Friday I got to class a few minutes early, as I usually do, so I could go across the street and get a hot dog before class. There's a halal hot dog vendor on the other side of Norbrogade from the school, and he has vegetarian hot dogs. It's a very high-traffic street, even though it's only one lane each way plus one bike lane each way, so a lot of the time I get trapped waiting for traffic and it takes more time than if I'd walked to the light at the corner. But that didn't matter Friday, because even as I was turning in to school something odd and something's police escort were brewing up the street. By the time I locked up my bike in the courtyard and went back to the street, it was full of a few thousand Muslims chanting, "Allahu akbar" and "Down with USA." Of course I support an immediate end to the US occupation of Iraq, but as an atheist Jew and supporter of the ideals behind the US, I wasn't ready to join in the march. And more importantly - I won't join any march where the men are segregated from and placed in front of the women. I eventually got across and ended up talking to a Palestinian guy next to the hot dog stand for quite a while ("we welcome the Jews to Palestine, as guests. But then they make us get out of our homes. Is this how a guest behaves?") but never got my hot dog.