Towards a Pan-European Society | 57 comments (57 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Towards a Pan-European Society (4.00 / 3)

Selective bigotry sensitivity here we go again...

I don't see how the French model is wobbly. I'll say it again, the exact same thing said about Arabs today was said about Italian and Poles 2 or 3 generations ago: they won't integrate, they are bringing their religion with them and don't want to give it up for the Republic, they are fomenting trouble, etc... They will be integrated. They are being integrated;
I also don't see why the US and French models are put together in Londonbear's post. One celebrates communautarism, one absolutely refuses it. Both are democracies where you are free to practise your religion as you care to, but in one you show it publicly, and in the other you never show it. And calling French secularism a form of extremism (or an extremist version of rationality) just means that you don't understand anything about it.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 6th, 2006 at 03:02:24 PM EST
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Re: Towards a Pan-European Society (none / 1)

I'll add to that I am not sure what kind of distinctive disaster the British model is supposed to be heading towards (beyond the obvious energy one that you, Jerome, are always writing about...)

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Mon Feb 6th, 2006 at 05:18:08 PM EST
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Towards a Pan-European Society | 57 comments (57 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)