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To: tejek who wrote (258429)	11/5/2005 5:14:12 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572542

Re: ...a law which prohibits the wearing of headwear in public buildings. One of the stupidest and most insensitive moves I've heard of in a long time. Chirac gained little and lost a lot.....in part, these riots are due to the passage of that law. No, frankly, I think the two issues are completely unrelated. The islamic headwear controversy is now forgotten... The incident that sparked the whole mess was the disturbing death of two immigrant teens who were chased and cornered by cops into a high-voltage station. Then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's slurs added fuel to the flames --he branded ghetto youths "scum".... Anyway, the real, deeper roots of France's unrest lie in what I call "domestic colonialism". Colonialism proved unsustainable in Belgian Congo, French Indochina, French Algeria, British India, you name it. Frenchmen merely learn the hard way that colonialism doesn't work at home either.... Gus Footnote: Message 19688764