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No - they have NOT. That is the thing. When you become an American, you speak English. When you live in Russia, you speak Russian.
You don't need frigging language courses to pick up a language. If you make any attempt at all to TRY and speak it, to TRY and learn it you WILL! It takes effort, and that is EXACTLY the problem with some immigrants. They make no effort to pick up the language (and culture for that matter) of the place they live.
Who cares - you don't NEED an education! You learn from TRYING. The problem is some of them don't! If you live in a country for a bloody decade how could you NOT learn the native language? Are all the immigrents that STUPID? Or is it just that they make no damn effort to try?
No - maybe they should MAKE AN EFFORT TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF THE COUNTRY THEY DECIDED WAS BETTER THEN THEIR OWN!
How hard is it to live in a country and learn to speak the language after a whole damned year!?!?!?! Again, I ask - are they THAT STUPID? Or do they just not care?
In California, we have whole schools teaching in SPANISH instead of English because none of their parents bothered to try and learn English. Thus, their children don't know English. And then they get pissed off because they can't get a job. Well no # they can't get a job - how in the hell is anyone going to work with them?
.... but have heard from people that do live in Europe that they have the same problem - mainly with people who speak Arabic. And by the way - I do not mean this as an attack on Mexicans or Arabs. If an American moves to Germany, he better damned well learn to speak German! The thing is, it is mainly Arabs fleeing their country for western Europe and Mexicans fleeing for America. Thus they are the ones most guilty.
As I have said, this is not always the case. And I am sorry, but if a person grows up and spends the bulk of their life in a country, and yet still can not speak the native language must be an idiot. There is no excusenot to learn the language when you spend 10+ years of your life in the damned country! Hell, if freaking chimps can learn sign language, without ever having anything close to a human language and with half the brain power, no immigrant has any excuse NOT to learn the language!
Originally posted by Siroos
No, she's a radical because she said that MUSLIMS should learn to speak Danish, - And that is not only radical, but it's totally idiotic, irrational, biased, and ignorant!
Wait a moment! I suppose you are a native Indian American? Or....? If you are not a native Indian American, you really have some guts to bash immigrants when the country where you live was literally taken away from the native American Indians. And ALL - I repeat ALL... Americans who are not native American Indians, are immigrants, including yourself! I can't believe that people can be so incredibly ignorant, intolerant and shortminded.
I'm not objecting to the notion that as an immigrant one should try to learn the language of the adopted country - I'm objecting to that the Danish Queen states that MUSLIMS should learn Danish. Muslims are not a race, an ethnicity or a nationality. Muslims are more than one billion people who come from many different countries and are of all races. you can't bundle us all together and make such an utterly unintelligent claim as that we do not speak the language of the country where we have immigrated. Not only is that a totally false accusation, but it's outright stupid to think that people who have certain religious beliefs do not speak Danish.
Did the American pioneers make any effort to learn the languages of the native American Indians who were the rightful owners of the land where you now live?
France is facing the problem that dare not speak its name. Though French law prohibits the census from any reference to ethnic background or religion, many demographers estimate that as much as 20-30 per cent of the population under 25 is now Muslim. The streets, the traditional haunt of younger people, now belong to Muslim youths. In France, the phrase "les jeunes" is a politically correct way of referring to young Muslims.
Originally posted by Siroos
No, she's a radical because she said that MUSLIMS should learn to speak Danish, - And that is not only radical, but it's totally idiotic, irrational, biased, and ignorant!
Wait a moment! I suppose you are a native Indian American?
Re you pretending that you do not quite understand what I'm saying or do you genuinely have a difficult time comprehending even simple sentences? I'm not objecting to the notion that as an immigrant one should try to learn the language of the adopted country - I'm objecting to that the Danish Queen states that MUSLIMS should learn Danish...
Not only is that a totally false accusation, but it's outright stupid to think that people who have certain religious beliefs do not speak Danish.
