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>>are you alluding to the problem of French public
>> housing ghettos concentrating Muslim populations and the
>> resultant radical impulses of a fanatical culture
You mean the French policy of subsidizing people to
live in low-cost accommodation? Well, I think the French are stupid for having public housing, just as Australians (collectively) are stupid for having it. But can we avoid calling people who take advantage of subsidies victims because of the subsidy? French Muslims are not forced to live in high-rise ghettos, and they are not victims of French public housing policy. The victims are the ones which are forced to pay for that subsidy - ie the taxpayer. [I will agree that there may be other secondary factors
which make it hard for those people - like private accommodation provision being squeezed out of the market due
to massive government mrket distortion etc etc,
but this still won't make me sympathize with the majority of people who take advantage of that subsidy]. >> But, in this modern age, would it not be quite
>> easy for radical Muslims to concentrate their
>> enforcement activities while having a more dispersed
>> population? At the risk of sounding like a leftie, even radical Islam needs a support base. the ghettos are festering swamps that give succour to this parasitic mindset.
the most important thing is to give people the option of getting away from the hatred. >> French cities, after all, are less sprawling
>> than New World ones. It would be easy for gangs of
>> radical Muslim youths to get on the metro and prowl
>> around for "soumises" to subject to their violence.
>> Would not a more dispersed Muslim population across
>> France (notably Paris and Marseilles) simply cause the
>> gangs to cast a wider net, possibly involving ethnically
>> French women? This is what, apparently, happened in
>> Sydney.
Yes and no. I don't thing that gangs in France have trouble finding local (native) French women. Whether such attack are less common, or just less commonly reported I am not sure, but from the relatively few (and not very recent) conversations I have had with French people about this I suspect the latter. The Sydney rape gangs are motivated by hatred of Australians, not the preservation of their own culture.
Why this difference? Australia has about 1.5% Muslim population, France has around 8%. Until recently, anti-Muslim feeling in Australia has been quashed far mor effectively in Australia than France. This gives some clues. >> Incidentally, the veil thing is not too great
>> at containing Islamic "enforcement" anyway. Presumably,
>> a good girl would be expected to don her chador or hijab
>> or whatever once she leaves the school grounds. Agreed - which is why the policy will be largely only symbolic.
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