Posted on 06/04/2004 8:19:53 PM PDT by Sender
(snip)...Any illusions that the PSOE would represent a radical shift to the left from the previous PP government in both foreign and domestic policy are being quickly disabused. The new Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso outlined the purpose of the new legislation: “We really need to improve the laws to control Islamic radicals. We need to get a legal situation in which we can control the Imams in small mosques. That is where Islamic fundamentalism which lead to certain actions is disseminated.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsws.org ...
As a general rule always replace "disaster" with "success" and "bad" with "good" when reading the WS. They're backwards on everything.
Spain, attacks on free speech?
I guess it's not just happening here......................
Alonso added, “We cannot name the Imam who is going to preside over a religious service, but we can require of the Imam or preacher of any religion that it be known who he is and what he is going to say in the Mosque or church... We are talking about a phenomena that can create a breeding ground for terrorism that kills people.”Yeah-yeah. Whatever. We also legislate what imams or rabbis or pastors or priests can say. If they err and stray--e.g. they become too political or too commercial--they can lose their 501(c)3 tax exempt status.
The new Spanish government is running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Totally confused.
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