Originally posted by TheTruth123
To state Muslims are not in beheadings is clearly contrition which is clearly stated in the koran to behead non muslims.
If the koran said to rap chickens the muslims will do it. They never question it, they just do what ever it says and thinks it's moral way of life, fighting for allah fanstasy.
About the muslims in europe. Well i think there muiltculture race mixing agenda going on. The only reason muslims are there so they can interbreed with europeans and create a state from all the european country's.
Originally posted by Siroos
Did the American pioneers make any effort to learn the languages of the native American Indians who were the rightful owners of the land where you now live?
Sounds pretty much like the close to 200,000 Americans who lived in Iran during the Shah's time - 99.9% didn't speak one word of Farsi and never made any attempt to learn it or to integrate in Iranian society.
I wonder where in the U.S. you live.... China town in San Francisco? Elsewhere in the U.S. I would say that the overwhelming majority speak English pretty well, so I don't know how you can generalize in such a fashion as if most immigrants in the U.S. do not speak English.
Your attitude seems to be that you can impose your will, culture, language and everything else on everyone else, but that others shouldn't even dare think about doing the same to you - The real world works in a very different way!
That's their problem though, don't you think?
She should not have to walk on eggshells in order to avoid offending your sensitivities. Would you be so offended if she said that WHITE people should learn to speak the language? I don't think so.
I think that the Queen has a better view of this situation than you do. Maybe the fact is that muslims present a special problem in this area. Once again, I state that she should not be bound by PC-ness in order to avoid hurting your feelings. Your attitude in this situation indicates that you are looking for something, anything, to continue the division between the Danes and muslims.
Just remember who is in whose house here. I doubt very much that the Queen begged you (figurative you) to come settle in Denmark. I'd bet it was the other way around.
SIROOS: "Did the American pioneers make any effort to learn the languages of the native American Indians who were the rightful owners of the land where you now live?"
The settlers came here with the express intent of taking it over. Are you saying that the muslims have the same intention?
France is facing the problem that dare not speak its name. Though French law prohibits the census from any reference to ethnic background or religion, many demographers estimate that as much as 20-30 per cent of the population under 25 is now Muslim. The streets, the traditional haunt of younger people, now belong to Muslim youths. In France, the phrase "les jeunes" is a politically correct way of referring to young Muslims.
Originally posted by Siroos
I happen to be white too as are my family members - and I take offense if a non-white would make racial slurs against whites, but not because I am white, but because it's wrong. I react the same way when people make racial slurs against Jews, Hispanics, or Blacks.
The Iranians are one of the largest immigrant groups in Scandinavia, and it is also primarily Muslim (99%) and the most educated and professional among all immigrant groups, and as such the vast majority of them speak the respective languages of their adopted lands. On the other hand there are many Christian immigrants from Eritrea, Somalia and Syria, and I have found that many of them do not speak the languages of their adopted homelands. Now these are Christians and not Muslims..... Do you follow me and my argument?
I don't think I'm way off the topic here when I assert that the American pioneers did not make any effort to learn the languages of the native American Indians. I'm very much on the topic, and you dropped that one very fast because you couldn'f defend your position on that one!
You seem to think that it's ok for white Europeans to go to other peoples' lands, and even TAKE other peoples' lands and kill the native people of those lands, and ofcourse not make any effort to learn their language (Why would you want to learn the language of an extinct people anyway?) But it's not ok for a tiny minority of Muslim immigrants or other immigrants to come to your lands and not speak your language.
I think it is rather YOUR attitude and wish to create division between the Danes and the Muslims.
Can you imagine the frustration of Iranians over the fact that Americans could by law not be prosecuted in Iran for ANY crimes? The Shah was pressured/bullied to accept this by the Americans. Can you imagine an Iranian coming to the U.S. and raping a woman there and not being allowed to be prosecuted in the U.S.?
