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Le Pen Says as French President She Would Ban All Religious Symbols, Including Kippot
Jewish Telegraph Agency ^
| 10/18/16
Posted on 10/19/2016 5:52:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
Marine Le Pen, the leader of Frances far-right National Front Party, vowed that if she is elected the countrys president she would ban all public displays of religious symbols and clothing, including kippot.
Le Pen made the statement during an interview on Sunday with Frances BFM-TV. She is expected to seek the countrys presidency in 2017. She heads the third-largest party in France.
Le Pen is seeking to broaden an existing law, called the headscarf ban, that does not allow conspicuous displays of religious symbols in public schools to include all public areas.
She called the ban a struggle against radical Islam, but added that Jewish and Christian symbols would have to be included in the ban in the name of equality and the national interest.
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To: vladimir998
It is in the national interest that Jews and Christians stay and Muslims leave the country. Le Pen is not very smart.
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posted on
10/19/2016 7:54:44 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(TRUMP IS ALL THAT MATTERS)
To: Olog-hai
No more rosaries and scapulars?
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10/19/2016 7:59:04 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(TRUMP IS ALL THAT MATTERS)
To: marshmallow
Oh well. I’d still vote for her over the socialist if I lived there but that is disappointing.
To: marshmallow
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posted on
10/19/2016 8:21:52 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
To: marshmallow
I prefer the muslims to self-identify.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
She’s nutty as a fruit cake. When you reach a certain age and level of life experience, the proper response to seeing a beautiful woman is “Wow she’s gorgeous...wonder what her problem is...”.
To: ameribbean expat
I wouldn’t date her to hear her speechify.
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10/19/2016 8:31:04 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good for you. Me neither.
To: VitacoreVision; marshmallow
This would be a very stupid thing for Marine Le Pen to do. Anything that hides the face and conceals the identity (burqa, balaclava, clown mask, ski mask, whatever) should be banned for public security reasons alone.
BUT... purely symbolic clothing (kippah, cassock, head scarf, Amish clothing, nuns' habit, etc) is a pure matter of personal self-expression. "My clothing makes a statement!" --- that's what all the fashion designers say.
As a Frenchwoman, she should know that.
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10/20/2016 10:08:12 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Point of ... that was the point.)
To: marshmallow
If she gains power in Francistan, it’ll be “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
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10/20/2016 8:25:44 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.)
To: marshmallow
Meanwhile, French Jews are immigrating in record numbers to Israel.
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10/21/2016 7:23:36 AM PDT
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SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
To: marshmallow
Jacobin fool. This is why I prefer a traditionalists like Viscount de Villiers.
Religious and non-religious Jews have been part of France longer than the Franks. Kippot like habits and crosses are part of Frances history and heritage. Muslims colonizing France are another matter. Orthodox Jews in France don't demand other Jews dress a certain way and don't attack non-Jews for failing to do so. The same is not true for Muslims. Le Pen's position is leftist moral relativism and nihilist garbage. A Christian France can save itself from Islam. A Jacobin France is a corpse.
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10/21/2016 3:40:05 PM PDT
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rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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