germans

German court convicts man for insulting Islam Okay, what the guy did was quite amazingly rude, inexcusably so; but a conviction for insulting a religion? Not harassment, not "hate speech", but "insulting religion"; a crime that carries up to a 3 year jail sentence. (I'm curious if German...

The really screwy thing is that he was arrested in 1987 while trying to board another plane with liquid explosives. I can't say that this is entirely unexpected, but what chance does anyone have of defeating an enemy if there is such an imbalance of national strategies? On one side we have...

Link Twenty billion dollars skimmed off the top and sent into foreign bank accounts. Let's hear once more how Iraqi children were dying because the bad old U.S. was starving them and preventing them from getting medical care.

Germans must work as prostitutes Now this is just wrong. First Swedes imprisoning pastors for preaching from the bible against homosexuality inside their churches and now Germany requiring folks to become prostitutes or lose unemployment benefits? The US is frequently criticised, sometimes...

Excellent. Those giving up their TVs in favor of a computer will still have to pay license, despite not having a TV, despite not being able to even watch TV. Grossly unfair.

A long read but hopefully worth it...... Theres a discussion in Politics forum about the BOB. The opinion has been voiced by yours truly, LW and perhaps a few others that even if the Luftwaffe had continued to put pressure on airfields and radar stations, Op Sealion could never work. Heres why...

In Germany how is The Enlightenment viewed and taught in schools? What do Germans teach and think about Marx, Hegel, Bauer, Nietzsche, etc? Is Marx seen as the pinnacle of the Enlightenment Era, as one who ended the Enlightenment, as one who ruined the Enlightenment, what? Do Germans see The...

I am not sure whether a tribunal should be solely Iraqi or International. But, if it is international, should France and their fellow travelers participate? I vote yes since Saddam is in no position to bribe them. The difficulty is that the sensitive europeans think that the death penalty is...

veeeeery interesting....