Re: Gus, I would agree with rrufff. I mean France is banning the Muslim veil. In the US such a thing will not have a chance of passing.
LOL... Indeed, France is merely, clumsily, banning Muslimwear in her PUBLIC SCHOOLS only and the whole country is in an uproar! Do you think the US and France should trade places?? I mean, YOU ban the hijab AND stay clear from Iraq, while France grants her Muslim minorities (5 mil people in all) unrestrained freedom of expression and, at the same time, takes on a bloody crusade in Iraq --ROFL!
If anything, the French commotion over the Muslim veil betrays how "powerful" France's Muslim constituency is: thousands of teenaged boys and girls have demonstrated against the proposed law, both true-born French and Arab intellectuals have publicly opposed the anti-Muslim law... Now, just imagine the mayhem France would be in if she had joined the Judeofascist crusade in Iraq --that is, if France had bombed, shelled, and maimed Iraqi civilians alongside the Yanks and the Brits from March 2003 to this day.... All of France's immigrant ghettoes would be burning with rage. That's actually the bathetic side of the whole affair: France's Muslim constituency is more and more respected by the pols, if only because of its electoral weight. For that matter, there are currently two French-Algerian ministers in the French government... As I said, the bathos --or the irony-- is that Prez J. Chirac squandered in one, bumbling stroke all the credit and popularity he deservedly reaped for his stand against the Iraqi crusade....
Anyway, I believe the situation of French Muslims is much more enviable than that of their US brethren --clue:
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