Posted on 11/08/2005 11:11:26 AM PST by AFA-Michigan
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday that France faces a "moment of truth" in fighting racial discrimination that has inflamed tempers in suburbs with large immigrant populations. Speaking to a special session of the National Assembly called to address the wave of unrest, Villepin said France faced a choice between "division or coming together."
"We must be lucid: The Republic is at a moment of truth," Villepin said. "What is being questioned is the effectiveness of our integration model."
Villepin apologized for a recent incident in which a police tear-gas bomb landed near a mosque, adding to ill-feeling in poor suburban housing projects where many Muslims live.
He acknowledged that jobseekers with foreign-sounding names were not always given equal consideration with applicants with traditional French-sounding names when they presented their resumes.
The minister said a return to calm was the "absolute priority" after the violence and arson across the country, but urged lawmakers to read the incidents as "a warning and an appeal."
"The struggle against all discriminations must become a priority for our national community," he said. "They are a reality today for all the inhabitants of troubled neighborhoods when they look for housing, a job or even when they want access to leisure activities."
Villepin said discrimination is a "daily and repeated infringement of our national ideals."
"These discriminations have a considerable cost for our community," he said. "They deprive our country of talent, and the determination to succeed like others. They feed _ notably in the young _ frustration and the feeling of not belonging to the national community."
No wonder they're getting their heads handed to them...a tradition going back to the French Revolution.
Help us defend democracy in Iraq? They won't even defend Paris. France's most famous military hero was, appropriately, a woman. But that was back when the French (and Joan in particular) believed in God.
I hoped they kissed him first.
An earlier article posted today caled Dominique de Villepin, Chirac's dauphin.
"We must be lucid: The Republic is at a moment of truth,"
The moment of truth is that after all these years of fueling these terrorists with state dollars and free medical, has gotten them 500 cities in flames.
The French (both kinds) are clearly racist.
If there's such a "divide" Villepin, then resign and give your post to a Muslim!
Should have launched a rocket INTo that mosque. Dipped in pig fat. It would have been SO EASY to stop these riots.
"We must be lucid: The Republic is at a moment of truth," Villepin said. "What is being questioned is the effectiveness of our integration model."
Ahh, no Vilepine, what is being questioned is how much longer will it take you to surrender to the "youths", and how much longer the "republic" will survive.
Twit.
It's Chirac's fault
Apologizing because some tear gas landed "near" a mosque?
There is no hope for these people.
"What is being questioned is the effectiveness of our integration model."Really? You really think that's what's being questioned.
I'd say it's your backbone.
You know, the noodle connecting your neck to your ass.
Je$$e and the other poverty pimps have sure been quiet. I mean, the whole MSM spin is these "youths" are oppressed, impoverished minorities....
"France faces a "moment of truth" in fighting racial discrimination"
Villepin has it all wrong...the fight against Islamofacism is the inevitable moment of truth the whole West must face.
France was where US blacks could work and live when they suffered discrimination at home.
Actually, the problem is more with France's immigration model. Allowing Muslims to become 10%-15% of a nation's population is in effect committing national suicide, especially since these Muslims' prolific breeding combined with "Christian" France's impotence will soon send that figure into the 50% range.
The French are toast, and there's nothing they can do about it.
Shades of the Kerner Commission in the 1960s: More jobs! Affirmative Action! Investment!
How come he never blamed George Bush? We all know that it was George's brother, Jeb, who turned Katrina away from Florida and caused it to hit Louisiana, which is a French colony, I believe.
De Villianpen's words will only embolden the insurgents rampaging through France. I think fairly soon ALL of Paris will be burning.
(Villepin apologized for a recent incident in which a police tear-gas bomb landed near a mosque)
God forbid that he asks those hooligans to apologize for torching thousands of cars and setting that poor helpless handicapped woman on fire. We wouldn't want to expect accountability from these people now do we?
Oops, I forgot that he probably doesn't believe in the "G" word.
God help them if this doesn't wake them up. Having politicians APOLOGIZING to the rioters tells me (if he's a good politician at least) that the population is STILL asleep and asking themselves "Why do they hate us?"
If not, Villepin and his ilk, as well as any other politicians left of Villepin will be thrown out on their rears to be replaced by the most right-wing government in France's recent history.
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