Posted on 01/19/2015 2:41:11 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris prompted millions to take to the streets to show national solidarity and to pay tribute to the 17 people murdered. The attacks have also inspired a lot of soul-searching, as the French struggle to understand how three men, born and raised in France, could have trained the murderous intent of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State on their own countrymen.
Prison was the crucible of their radicalization. There are five million to six million Muslims in France, less than 10 percent of the total population, but 60 percent of Frances prison inmates are of Muslim culture or religion". To stem recruiting by Islamist extremists in prisons, the government has announced it will seek to isolate identified Islamist proselytizers from other prisoners.
There is also the problem of Frances secularism. A ban on head scarves in public schools and on full-face veils feels to many Muslims like an unfair constraint on their religious freedom. Some also find it hard to accept that blasphemy is not a crime in France, and that Charlie Hebdo and other publications have a right to satirize religious leaders.
French Muslims, who are as scared of terrorists as everybody else, also have to fear anti-Islam prejudice and attacks. There were 60 recorded threats and attacks against Muslims during the six days following the Jan. 7 attack on Charlie Hebdo. There is a real danger the right-wing National Front will seek political advantage by fueling anti-Muslim hysteria.
Frances minister of education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who is French-Moroccan, is to announce new measures on Monday to better explain French republican values in the schools. For the lesson to work, the Hollande government must find ways to make those values a reality for the many French youths who feel marginalized from French society.
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I think most liberal woman would look better in Muslim attire.
An inclusive French Republic means that everyone living there lives by French rules and are respected for it. It does not mean handing over France to people who refuse to live by the laws on the books in France.
Inclusion is so much nonsense these days. It means hand over your nation. France shouldn’t do it.
To hell with the inclusionist noise makers.
Bravo, France.
Any sane country would do the same. Why feed, clothe and house criminals, and then provide them with an ideology attuned to your destruction?
The babushka!
I agree. PCspeak.
A better way to say it, "Muslims are only 10 percent of the population, yet commit the majority of the crimes". No rationalization, explanation needed; just the facts.
So the French imported loads and loads of muslims simply to fill their prisons?! Diabolical!
A shameful article.
It is amusing to watch the Left explain how introducing homosexual-murdering religious zealots to the secular West is a good thing.
They segregate themselves obviously
This is the same newspaper that tells Christians to keep their faith in the closet
After all, didn't Frenchmen break into an Islamic magazine's office and gun down 12 of the writers?
Surely they must have. Or the news media would never have taken this slant.
Ping to my above.
The above paragraph can be summed up as: "Muslims seem unwilling or unable to adapt to modern, pluralistic society. Since when has secularism been a problem to the left?
This article is pure b.s.
The cartoon explains it all.
I’ve saved a blank where I can pen in the current topic.
I will surely post this cartoon about the NYT one-thousand times in the future, with different text.
Loved the cartoon!
It sure sounds like the EUROPEANS are a bunch of ABJECT RACISTS, unable to integrate their minority populations.
(I guess the shoe’s on the other foot these days, ehhh, Europe)
“Muslim Exclusion” is THEIR CHOICE!!!
Ahh, yes, they see through lenses that reverse everything.
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