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...ways around the problems—a lessening of France’s now-infamous racism would probably do a lot to help—but, to state the obvious fact, history has no real examples of how a society formerly of one cultural, linguistic, and ethnic mode can transform into a society where a significant number of citizens don’t accept or even actively attack the societal norms. Europe is now witnessing the first serious consequences of its collective holiday from reality. Finally it is becoming clear that the continent’s social models as currently...
...some 1,500 mosques in the U.S., ADAMS is one of the more progressive. Its $5 million center in Sterling serves 5,000 mostly middle- and upper-middle-income Sunni and Shi'ite families from more than a dozen ethnic backgrounds. In many mosques abroad and in the U.S., women are required to pray in rooms separate from the men. At ADAMS, women not only pray in the same room with the men (although in a partitioned-off section in the back), they hold four of the 13 seats on the mosque's board of trustees and chair a majority...
...ethnic underclass, jobless and futureless, warehoused in sterile and isolated block housing, has been seething for decades. France has responded with willful blindness (even before this intifadeh, France was experiencing dozens of car arsons a night, but you did not hear about it because official France just accepted this as the norm) and pacification, creating a lavish welfare system to keep its angry youth well clad, well fed and well provided with cell phones...
Leaders of various student groups convened last night to discuss minority participation in campus politics and to pledge continued cooperation between groups to improve minority representation in political issues. The discussion, co-sponsored by the Harvard College Democrats and a number of ethnic and gender groups, was the first of its kind in recent years and drew around 100 people. “This event we hope is the beginning of a discussion that will last a while and bring substantive changes to how campus politics function,” said Magdey A. Abdallah ’07, outreach director...
...dramatic and ugly as the violence has been, however, the banlieue riots do not represent a new opportunity for jihadist recruiters, nor does it bear the fingerprints of Islamist instigators. That ethnic Arabs are vastly over-represented in the banlieue is no secret. Neither is the exploitation of the rampant misery and racism of the suburbs by Islamists recruiters. But the youths currently involved in rioting don't fit the profile sought by highly secretive jihadists, whose primary fear is infiltration by the authorities. Most rioters are active in their own neighborhoods, are known to the inhabitants looking...