Egyptian money changers stop dealing in Danish and Norwegian crowns

I can't imagine too many people from Norway or Denmark are planning
trips to Egypt or
anywhere in the mideast at this time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...AXQXw&refer=uk

stonej wrote:

I can't imagine too many people from Norway or Denmark are planning trips
to Egypt or anywhere in the mideast at this time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...AXQXw&refer=uk

Hmm, when I click the above link, I get to this article: "Tesco to Enter
U.S. Next Year, Challenging Wal-Mart" g. Don't know if this is region
specific (I am in Europe), anyway, the following link points at an
article that has the same headline as your original message:

http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?a...llnews&id=6533

And no, I don't think either that Islamic countries are "top
destinations" of Danish or Norwegian tourists these days ...

Christian

Sorry about that, the Tesco article was supposed
to go to a different newsgroup. Not sure how
that got mixed up.

Denmark sure does not deserve the BS they are going thru right now.

"Death to Denmark" Oh please. Give me a break.

stonej wrote:

Denmark sure does not deserve the BS they are going thru right now.

"Death to Denmark" Oh please. Give me a break.

The political climate in Denmark, as far as immigration is concerned, is
difficult to put it carefully. But what is happening in the Islamic
world now will surely convince pretty much everybody in Europe of how
peaceful "the" Muslims are ...

Christian

Christian Feldhaus wrote:
stonej wrote:

Denmark sure does not deserve the BS they are going thru right now.

"Death to Denmark" Oh please. Give me a break.

The political climate in Denmark, as far as immigration is concerned, is
difficult to put it carefully. But what is happening in the Islamic
world now will surely convince pretty much everybody in Europe of how
peaceful "the" Muslims are ...

Christian


The govts. of western Europe would like the muslims to integrate into
society
but that does not seem to be happening to any great degree. They
number
around 15 million and growing. Something has to give from one side or
the
other or culture clashes are bound to keep happening in the future.

Well, I will say that the
protests in the Middle East, Christian, are not represenative of most
Muslims of Lebanon or Syria. In Damascus, the Syrian government
allowed the protest to occur in order to distract their population from
the pressures of needed reforms there. Syrian liberals are demanding
reform and so are the U.S., France, and the E.U. If Syrian liberals
want to meet and discuss civil liberties, they may be blocked by the
Syrian police. I don't think they expected the embassies to get
burned in Damascus and then the next day they encouraged what happened
in Lebanon possibly so they would not look like they were the only ones
that did that to the embassy. More than half of those arrested in
Lebanon were Syrian citizens including members of the PFLP or the
Palestinian Socialist party that has a branch in Damascus. I think
things will cool down in the region eventually. Many people condemned
the protests in the Middle East as very bad and unproductive including
newspapers. Of course, I do support the European countries to build
relations with their Muslim citizens, engage in better dialogue,
encourage more sensitivity on both sides and also to strip the
citizenship of anyone who calls for violence or terrorism like those
British citizens who had the sign 7/7. I think that eventually things
will possibly get better for all those concerned. And at least these
events create discussion in the Middle East that needs to occur.

I think it depends. You cannot generalize
all immigrants. Turkish or Albanian or even Bosnian Muslims who are
to some extent native European Muslims are far more moderate and relate
to European culture far more. That is less true for Turkey, but Turkey
in the last 20 years has advanced significantly and its population is
far more moderate than Arab countries especially when compared to the
people of the Maghreb. However, many from the Maghreb have integrated.
However, the EU should limit the amount of immigration coming from the
Maghreb so the rest can integrate. Obviously, the more they are
concentrated in such a short time the worse it is and it is the same in
the U.S. with too many Hispanics coming in too many numbers at one
time. A country needs to be able to absorb the population and if it
does not follow that approach it will alarm the native European
population and make the immigrant population less assimilated.

Sooooo.. how about if the next time someone burns a U.S. flag in Egypt
(or other Arab country) the state dept. throughs them on the unallowed
list for travel and we burn their embassy down? Do you think they
would understand?

Somehow, they would say "it's different."