FRENCH CULTURE VERSUS ISLAMIC CULTURE -- ONE OUTCOME OF THE CULTURE WAR BEING WAGED INSIDE FRANCE:  THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT INDICATES THAT MUSLIM FULL BODY & FACE-CONCEALING GARMENTS ARE NOT WELCOME IN FRANCE. THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT LEGISLATES AGAINST THE NIQAB & THE BURQA. FRENCH LAW NOW PROHIBITS IMPOSITION OF ISLAMIC SPECIAL DRESS CODES ON MUSLIM WOMEN WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF FRENCH NATIONAL TERRITORY.

LAW ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY, & NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS:  VERY GOOD REASONS WHY FRANCE, BRITAIN, THE U.S.A., & OTHER WESTERN SOCIETIES SHOULD PROHIBIT PERSONS FROM WEARING THE BURQA IN PUBLIC PLACES -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURQAS & THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN OPERATING IN WESTERN COUNTRIES -- BANNING THE BURQA AS LIMITING THE OPTIONS OF ISLAMISTS RESIDING IN THE WEST -- THE SECULAR STATE VERSUS WEARING THE BURQA IN PUBLIC PLACES

THE PRO-PALESTINIAN BIAS OF FRENCH TELEVISION NEWS COVERAGE:  EXPOSING THE MUHAMMAD AL-DURA HOAX -- PHILIPPE KARSENTY CHALLENGES THE OBJECTIVITY & INTEGRITY OF FRANCE 2

THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM IN FRANCE:  HOW THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT DEALS WITH RADICAL ISLAMIC CLERICS RESIDING IN FRANCE & CONSIDERED TO BE A DANGER TO THE STATE -- GOING MUCH FURTHER THAN EXERCISE OF UNOBSTRUCTED AUTHORITY IN POLICING & EXPELLING RADICAL CLERICS:  INITIATING THE PLAN TO ASSIMILATE & ACCULTURATE FRANCE'S NEXT GENERATION OF IMAMS -- THE WILLINGNESS ON THE PART OF FRANCE TO DEFINE STANDARDS OF COMPORTMENT FOR MUSLIMS LIVING & WORKING IN FRANCE & TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FRENCH-STYLE SECULARISM IS A NECESSARY PRECONDITION FOR THE REFORM OF ISLAM

CENTER-RIGHT CANDIDATE NICHOLAS SARKOZY'S VICTORY IN THE RECENT FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:   ONLY A FIRST STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE IN FRANCE & OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- FOR EUROPE TO PREVAIL OVER THE INSIDIOUS CULTURAL ONSLAUGHTS THAT PRESENTLY THREATEN IT, WHAT IS REQUIRED?  A MAJOR SHIFT FROM THE NIHILISM OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT & A RENEWED RESOLVE TO STAND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENT OF MILITANT ISLAM

FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ARABS & THE JEWS:  A POLICY THAT IS PRO-ARAB & ANTI-ISRAELI -- FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY AT ODDS WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE CHARACTER & LONG HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE -- THE PRO-MUSLIM ATTITUDES & VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DIPLOMATIC & POLITICAL ELITES -- WHY THE FRENCH, IN INTERNATIONAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE LAST THREE OR FOUR DECADES, HAVE OBSTRUCTED EVERY WESTERN INITIATIVE & POLICY & THEREBY FACILITATED VIOLENCE, TERRORISM, & WAR -- WHY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN IRAQ & YASIR ARAFAT IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROLE OF FRANCE IN BRINGING ABOUT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN -- THE FRENCH PENCHANT FOR HARBORING ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS & APPEASING GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC STATES

FRANCE, ISLAM, & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY OF FRANCE UNDER THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF JACQUES CHIRAC -- A PATTERN OF EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN RULERS HOSTILE TO INTERNATIONAL NORMS OF BEHAVIOR & IN CONFLICT WITH WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- THE EVOLUTION OF CHIRAC'S PRO-ARAB, PRO-ISLAMIST POLICY & THE MOTIVATIONS DRIVING THAT POLICY -- WHAT WILL BE THE LEGACY OF THE CHIRAC DOCTRINE?

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