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by Yves Mamou •
September 1, 2016 at 5:30 am
- In the French
republic, state schools were built to fight the grip of the Catholic
church on the whole of French society. The thinking was that Darwin
is better at explaining the origin of the human race than the Bible.
To build a country of free citizens: knowledge first; belief only if
you insist, and even then, only by yourself.
- "If the
hijab or burkini had anything to do with modesty or piety, the
Islamic fundamentalists would have sought private beaches, not
insisted on forcing themselves on the public. ... If the hijab
becomes an accepted public phenomenon, a modern society cannot teach
its future generations that a woman's dress is not an excuse for
rape". — Hala Arafa, writing in The Hill.
- A French Muslim
society that often seems to feel as if it still belongs to its
country of origin, appears to have decided that the game of
secularism and "living together" should be over. With
veils, burkinis and guns, various Islamists groups seem to be trying
to embed the same message: We remain Muslims first and have decided
to pay no attention to the culture of countries in which we are
living.
Four policemen in Nice, France, are pictured forcing a
woman to remove part of her clothes because her outfit violated the
city's "burkini ban," on August 23. They also fined her for the
violation. (Image source: NBC News video screenshot)
For many today, French secularism is an anti-human rights ideology,
a kind of moral deformity close to racism.
How can a free country, they ask, even think of doing such a thing
as trying to ban a veil or a burkini -- the full body covering for women
to wear on the beach? How, they ask, can the French Republic call itself
free and remain free when many of its citizens would like to rob Muslim
women, peacefully obeying their own religion, of the freedom to choose
their own clothes?
by Burak Bekdil
• September 1, 2016 at 4:00 am
- "There is
no such religion as Christianity ... In reality, Jesus Christ was a
Muslim coming from Jewish tradition ... The name of the religion
revealed to Christ was Islam ..." — Abdurrahman Dilipak,
columnist, Yeni Akit.
- In Turkey, not
even the smallest village of a few hundred inhabitants has a
non-Muslim mayor.
- Against this
embarrassing background, Turkey is accusing Europe of being racist.
That would be like North Korea accusing Europe of being a rogue
state.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (left)
blasted European countries for "racism, anti-Islamic and
anti-Turkish (trend)," partly in response to a tweet by Swedish
Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom (right) that read: "Turkish
decision to allow sex with children under 15 must be reversed. Children need
more protection, not less, against violence, sex abuse."
It's not a bad joke; it's a very bad joke. Turkey, where all
variants of ethnic and religious xenophobia are a national pastime, is
accusing the West of being racist.
Speaking after a spat with Austria and Sweden over news reports and
tweets from those countries that accused Turkey of allowing sex with
children under the age of 15, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
claimed that the behavior of European countries reflected the
"racism, anti-Islamic and anti-Turkish (trend) in Europe."
He is talking about the same Europe where the inhabitants of one of
its biggest cities, London, recently elected a Muslim as its mayor. In
Turkey, not even the smallest village of a few hundred inhabitants has a
non-Muslim mayor.
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