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Polygamy is banned in Germany - but many officials “turn a blind eye” to migrants who arrive in the country with more than one wife, according to the German newspaper Bild.
kurogane wrote:Feckin cavemen.
wagyl wrote:kurogane wrote:Feckin cavemen.
And how does this differ from Christian traditions of sacrifice (like giving up being racist or faithist for Lent)?
Fun fact: the following were classified as fish for Lenten dietary purposes: beaver, seal, porpoise, heron, even sheep found drinking from streams.
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Tanzverbot is the German term for "dancing ban". In Germany and Switzerland, dancing on some holidays is banned by most state or canton governments. These occasions are certain Christian and secular holidays aimed at mourning or contemplation, such as Good Friday, All Saints' Day (from its association with All Souls' Day practices) or memorial days like Volkstrauertag. The German and Swiss dancing bans prohibit public parties, but not dancing in one's private residence.
Until 1999, an ordinance in Pound, Virginia required that dance hall permits not be granted "to anyone who is not a proper person, nor to a person who is not a person of good moral character".
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wagyl wrote:kurogane wrote:Feckin cavemen.
And how does this differ from Christian traditions of sacrifice (like giving up being racist or faithist for Lent)
wagyl wrote: Fun fact: the following were classified as fish for Lenten dietary purposes: beaver, seal, porpoise, heron, even sheep found drinking from streams.
Russell wrote:Yeah, Christians would never resort to violence...
Russell wrote:Yeah, Christians would never resort to violence...
kurogane wrote:PEACE IN OUR TIME
Merkel vows to keep Germany safe from terror and rescind all negative effects of gravity and centrifugal force
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/eu ... error.html
I can think of a few I know (and usually love or at least quite like) that will be reassured. Everybody else is buying canned food and bullets. This is like having Charlie Chaplin run the anti-slapstick campaign. Does this woman have no shame?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Russell wrote:Yeah, Christians would never resort to violence...
Christianity is not currently the threat to the world that Islamism/Jihadism are.
kurogane wrote:most will want to go home at some point, when their homes get unshittified.
wagyl wrote:I am guessing that you are puzzled by the difference between legal rape and illegal rape.
The singular life of a Syrian refugee in Japan
It sounds like a sadly familiar story. A plan for the family to stick out the war in Syria while the children finish their education — but then a missile strikes their home.
Jamal, 24, remembers running to the basement after the first explosion and hearing the horrifying sounds above. His younger sister went into shock, prompting his terrified mother to slap her. Like so many other Syrians, they decided they had to leave.
But Jamal and his sister and mother didn’t follow other Syrians to Europe or North America. Instead, after a brief stay in Egypt, they flew to Japan in October 2013. The next year, they were granted refugee status.
In their new home, that makes them an oddity. According to recent figures from the Japanese Ministry of Justice, as of 2015, only six Syrians have been accepted as refugees in the country. Jamal’s family, who asked not to be fully identified because of concerns about their relatives in Syria, make up half that number.
The situation isn’t much better for refugees from other nations. Last year, Japan received a record 7,586 applications for refugee status. Just 27 were granted.
This unusual situation has helped make Jamal a sought-after, unofficial spokesman. He’s frequently interviewed by Japanese reporters and gives lectures to students about his experiences. “I always start my presentations talking about Syria,” he explained recently over coffee in the suburbs of Tokyo, “because most Japanese people think that it is just a desert or something.”
To be fair, back in Syria there was a lot Jamal didn’t know about Japan, either. His closest interaction with Japanese culture came through anime, which he watched online with Arabic subtitles.
Jamal’s family had planned to head to Sweden, where a cousin was living. But the Swedish visa was denied, and an uncle who was married to a Japanese woman helped them get to Japan instead.
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That early period was tough. Tensions soon boiled over in his uncle’s house, so Jamal’s family moved out. Not yet authorized to work legally, Jamal found employment on sketchy, sometimes dangerous demolition jobs. After a nail went through his foot, he got tetanus and spent a week in the hospital.
“It was the worst period in my life,” he said. Later, Jamal said he worked 15 hours a day, six days a week at a burger chain. By then he was legally able to work, and it was certainly better than the demolition jobs, but still grueling: It took him an extra hour and a half just to get to and from the restaurant every day.
He eventually found a better-paying job, teaching English to kindergarten-age children. After the family’s refugee status was approved, he began taking full-time language lessons. Jamal now speaks Japanese at a conversational level. He has made friends through soccer, playing for two local clubs. Like his Japanese teammates, Jamal heads out to the izakayas for post-match beer and food — though the beer is alcohol-free and he avoids pork because of his faith. He attends Friday prayer at Tokyo Camii, the largest mosque in Japan.
Japanese often assume he is European. Some are surprised when he reveals he’s Syrian. “Some of them I can tell from their faces that they didn’t like it,” he added, “but they don’t say anything.”
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Jamal could not explain why his family was the exception. He said that his mother, who used to work for Syrian state television, was interviewed numerous times in long sessions that left her in tears.
He understood Japan’s apprehension about refugees, to an extent. Friends who have ended up in Germany have told him about dangerous Syrians they’ve met in the country. “If they accept everyone without being strict . . . of course the country will be in chaos like what’s happened in France,” he said. “If you are at home and somebody knocks your door and says, ‘I want to come in,’ you wouldn’t let him come, right? You need to know him.”
But if Japan can’t take in the thousands of Syrians that European or North American nations are taking, Jamal said, it should still do more than it’s doing now. “If, for example, they accepted all the Syrians who are living here — 500 or so — it wouldn’t have such a big impact because they are separated in each prefecture,” he said.
But a recent survey conducted by Ipsos MORI found that just 18 percent of Japanese believed that refugee integration could be a success, while 46 percent disagreed.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:spent a week in the hospital.
“It was the worst period in my life,” he said.
wagyl wrote:Is this really so different from the post World War II movements of people? How many of those formerly Displaced People and their children ended up going back to Europe?
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