Posted on 01/13/2015 7:25:53 PM PST by Second Amendment First
Rather than fall quiet as requested during a national minute of silence last week, three boys in Hamid Abdelaali’s high school class in this heavily Muslim suburb of Paris staged an informal protest, speaking loudly through all 60 seconds.
In one school in Normandy, some Muslim students yelled “God is great!” in Arabic during that same moment. In a Paris middle school, another group of young Muslims politely asked not to respect the minute, arguing to their teacher, “You reap what you sow.”
Abdelaali, a 17-year-old high school senior who did observe the quiet minute, said he did so only because he was outraged by the killings in the name of his religion that were carried out But he also said he feels disgusted by a newspaper whose provocative cartoons had used the image of the prophet Muhammad for satire — and which continued to do so in its tragicomic first edition hitting newsstands Wednesday morning. “I know some kids who agreed with the attack,” he said. “I did not, but I also cannot say that I support what Charlie Hebdo is doing.”
Within France’s Muslim community of some 5 million — the largest in Europe — many are viewing the tragedy in starkly different terms from their non-Muslim compatriots. They feel deeply torn by the now-viral slogan “I am Charlie,” arguing that no, they are not Charlie at all.
Many of France’s Muslims — like Abdelaali — abhor the violence that struck the country last week. But they are also revolted by the notion that they should defend the paper. By putting the publication on a pedestal, they insist, the French are once again sidelining the Muslim community, feeding into a general sense of discrimination that, they argue, helped create the conditions for radicalization in the first place.
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“You go to a nightclub, and they don’t let you in,” said Binakdan, a transit worker in Paris
Sounds like a “Night at the Roxbury” movie with French subtitles.
WTH happened to this world?!
Well God said when it is about to be the end, it would be FAST!
Excellent.
Funny how the modern Leftist ignores Islam while attacking Christians as anti-science.
The Left and Islam are companions in their hatred for liberty, Christianity, and Israel.
‘Deeply torn.” Another NYT cliché.
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The only good mooselimb is a dead one.
Use em all as fertiilizer.
Charlie Hebdo are the “Touches pas mon pote” type antiracism liberals who are surprized they do not get treated back in kind by racist muslims in France... And Black nationalists in the US for that matter.
Deeply torn? They are also probably deeply confused...
Usually invaders are not welcomed, unless the invaded ones are surrendering — and it is France, after all.
Perhaps the French Mohammedans would be more comfortable with “Je suis ISIS”.
Well, "They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind" is in the Hebrew Bible - Hosea 8-7.
That would be preemptive self-defense.
My question was tongue in cheek. I know it is in the Bible.
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