The French are finished!
Posted on 02/07/2007 11:39:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv
French interior minister and presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has defended a weekly sued for printing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad... Mr Sarkozy's letter of support was read out in the Paris court hearing the case and prompted France's top Muslim body to call an urgent meeting in response. Editor Philippe Val told the court the cartoons critiqued "ideas, not men". The newspaper Liberation republished the cartoons on Wednesday in solidarity with the magazine... A lawyer for the magazine read a letter out from Mr Sarkozy, who is standing as presidential candidate for the right-wing UMP. Mr Sarkozy noted he was often a target of the magazine but said he would prefer "too many caricatures to an absence of caricature"... Speaking at the opening of the hearing, Mr Val asked: "If we no longer have the right to laugh at terrorists, what arms are citizens left with? How is making fun of those who commit terrorist acts throwing oil on the fire?" ..."This is an attack on Muslims," UOIF President Lhaj Thami Breze told the court according to Reuters. "It is as if the Prophet taught terrorism to Muslims, and so all Muslims are terrorists." ...In republishing the cartoons, Liberation called the trial "idiotic", adding: "It is not words which wound, or pictures that kill. It is bombs." In October, a Danish court rejected a libel case brought by several Muslim groups against the Jyllands-Posten.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Sarkozy criticizes Islam in oral examFrance's Minister of Internal Affairs and the presidential candidate of the ruling party UMP, Nicholas Sarkozy took an oral exam at channel TF1 on Monday evening. Sarkozy responded to the questions of 100 French people during two hours and was accused of discrimination once again. Sarkozy responded: "I am not a racist. But if you are living in France, you need to abide by the rules. You can not strangle sheep or be a polygamist here."
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http://www.paris-link-home.com/news/121/ARTICLE/1673/2007-02-07.html
Answering fears that young people cannot find work, Royal said: "I want to give youth a future, to give young people the opportunity to find a first job and the training they require within six months of leaving the education system.".
French Socialists in torment as rebel Royal steals the limelightThe French Socialist party was struggling to finalise its manifesto for next year's presidential and national elections... Expected to propose a longer working week, the manifesto was due to be adopted last night before being debated and put to the vote by 200,000 party members on 22 June... Last week, Ms Royal's suggestions that national service be reintroduced and that young delinquents be "placed within a military framework" for their first offence triggered accusations from within her own party that she was copying the rhetoric of the hardline interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, her likely challenger on the centre-right. On Monday, Ms Royal dared to attack the pillar of modern French Socialist doctrine - the 35-hour working week, saying on her website it had created too much flexibility and blaming it for worsening the situation of the poorest workers... Ms Royal remains the strong favourite among Socialist supporters, with 68 per cent saying they want her to stand as their party's candidate for president in 2007.
Susan Bell in Paris
June 6, 2006
Bomb-throwing tonight by French youths!
prompted France's top Muslim body to call an urgent meeting in responseThere's going to be a lot of rational discussion in THAT meeting, I'm sure.
The French are finished!
Their meeting hall has hundreds of bullet holes in the roof, I'm sure.
Have a great afternoon and evening, all.
Sarkozy looks better every day. I think he and Blair are correct that we should not attack Iran. This is exactly what the little Hitler would want so that he could solidify his powere base and unite his country against the West. He is currently losing support within his country and may not around too long as political opposition grows stronger. Many Iranians like America and oppose the religious mullahs. An attack on Iran would only destroy that oppositon element.
I agree.
Well...
"It is as if the Prophet taught terrorism to Muslims, and so all Muslims are terrorists."
Isn't that what your most fundamental believers say?
Mohammed was just a mass-murdering pedophile and semi-literate plagiarist.
But I agree, and that's what matters!
Who is Psychozy anyway? Deal with your "French Youths" who'll be burning cars and buildings tonight!
Oh, yes, I almost forgot, BOMB IRAN YESTERDAY!!
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If they can't take a joke...F 'em.....
Their meeting hall has hundreds of bullet holes in the roof, I'm sure.And somewhere in some back room, a couple of beheaded infidels. (And in some other room a few of the boys getting together to gangrape a child.)
Nicholas Sarkozy has my vote. A pro-American politician with the moral courage to stand for the French against radical Islam. Gotta love it.
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