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He said that Muslim women's soccer teams in Jordan and Iran compete completely covered, and no one gets hurt there. But it is one thing to have a custom made uniform designed for soccer, and quite another to be out there having your vision blocked by a headscarf.

Second, he said that Muslim women are told that their religion requires them to wear a headscarf or they will be beaten. The Koran tells women that they should dress modestly, but as with most things Muslim, they took that way overboard.

p>Finally, he ends up with the idea of assimilation of Muslims into the West. If he knew anything about Muslim teachings, he would know that there is no assimilation in Islam. There is the "house of Islam" (Muslims) and the "house of war" (every one else). When will we in the West wake up and understand that Islam is a totalitarian ideology amazingly similar to the Nazi party. We don't want to assimilate with them any more than we would want to assimilate Nazis. The goal of Islam is to bring all the world into the "house of Islam." When that occurs, then there can be peace. All that would require is the overthrow of our government, the shredding of our constitution, and rule by Muslim clerics. By all means, lets hustle down that path. br> -- Lanson Ross /p>

I am all for assimilation of anyone that wishes to come to America to stay and become a citizen. I am also all for an increased sense of modesty then we see all around us today in America, and a higher standard of moral behaviors. But then again, I am very reluctant to see the government entering into almost every possible interpersonal life style decision. I tend to want to let you live the way you wish to, as long as you are not trying to get me to change my "American" ways to suit or agree with you.

I have a problem, however, with the article by Mr. Orlet. He addresses the problem of pushback from the Islamic folks that do not wish to assimilate in the West. He does NOT address the problem of pushback from the Hispanic folks that do not wish to assimilate in America. The ones that do not wish to learn English, that want to wave the Mexican flag during demonstrations demanding rights and benefits for ILLEGAL aliens that have no desire to become real Americans. They demand a full range of government services, and they demand that the services be delivered to them in their native language, Spanish. The demand their own Hispanic studies curriculums to major in at university. And the list goes on of their demands that Americans accommodate them, as opposed to them assimilating into our society.

I could re-write that last paragraph in almost every particular and simply replace Hispanic with African-American or Black. They are increasingly demanding segregation in schooling, housing, language, culture, laws, etc. I do have to give them credit, however. They are one culture that, while coming to what is now America 400 years ago or so, they did NOT do so voluntarily. For that reason I believe in cutting them considerable slack, just not as much slack as they are currently demanding. I can not, for the life of me understand why ESPN insists of force feeding me Ebonics from its anchors and analysts instead of them speaking English.

p>In sum, Mr. Orlet, I agree with your article as far as it went, but let us not ignore the other groups that are doing the same thing as the Islamists, and in most cases, have been doing it longer. br> -- Ken Shreve br> New Hampshire /p> p>

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