Source: New York Post
December 23, 2010 By Abby Wisse Schachter
Soeren Kern has a comprehensive and extremely troubling rundown of all the recent dust-ups and outright clashes between Spain and the Muslims who call it home . The latest incident could be dubbed Jamon Justice:
"At the Instituto Menéndez Tolosa, a secondary school in the town of La Línea de la Concepción in the southern region of Andalusia,... José Reyes Fernández, a geography teacher, was giving a lecture about the different types of climates in Spain. During the class, Reyes mentioned that the climate in Andalusia offers the perfect temperature conditions for curing Spanish ham (Jamón Ibérico), a world-famous delicacy.
"At this point, a Muslim student in the class interrupted Reyes and, according to local newspaper reports, argued that any talk of pork products is offensive to his religion. Reyes responded by saying that he was only giving an example and that he does not take into consideration different religious beliefs when teaching geography.
"The Muslim student informed his parents, who then proceeded to file a lawsuit against Reyes, accusing him of "abuse with xenophobic motivations." Article 525 of the Spanish Penal Code makes it a crime to "offend the feelings of the members of a religious confession."
More troubling have been threats against nightclubs for their Arabic sounding names and the discovery of Pakistanhi women who are being held against their will, sexually assaulted and forced to marry their relatives.
Meanwhile, the same oppression of Muslim women is going on in Britain as this week an actress who appeared in the Harry Potter films escaped from her home and a beating from her father and brother for dating a Hindu .
Both Spain and Britain are going to have to confront the obvious fact that there is little to no assimilation and that lack of integration is causing more and more clashes between recent immigrants from Islamic countries and their new found European domiciles.
As far as assimilation goes, America does have good lessons to teach our European friends. But at the same time government officials here seem to be as allergic to speaking straightforwardly and honestly about the homegrown threat of radcal Islam as the Spanish and the English.
