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| France sets up Muslim council |
| 2003-04-08 |
| Amid mounting fears that the US-led war against Iraq could trigger violence among France's 5 million Muslims, French Islamic leaders voted yesterday to elect the members of a new national council aimed at giving the faith's diverse factions a unified voice and represent their views to government. The Islamic Republic of Frogistan. It'll be here sooner then you think. Islam is the second biggest religion in France after Roman Catholicism. One recent poll showed nearly one in three of the population as a whole did not want to see an allied victory in Iraq, while a poll of French Muslims published in Le Figaro on Saturday showed that 94% of respondents disapproved of the war and 72% wanted Saddam Hussein to win. Sorry, to disappoint you. Well, not really... The French Muslim council, to be known by its acronym CFCM, is seen as critical to France's efforts to satisfy the needs and expectations of its Muslim community, most of whom are relatively poor first- and second-generation immigrants from the former North African colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. It is also seen as a potentially vital bulwark against the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Oh, suuuuure, it is! Christ, the war hasn't even started yet and they're surrendering. That's bad even for them. A leading moderate, the rector of the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, is widely expected to become president of the new body after the second round of voting on April 13. Mr Boubakeur has warned that the war in Iraq risked creating "a new and far tougher breed of Islam" in France. ...and, as the old TV show used to say, " And, remember. You Asked For It." |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #16 --Proche-Orient reports that an Islamist majority will win next Sunday's elections.-- Wonder if that'll raise some eyebrows. france has decided to state-fund islamic schools, the thinking is the bureaucracy can control content. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-09 01:05:09 |
| #15 --Proche-Orient reports that an Islamist majority will win next Sunday's elections.-- Wonder if that'll raise some eyebrows. france has decided to state-fund islamic schools, the thinking is the bureaucracy can control content. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-09 01:05:06 |
| #14 Yes, and Proche-Orient reports that an Islamist majority will win next Sunday's elections. These pigs will make demands on the secular government, and put France's 5,000,000 Islamaniacs on the street if they don't get them. France is finished. Take your investment funds out of that crap country. |
| Posted by: Anonon 2003-04-08 21:40:03 |
| #13 Hopefully the same fools that designed the De gaulle, were in charge of nuke production |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-08 20:29:51 |
| #12 Get a grip, guys. France wields nuclear weapons. France going Sharia will be as bad as if we never went to Iraq. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-08 19:27:20 |
| #11 Mebbe Coercing Fatwa-Creating Mullahs |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-08 18:49:34 |
| #10 The French Muslim council, to be known by its acronym ,CFCM Hmmmmm... Could that mean, Completely Freakin' Crazy Muslims? |
| Posted by: Celissa 2003-04-08 18:44:32 |
| #9 It is classically French though isn;t it? To cave in rather than stand up for or against something that is. The French have let so many Muslims immigrate to their country that they're losing whatever it used to be to be French. Current estimates I've seen put France under Shia law within the next 15-25 years. 'Course, by then the Vichy government ought to be back up and in coercion with their CFCM (Islamofascist) "brothers" just like they were 60 years ago. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2003-04-08 15:39:01 |
| #8 George, If you leave the Surrender-Monkeys to suffer in their own stench, I'll buy you an inferior (Well, superior to French beer though.)American beer when you arrive. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2003-04-08 15:10:47 |
| #7 France wants to be the second nuclear Islamic country?? George, run for it. Leave before Christian Dior previews its new spring burqa line. |
| Posted by: Former Russian Major 2003-04-08 14:44:14 |
| #6 George: If you mean it, c'mon over! In post WW-V we'll need translators and people who can explain the inner working of French politics and public-think. It makes no sense to us. Top pay and you'll actually be appreciated for your contribution. But one word of advice: melt, brother, melt. Become one of us, not a hyphenated tumor on the body politic, please. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-04-08 13:29:15 |
| #5 France wants to decline into the 3rd World. Frog-logic sees this as the best way to avoid terror attacks, and the Frogs place a high value on avoidance. No wonder so much of their culture is impenetrable to us. Americans can not stand the stench of defeatism. dang wussies! |
| Posted by: defscribe 2003-04-08 13:07:49 |
| #4 "The French Muslim council, to be known by its acronym CFCM..." C F--k 'Em. That is a hell of an acronym |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-08 13:06:11 |
| #3 If the Frogs do a competent job, they'll get rapprochement with the sane Muslims and marginalize the much smaller wacky cohorts. I view this with (heavily guarded) optimism. |
| Posted by: Sade 2003-04-08 13:03:08 |
| #2 Next step: Shari'a. Enjoy. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-04-08 12:35:41 |
| #1 That's funny when radicals in the USA have power like the KKK the USA divides and conquers them. In France the idea is to give them structure and power. Vous Faites beaucoup du sens? Now I know why I want to escape this country. |
| Posted by: George 2003-04-08 12:34:01 |