Again, Mr. President, your tiny French counterpart got it right this time, so why don't you dismount the high horse and stop pretending you're above the fray: "Le port de la burqa et un problème de liberté, de dignité de la femme... Ce n'est pas un problème religieux... C'est un signe d'asservissement, d'abaissement de la femme... [La burqa] n'est pas la bienvenue sur le territoire de la République... et nous ne devons pas avoir peur de nos valeurs". ["We mustn't be timid and apologetic about our values."]
Addendum:
A propos, read this Le Monde article, and surtout, the readers' comments. As the French say, Faiza and her husband veulent le beurre et l'argent du beurre; they have nothing but contempt for France and everything the republic stands for, yet they complain Faiza has been denied French citizenship (hell, even in lax America there is a modicum of "civicism and patriotism" a foreign spouse has to demonstrate before acquiring US citizenship.) And here's their lame response to Frenchmen objecting to the normalization of the Niqab and Burqa in French life:
"Nous aussi, il y a des choses qui nous choquent : les pédés qui vivent ouvertement ensemble, les couples qui ne se marient pas, les femmes à moitié nues dans la rue...", s'emporte-t-il [Karim]. "Blessés", ils [Faiza et Karim] ont songé à faire la hijra, l'émigration dans un pays musulman, en l'occurrence l'Arabie saoudite. "Là-bas, tout le monde est comme nous, on ne se ferait pas opprimer", s'enthousiasme Karim, qui s'est rendu déjà trois fois à La Mecque. Mais le projet tourne court, "trop compliqué"... "Cela reste mon rêve d'y aller, souffle Faiza. L'Arabie saoudite est une terre qui aime les musulmans."
[There are things that offend us as well: fags who live together openly, unmarried couples, and half-naked women on the streets..." he [Karim] quips. "Hurt," [Faiza and Karim] have considered making hegira, immigrating to a Muslim country, namely Saudi Arabia. "Everybody is like us over there, no on will oppress us" says Karim enthusiastically, who's been to Mecca three times already. But the dream is cut short, "it's too complicated" [to immigrate to Saudi Arabia.] "But this remains my dream" adds Faiza, "Saudi Arabia is a land that loves Muslims."
Here's the question: if France is so oppressive and so offensive to their mores and their beliefs (calling homosexuals "fags" suggests it is), and if Saudi Arabia is such a tolerant, liberal land of opportunity, why stay in France? Why insist that Faiza (who wants to impose her superannuated mediaeval mores and ways on a place she chose to immigrate to, that is France) get French citizenship when only condescension and repugnance can describe her attitude vis-à-vis France? Some people REALLY have balls the size of Chelsea!
Finally, just for laughs, and only if you understand French (some things just can't be translated), check this out:
2 comments:
Very frankly, I don't share your enthusiasm. Freedom from having to mess with other people's business almost equals the freedom of speech. Now because of brainless immigration policies, the West has to decide what people can wear and what they can't. I can't say that I am very happy about this even though the logic behind all this is obvious.
You don't share my enthusiasm for what? For Sarkozy saying it like it is for once; with no frills and no mindless bromides about "religion of peace this" and "religion of peace that"? I wasn't being enthusiastic about anything here. I was merely applauding Sarkozy's honesty. I think it's about time somebody called a spade a spade, rather than maintained the condescending ad infinitum massaging of Islam's feelings and applying different weights and different measures to demeaning practices in the name of multiculturalism and "tolerance". I wonder how tolerant American society (and other non-opaque Western cultures in general) have been of whacked out Christian cults that practice polygamy, misogyny, child prostitution, and priest-pedophilia? C'mon, Nobody! What's good for the goose is good for the gander.. and that's to say nothing of the Ambrosian si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more; si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi (if you are in Rome, live in the Roman way; if you are elsewhere, live as they do there...) In other words, if one's "immigrant" mores are offended by those of one's host country (e.g. France's lack of sexual inhibitions and gender taboos etc..) one is not obligated to remain is such godless decadent society; there's always Saudi-Arabia.
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