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The Dutch claim that the US was opposed to them using their full body scanners because of privacy issues. But the Dutch now have two scanners that show a more stylistic picture of the person being scanned instead of pictures of folk's genetalia.
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01-02-2010, 11:53 PM | #137 |
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I also head it was against Dutch privacy laws.
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Interested to read how well Muslims are integrated in the US though. Learn something new every day. Article here. Snippets here: Quote:
Fruitloops are fruitloops. IRA murderers have started up again in Ireland. Some people like to kill. On one side of the fence you can argue that a liberal attitude gives them the freedom to do so. Or you can argue that a repressed regime gives you the excuse. Or that those fighting against the repressors do (think loyalist paramilitaries). No good comes of terrorism. And no good comes from blaming anyone other than terrorists for their actions.
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That is stupid. Americans do not blame the UK for extremism amongst Muslims. Sure the UK has problems because of the way they have delt with their own immigration issues, but we have our problems too on that front and they are very well known. The Telegraph is fomenting finger pointing.
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Good Lord! the Telegraph fomenting finger pointing? I can't believe it :P
[eta] worth remembering that there are different moslem communities in the UK; some of which are very integrated, and some of which are not. When I lived in Bolton, the diferent communities were very mixed. When i came to Yorkshire I found something quite different. That's because the immigration patterns and places of origin were different. In halifax, for example, the majority of moslem immigrants come from one very small geographical area of Pakistan: mostly from the same town. It's a very traditional and old fashioned town and they've brought those values with them. The men look to the old country when they wish to marry and so the girls who come over as their brides tend to be very traditional (many don't speak English). They are almost entirely separate, culturally, from the rest of the town and maintain very strong links with their home communities. This isn't the case everywhere. I went to a wedding a few years ago, one of my fellow councillor's sons was marrying a girl who'd come over from their hometown. Standing outside the mosque it was blindingly obvious which guests were from Halifax (very traditional in dress and demeanour) and which were from Bradford (much more westernised dress and the women were much less demure in attitude).
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Don't worry - I only read our right wing press for educational purposes. Finger pointing is their raison d'etre.
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We should all be collectively pointing our fingers at the Saudi's among others...
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Heh, people are now calling this "Underpantsgate".
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Underpants Fly might be just as good.
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say what you want about Obama, he is not afraid to take the hard knocks and accept responsibility; to say, we were wrong, I am responsible, and we're gonna fix it. If it were Bush, he'd be denying accountability and pointing fingers at others.
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This is only the most recent attack BTW. Another exmaple was the girlfriend of a police dog handler, targeted in October last year. Car bomb. She escaped with injuries. These people are well schooled in the divisive and personal nature of terrorism.
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