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originally posted by: InhaleExhale
a reply to: MarioOnTheFly
actually...i think it is required. If it isnt...it should be. In my country...it is required before being granted citizen. Makes perfect sense.
a domovnica?
I got one and was never asked if I spoke Croatian.
If you have a birth Certificate then you can also get citizenship.
yep...so many positive qualities from burqa and niqab wearing foster mother.
Yes, I don't think what a women wears dictates how well she is at mothering a child.
originally posted by: Wayfarer
originally posted by: MarioOnTheFly
yep...so many positive qualities from burqa and niqab wearing foster mother.
Sky is the limit for the child...
Hey man, if you're racist because you're afraid of a headscarf then who am I to stop you. Such strange things for grown men to be terrified of nowadays.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
I don't care so much that they don't speak English but why would you stick a little girl with them that couldn't talk to them?
She's already scared from being displaced and then you throw a huge culture change that she will not understand. What must be going through her head?
originally posted by: ParasuvO
originally posted by: Bluntone22
I don't care so much that they don't speak English but why would you stick a little girl with them that couldn't talk to them?
She's already scared from being displaced and then you throw a huge culture change that she will not understand. What must be going through her head?
Personally i would punish those that placed her with that family, the child is already reeling from a whole lot of things..i would consider this a serious form of child abuse and would deal with the perpetrators quite sternly.
originally posted by: Wayfarer
a reply to: Phonixfromtheashes
Nice, way to clearly and obtusely demonstrate your ingrained religious bias. The issue is the fact that the foster parents didn't speak the girls language, not that they were a different religion. To make any argument otherwise is to even more clearly demonstrate your racism against a religious-ethnic group.
See how you have already assumed negative qualities merely because you saw the word 'Muslim'. In truth, I think that says a lot more about your own twisted brand of religion than it does about Muslims.
originally posted by: Wayfarer
originally posted by: MarioOnTheFly
yep...so many positive qualities from burqa and niqab wearing foster mother.
Sky is the limit for the child...
Hey man, if you're racist because you're afraid of a headscarf then who am I to stop you. Such strange things for grown men to be terrified of nowadays.
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: Simon1967
Yep. But apparently it's much more fun to bash the Muslims.
Considering the patriarchal hierarchy within the families, I'm surprised you don't.
That is a cultural thing, not a Muslim thing.
Pretty prevalent in Muslim culture is it not?
being from Australia...I gather you have Croatian heritage, right ? There is a difference.
originally posted by: Wayfarer
Just because there are a large amount of members participating in this thread that believe mixing of religious groups is 'bad' or 'evil' or 'wrong' doesn't make it right. This is a case of racist groupthink, and this thread is acting like an echo-chamber reinforcing the (as I believe) abhorrent concept that religion is something that should divide us and keep us separate/isolated from each other.
The only reason a Christian has to fear from learning/experiencing/knowing the Muslim faith/lifestyle is their own ingrained fear that their belief is weak or subject to sudden change from that exposure. I am going to disagree with anyone who espouses limiting an individuals experience/exposure to the wonderful panoply of ideas and cultures based on an irrational and misguided fear.
Fear-mongering has lead many people in this thread to assume that a child initially raised in a Christian household (and under I assume Christian teaching) is going to be damaged/hurt/made less whole as a result of being exposed to a Muslim household.
If you were not racist then the first inclination one would have would be to assume that a Muslim family (whether they speak English or not) is every bit as morally positive as a Christian family. Any assumptions that a Muslim family would try and immediately indoctrinate or convert the child is in fact more telling as a sign of projection rather than reality.