re the inimitable rushdie in article apr st andrews ac uk nrp st andrews ac uk norman r paterson writes i don t think you re right about germany my daughter was born there and i don t think she has any german rights eg to vote or live there beyond the rights of all ec citizens she is a british citizen by virtue of her parentage but that s not full citizenship for example i don t think her children could be british by virtue of her in the same way i am fairly sure that she could obtain citizenship by making an application for it it might require immigration to germany but i am almost certain that once applied for citizenship is inevitable in this case more interesting is your sentence in fact many people try to come to the us to have their children born here so that they will have some human rights how does the us compare to an islamic country in this respect do people go to iran so their children will have some human rights would you more interesting only for your propaganda purposes i have said several times now that i don t consider iran particularly exemplary as a good islamic state we might talk about the rights of people in capitalist secular third world countries to give other examples of the lack of rights in third world countries broadly say for example central american secular capitalist countries whose govt s the us supports but who amnesty international has pointed out are human rights vacua gregg
