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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: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday April 19 2018, @06:29AM (3 children)
Only a fucking Polack, with a bad case of resentment towards the Eastern Orthodox Church, could say such a thing, and not immediately be drugged and dragged, in drag, down to the lower levers of Hell, where he would have to get all gay married, to a transsexual. Get back to spreading your masters dis-info, Runaway, like how the chimerical attack on the Polish radio station never happened, and Stalin never signed a non-aggression pact with Richard Spencer that handed Poland over to the Swabians. Oh, the depths of perfidy you have probed, Runaway! If I were you, I would pray devoutly for one of two things: That there is no God, or that She does not hate liars. Now go back and tell Horowitz and Gellar that you have failed at your assigned mission, you incompetent uneducated hillbilly.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:11PM (2 children)
We can always count on Ari to bring the faggotry into the discussion. I suppose there are "Good Greeks" and "Bad Greeks". Those people here at Soylent who have identified as Greek seem mostly good. But, you, Aristarchus, are very special indeed. You can never leave the faggotry behind.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday April 19 2018, @07:12PM (1 child)
Just trying to play upon your fears, Runaway, like the Islamophobes seem to have done. Seems to be working. It's about you, Runaway, not about me!
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Monday April 23 2018, @03:35AM
I swear sometimes I read little snippets of conversation like this thread above... and really feel like I have started reading the wrong chapter of a book I am halfway through.
It's like a little microcosm of the internet as a whole with left and right, discussions ranging from scientific, through to utterly asinine, going from comedy gold to text-book-esque data. Oh, and there's the odd bunch just chasing butterflies through the field where everyone else has gathered.