Posted on 10/23/2006 12:23:16 AM PDT by MadIvan
France's leading gynaecologists have challenged hard-line Muslims to bow to France's secular, "modern" rules of society, and to stop insisting that their wives are examined by female doctors.
The heads of the French National College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians issued a public declaration, rejecting any moves to undermine the principle that public hospitals are part of a secular state, in which patients must accept being examined by a doctor of the opposite sex.
The move came after a consultant in Paris was punched by a Muslim who was concerned that a male doctor wanted to examine his wife after complications in childbirth. Though incidents of gynaecologists being attacked on religious grounds remain rare, the declaration said Muslim rejection of secular norms appeared to be rising.
The college said: "Thirty years ago, Muslim women came into our hospitals without any alarm at being taken into the care of doctors, most of whom were men, and there were none of these difficulties. Why are things going backwards? It is for Islam to adapt to the liberties that all must possess in a modern state." Xavier Bertrand, France's health minister, wrote to the college offering support and expressing his "indignation" at assaults on doctors.
The French constitutional requirement of "laïcité", the separation of state and religious activities, led to a law banning the wearing of "conspicuous religious symbols" in schools, such as the Muslim headscarf.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
I'm SOOO glad the Euroweenies are going through all of this, so we here in the US won't have to!
muslims are non-assimilatory creatures.
flush them out of the western world and send them back to their middle eastern toilets.
I suppose their babies have to be delivered facing away from the western direction so that islamic female vaginal areas are not exposed to Mecca.
"away from the western direction"
LOLLLL I mean the eastern direction....oh well,
who the $#$#@ cares!
And after that, the insistence on breech births, so the kids pop out facing Mecca? (another bad humor attempt)
Muslim husband assaults male gynaecologist
Paris - The agency in charge of Paris-region hospitals on Saturday confirmed that the husband of a Muslim woman examined by a male gynaecologist had physically attacked the doctor, but refused to confirm allegations that the assault was motivated by religious extremism.
The AP-HP hospital agency said it had taken legal proceedings against the husband for an incident that occurred on the night of September 8 in the emergency service of an unnamed Paris hospital.
However the agency refused to endorse a statement by the professional association of French gynaecologists and obstetricians, who described the assault as a manifestation of "Muslim fundamentalism."
The statement by the CNGOF professional association mentioned a similar incident that occurred in a Paris-region hospital in 2003.
'Hospitals must remain absolutely neutral from the religious and ideological point of view'
In both attacks, gynecologists were "physically attacked and injured by the husbands of patients on the grounds that as male doctors they should not examine their wives," the statement said.
However the hospital authorities said they had "not at this stage confirmed any religious motivation" behind the latest incident.
French Health Minister Xavier Bertrand on Friday condemned the September incident, but also said he could not confirm that it was related to "religious or cultural motives."
"Hospitals must remain absolutely neutral from the religious and ideological point of view," he said.
The hospital agency said that a total of 185 violent incidents had been recorded in the 38 Paris-region public hospitals in 2005, up from 145 in the previous year.
However the hospital authorities did not record whether there was any religious motive to any of the attacks, because "such records would be discriminatory, and we have a neutral position," the statement said.
In their statement the gynecologists and obstetricians made a link between the case and a recent high-profile incident in which a French schoolteacher received death threats after publishing a virulent anti-Islamic article in a national paper.
"Are male gynecologists and obstetricians going to have to be protected by the police from now on when they do their job?" the statement asked. "Will they have to go into hiding like philosophy teachers?" - Sapa-AFP
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1161500762316B216
Give it time.
Of course the story was posted on FR:
Muslim husband assaults male gynaecologist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723611/posts
That remains to be seen.
Ah, but the condition known as "cameltoe" requires the wearing of clothing of a nature unlikely to appear in the presence of a burkha. For example, few Muslim women are seen in overly-tight lycra-spandex panties, even by their gynaecologists.
LMAO!!! You are absoltely right. This would be unbearable to see, and the unsightly "stains" would be frightening!
Simple. Thirty years ago they had not the numbers to press for their own way. They've always felt this way, they just didn't want anyone to know until they had the power to make you say "uncle". It's the same reason the U.S.A. didn't have problems with illegal Latinos making demands until the last few years. They knew we'd round'em up and send'em home.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I did a research paper for nursing school. One of the "culturally sensitive" things that some hospitals do are making sure hospital beds are facing Mecca for the Muslim patients.
LOL!
But wait, isn't the ultimate expression of Islamic society, the Taliban, blowing up schools so that girls cannot attend? Where do they think female doctors come from?
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