18. EU group wants hammer & sickle banned
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Fox News

"A group of conservative European Union lawmakers from eastern Europe called Thursday for a ban on communist symbols, including the red star and the hammer and sickle, to match a proposed EU ban on the Nazi swastika. The group from Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic said the communist symbols should be included in any ban because of the suffering caused by Soviet-backed regimes in eastern Europe. 'We would like to have an equal treatment of the other evil totalitarian regime of the communist system,' said Jozsef Szajer, an Hungarian member of the European Parliament. EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini has proposed a Europe-wide ban on display of the swastikas and other Nazi symbols as part of a campaign to combat anti-Semitism and intolerance."
(02/03/05)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146288,00.html

Indeed, it only killed almost 10 times as many people as Nazism did. R.J. Rummel estimates Nazism to have killed about 20 million people, and communist about 170 million

R.J Rummel’s Freedom, Democide, and war home page
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23. Germany: Unemployed could be offered brothel work
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Washington Times

"Germany's trade union federation has warned that unemployed people can legally be asked to seek work in brothels under new welfare reforms introduced on Jan. 1 aimed at cutting mass joblessness. The reforms, the toughest package of cuts introduced by any German government since World War II, state that people out of work for more than 12 months must take on any type of work or face cuts in their benefits. Prostitution is legal in Germany and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's center-left government gave prostitutes employment protection rights in 2002. Prostitutes are now eligible for social welfare benefits." (02/03/05)

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050202-112808-5860r.htm

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Freedom House has recently posted this in depth analysis of official Saudi influence on domestic Muslims. An astounding condemnation of the government of one of the most oppressive majority Arab / Muslim regimes, nearly all of which are brutal dictatorships or theocracies.

Saudi Publications on Hate Idealogy fill American Mosques

"This report is a first step in an effort to contain the destructive ideology being proliferated by the Wahhabis within the American homeland. Hopefully it will lead to the removal of tracts spreading hatred within American mosques, libraries and Islamic centers. The publications analyzed in this Report and others like them that advocate an ideology of hatred have no place in a nation founded on religious freedom and toleration"

http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/publications/Saudi%20Report/FINAL%20FINAL.pdf