Brian D a écrit :

Don't worry ...France is already lost to the Muslims. Enjoy what you have
while you have it. France will be the first Muslim country in Europe
(ignoring of course the hostile takeover of the Iberian peninsula during the
2nd Great Jihad ...you know, the thing those terrible Christian Crusades
pushed back off the peninsula after they got tired of the oppression... )

Brian

Brian,

I think you have a very disformed sight of the way we treat this point..
We've been dealing with muslim people for over a century, when they were
colonized, and we are very far from the day there will be more mosks in
France than churches... there has been a process of integration for the
twenty last years and the muslims we have (of course there are always a
few individual nutters, but they are quickly expelled when discovered)
are quite tepid believers. You have to understand that we are not a
religious nation, and that most of churches (or temples, there is a
small part of protestant people too) are half empty if not totally on
sunday mornings. Laicity is one of the basis of our constitution and
everybody is living his beliefs the way he wants, as long as it does not
interfere with politics. We have a very pragmatic point of view with
religious problems.. we'd rather integrate people to the society than
try to hammer our point of view into their head..
We don't send preachers to middle east countries to try to convert
'heathens' to good christians.. we are as pragmatic as you are
passionate, and because history has taught us not to repeat our errors
of the twenty last centuries, we are no crusaders any more..
There is no 'jesusland' here and there will not be any 'Allahsland' any
more in the future..judeo-christian culture is anyway to much anchored
in minds to ever allow this.. We are not warm believers, but our culture
is too much tinted with christinanity and its principles to allow France
to ever become a muslim country
And btw there are much more muslims in Germany or UK than in France that
has seriously limited its immigration for 20 years.
On our point of view the country that gives us a real problem with
muslims is UK where very placable legislation give a true shelter to
integrists and potential terrorists (for instance they hold for over a
decade identified terrorists implicated in attempts in France in the 80s
and definitely refuse to deliver them to French justice to be trialed ..
did you know that ?)..have you seen on TV those mollahs preaching jihad
in the streets of London ? Such things are unthinkable here, they'd be
expelled in a day, we have legal emergency procedures to do so..

No, I definitely think you have a sight of France which is widely
disformed by some kind of official propaganda..come and visit us, make
your own mind on the way people live here, you'll be very surprised and
I bet you'll come back with a very different point of view..
You'll see a country with tremendous landscapes, freedom to go wherever
you want without being filed, freedom of speech, excellent and natural
food, harbours full of wonderful sailboats, wonderful trout rivers, very
few large cities, over 2000 years of monuments (the city near which I
live has the best preserved roman coliseum in the world, as the best
preserved isis temple, both are 2200 years old..), and a very cool way
of living...in the spirit of the human rights declaration we wrote over
3 centuries ago..

Cheers,

Phil.