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Comment author: Val 09 January 2016 08:25:46PM 0 points [-]

As I said, I don't wish to dig too deep into this topic, but just for the sake of you understanding what I meant, a few examples: removing a statue from a town square because Muslims objected to it, courses at the workplace about how to behave to not offend Muslims (instead of courses for them how to behave not to offend locals), forbidding cultural events (like Christmas celebrations in kindergarten), and even the scantly clad women issue was addressed in a German town where the mayor asked women to dress more modestly to not offend the immigrants. And, the general tendency to call everything what Europeans might not like in Muslim values as "phobia" or "racism", but not doing the same thing in the other direction.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 January 2016 09:02:18PM 2 points [-]

if you can show similar concessions not being made to other groups, you'd be onto something.

From my home town:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065752/Anger-rollercoaster-shares-poison-gas-Zyklon-used-Holocaust-concentration-camps.html