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