Paris – Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader of France’s National Front Party, called today for a ban on the public wearing of veils by Muslims and yarmulkes by Jews, thereby inflaming the existing religious tensions caused by the earlier publication of offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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Le Pen has said that religious head coverings should be barred “in stores, on public transport and on the streets,” adding that “it is obvious that if the veil is banned, the kippah is banned in public as well,” according to a report in the Le Monde newspaper (http://bit.ly/PPviT4). She also reiterated her position that public prayer and government funding of mosques should be outlawed, and that kosher and halal foods should no longer be served in schools.
President Francois Hollande condemned Le Pen’s remarks, saying, “Everything that tears people apart, opposes them and divides them is inappropriate and we must apply the rules, the only rules that we know, the rules of the Republic and secularism.”
Le Pen’s party won nearly 18 percent of the vote in the first round of this year’s presidential elections.
Obviously, this includes Catholic Cardinals.
First the Moslems, now Jews, next up are the blacks. It has always been like that. so when a government bans any religious articles, clothing, we should all worry. No matter of the religion.
That means, not shout in joy when a government body tries to block a religious center of being built no matter the excuse.
I guess the next step is to ban hats also.
I’m not in the slightest observant or religious, but the next time I’m in France, I’ll be sure to wear my kippah.
Should this also include police, fire fighters, military, etc.?
Marine Le Pen take note almost no one wears yarmulkes openly in France anyway. btw, how will your fascist government know who is Jewish? When they decide to round them up again and deport them to whoever wants them… ?!
Oh sure that should help tremendously, because as we all know, it is the JEWS who are rioting around the world, Jews who are shooting helpless women & children on their way to school, Jews who have No Go, exclusionary zones in many European cities, Jews who hi-jack airplanes & crash them into buildings, Jews who car bomb restaurants, movie theaters, pubs & busses, Jews who forbid others to practice their religion, Jews who insert their own laws into the legal systems of foreign countries, Jews who execute men & women for being homosexual, Jews who order the murder of writers, cartoonists, & movie makers – ANYONE who questions or criticizes their religion. It is the Jews who mutilate their women & marry off their pre-pubescent children to old men, Jews who stone, behead & disembowel innocents around the world, & Jews who want the atomic bomb in order to wipe other countries off the face of the map thereby bringing forth their Messiah.
Europe is repeating the insanity of the 1920’s & 1930’s. Appeasement didn’t work with Adolf Hitler & the Nazi’s, & it will not work with Islam. France & all of Europe is submitting to dhimmitude without a fight.
but he is also a Jew
In France, do they ban cigarette smoking “in stores, on public transport and on the streets”?
This is a fringe personality with a fairly sizable following but no real influence. Every country, including the U.S., has crackpot politicians like this.
When they outlawed they full veil, which only reveals the woman’s eyes, the premise was that it was for public security. Now it seems that it was more biased against other religions.
Now, we should only travel to France — if necessary!! Do do not buy French products!! A small boycott should put them in their place.
Maybe we can outlaw French Foods and Wine in Israel.
I remember that back in 1965, when I was visiting the City University in Paris, there were students from all over the world. There was an observant Jew in our group, who was wearing his kippah. A number of the African students objected to him wearing his kippah, so he removed it, stating that he wanted to eat in peace. However, one doesn’t have go to France to run into this type of hatred. Some years ago, someone told me that they stopped at a rest stop on the PA Turnpike. All of a sudden, a hillbilly type character came over to my friend (who was wearing a Kippah), and stated “Why don’t you remove that thing from your head and be like the rest of us”. I have to laugh at that phraseology, as who in their right mind, would want to be like them?
This is exactly why we need to support Muslims against anti-Islam bias. As much as we can’t stand them and they can’t stand us, a blow against them is one small step from a blow against us (not necessarily vice versa, though). Obviously, the reason we are in the same boat is that, like it or not, Islam and Judaism have a lot in common and share common interests – circumcision, laws regarding tznius and dietary laws are just three examples.
And not a single person understands the difference between covering one’s face, so that no one else can tell who you are, and covering the very top of one’s head, which at most covers a non-vital bald spot?
Read the article. The one who proposed the ban on kippot is a far-right-wing politician. To quote the article: “President Francois Hollande condemned Le Pen’s remarks, saying, ‘Everything that tears people apart, opposes them and divides them is inappropriate and we must apply the rules, the only rules that we know, the rules of the Republic and secularism’.” So you have it—the secularist is the one who is supporting the right of Jews to wear yarmulkes.