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2009-05-26 Europe

Athens: Muslim anger ignites violent response

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Posted by trailing wife 2009-05-26 06:48|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 At least three people were hospitalized in Athens on Saturday morning after a firebomb attack on a shop used as a Muslim prayer center for immigrants.

You ain't seen the last of this.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-05-26 08:13|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-05-26 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2 No, I don't think we have - if anything, the Greeks can be powerful haters, and there exists that long, long memory of being oppressed by the Ottoman Turks for centuries, during which Muslims rode rough-shod over the Orthodox Greeks. So, I don't see the Greeks rolling over and playing good dhimmi for anyone.

And currently, IIRC various letters from friends there, a lot of resentments about illegal aliens, who are presumed to be responsible for a lot of petty crime.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-05-26 08:39|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-05-26 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Until a Muslim immigrant community reaches a certain point of organization, they are humble. At some point they start demanding workplace accomodation of prayers and Halal food needs, Muslim Personal Law, then Sharia Courts. Then when they get everything, they are powerful enough to launch jihad terror.

As for the Greeks, they once held every inch of land occupied by European-Turkey. I wonder what happened there?

Posted by Uloluns Scourge of the Bunions1692 2009-05-26 08:45|| 2009-05-26 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Although Greece has a history of political violence from radical leftists and anarchists, sectarian bloodletting represents an entirely modern phenomenon.

Sorta skips over the whole mess of Cyprus doesn't it. Then again why should anyone in the MSM have a concept of 'history' that's more than a couple years old [and becoming shorter with each new day of Obama's reign].

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-26 09:28|| 2009-05-26 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The MSM's concept of history only incorporates events since they graduated from journalism school.
6 or 7 years at most.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2009-05-26 10:05|| 2009-05-26 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Kinda skips right over the post-WWII Greek Civil War, also. Guess that doesn't count as "modern".

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-05-26 11:49|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-05-26 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 sectarian bloodletting represents an entirely modern phenomenon.

I guess it depends on your definition of modern. There was wholesale slaughter of minorities in post WW1 Greece as well as mass deportations.

Arguably Israel would have never happened without the Jews expelled from Greece.

Posted by phil_b 2009-05-26 13:47|| 2009-05-26 13:47|| Front Page Top

#8 'Lynch mob' prompts refugees to flee town in northern Sweden

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-05-26 15:12|| 2009-05-26 15:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember that Greece was a Turkish (Ottoman) suzeranity until 1840, and it wasn't until after World War II that Greece reached its current boundaries. There is no love of Islam in Greece. There's a semi-open war along the northern border with Albania, with constant smuggling and other crimes. The fact that the United States managed to keep these two lifelong enemies from each other's throats through almost 50 years of NATO's existence is a modern miracle. Now that the old "Soviet Union" has collapsed, old annimosities are coming to the surface. Nor is it a one-sided solution - the behavior of Greece in the Cypriot partition, and the constant rub of the Aegean Islands' domination by Greece are constant, unhealed wounds.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-05-26 15:53|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-05-26 15:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Interesting link Anon. Funny how when Islamics riot its called 'youth anger' while if natives protest (rather wildly) its called a 'Lynch mob'.

According to the Västerbotten-Kuriren newspaper, the dispute began when a group of local youths confronted a refugee boy about the assault of a local girl which took place Tuesday night.

The initial school yard confrontation, during which the refugee boy was pressed for information rather than accused of involvement in the assault, but was also allegedly pushed to the ground, escalated during the course of the week through subsequent run ins, culminating in the weekend's disturbances.

Sounds like the locals may be getting tired of the local girls getting assulted in the streets.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-05-26 15:57|| 2009-05-26 15:57|| Front Page Top

#11 When some blacks commit acts of violence they will claim that somebody called them a bad word. When Muslims commit acts of violence they will claim that an infidel desecrated a koran. This tells me that some people are too emotionally unstable to be allowed into western society. If a word or rumor can cause you to riot and attempt to hurt people, maybe you should be premptively locked up.

Posted by Formerly Dan 2009-05-26 18:16|| 2009-05-26 18:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Duh. How about we boot out aliens with hair-trigger personalities?

Posted by Bugs Gremble3850 2009-05-26 18:38|| 2009-05-26 18:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Better yet Bugs - how about we enforce our existing immigration laws and don't let them in? (but then this is happening in Greece and not the U.S. - yet!)

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-05-26 19:21|| 2009-05-26 19:21|| Front Page Top

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