Oh, so are you implying that it's better to just invade or take a country by violent means "with the express intent of taking it over" rather than immigrating to a country and applying for a resident status? How are you thinking??? !!! Your "logic" is a little bit freightening...
The thing is, it IS mostly Muslims (and of them mostly Arabs) who represent who she is talking about. There is nothing idiotic in what she says - it's true!
First off, there is no such thing as a 'native American Indian' - they themselves came from what was today Russia and Mongolia. Second, no - I am not. This country (the US), is where my familly came to, the national language is English, hence we learned English!
I am not going to go all PC - the problem in this case IS mostly from the Muslims in that country. It's just the way it is and no amount of arguing is going to change that.
First off, they lived SEPERATELY! The Europeans didn't decide to join the Apache tribes without speaking the language for crying outloud! Second, YES, as a matter of fact they DID learn the native languages so they could interact, and third, the Europeans paid for or battled for the land we have in America today. Both are perfectly reasonable ways to aquire land if you study a little history.
And by the way - I never said that most immigrants don't speak English. I said we have a huge problem with some Mexicans not learning the language. If you have ever lived in southern California you would know what I mean. I am not just making it up - it is the way it is.
What you just said is a complete fabrication in your own mind because you can't accept that Muslims could perhaps do something better, that they make no attempt to learn the language.
No - it is MY PROBLEM because I have to PAY for THEM to live through SOCIAL PROGRAMS! It is this whole countries problem!
I have no problem with any ethnicity or whatever moving legally to another country. The US is the most diverse country in the world, and I love that aspect of it. What I do have a problem with is the group of immigrants, such as the Americans you mentioned who moved to Iran or the Mexicans who have come (mostly illegally of course) to the US, who make no attempt to learn that countries language.
Who is making racial slurs?
The Iranians are one of the largest immigrant groups in Scandinavia, and it is also primarily Muslim (99%) and the most educated and professional among all immigrant groups, and as such the vast majority of them speak the respective languages of their adopted lands. On the other hand there are many Christian immigrants from Eritrea, Somalia and Syria, and I have found that many of them do not speak the languages of their adopted homelands. Now these are Christians and not Muslims..... Do you follow me and my argument?
Yes, and you are implying that muslims are better than Christians. This is not about religion.
No defense needed. As I stated, we didn't come here to fit in with a population that we had no prior knowledge of, and who were already centuries behind us in technology and science.
You are obviously trying to deflect the conversation away from the topic with weak arguments like that.
The muslims are just as guilty of similar wrongdoings in their past. Stop throwing stones since you live in a glass house.
Siroos: Can you imagine the frustration of Iranians over the fact that Americans could by law not be prosecuted in Iran for ANY crimes? The Shah was pressured/bullied to accept this by the Americans. Can you imagine an Iranian coming to the U.S. and raping a woman there and not being allowed to be prosecuted in the U.S.?
Not our fault that you have stupid laws.
Who were the early settlers supposed to see about immigration? I would have thought you were smart enough to pick up on that...
You gotta be kidding right ? The muslims have destroyed 150 Christian churches in the last two years in Serbia's occupied Kosovo & Metohija province. Most non muslims and even some decent albanians have abandoned the province already. Looks like their goal of creating an Islamic state in the heart of Europe is working well. I don't think Chinese and black immigrants in Serbia are involved in the heroin trade, human trafficking and illegal arms trading.
Originally posted by TheTruth123
To state Muslims are not in beheadings is clearly contrition which is clearly stated in the koran to behead non muslims.
If the koran said to rap chickens the muslims will do it. They never question it, they just do what ever it says and thinks it's moral way of life, fighting for allah fanstasy.
White nationalists are the worst enemy of the elite.
This why they fire shoots at them in the media, and call them hilter supports, in order to distort their real msg, which means no immgration, no race mixing, no destroy of nations, no to global world government policy.
