has zidane helped to softer the image of islam in europe?
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HE IS NOT A PRACTISING MUSLIM, SO HE IS NOT A MUSLIM.
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Westerners don't know nor do they care too much about Islam. But for most, when we first heard about the motivation of terrorists, we hear new words like "Jihad", "Allah", etc.\n\nThat's the first impressions for a lot of us. We didn't go looking for this "first impression", -some of Islam's "Jihadists" threw it on our doorstep.\n\nNow you ask westerners to accept a full clearer picture of what Islam is?? Then fine, -tell us how you condemn the barbaric practice of random murders and killing innocents.
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I think Zinedine Zidane is a Muslim.\nAli Karimi and Ali Daei also.\nand I see that you are a muslim too!\nnice to meet you.
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Yes. Sad but yes. I lived in the middle east  and because  of my sexuality i had to  come back to the States.I was tired of feeling that i couldn't come out to society there.In my opinion,  Islam is a very strict religion, so that is why  the society there intend to take it more difficult than others.
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Zinedine Zidane is one of the greatest player to bring meaning to classic football if it werent for him i dont think Ronaldhinos style of football would have been appreciated \nso it goes to say that the whole football community and all true soccer fans must have surely be saddened by zizus departure from football \nAUREVOIR ZIDANE
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Ken Livingstone tried peddling this garbage the other day, saying Britain was treating Muslims like Germany treated Jews in the 1930s. PLEASE! Did German Jews blow up buses? No. Have Jews in this country made an effort to integrate? Yes, and they have had an impact on this country far greater than their small number would suggest possible. Jews in Europe and Britain were not seeking to subvert western culture, while an increasing number of Muslims hope to see their religion rule us all. There was no reason to fear Jews, who owe their success to industry and energy. There is good reason to fear the increase of an aggressive, alien minority seeking to subvert our values and who don't respect civil laws.
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From what I have seen it is Muslims who have gone on a rampage blowing up subways, attacking foreign embassies, murdering artists and film-makers.  Gee let me think, I can't think of any reason Europe has to fear or despise Muslims.
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If muslims would stop acting like they act in Iran.\n\nWell, a lot of them are nice, but there are some bad guys too.\nAnd burning buildings gives people a negative image of islam.
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It is so because the rest of us let them get away with bigotry. We will gladly confront Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Liberals, Conservatives, Americans, French, Japanese, Capitalists and Communists with whatever gripe we may have with their beliefe system but when it comes to Islam, we shy away from making them uncomfortable. After 9/11, instead of being more answerable for thier baseless belief system, the wold has moved to allowing them to be more evasive. They are the "Victims" of stereotyping - not the perpetrators of more than 90% of terrorist acts in this world. They are the 'religion of peace'! Yeah right.\n\nA Christian has to struggle and give everyone a satisfactory explaination for his belief in immaculate conception or resurrection, A jew has to explain why he thinks God gave them Israel but a Muslim never has to explain why if God chose anyone for the job, why would he pick a womanizing mass-murderer to be His last prophet? A Muslim never has to explain why he thinks Jewish settlement in West Bank as occupation but why Muslims controlling all the land outside Mecca-Medina, including what is now Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan Pakistan, Jordan, Yemen and Syria not Islamic Occupation?\n\nAnd of course then there is the standard issue excuse that only 0.1% of Muslims are bad 99.9 percent of Muslims are peace loving. So here is my question: If someone gave you a glass of milk that is 99.9% milk and 0.1% cyanide, would you drink it?
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nobody really cares that much about Islam in the west.\n\nJust a fact.
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Because there are more muslims in Europe, because European politicians, police and justice system are weak, spinless entities.  Because europeans would rather them live in segregated societies, than have them live next door.  But mainly because the muslims know they can get away with it easily, because all they have to do is raise a rukus and the spinless government and gunless police, and gutless judical system pee their collective pants and cower in the corner because they don't want to hurt anyones feelings.  Churchill is spinning in his grave.  Suck as* fu*kin govt.
