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French president challenges 'inward-looking nationalist selfishness' in Europe:
Emmanuel Macron has outlined his vision for the future of the European Union in Strasbourg. The 40-year-old, who secured the French Presidency in May on a pro-EU platform amid a populist surge in the bloc, delivered his highly anticipated speech to over 700 MEPs in the European Parliament on Tuesday.
Macron challenged "inward-looking nationalist selfishness" amid populist sentiment in the bloc and pushed for a more united and reinvigorated Europe. "Nationalism will lead Europe into the abyss. We see authoritarianism rising all around us," he said. "The response should not be authoritarian democracy but the authority of democracy."
Macron also sought to tackle the "poisoned debate" on migration, proposing the creation of a European programme that could subsidise local authorities which host and integrate refugees.
In a speech which touched on a range of issues, Macron recommended that copyright law be tightened to protect artists' "genius" and reiterated his support for tougher environmental legislation.
Meanwhile, Macron wants to "reform" Islam:
Speaking alongside the flag-draped coffin of a police officer killed in a terrorist attack in southern France, President Emmanuel Macron last month lay blame on "underground Islamism" and those who "indoctrinate on our soil and corrupt daily." The attack added further urgency to a project already in the works: Macron has embarked on a controversial quest to change Islam in France — with the goal of integration but also preventing radicalization.
He has said that in the coming months he will announce "a blueprint for the whole organization" of Islam. And those trying to anticipate what that will look like are turning their attention to Hakim El Karoui, a leading voice on how Islamic traditions fit within French culture.
It's hard to miss that the man who appears to have Macron's ear on this most sensitive of subjects cuts a similar figure. Like the president, El Karoui is an ex-Rothschild investment banker with an elite social pedigree who favors well-tailored suits, crisp white shirts and the lofty province of big ideas. The latest of those ideas is this: that the best way to integrate Islam within French society is to promote a version of the religion "practiced in peace by believers who will not have the need to loudly proclaim their faith."
Also at BBC.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:04AM (7 children)
Perspective: given that in 2013 there were 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" [wikipedia.org], I don't see islam as your biggest problem. In America you are more likely to be killed by a white American man than a Muslim [vox.com].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:16AM (3 children)
Unless you're black, then statistically your biggest worry is other black men.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday April 19 2018, @05:48AM (1 child)
Isn't it the police?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:53AM
Not remotely, no. Black men are only very slightly more likely to be shot by the cops during the commission of a crime than white folks. They're a hell of a lot more likely to be killed by another black man than any other form of non-accidental/natural death.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @06:32AM
Or you are a tribal member, when, well, you will probably be killed.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:19AM (2 children)
Moslems make more moslems, creating exponential growth. That 35,000 or whatever (calculation was 1% of 1% of the US population) is not static. It increases as the number of moslems increases, at least until we run out of infidels to be killed.
Gun owners generally have small families. Guns themselves don't reproduce; there is no exponential growth. Also: some of those people needed killing, and some of those people would have been killed by other methods if there were no guns, and many other deaths were stopped by somebody showing a gun or by the knowledge that a gun could be encountered.
37,461 people were killed by cars. Since cars have no constitutional protection, we can start by getting rid of them, though again there is no exponential growth. Cars do not reproduce.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:21AM
Citation needed WRT exponential growth
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Thursday April 19 2018, @08:38AM
That depends somewhat on your definitions. By their own definition, the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints is the fastest-growing religion, because whenever someone converts they treat all of their ancestors as being retroactively converted at the same time (which is why they keep such good genealogical records). Similarly, though to a lesser extent, Islam does not recognise the ability to convert from Islam, so if you are born a muslim then you remain one for the rest of your live. That doesn't mean much if they're eating bacon and don't even know where their nearest mosque is.
There's a story about someone going through UK immigration and putting 'atheist' under religion, then being asked if they mean 'Church of England atheist or atheist atheist'. A lot of people self identify as a particular religion but couldn't tell you the basic tenets of that faith and don't practice any of the rituals that it requires. Islam is no different in this respect.
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