Turning the other cheek
Reader comment on item: A French Consulate in Mecca

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Dec 20, 2005 at 10:19

Dear Ivan ,

you wrote :

> It appears that France and the UK are worrying more about Moslem interests than about European values. They suppress their own principles to pander to [appease] their Moslem citoyens. One can anticipate from that, a progressive build up of a corpus of Sharia law applying to a large sector of society. That group will use Sharia to slither out from under the national laws applying to the majority.
What will it then mean to be French or British?

Dhimmi ! At first covertly and then quite openly. What else ?

However, I am sure the politicians will be clever enough to convert to Islam in time to avoid the fate of dhimmitude and have 'equal rights' with their native Muslim brothers. They have already done so much good to Muslims in their countries and so much evil to the infidels in Europe. They have a full right to take the next logical step.

I can well imagine Abdullah Chirac or Mahmud Blair in white turbans performing five daily prayers in front of TV cameras of Al-Jazira, fasting during the holy month and going on a haj with Tariq Ramadan and other outstanding Muslim theologians from Europe, condemning ' la laïcité' as a nasty heresy no true Muslim can adhere to , writing memoirs on how they have at last found their path to Allah and His paradise as true servants of the reestablished caliphate of Europe.

Won't it be a "fascinating" scenario ?

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