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Sarkozy: Please Donât Boo Me Any More, I Surrender!!!
EFL
Franceâs five million Muslims do not enjoy the same rights as the countryâs other citizens and might need positive discrimination efforts to reach an equal footing, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday.
| "F'rinstance, they need their own Caliph, with a jewelled turban and some dancing girls. It's good for their self-esteem..." |
French Muslims, mostly of North African Arab origin, face prejudice at work and a shortage of mosques and other religious services in comparison to other religions, he told an official committee preparing to institute Shariah reviewing the law separating church and state.
| How do Frenchies living in Algeria make out? Lotsa churches for them to go to? No prejudice at work, I imagine. And of course they're secure in their homes and persons... |
âThe term âpositive discriminationâ doesnât scare me but being heckled does,â he said, arguing that favoring Muslims might be the only way to create role models for the community. France has traditionally shunned anything that smacks of ethnic profiling. Paris created the commission to consider how to surrender to integrate Europeâs largest Islamic minority at a time when young Muslims â sometimes encouraged by fundamentalists â appear to identify more with their faith than their French citizenship. Noting that many towns refused building permits for mosques on technical grounds, he remarked: âWeâve spent more energy using zoning laws to block the building of mosques than we have to protect our borders when we are attacked seashores.â Muslims also had no schools in France to train imams, or prayer leaders, forcing congregations to recruit men abroad who often speak no French and sometimes preach extremism.
Didnât they just open such a school out in Provence?
| Betcha that makes one more Islamic school than there are seminaries in Algeria... |
Sarkozy also criticized French intellectuals who single out Islam for discriminating against women, saying this was a problem in all religions. âI donât see a lot of women in the Catholic Bishopsâ Conference in France,â he observed.
Yup, Catholicism is a lot like Islam. I remember having to flee for my safety every time I talked to or even made eye contact with a Protestant boy. And when my mother became an atheist, my priest urged my male relatives to kill her....oh, wait a minute. Never happened.
| Stoning adultresses, the auto-da-fe, same thing. As soon as the Catholics stop burning people at the stake... Oh. They have. Never mind. |
The minister told the committee that a tougher law that would bar women and girls from wearing traditional Muslim headscarves when they attend school or work in a state office was âneither necessary nor useful nor opportune.â
Funny, I thought Turkey had a similar law until recently. They must have found it useful.
The current law, which dates back to 1905, already rules out the wearing of religious symbols in public offices and schools, he said, and a tougher new one would only isolate Muslims and encourage them to take a more radical stand.
WTF???
Police statistics showed there were now far fewer cases of girls refusing to take off their headscarves in state schools than a decade ago, he said, citing figures of 1,123 such cases in 1994 compared to only a few hundred now.
"We are making progress! We must surrender now!"
Any bets on when Francistan implements Shariah?
Posted by: Baba Yaga 2003-10-09 |
