Comments on: Nyamko Sabuni: an Afro-Swedish breath of fresh air

By: harry

harry — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:04:09 +0000

“What has Sabuni done to ruffle so many feathers? Oh, just a couple of little things: called for a ban on wearing the veil for girls under fifteen, proposed that schoolgirls be checked for evidence of genital mutilation, criticized “honor culture” mentalities, and asked that arranged marriages and the state financing of religious schools be banned.”

Sounds like a feminist. Where is the international sisterhood on this?

Drinking at the bottle of multiculturalism.

God, we love our metaphors here dont we?

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:48:15 +0000

I hope she is not forced into exile
(again) like Hirsi Ali.

By: Charlemagne

Charlemagne — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:36:54 +0000

Her father was a political refugee from the Congo to Zaire and then Sweden

Congo and Zaire are the same country, aren’t they?

By: Al Fin

Al Fin — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:56:49 +0000

Congo is situated between Zaire and Gabon et Cameroon.

Sane people who have experienced the insanity and the corruption of the third world and have escaped, do not want to recreate the third world within their new sanctuary from insanity.

Sabuni likes the enlightenment of western democracy. Why should she sit back and watch it become another third world cesspool without trying to prevent it?

By: CJ

CJ — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:58:54 +0000

There are actually two countries called Congo. Thew larger, better-known one has Kinshasa as its capital. It was the Belgian Congo until 1960. Its long-time dictator Mobutu Sese Seko changed its name to Zaire in the 1970s, but the name was changed back to Congo in the late 1990s. (Hmm… the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is now Prince again…) The other, smaller Congo has Brazzaville as its capital. It was officially a French colony until the 1960s and is still a part of what is essentially France’s African empire. At the United Nations it’s known as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:01:33 +0000

The only hope of West avoid a surge of refuges from the Third World is to normalize this asylum of insanity, one country after another. In many instances it would reqire re-colonization of them. Until this became possible due to radical change in Western mindset, the best policy is restrict economic migration from these countries, giving political asylum only to pro-Western dissidents. They would be valuable assets in subsequent recolonization and form future pro-Western political elite of their countries of origin.

By: Zeno

Zeno — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:21:14 +0000

The problem is not so much the “barbarians”, but those Westerners who do not believe in their own system, or, actually, in anything at all… Everything is “relative”… There is no evil and no good… Terrorists are the same as those who fight against them…