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 France’s 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 France’s 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.
France’s 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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That’s about it isn’t it.
Bang on.
A liberal American paper simply attacking another fellow liberal paper victim of terror. Liberals have no one’s backs. They are completely irresponsible. As a conservative I do not care much for Charlie Hebdo and its gay editorial, but ai would never abandon them like this to islam. Liberals are filthy and disgusting.
Only a hypocritical Goebbel’s propagandist would write garbage like this:
“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.”
While at the same time, these NYT’s Nazi liars cheer the banning of crosses in public schools.
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