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Friend, this is the same all over the western world.  In the UK we have recently had a trial of a far right-wing politician who was prosecuted for calling Islam a "wicked and vicious religion."  He was found not guilty of any crime, so now the Blair government wants to change the law.\n\nNow, I totally disagree with his view about Islam, but like Voltaire I would defend to the death his right to say it.  For me better to get all the arguments out in the open and debate them.  If something is wrong or even evil, light is the best disinfectant.\n\nBy trying to bury debate and free speech today, all the politicians are doing is storing up revolution for tomorrow.
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Srdjane bre...\n\nI'm not sure quite what you are talking about....\n\nAre you talking about the Muslims in England, France , Germany, or Holland??  Or maybe the glorious Islamic history of Europe such has the Moors in Spain ..or the Ottomans :-)\n\nI wouldn't worry too much about Muslims in Europe this is not the middle ages and we have no need for crusades :-)))\n\nI think you are talking a little closer to home aren't you??\n\nWhich one Bosnia or Kosovo??  \n\nBoth by the way are not and will not be Islamic states..and are very much European like any other country... If you knew anything about Islam or these countries, you would agree...\n\n\nFirstly in Bosnia...Europe didn't support the Bosniaks..but was neutral...many Bosniaks were very angry about that...\n\nSecondly in Kosovo..at the Milosevic was president and he was the worst leader known to man kind except Hitler, Blair, and Clinton,  so when the western media broadcast those images of Kosovo on the screen..they had to intervene...Everybody was sick of Milosevic..and he was not clever enough to make a compromise...of course it would be better that Kosovo was not independent..but really there is no alternative now..it is better that you just accept it..and make the best of it..That is what the politicians are doing...\n\n\nBTW I hope you are aware that there are many Muslim Serbians...Over one million in Sandzak...\nI hope you wouldn't make me feel unwelcome :-(
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I dont know where you got your data, but I will answer on the part of ramifications..\n\n\nSomeday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. \n\nAnd liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn’t violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. \n\nIf you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention to demographics. All one has to do is watch and see what is going on in Europe, & Australia and much of the pacific rim. A radical Islam wave is changing the way the rest of those populations conduct law, and the freedoms they would otherwise enjoy.\n\nThe future, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West—wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion—is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. \n\nIn the ongoing conflict between the West and Islam, both the demographics and the will to power favor the Islamists. That a country like Spain for example, with a birth rate of 1.15 children per adult women, will extinguish itself in a few generations, while immigrants from countries such as Pakistan (birth rate 4.53) will move in to fill the vacuum. \n\nToday an aggressive, unassimilated minority edges closer to a majority (as in France, with an estimated 30% Muslim population in the under 20 age group), the character of the democratic institutions will become more closely aligned with Islamic law and culture.
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I think that everytime someone criticises islam there's always a barrage of outrage and people go on to make comparisons as a way of avoiding being thought of as offensive or not politically correct or racist.  We know these things go on and most of the world keeps quiet or turns the other cheek. Or if they dont fully understand it they resort to name calling.  Everytime something heinous happens in the west or involving another religion people are soon up in arms and demanding action or change. Whenever it involves muslim countries we're more or less told to butt out and are inundated with past histories and so on and so forth.  Instead of the here and now.  Where are the protestors against crimes such as these, they're quick enough for everything else.
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Why must the West provide an external solution to what is an internal problem?\n\nRadicalized Muslims can only dissuaded by fellow Muslims.\n\nThe West has had enough, and a peaceable context may  very well be impossible if they are attacked again--  force is what Islamic extremists will find from the Western countries.\n\nThe person below me is correct.\n\nIt's not that your suggestion is a bad one.\nExtremists have ventured beyond the bounds of reasoning-- it's what makes them dangerous.\n\nI don't wish conflict with anyone, but if it's  demanded of me, then I have no choice.
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I'm assuming that those staying in hotels in Germany for the world cup would on the whole be visitors to that country. I believe that as visitors choosing to visit another country we have an obligation to respect their laws and beliefs. We have no right to ask or expect another country to make changes for us because of our own beliefs. If we don't approve we have the choice not to go there. Bearing in mind there is no reference in your Q that infers that Muslims have asked for these changes. It may very well simply be a gesture of International etiquette so to avoid anything that may come about. Lets face it they are there to watch the best soccer the world and players have to offer, so lets just sit back and enjoy it and not turn a wonderful sporting event into a religious event. There is enough of that happening in the world already, don't you think?