[lit-ideas] Re: France wrestles with radical Islam
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:07:35 -0700 (PDT)
Smith is a bit behind on the news - the court quashed
the government decision on April 26, so that the
cleric can now return if he wishes to.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-04/27/article06.shtml
Btw, the French Council of the Muslim Faith said that
the issue was: "overstated by media and represents no
priority for us." Not the beginning of a civil war
yet.
O.K.
--- Scribe1865@xxxxxxx wrote:
> http://www.iht.com/articles/517806.htm France
> wrestles with radical Islam
> Craig S. Smith
> Friday, April 30, 2004
>
>
> VÉNISSIEUX, France This town's largest mosque is
> temporarily leaderless,
> after its chief cleric was expelled from France last
> week for advocating wife
> beating, stoning and other medieval Islamic views at
> odds with the principles of
> the modern French state.
>
> The cleric, Abdelkader Bouziane, was the fifth
> cleric expelled from France
> this year on charges that they were spreading a
> dangerously divisive brand of
> radical Islam. The country has kicked out dozens
> since 2001.
>
> "The government cannot tolerate the public statement
> of views that are
> contrary to human rights, attack the dignity of
> women and call for hate or
> violence," the country's new interior minister,
> Dominique de Villepin, said last
> weekend."
>
>
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