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Sometimes I must admit that I find it difficult to think that this is going to become the 

 

one world religion. But what is even more amazing is how many so called, "liberals", 

 

actually defend Islam while railing against Christianity. This religion of Islam takes 

 

close-mindlessness  to unheard of new heights. The only thing wrong with this photo shoot 

 

is the clothes that the designer is attempting to pass off as style. What a messed up world we live in.

 

 

'Migrant chic' fashion photoshoot in Hungary branded as 'sick'

 

Images of models posing next to barbed wire fences and struggling with riot police causes outrage

From the Holocaust and slavery through to "homelessness chic", the world of high fashion has never been afraid to tackle the most sensitive of issues in the least sensitive of ways.

Now, haute couture is causing fresh outrage by turning its attention toEurope's migrant crisis - and the opportunities it offers to display luxury clothing brands.

In a move that has ignited a storm of protest on social media, Norbert Baksa, a Hungarian photographer, has published a photoshoot inspired by the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have made their way through his home country in recent months.

One shows a model in faux-peasant garb taking a "selfie" while stood next to a barbed wire fence. Another shows a woman dressed in a black Islamic headscarf and high-heeled boots, struggling with a riot policeman. In one pose, the model's top comes loose as she tries to free from the policeman's grip, half-exposing her breasts.

 

 

 

Predictably, the photo spread - entitled "Der Migrant" - has not gone quite as the creator intended it. "Some dude has actually done a fashion photoshoot on the theme of migrants," wrote one commentator on Twitter, branding it "art gone berserk". Another added: "This is not a parody, just sick".

 

 

Mr Baksa's response, many might argue, has been just as predictable. First he said the controversy was simply to "draw attention" to the issue. And then, in a long and rambling statement, he blamed "the media".

In a note posted on his website, he wrote: "I do not understand how people can take a clear stand (pro or con) while we are flooded with contradictory information through the media, so no one has extensive knowledge of the situation as a whole.

"This is exactly what we wanted to picture: you see a suffering woman, who is also beautiful and despite her situation, has some high quality pieces of outfit and a smartphone.”

 

 

In causing upset around the globe, Mr Baksa is following down a long and well-trodden catwalk in which fashionistas have tried to mix politics with style statements, mostly with disastrous results.

Among those that have backfired spectacularly were a striped shirtproduced by Zara, the Spanish clothing retailer, which bore a pointed yellow star reminiscent of those worn by Holocaust prisoners. Another was a trend feature on Vogue Italia's fashion website titled "Slave earrings", which drew allegations of racism.

The Vatican, meanwhile, was appalled at a Benetton advert showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing Ahmed el Tayyeb, a senior Egyptian imam, which the chain used in a campaign called "Unhate".

The trend for adverts that deliberately courted controversy was first started by Benetton in 1992, when it used a picture of an Aids sufferer surrounded by his grieving family. Benetton said it was intended to "make people talk about dying of Aids". Cynics said it was intended to make people talk about Benetton.

The trend was satirised - just - in the Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander, when a fashion mogul announces a new brand, Derelicte, described as "a fashion, a way of life inspired by the homeless, the vagrants, the crack wh****."

The fashion designer John Galliano used clothing worn by the destitute as an inspiration for a real-life fashion line in 2000.

 

 

 

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Here's another, I say if ya can't take bigotry and single-mindedness then don't dish it out.

 

 

Muslims prepare for weekend of anti-Islam protests

By Lauren Markoe | Religion News Service October 8

Muslim leaders and anti-bigotry activists are girding for a weekend of protests — some billed as “open-carry events” — by groups known for their anti-Muslim views.

“We’ve never had this many events at once targeting mosques in this kind of national way,” said Heidi Beirich, who tracks hate groups at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Organizers, who are calling for protests on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 9 and 10), are billing the events as the “Global Rally for Humanity.” Beirich describes the protesters as a loose affiliation of anti-Muslim extremists who do not seem to be organized by larger, better-known anti-Muslim groups, such as Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative.

“This mix of racist groups, anti-Muslim groups and anti-government groups is basically a recipe for disaster,” Beirich said.

Kalia Abiade, of the Center for New Community, a Chicago-based anti-bigotry group, said some of the largest crowds are expected to protest outside mosques and Muslim community centers in Phoenix; Arlington, Texas; Dearborn, Mich.; and Ocala and Spring Hill, Fla. At least 20 protests are planned.

 

Some are scheduled for Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, but many are scheduled for Saturday, when mosques are often filled with children going to religious class.

Law enforcement agencies — from the Department of Homeland Security to the FBI to local police — are working with mosques and Muslim community centers to help keep them safe, said participants in a Thursday (Oct. 8) conference call hosted by the Center for New Community and other groups concerned about the vitriol of the protestors and the potential for violence.

Some mosques are hiring off-duty police to increase security. Muslim leaders are reviewing safety procedures with congregants and, in some cases, organizing counterevents, such as the free community health clinic planned in Spring Hill, Fla.

Paul Galloway, executive director of the American Center for Outreach in Tennessee, said law enforcement agencies in Tennessee’s urban areas have been exceedingly cooperative as Muslims prepare for a possible onslaught of anti-Muslim sentiment.

But in the past three months alone, he added, two Tennessee sheriffs have publicly made anti-Muslim comments. In more rural areas where sheriffs are elected, such bigotry “degrades our confidence in law enforcement,” he added.

Galloway is working to protect the mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn., which was picketed by anti-Muslims even before it opened in 2012.

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we need to start playing cowboys and Muslims

If I thought for a second that was were this was going I'd lead the way.

 

However, I have read the book and that is not how this is going to play out. 

 

Sorry, my friend, but America must pay the price for the millions of innocent murders 

 

committed in the name of convenience. There's just no way around that, and ISIS is 

 

here to see to it that happens. It was the LION that brought them to our door.

 

 As he was born on August 4, he is a Leo (July 23-Aug 22).

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