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Europe
France to step up surveillance of radical imams
2005-07-23
CALVI: French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy promised Friday to step up surveillance of radical Islamic clerics following the wave of failed bomb attacks in London. "Everyone in France has the right to practice his religion ... but when you look at the age of these young suicide bombers in London you can see the influence of radical preachers on these weak spirits. I do not intend to tolerate it," he said on a visit to Corsica. "We have decided that we must increase our means for video surveillance, speed up the introduction of the latest in telephone technology and information-prcessing and launch a large-scale project for the early detection of radicalising elements," the minister said.
Posted by:Fred

#5  The frogs are good at appeasement (capitualation). However, appeasement does not work. The bar is increasingly raised with a strategy of appeasement. You end up losing.
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-07-23 13:49  

#4  Well, on the other, the muslim brotherdhood radicals are officially made partners of the gvt with the CFCM (french council of muslim religion, dominated by representatives of foreign powers and islamist orgs); for example the then interior minister Dominique Galouzeau "de villepin" (who is a man) backpedaled on the issue of muslim chaplains in jail, who are now going to be chosen by the MB/Uoif, there is one mosque built every week, the local authorities are appeasing whenever they can, up to the point of police stations in muslim areas not reporting antisemites assaults, the official french "Arab policy" is still to lick the naughty bits of every dictator in the ME and NA coupled with a strident antizionism that's a a perfect excuse for jewish hatred, etc, etc...

There is talk of amending the 1905 law on the separation of State and Church, to let the taxpayer fund the imam's curriculum and the mosque (ie giving islam a state-funded status that none of the other religions enjoy); one of the main proponents of that swell idea is... Nicolas Sarkozy, the current interior minister and Chirac's arch-rival.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2005-07-23 12:22  

#3  Stepping up surveillance on the Imans should be really really easy.
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-07-23 07:57  

#2  But they didn't take part in Iraq so they have nothing at all to worry about....Right? I don't get it....(scratching head)...What could there be to worry about?
Posted by: John in Tokyo   2005-07-23 07:32  

#1  

Oui! We must watch ze terrorists so zat zey do not make ze bumb and blow up ze Eiffel Ta-were

I am ready for ze mission maintenant!
Posted by: BigEd   2005-07-23 02:26  

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