, no such thing as falsifying documents to get welfare or social security. and they paid taxes. As for Muslims making the news in France, you don't have a practicing Muslim (or Christian) to be a thug. However, to profess a glorious victory over the Great Satan after burning cars and buildings, is a very popular sham in a lot of places these days. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Yes, those pesky newcomers like the Amish and Hasidic Jews, who just refuse to assimilate. Anyone who says Islam is violent should be beheaded. Have you ever stopped to wonder why there were Irish, Italian and Polish ghettos in US big cities a century ago? Did you ever ask what languages were spoken in them? I never did ask, but I would guess they spoke their native languages. These ghettos were part of the transition of becoming Americans. For the most part, they were in a rush to become Americans. They soon realized English was the key to economic prosperity and they moved on to assimilation. The small pesky refusals you speak of have learned English and have assimilated to a degree. I don't believe any of the pesky refusals have been an economic burden. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

We are still a melting pot. You're just old enough now to see evidence that it is an ongoing, dynamic process. Melting pot implies adding to the culture, enabling that culture to gradually change and become more diverse. It is the American way. If platinum is melted into a pot of molten gold, only the fool expects the result to be pure gold (or pure platinum). Just guessing, I'm older than you, and this is not the melting pot we once had. Look in any history book unless you're on some 1000 year plan. We certainly are off course now. Hopefully it will be corrected to put us back on course because the majority of Americans have indicated they don't like it. Do you think our men and women in uniform sacriface their lives for an open border or unrestricted immigration. I don't think so. Is it pure gold? I don't it ever was. "Anyone who says Islam is violent should be beheaded." Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I think the sheer number of ethnic restaurants in America is a great example of how immigrants tend to bring their culture with them. They always have, and likely always will. America is a melting pot of foreign cultures. It has never been stagnant. Hopefully it will never be so in the future. People should learn about, rather than fear and hate, that which they do not understand. Here you begin to make sense. We used to be a melting pot. Immigrants came here to become Americans and to speak the language and to actively become part of American society. What we have turned into is a big holding pen for different cultures which have no plans to assimilate. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I voted yes. I think formal recognization of past injustice is a good thing. This could be educational for people who don't realize the slave trade started before the US became a nation. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Have done a quicksearch and the official stats are: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_boys.asp I got this out of Mark Steyn's book, "America Alone". by Mark Steyn. In the United States, his column appears in the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Sun, the Washingto Times, the Orange County Register, His articles have also appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, The Australian, National Review, the New Criterion, and the Atlantic Monthly. In Canada, he is senior columnist for the Western Standard, Maclean's. In addition he appears in others from the Jerusalem Post to Hawke's Bay Today in New Zealand. Born in Toronto, he lives in New Hampshire. QUOTED OFF THE BOOK COVER. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Wonder how many MIAs got written off for the sake of trading with Vietnam. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I think if you ran a similar anti-Christian cartoon in the New York Times (or any large US city), you might get a violent reaction. There are many Christians that have such a strong faith in Christ it defies logic. ........................................................................... It may defy logic, but not the kind of violence that went on around the Muslim world. No one went on a killing rampage when the 'Last Temptation of Christ ' came out. It's not a contest. I've talked with quite a few Muslims even called some my friends, and have never had anyone try to convert me to Islam (although I inadvertently converted one to atheism). I have, however, seen someone, without pressure, choose to follow the path of Muhammad. I personally feel that that was perhaps the best decision that individual could have made. Allah and Yaweh are the same entity, by definition. Contrary to popular propaganda, Islam is not a religion of violence. There is no reason to fear the possibility of having a Muslim neighbor. It's a small world, and getting smaller all the time. We need to learn to live peacefully together, differences and all.

The Bornagains have been trying for years to turn America into a neo-Christian theocracy. Thus far they have failed. What makes you think the followers of Mohammed will be any more successful in Europe? There is no need to destroy or reform Islam in Europe any more than there is a need to reform or destroy Christianity in the US. I think you are wrong. No born-again Christian theocracy has done anything compared to the Danish "cartoon jihad": weeks of protest, death threats, rioting, killings, etc. and that's one incident. Why are the followers of Mohammed more successful? Pure numbers and it is growing. They don't want to be part of the melting pot, they want us to be part of them. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Too late for that. I think you will submit to Islam before you try to destroy it or even try to reform it. I hope it was apparent that I was being sarcastic. I edited my post to make that clear. I believe you were a little sarcastic. Ironic that so many deny the Holocast ever happened. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Too late for that. I think you will submit to Islam before you try to destroy it or even try to reform it. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

According to the author, there will never be a fight to stop Europe's submission to Islam, so leave now. Of course non-Muslims leaving now will make it worse. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

