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ISIS claims responsibility for Berlin lorry attack
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror organization Tuesday admitted to being behind Monday's attack, when a lorry driven by one of its “soldiers,” crashed into a Berlin Christmas market, leaving 12 people dead. Read full article
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Dec 21st, 2016 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -1In the news: “Tunisian suspect in Berlin Christmas market attack faced past German terror probe”..... “... 24-year old Tunisian migrant — was the subject of a terrorism probe in Germany earlier this year and was not deported even though his asylum bid was rejected...”
Dec 21st, 2016 - 11:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Was... not.... deported.
And you wonder how Trump and similar politicians are garnering so much popular support?
Serious question: how many refugees has America actually taken?
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 12:34 am - Link - Report abuse -1But perhaps all countries should just throw out any immigrants living there. Are you a citizen of Argentina, Marti?
Certainly all the illegals.
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 01:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh but in the thread about Argentine politicians starting to question the last two decades of lax immigration controls and easy access to DNIs, you all came out calling the Argies Nazis.
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse -3Basically, yet again, if YOU do it is ok, if others do it is wrong.
Anglos and EUians are just never going to change, the most hypocrite entities that breathe in this part of the galaxy.
No we didn't, most people said he sounded perfectly reasonable.
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1It is notable how much immigrants like Marti and ChrisR complain about other immigrants 'ruining' countries though. At least ChrisR is actually capable of saying something positive about Uruguay occasionally.
I don't recall Marti complaining about immigrants ruining countries. In fact the new Somali factory managers and shipyard bosses here in Argentina are doing a splendid job.
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Third party or wrong account...?
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Weird or funny...;-))
@Voice
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Nah, he just likes to talk about himself in the third person. It is weird.
@ML
“Not long ago I went back to the neighbourhood of my old residence in what was then West Germany, in the early 1970s before I came to Argentina. That Germany of today was nothing like the Germany of 1970. What had then been a tidy and industrious area now looks like a Turkish slum. Eine große, zum Himmel stinkende Sauerei.”
Perhaps you just have a bad memory? Of course, what you mostly prefer is slagging off the country that is kind enough to let you live there.
@DT “looking like a Turkish slum” is a figure of speech in both Argentina and Germany. It's a generic expression for disorderly appearance. It reminds me of the way Americans refer to a “Chinese fire drill” as another type of disorder, but without suggesting expelling the Yellow Peril.
Dec 22nd, 2016 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Around here turco is not normally an insult nor is it associated with kicking out immigrants. A turco is anybody who looks like maybe they had once seen someone from the Middle East. Funnier still: there were some Israelis at a local restaurant and the waiter didn't recognise that language they were speaking, and that waiter said something to the cook about “los turcos” at such and such table.
A Turkish slum in Germany can mean just what was written in German: a slum that stinks, as opposed to the more traditional order of German neighbourhoods. In fact we had an AR president that Néstor fawned over who was affectionately called El Turco. I happen to have a couple of Turkish neighbours here who would be truly disappointed if they suspected any animosity.
A careful re-reading of the original will show that it does not suggest the lynching of immigrants, as you might allege.
@ML
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's interesting, do you have a link explaining this phrase?
But it's not a figure of speech in English. If you say 'Turkish slum' then people will assume you mean 'Turkish slum', especially when you are talking about a country with a large Turkish immigrant population, such as Germany.
So what do you think of the various immigrants in the US and EU? Ruining countries or not?
@DT “So what do you think of the various immigrants in the US and EU? Ruining countries or not?”
Dec 24th, 2016 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0That is as stupid a question as “what do you think of the various chemicals in the US and EU? Ruining countries or not?”
Try to be a little more specific.
Well you're quite right. I've got too used to certain posters on here who seem happy to lump all immigrants together.
Dec 24th, 2016 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +1But fine. How about workers from EU countries in the UK? Muslim immigrants and their children also in the UK? Or Latin Americans in Spain? And of course the latest batch of refugees?
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