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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, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 19 2018, @03:27AM (8 children)
He's not that far off, you know. I disagree with him about Jesus, though; the guy was a nutter. Thing is, he was more of a harmless hippie nutter, compared to Mohammed who was a Charles Manson nutter. This makes a world of difference when one is the founder of a religion.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:59AM
He was a gentle soul, according to the folks around West Hollywood. [google.com]
(He just died a few months ago.)
Word is, he was good with the laying on of hands thing (a part-time masseur).
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday April 19 2018, @05:06AM (6 children)
Yeah, right. Like not. Ask the Americas native population and most of the Africa's.
Heck, ask the East Christians in Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday April 19 2018, @06:45AM (2 children)
Still hurts, eh, c0lo? Ferking Frankish!! Which is, after all, a Germanic tribe.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday April 19 2018, @07:07AM (1 child)
You know what hurts most? The Venetians, the mercantile bastards, they should have known better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday April 19 2018, @07:27AM
Agreed. But, you know, mercantile and mercenary derive from the same root. The root of all evil. And don't get me started on the Genoese in Greece!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:38PM (1 child)
Buddhists and Bahai seem to have performed pretty well by that standard, though maybe the Bahai don't really count because they were never in charge of a large military power. Buddhists don't seem to have engaged in mass slaughter though, so maybe the original point about the character of a religion's founder is not completely disproven.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday April 19 2018, @01:19PM
Hmmm... really, none whatsoever? [wikipedia.org]
See also Bodu Bala Sena - the Buddhist talibans of Sri Lanka [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday April 19 2018, @07:30PM
You are vilely slandering the Goths, at least the Visigoths. They did their best to retain the city of Rome. The Roman government, however, would not honor it's own treaties. Eventually they did sack Rome. I think that was the third time they conquered it. Even then they spared the Churches. Sparing the Churches was foolish though as the priests were a big part of the problem. This is because the Goths were Arian Christian rather than Roman Catholic.
Now the Lombards probably deserve the reputation you are assigning to the Goths. I'm not sure about the Ostrogoths.
P.S.: This seems to disagree with the first result that I get from a Google search, but I still believe it. Alaric was the leader of the Visigoths. Perhaps the Vandals later sacked Rome, but I doubt it, as I think they were in Spain before crossing over to Africa.
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