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) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @01:43PM (6 children)
Are you catching on? History repeats itself, often enough. Those who fail to learn from history, are condemned to relive history - or words close enough not to matter. Look around you. All over the world, all over Europe, you can see the vanguard of the next Muslim armies. Evicting the Muslims from Europe - or most of Europe - the last time around was costly. But, you don't even recognize those vanguards.
The majority of Muslims "immigrating" into Europe are military aged males. That means nothing to you?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:11PM (5 children)
Absolutely nothing. Should it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:24PM (4 children)
HINT: The American west was settled primarily by military aged males, of European stock.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:52PM (3 children)
Those "immigrants" got in Europe as the result of USA pumping, in the Middle East, discontent and arms to go with it [independent.co.uk]
This happened after a certain ape alpha female bumped her flat chest following the destabilization of a country and eliminating the only non-tribal government, by propping up US own enemy [telegraph.co.uk]. Yeap, the Italians should know who to thank for the extra refugees.
The above coming after the idiotic US-led finance engineering wiped out a good part of the world economy.
Of course, this coming on top of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq before that.
HINT: perhaps those military aged males should have better stayed in the American west they settled. As a matter of perspective, facts suggest that US interventionism and adventurism is a higher risk factor for this world than Muslims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @03:13PM (2 children)
You're coming around, slowly. You have just admitted that Islam is indeed a risk factor for the world we live in. Given time, we might arrive at some sort of agreement regarding the relative risk posed by the Five Eyes nations, and Islam. Of course, about that time, we'll have to weigh those risks against other risks, like China.
Can we at least agree that those clever upright simians are fucking dangerous? A few are less dangerous than others, but they are all dangerous.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
Fucking? You wish, old man, but long gone are the times for fucking.
Dangerous? Salmonella is dangerous too, and believe it or not, I haven't soiled my pants neither on Salmonalla's account not on the account of simians danger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @07:27PM
Runaway has. He's kind of the Ted Nugent of Arkansas.