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Posted on 07/26/2005 6:42:19 AM PDT by Pikamax
Le Frogs have the right idea, for a change.
Stand by for suicide attacks on the Paris Metro.
Sacre bleu...the French have found their spine.
France standing firm?!? Are you sure he didn't merely leave on his own or is taking a short vacation back to the homeland?
Hey, I thought the Algerians kicked out the French 40 years ago because they didn't like them. So what's this guy doing sniffing around France anyway?
"France stands firm" - they must be sleep-walking.
Do you think this will give SCOTUS the "international" example it needs to make this a policy in the US?
Wonders never cease.
The French finally did something right.
actually france is tougher on this than any other western country that I know of. It is certainly tougher than the UK.
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Alright, so their gone, but they are still out there teaching hate. This sounds like a Clinton-ish idea, just put your head back in the sand and go La-La-La and the boogy man is no longer a problem.
Good for the French. Here, in the USA, we would be damned by the PC geeks for profiling.
Amen, if the french are out there deporting these Terrorist Sympathizing clerics why the hell can't the united states and london?
And apparently non-French, Eastern European surname. Probably has not much use for Chirac, either.
Interesting. I may even consider a bottle of French wine. No, on the other hand, I won't go that far yet!
"Stand by for suicide attacks on the Paris Metro."
Won't happen.
France is a different animal than Britain.
There is no 4th, 5th or 6th Amendment, for starters.
The French government spies on whoever it thinks it needs to, whenever, and there is no exclusionary rule in French law. In other words, information obtained illegally, or extracted through coercion, etc., will all be used.
France had a bad bit of Islamist terror bombing back in the 1970s, and responded with a ferocious counterintelligence effort.
Also, remember that while there is freedom of conscience in France, which includes freedom of religion, all associations, including religions, have to be formally registered. It is illegal to operate an unregistered religious association. Catholicism, Reformed Protestantism, Jewish branches, Lutheranism and centralized, moderate Islam is registered.
Note the cautiously positive response of the Muslim officials. Why? Because the Grand Mufti of Paris and his clerics have a legal monopoly on the Muslim franchise in France. They are registered, and therefore their doctrines have passed muster with the French state as not being fundamentally opposed to the democratic values of the society.
Radical madrassas are unregistered and illegal, and prime places for immigration sweeps and deportations (not to mention sanctions for merely existing: you cannot have a religious organization in France if it is not authorized and registered with the government). Radical imams who operate through the official. legal Muslim institute imperil the franchise, and therefore tend to be ratted out to the authorities.
And anyway the state has very thoroughly penetrated the whole Muslim establishment in France and has operatives everywhere.
The bombings won't happen in the Paris Metro, probably, for those reasons, but also because all it would do is cause France to openly declare with the US (they are already with the US when it comes to troops on the ground in Afghanistan, and the Paris-based counter-terrorism center is the primary clearinghouse for international cooperation on terrorism intelligence) and further setback the Islamist cause.
Sarkozy will deport the radical leaders, and the bombs WON'T blow up.
Of course, this would all be unconstitutional in the USA.
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