Hadji is one who has done Hadj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, a long arduous trip for most, was indeed an accomplishment in the old days. In one of the Indian languages there is a saying involving the word Hadji, which sort of means I scratch your back, I will scratch yours. You call me Qazi or Qadi ( judge or an officer who presdies presides over matters of law) and I will call you Hadji.

population growth rate of most european countries is very small. Immigration in mo way threatens their economic growth. If anything, their social welfare systems will need immigrants to support increasingly larger percentage ofolder population. Yet anti-immigrant feelings are on the rise.

As of a minute ago, nothing on cnn.com about this. But...BBC and aljazeera.net are both covering it.

It has been the expereince, that the "liberal" media and non-liberal media aswell, do not cover news about lesser people unless either a U.S interest (buisness or people) or allies of the U.S. (pecking order Great Britain, Western Europe, except France, France, Eastern Europe, followed by Japan and Korea) are involved.

No attention? I even heard about it on the radio while driving to MUC recently.

My favourite quote from a U.S. network news bulletin a few years ago went something like this:

"An overloaded Ferry capsized in Bangladesh today killing more than 350 people. No Americans were on board" [END OF STORY, elapsed time, probably 7 or 8 seconds, ...??]

Totally OT but...

Ethnic slurs sometimes live a very strange life cycle. For instance, when I was a child, the ethnic slurs of the jour (in the seventies) were "....!" and "Nig Nog!". You could be riding your bike and a passing motorist would blow his horn and shout "F'ing ....!". Fumbling for change on the bus - driver gets impatient and could yell "Come on you Bloody ....!". Slightest altercation with anyone in authority "Oi, ....!, listen to me..." I recall it was an extremely insulting phrase at the time, but now young English lads of South Asian ancestry openly call themselves ....'s. I suppose this is similar to the development of the "N" word

I'm quite sure once the word Haji is popularized in America by returning soldiers, 20 or 30 years down the road, young Americans with Middle Eastern ancestry will be calling one another Haji. None of this makes it right to use etnic slurs in the first place. They are extremely hurtful words that represent bigotry.

Like those arms being "hand-carried" by some refugees turned US citizens for supposedly elephant hunting in Africa ( illegal and non-ethical btw) but ended up being used by their comrade terrorists in the ex-Yougoslavia

Not the MSM in NAmerica but if you read news in Asia and Africa, they have mentioned it as well as this one . Since there is no Jihadists or word that ends with "Allah", the journalists are deaf.

Can you be a bit more specific instead of vague here?

Yeah, I am really disappointed with terrorist plot are bad people were trying blow up the aircraft.

Would you mind expanding on that last bit about terrorists in the FRY?

Unless cars drive on water, it seems like you heard about it in Europe -- where it got far more coverage than here in the US, where it got very little attention.

Reference toward the KLA in and around the FYR.

This may help: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in681562.shtml

So European media isn't international? The OP talked about no attention in the INTERNATIONAL media...

And btw, yes, on Thursday night my car literally drove on water. Lots of it. Luckily, it also had night vision installed, so I could still see through all the rain.