17 August 2012

French Muslims in political grey area

.... "The question of new mosques construction remains undecided because of the firm unwillingness of the Europeans to accept another culture on their territory, especially in such large numbers," Ms Korobko said.

"It is mainly caused by the historic, social and psychological specificities of the Europeans, and the French people in particular." She is not alone in being concerned about the outlook of the left as a whole.

Despite the right's obsessions with immigration, especially from former French colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa, and with the alleged "Islamification" of France, it was a communist mayor who led the campaign to ban the face-covering niqab inpublic. [The National] Read more