"The great majority of French Muslims are melting successfully into the social mainstream," comments Soheib Bencheikh, the liberal mufti of Marseilles.
It's not just conservatives like Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonan and David Brooks (see his column today) who have lowered the bar so far that even a grasshopper could not limbo under it: See mainstream comments by Adam Nagourney in the Times and Dan Balz in the Post and David Broder.
Here's an excerpt: It's something of a mystery why the climate contrarian blogosphere lit up in response to Annan's fairly mainstream, uncontroversial comments, other than the fact that he was rather critical of the IPCC.
"In Japan, literature is no longer mainstream culture," commented Yoshinori Shimizu, a professor of literature and a book critic for Asahi Shimbun, Toyko's leading newspaper.
On Mariz Tadros's blog about why gender activism should be taken out of posh hotels and into the mainstream, adirie commented: Great questions and points to address.
Deliberations with ACO staff were complex and sensitive, and mainstream staff commented that their non-Aboriginality was often used unreasonably against them by ACO staff whom suggested that they could not understand an Aboriginal client's situation because they were not Aboriginal.
Mr. Arima said that the Liberal Democrats had learned from the missteps this year of another vocal nationalist, the once-popular mayor of the western city of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, who alienated mainstream voters with comments that seemed to justify the system of wartime brothels.
At the same time, the old adage that defense wins championships is less true in 2011 than it was in the halcyon days of Red Auerbach's dynastic Celtics of the 1960s those days of yore when Fortune 500 companies could tell the mainstream media "no comment" when a crisis hit until they figured out their strategy days later.
The party's justice spokesman Sadiq Khan accused Mr Farage of "breathtaking ignorance" and told the BBC it was troubling to hear a mainstream politician make such comments.
Dr Schwartländer says: "If you say things not in line with mainstream opinion you get comments like, 'You're teaching my children to have sex.' And of course, if teachers don't have neutral, objective, or constructive attitudes to sex themselves, it's difficult to expect them to talk about it in a way that creates dialogue.
A spokesman for Manville declined to comment; a spokesman for MainStream could not be reached for comment.