It says so much. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

This fruit cake is concerned that "Europe is going Muslim" just like the the article from the Brussels Journal indicated. According to the article, you have surrendered. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1609 The Rape of Europe From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-10-25 The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace in Berlin, Broder pointed to the other customers and the passers-by and said melancholically: ?We are watching the world of yesterday.? Europe is turning Muslim. As Broder is sixty years old he is not going to emigrate himself. ?I am too old,? he said. However, he urged young people to get out and ?move to Australia or New Zealand. That is the only option they have if they want to avoid the plagues that will turn the old continent uninhabitable.? Many Germans and Dutch, apparently, did not wait for Broder?s advice. The number of emigrants leaving the Netherlands and Germany has already surpassed the number of immigrants moving in. One does not have to be prophetic to predict, like Henryk Broder, that Europe is becoming Islamic. Just consider the demographics. The number of Muslims in contemporary Europe is estimated to be 50 million. It is expected to double in twenty years. By 2025, one third of all European children will be born to Muslim families. Today Mohammed is already the most popular name for new-born boys in Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other major European cities. Broder is convinced that the Europeans are not willing to oppose islamization. ?The dominant ethos,? he told De Volkskrant, ?is perfectly voiced by the stupid blonde woman author with whom I recently debated. She said that it is sometimes better to let yourself be raped than to risk serious injuries while resisting. She said it is sometimes better to avoid fighting than run the risk of death.? In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard (23 October) the Dutch (gay and self-declared ?humanist?) author Oscar Van den Boogaard refers to Broder?s interview. Van den Boogaard says that to him coping with the Islamization of Europe is like ?a process of mourning.? He is overwhelmed by a ?feeling of sadness.? ?I am not a warrior,? he says, ?but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.? As Tom Bethell wrote in this month?s American Spectator: ?Just at the most basic level of demography the secular-humanist option is not working.? But there is more to it than the fact that non-religious people tend not to have as many children as religious people, because many of them prefer to ?enjoy? freedom rather than renounce it for the sake of children. Secularists, it seems to me, are also less keen on fighting. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, this life is the only thing they have to lose. Hence they will rather accept submission than fight. Like the German feminist Broder referred to, they prefer to be raped than to resist. ?If faith collapses, civilization goes with it,? says Bethell. That is the real cause of the closing of civilization in Europe. Islamization is simply the consequence. The very word Islam means ?submission? and the secularists have submitted already. Many Europeans have already become Muslims, though they do not realize it or do not want to admit it. Some of the people I meet in the U.S. are particularly worried about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. They are correct when they fear that anti-Semitism is also on the rise among non-immigrant Europeans. The latter hate people with a fighting spirit. Contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe (at least when coming from native Europeans) is related to anti-Americanism. People who are not prepared to resist and are eager to submit, hate others who do not want to submit and are prepared to fight. They hate them because they are afraid that the latter will endanger their lives as well. In their view everyone must submit. This is why they have come to hate Israel and America so much, and the small band of European ?Islamophobes? who dare to talk about what they see happening around them. West Europeans have to choose between submission (Islam) or death. I fear, like Broder, that they have chosen submission ? just like in former days when they preferred to be red rather than dead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [url] Kind of scary. I found this interesting information in AMERICA ALONE by Mark Steyn "What's the most the most popular baby boy's name in Belgium? Mohammed. In Amsterdam? Mohammed. In Malmo Sweden? Mohammed. By 2005, it was the fifth most popular baby boy's name in the United Kingdom. Yet most Europeans weren't even aware of the dominant demographic trend until September 11, and subsequent events in Madrid, Paris, and London." Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

This president like his father has lost touch with or ignored the American public long before he became a lame duck. The issue of immigration and border security is a prime example. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Just my opinion. Using a PLB would just put base in the eyes of the negative public. Just lay there and die like a man or jump with others and have a plan for self-rescue. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

62 years old, 2 yrs experience, 18 base jumps Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

If the wheel had never been invented, we would not have these problems or maybe everything would be on skids with bigger problems, but the wheel was invented for the sole purpose of getting beer. Wish I had some. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I heard when the Alaskan pipeline was being built, the locals had one dream: every Oklahoman going home with a Texan under each arm. Had the majority of construction workers come from Yankee terrority, I'm sure the sentiment would have been different. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Nice website. Thanks Vigilance even when drinking beer. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I would be pissed too if they found nothing illegal on my laptop at an airport or port of entry but kept my laptop. Sorry they stole your laptop. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Once again, some of us cannot believe we are at war. Remember 9/11? Finding the contents of this woman's laptop or another might save lives. Ever had friends die around you in a combat situation? You think you are loosing your civil liberties? Check out what Abe Lincoln did during the Civil War. Happy veterans day. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.