In a live-broadcast interview with French Channel One television, the French president condemned multi-culturalism and described it as a failure. Sarkozy said France had been too concerned about the identity of people who came to live in the country.
He stated that Muslims should "accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community." Sarkozy even went on to instruct the imams at French mosques on how to give their sermons.
France, home to some five million Muslim inhabitants, mostly of North African descent, takes pride in the “special relationship” it has with the Arab world, and its former colonies.
In the wake of revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, Sarkozy also warned the Middle Eastern countries of falling into what he calls “religious dictatorship.” [Ahlul Bayt News Agency] Read more [via National Secular Society]
