[Viking2002]

The Frogs will go belly-up and capitulate the second the Islam beast growls. I give it another fifty years until France is turned into another Afghanistan.

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[Guillermo]

Yeah, but it's OK when every Islamic country on earth represses all other religions...

[pgkdan]

Uness your 100 years old, you and I will live long enough to see the Islamic Republic of France formally established.

[Prime Choice]

IN LATE DECEMBER, Mohamed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Lebanese radical organization Hezbollah, released to the Western media a letter in which he complained of a "stripping of liberties from Muslims, even when they have not disobeyed the law," and warned of an emerging climate "hostile to religion and to Muslim citizens."

Gee, and when will those of us pointing out the repression in Islamic cultures receive equal press coverage?

Oh...right...never.

[Gritty]

This is a very perceptive article. Also, chilling...

then France has a difficult choice:... One of them--either the French social compact, or Islam as it is normally practiced--will have to go.

We, too, shall have to face this conundrum someday.

More sobering still is an increasing tendency among Muslim theologians to count France as part of Dar al-Islam ("the House of Islam").

This isn't an accident. It is part of their religion. No compromise, especially within the House of Islam. Otherwise, what's their's is their's and what's your's is negotiable - until they are in control.

Banning the veil is not about Anglo-Saxon constitutional niceties, it is about a clash of civilizations... (Frenchmen) have begun to fear that Islam is strong enough to overthrow it.

It has to be a stunning feeling, particularly with their experiences in Algeria, to realize France herself could be in for that sort of horror. Check out this little mind-boggler, Algeria War 1954-1962.

That is a problem for people of all non-Islamic religions.

France is going to show the way for Europe, no doubt to the detriment of their blood and agony as they once against face the Muslim horde.

France should have known better, given their past experiences. For that matter, so should we. It is something we will have to face squarely.