6. Max sure blacks, asians, indian, whites all race mix, so they can be no more differenece between people.
Originally posted by Siroos
First off, many of the immigrants who do not learn the language of their adopted lands live SEPARATELY - Like the Chinese of China town in San Francisco - you will find MANY Chinese elderly there who were even born in the U.S. and who do not speak one word of English, and I hate to dissapoint you, but they are NOT Muslims!
Well, as long as it doesn't hurt you, why do you care? They're the ones who will suffer from it, nobody else.
The whole argment I'm holding here is that it is entirely wrong to say "Muslims" do or do not speak Danish sufficiently. This has absolutely nothing to do with religion. If you say Arabs, Iranians, or this or that people, then you might have a point because there might be an inherent NATIONAL and CULTURAL trait of a particular ethnic group or nationality which causes them to beheve in a certain manner, but this does not hold true about a faith like Islam which has a billion followers of various races, countries, ethnic groups and continents.
I never said it was the religion - I said it was the people who practice Islam. Just as you could say that Christianity never said to burn women in the inquisition. SOME Christians did it, but it was not indicative of the true teachings of the religion.
Well, then the problem is not really language here for you, but rather about immigrants using the social programs of your country.
No, it is a part of my problem with some immigrants who don't bother to learn the native language.
Originally posted by Siroos
You gotta be kidding right ? The muslims have destroyed 150 Christian churches in the last two years in Serbia's occupied Kosovo & Metohija province. Most non muslims and even some decent albanians have abandoned the province already. Looks like their goal of creating an Islamic state in the heart of Europe is working well. I don't think Chinese and black immigrants in Serbia are involved in the heroin trade, human trafficking and illegal arms trading.
Aren't you twisting the facts quite a bit here? I recall that it was the (Christian) Serbian ultra-nationalists who started prosecuting the Muslims of Bosnia, putting them in concentration camps, burning their mosques and raping their women. And later the same happened in Kosovo. If there were Muslims who attacked churches there, they did so in revenge. You can not deny the fact that churches and synagogues have stood side by side in Muslim lands for up to 1400+ years! And they still stand there. While there have been local violent outbursts against Christians like in Turkey against the Armenians, this was a local thing and not at all supported by Islam. Islam preaches tolerance towards faiths. Iran is a prime expample of a Muslim society where this tolerance was practiced for centuries and is still practiced today. Spain is yet another such an example. You can read about Islamic tolerance towards Jews and Christians as written by the British Orientalist Pickthall
www.cyberistan.org...
Originally posted by LA_Maximus
Where will the current generation of Europeans draw their strength from when Muslims outnumber them 2-1?
America is still a Christian nation and we draw strength from our Christian faith, but Europe is losing that faith and that may be their downfall.
Do you think they will have their courage of their ancestors?
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We already do, unless your saying Private Scott McArdle or the other 9,000 of his brothers and sisters in arms dont have "the courage of their ancestors"?
...or will they scream for America to come rescue them again? Of course we will help, because thats the kinda people we are...a European continent ruled by Mullahs will do the world no good.
Oh so its back to the "we saved your asses" arguement is it?
What would you do?
Make "concentration camps" for the muslims?
The last time someone tried to eradicate a religion there was over a million dead.
Yeah, the Crusaders maybe burned a few villages too many, but S**t happens in war. Your a smart guy, you already know all about this, but I will always look at the Crusaders as HERO'S, but that just my opinion.
A bit more than "a few" , so if we use that arguement, if a GI shoots " a few" of his own guys on purpse its fine?
Originally posted by LA_Maximus
I have to disagree, I did not see any IBM, Exxon or GE logo's on Al Qaeda members following 9/11. All I saw was radical Islam declaring war on the west.
Originally posted by Siroos
"First they come and rape us and rob us dry, and killing us if we dare to oppose their occupation of our country, then when we go to their country in peace to create a better life for ourselves after they have exploited our resources and left us in povery, we are met with hate, discrimination and racism - Screw them! I want revenge!"