France’s Shining Star
Well, looks like I’m back to calling them French fries.
The world just celebrated the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when the heroic bravery of Americans along with her allies began driving the final nail into Hitler’s Nazi Party coffin. Who would have imagined those 65 years ago that in 2009 we would celebrate a free France with a pacifist socialist American leader and a strong conservative French President?
Obama celebrated D-Day in France after making yet another historic trip to the Middle East where he praised the bloody terrorist organization Hamas as being a key player in the new government of Palestine. He then went on to scold the world for trying to interfere with Iran’s efforts to arm that jihadist nation with world ending nuclear capability. No country has the right to prevent another from developing nuclear weapons, he said. Obama has spent the better part of his early administration trying desperately to placate Muslims at any cost. He has publically credited Muslims with creating everything from mathematics to chicken soup and has constantly chanted the Muslim mantra that they are a religion of peace.
Obama immediately took credit for the sham election held in Iran stating it was his speech that invigorated the voters and forced Iran to hold open and free elections. Not surprisingly he was as quiet as the backseat of the Clinton’s limo when it turned out to be nothing but a charade put on by the real ruling mullahs. After taking almost 20 minutes to recount the entire nation’s votes the Ayatollahs have gone back to what they know best in order to remain in power, big sticks and loaded guns.
Yet in the face of all the worldwide Muslim unrest a surprising strong voice has risen to at least attempt to put an end to oppressive Muslim religious rule in France, that of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
In a country that knows all too well the scourge of Muslim extremist tactics with occasional bombings and almost nightly acts of vandalism and arson, Sarkozy knows his words will likely cause a huge backlash in Muslim neighborhoods. But as one of the few world leaders still capable of distinguishing right and wrong from rhetoric he has chosen this time and this place to take his stand.
In the first presidential address in 136 years to a joint session of France’s two houses of Parliament, Sarkozy laid out his support for a ban on the Muslim head to toe dress worn by women known as a burqa.
“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” Mr. Sarkozy said.
He went on to say “The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want to say it solemnly….. it will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”
He was greeted with several rounds of extended applause even though there are numerous critics in France who fear his stance will only fan the flames of Muslim unrest and possibly stigmatize Muslims.
I agree that their will likely be an increase in bombings and pillaging ordered by the leaders of this religion of peace. A leading Muslim group is already warning of repercussions if a panel even begins studying the burqa. But did it ever dawn on the critics that perhaps the Muslims are stigmatizing themselves by forcing their women into these degrading symbols of second class submission? And as for the repercussions, the Muslim youth in France have been setting fire to block long lines of parked cars almost every night for a year. It’s not like they need a reason to riot.
I firmly support religious freedom for Muslims and any other religious group. But if you choose to emigrate from your native country you need to be prepared to live by some different rules and regulations. That’s probably why there are not a lot of folks looking to move to countries ruled by Muslim mullahs.
As for Sarkozy? It’s still early, but so far he shows a lot more promise than his American counterpart.
