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Jun. 22nd, 2009 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Monday that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France". Later after a few glasses of wine he was overheard to mutter "Tits or GTFO".
(note: I made that last sentence up)
(note: I made that last sentence up)
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Date: 2009-06-23 02:04 am (UTC)No ones gonna tell me
Whats wrong or whats right
Or tell me who to eat with sleep with
Or that I've won the big fight big fight
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Date: 2009-06-23 02:07 am (UTC)Yea, Sarky wins wtfasshole for today (again).
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Date: 2009-06-23 02:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-23 07:55 am (UTC)I'm no fan of Sarkozy but by the same token I'm sick to shit of the idea that freedom of religion means those of us who are not religious can never utter a bad word about religious beliefs.
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Date: 2009-06-23 09:41 am (UTC)in France it sure does...except for the religious, not the secularists.
I'm sick to shit of the idea that freedom of religion means those of us who are not religious can never utter a bad word about religious beliefs.
that ain't happening in France. they've outright banned a great many forms of public religious expression. you can't wear your own symbols in their schools. the paternalistic laïcité mentality gives enormous privilege to secularists...I don't think in this particular context (to be painfully clear, the French context) they have the slightest justification for complaint. Americans may give Kri$tianity an unwarranted special place in public discourse, but when the American ideal is upheld in its pure form, it beats the hell out of the homogenizing, cultural imperialist French version.
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Date: 2009-06-24 12:24 am (UTC)This is true. France expects immigrants to be frencher than the french or GTFO. See how well that's worked for them?
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Date: 2009-06-24 08:06 pm (UTC)permettez-moi d'être désagréable...
Date: 2009-06-24 08:33 pm (UTC)Re: permettez-moi d'être désagréable...
Date: 2009-06-24 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-24 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-23 09:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-23 02:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-24 12:22 am (UTC)If it was Berlesconi then it would very believable ;)