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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It is disingenuous to examine this case as though it is an anomaly, existing in a vacuum. Of course this case is about more; the increasing number and influence of serious, conservative muslims in France. It's easy to scoff at the french citizens, who see their society changing decade by decade, and becoming less familiar.
Tolerance education! Multiculturalism! Diversity! Progress!
Is it really progress to accept people who live by a seventh century code (actually even more hideous, the burqa is nowhere mentioned in the Koran)? Who cannot even accept the existence of certain types of people (atheists, pagans, homosexuals)? Who see Christians and Jews as only dhimmi, or worse, slaves?
In a vacuum, this case is unfair to a prospective french citizen. In this world, the one we live in, it is an attempt by a small segment of a two thousand year old culture to preserve itself.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
