Yesterday I wrote about the unseemly squawking from the Chinese community about the outcome to a recent New Years baby contest: Jackpot Baby Loses Extra Freebies; Complaints Ensue.

The rules clearly state that “Sweepstakes only open to women… who are legal residents of the 50 United States or Washington DC.” What could be more clear? Births to illegal aliens are not eligible.

Yet when Chinese race hustlers shrieked “discrimination,” Toys ‘R’ Us folded like a cheap lawn chair. The company decided to give $25,000 savings bonds to the top three babies, hoping to keep everyone happy. However, no friend of American law and sovereignty could find this an equitable outcome [Toys 'R' Us Reverses Controversial New Years Baby Decision, New York One 1/7/07].

“This is particularly troublesome given the history of Asian-Americans in the United States, where we have been seen as invisible or treated as perpetual foreigners or second class citizens,” said Liz OuYank of the Organization of Chinese Americans. “And here, clearly, she was born in the United States, is a U.S. citizen and the award should be based on simply that.”

It’s also tiresome that Chinese continue to carp about how rotten America has been to them when they are doing quite well indeed as a group (e.g. the household income of Asians living in the US is 117% that of non-Hispanic Whites). A story in today’s New York Times described at length how UC Berkeley has become “overwhelmingly Asian.”

Another jackpot baby article included a threat from one of the Chinese shakedown artists who stirred up all this trouble [In Reversal, Toys 'R' Us Gives 3 Baby Prizes, New York Times 1/07/07].

Some people were concerned that the parents’ status had been exposed, he said. “But the safest place is actually the eye of the storm,” Mr. Wang said, “and any politician who says we should deport the parents, it would be the end of their political career.”

The episode marks one more assault on the idea of multi-racial assimilation, in which an immigrant group clearly sides with lawbreakers of its tribe against the national American community.

Of all Europe, Spain should be the most nervous about Muslim immigration. Parts of Spain were ruled by Islam for centuries, and that’s not the sort of detail Muslims overlook. They want it back, period.

Spain’s bishops are alarmed by ambitious plans to recreate the city of Cordoba - once the heart of the ancient Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus - as a pilgrimage site for Muslims throughout Europe.

Plans include the construction of a half-size replica of Cordoba’s eighth century great mosque, according to the head of Cordoba’s Muslim Association. Funds for the project are being sought from the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and Muslim organisations in Morocco and Egypt.Other big mosques are reportedly planned for Medina Azahara near Cordoba, Seville and Granada.

The bishops of those cities are alarmed at the construction of ostentatious mosques, fearing that the church’s waning influence may be further eclipsed by resurgent Islam financed from abroad. Up to one million Muslims are estimated to live in Spain. Many are drawn by a romantic nostalgia for the lost paradise of Al-Andalus, the caliphate that ruled Spain for more than five centuries.

Last month, Spanish Muslims reasserted their right to pray in Cordoba’s great mosque. The mosque houses within its arches a cathedral built to consolidate Catholic rule after Muslims were expelled from Spain in 1492. Muslims are forbidden to pray in the building. Spanish bishops fear rebirth of Islamic kingdom   [1/5/07]

Many supporters of Western civilization breathed a sigh of relief when the Bishop of Cordoba rejected the idea that Muslims could pray in the local cathedral. Muslims have been jabbering their Cordoba demands for years, incidentally.

In October, Spanish villages agreed to tone down celebrations which featured exploding dummies representing Mohammad, so it’s not like Spaniards haven’t succumbed to Dhimmitude in the recent past.

Muslims also don’t like the statues of Santiago Matamoros that show Spain’s patron saint striking down Muslims with his sword. Not very multicultural.