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State TV Channel WDR Advertises Headscarfs

It is no different from America’s ignorant, uninformed, brain-washed citizens, the so-called ‘progressives’, who got it all wrong. Anything Islam incl. the attire belongs in the century, that are stuck in the 1500s or the 16th century. Western countries would do much better to help this people with their transition into the 21st century and the real world. We, sure as hell, are not going conform with their outdated attitudes.

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I came to America in 1977, after having lived my first 38 years in my native country, Germany. I resided in Zurich, Switzerland and Annecy, France in my early 20s, studied English and French, both mandatory languages in High School, at a Business Language College in Frankfurt. Being curious about the rest of the world, I left my various office jobs as secretary, office manager, court transcriber and entered the travel industry in the mid-70s, as a licensed city guide in Frankfurt and translator. I pursued escorting groups through Europe, the United States and Canada and was successful. My love for travel took me to Yemen, Oman, Jordan, The United Emirates, Bahrain and Sri Lanka as well as to South Africa, with which I truly fell in love. I had always an interest in writing and often got an A+ for my essays in high school. Later on, I expressed my opinions in letters to newspapers. They were usually published. I volunteered as press secretary at one of Germany’s annual “Kirchentag”, a global convention of Christian ministers in the country. I met my husband, Denis, a native of Chicago, an educator and former Peace Corps volunteer in the late 70s in Scottsdale, AZ. He had just escaped from a country close to a revolution, followed by the ousting of Shah Reza Pahlavi in Iran. We were married in 1981 by Sandra Day O’Connor, just after her appointment to the US Supreme Court, in the backyard of our close friend Louise in Scottsdale. After we lived in the Los Angeles area for a short time, my husband was contracted by the University of Petroleum and Minerals in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia in 1982, where he had served twice already. I was happy to follow him on a new venture (new for me) to spend 6 years there. In the early years, I acted as a representative for ALIA, the Jordanian Airline, Gulf Air, based in Bahrain and organized and escorted groups of university faculty members to Yemen on 3 different occasions. In 1985, back in Arizona, I became an American citizen. At that time we started Egan Tour Service, Inc., a receptive tour operator, catering to European groups traveling into the U.S. and Canada. Something I had planned for a long time! We operated the Company successfully until the end of 1999, when we both returned to Saudi Arabia for a last assignment of my husband’s many “visits” to the region, not knowing that this would last just a short 2 years with the dreadful attack on New York on September 11, 2001. We were traumatized! The world would never be the same again. We returned back home 3 weeks later. It is important for me to state, that the university’s campus also housed 500 faculty members of various ethnic groups of all colors, backgrounds from many foreign countries. I very much enjoyed the interaction with all of them, exchanging customs, speaking different languages and socializing. Since my husband had spent 17 years of his working life in countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia during 3 different decades, he started a speaking series back in the US, about the Middle East, it’s culture, languages, history and religion of the different Islamic factions at colleges and private institutions. I, who always loved homes and interior design, tried my luck in real estate, which I worked in until 2011. I am now retired and a hobby painter, love classical music, the outdoors golf and skiing and our social life with friends. I am a proud and fierce supporter of our DULY ELECTED President, Donald Trump. 8 years of a green horn like Barrack Hussein Obama, a community organizer and ACTIVIST who almost brought the Country to its knees with either intended or irresponsible presidency. Coming from a socialist country like Germany and the previous communistic regime of Eastern Germany, I am deeply saddened about America’s plunge into division of it’s people, the rebirth of racism and hate, orchestrated by President Obama.

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4 thoughts on “State TV Channel WDR Advertises Headscarfs”

  1. Benjamin Goldstein January 14, 2018 — 7:19 pm

    You won’t believe it, but the Tweet is blocked in Germany now. I may not see it anymore.

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      americathenandnowblog January 14, 2018 — 8:52 pm

      I do believe this Ben. That has happened to me a few times on Facebook and twitter. I don’t know if wordpress will do that. We have so many sites here. I wrote a long response to ARD Tagesschau which I watch every morning and first things was, the “derogatory ‘ comments by Donald Trump about Haiti and Africa. I am not sure that they even allowed it. I am pretty outspoken and direct.

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      1. Benjamin Goldstein January 14, 2018 — 9:28 pm

        Twitter and Facebook become hell for conservatives now. I think Milo Yiannopolous is sueing Twitter at the moment. I don’t know how Pamela Geller’s lawsuit is doing at the moment. German blogger Juergen Fritz is also sueing FB. The particular tweet of this post was probably blocked in Germany because WDR claimed copyrights violations. That’s how they enforce censorship at the moment. No media, but state media and they go for free floating material. So people can’t discuss footage. Merkel is hardly ever on camera anyway (in speaking roles).

        I think WordPress runs under the radar of the German government. Not because it would not meet the definition of a social network und der the new censorship law NetzDG; it does, but the German state lives in the middle ages. They don’t understand the internet. For them, each WordPress site looks like a new space. Only we as bloggers know that we are not different from Facebook. Still it’s a matter of time until they figure it out.

        WordPress as a company rarely looks into the community content. I have only heard of one instance when they blocked a site temporarily, and that was a pro-Nazi site.

        I don’t make my way through the Tagesschau website. I wonder how many people do. I’ve seen a poll that shows that most Germans who admit using the internet as news source (a moral problem for Germans) do actually read ‘tagesschau.de’. But rarely does one find comments. I don’t believe it.

        Here was my summary of the poll with a link to the original:
        https://goldsteinweb.wordpress.com/2017/09/22/reuters-insitute-digital-news-report-germany/

        If you ever may need a space where you really, really can vent off -also under a pseudonym if you wish- and still converse with civilized commentators, there is a small free speech niche, even wild for US settings, that I can recommend:
        http://www.writerbeat.com
        They only ask to leave two or three comments on other people’s articles within 24 hours before publishing your own text. They have very, very diverse opinions.

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        americathenandnowblog January 15, 2018 — 1:28 am

        THANK YOU SO MUCH, GOOD NEWS. I WAS NOT AWARE OF IT.

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