[Earthdweller]

Okay, you are correct, I do remember that demand and the French have said they won't bow to the damands.
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and have you seen the hostages released? No. Because the new government of france, the Islamic fundamentalists,..have not gotten what they want yet. This demand for political change will continue in France until every dime is spent on black mail or every frenchman is dead. Don't you get it? Islamics have their own laws and will impose them on their host country. Bottom line.

[matchwood]

Yes, I do get it - I had forgotten WHAT the demand had been - head scarves.

Do I understand the rest of it, absolutely; you don't require a majority bloc to knock a country off it's skids - only a vicious minority.

France is particularly vulnerable as are most of the Western European countries because they have no national value system or religion - they have nothing except their belief in the goodness of all men and in money.

France, Germany, Holland, Sweden and Great Britain are easy targets of minority facists - whatever their beliefs.