France continues it's clusterfuck of Islamophobia

[poetic_pixie_13]

France bans public Muslim prayers

MUSLIMS will be banned from praying outdoors in France from today in the latest move by officials to remove Islam from the public sphere

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[layweed]

What the bloody hell is this?

[chrys20]

What bullshit. I want to punch Sarkozy in the face.

[luminescnece]

I've been holding onto that urge for a long long time.

[spyral_path]

Apparently liberte, egualite and fraternite only apply if you're ethnically French. I'm pretty solidly athiest, but I can't see how people praying and wearinf head scarves because that's what they believe in is offensive. As long as they aren't forcing me to wear a scarf or pray, I'm okay with it.

Do they not remember their history of colonizing North Africa? Complaints of being occupied by Muslims sound ludicrous in that context.

[stormqueen280]

I'm not even sure 'ethnically French' exists.

[astridmyrna]

It's like "ethnically American." Which basically means white. And not just any sort of white, but the royal stamp of approval white.

[doe_witch]

That's generalizing a bit much. To be ethnically French is indeed to be white and indeed to have mixed ancestry from several other ethnic groups- Celtic, Germanic, Roman, etc.- but that population has been around a lot longer than the Anglo-American population, so while I'm not a geneticist, I suspect there is more genetic diversity amongst Anglo-Americans than amongst ethnic French people. Additionally, the construct of American whiteness was developed along a specifically Teutonic/Nordic model which often excluded the French as ~Latin like Spaniards and Italians. Not that this has any bearing on the racism France is displaying here, but it should be noted that historically speaking, France's whiteness has evolved differently from whiteness in the US.

[astridmyrna]

OH FFS SARKOZY. Can you be anymore of an Islamaphobic douche?

[stormqueen280]

Seriously, when it's the damn French election?

[sobota]

next year!