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| France to Shift to High Gear Fighting |
| 2004-07-09 |
In his speech, Chirac urged police and local officials to crack down harder on hate crime and said state prosecutors should appeal against any lenient sentences handed down for racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic violence. Cope said officials should also register hate crimes more thoroughly and do more to help their victims. September was already shaping up as a tense time in France because an official ban on Muslim headscarves is due to be imposed when schools reopen. Islamic activists have started campaigning to convince schoolgirls to defy the ban. The draft Education Ministry report, leaked to Le Figaro and Le Monde newspapers, said a survey of 61 high schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods showed both Muslim and Jewish pupils increasingly made religious demands at school. These pupils increasingly refused to eat meat if it was not slaughtered by halal or kosher rules and skipped classes on Fridays or Saturdays for religious services. During the Ramadan fasting month, pious Muslim pupils exerted so much pressure for all Muslims to stop eating that even some non-Muslim pupils joined in to avoid standing out. In one primary school, Muslim children insisted only they could use one sink in the lavatories while "the French" had to use the other, the report said. A local Muslim activist asked another school to build separate locker rooms for Muslims and Christians because "a circumcised boy cannot get undressed next to an impure one." More and more mothers are now so fully veiled they cannot be identified, it said, forcing one school to use a windowless room where they have to uncover their faces to a woman teacher in order to be allowed to pick up their children. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #2 Yep, to date this year antisemitic attacks in France have already exceeded the amount for the entire year of 2003. Ie: nearly doubled this year. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=1603715 I wonder WHO could be responsible for that? If you demographically broke down those responsible for the antisemitic acts would it be a) mixed? b) buddhists? c) presbyterians? d) islamists? |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-07-10 12:16:17 AM |
| #1 Well the first thing they could do to help would be to quit their national policy of anti-semitism which predates this century. I can just see them now as jews and "travelers" we loaded on the box cars for NAZI extermination camps cherring the ss guards. They could quit coddling "north africans" and semd them back home for good when they are caught giving "kill whitey" sermons. Finally they can't be homophobes. They have Chirac don't they? |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-07-09 5:29:14 PM |