Anything to drive a wedge into the left wing (like recruiting Mitterand's nephew into the Cabinet) and most of all distract the public from the embarrassing reality.
Crime figures are rising despite years of Sarko's posturing, unemployment is skyrocketing, banksters have stolen the middle class money, retirement age is being pushed away, the "president of the purchasing power" (his electoral slogan in 2007) is now presiding over impoverished citizens (not his friends, though, thank you very much).
So yes, it's about time for the new battle against a threatening minority: the radical Muslims.
Not sure it's gonna work in the long run: the traditional enemy for the French people (again, cue in E.Todd) has been the upper class, aristocracy before the revolution, bourgeoisie since then. No ethnic minority has ever been in that role for long, especially one that is at the bottom ladder of the society and rather powerless overall.
The real threats to most French people well-being is not coming from Arab immigrants or any Muslim: they're coming from Mr Sarkozy's political and business friends.
It takes a big friggin' burqa to cover all this, that's for sure... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
Westernisation of the burqa "Consider all the profit you can make from all that surface available to put ads!" In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
:D Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
