Is France About To Take Sensible Action?

[anotheoldgit]

FRENCH Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the country is to shut down certain mosques, cut foreign funding and police the content delivered in sermons in a massive crackdown on Islamic fundamentalism.

Meanwhile, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has demanded every person suspected of being involved in terrorism be placed under house arrest.

And he said accessing jihadi websites should be made a crime similar to that of paedophiles who view and distribute content online.

France is also considering legislation that will allow it to remove and expel dual national citizens.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/695711/France-to-shut-down-rogue-mosques-to-wipe-out-Jihadi-preaching-amid-major-crackdown

[bazwillrun]

Good for them...about time...and stop the opening of more mosques

[andy-hughes]

I wonder if this simply plays into the hands of the jihadists.

I would be entirely in favour of the shutting of mosques where radicalisation is proven to be being preached.

I am unsure of the practicalities of house arrest - or the moral correctness of that procedure in a country that works on an 'innocent until proven guilty' premise.

Policing of the internet is next to impossible, and it will be completely impossible to prove access is not simply for educational purposes - looking into the history of fascism on the web does not make someone a Nazi.

The dual national citizens aspect is again fraught with the danger of sweeping up the innocent with the guilty.

It's days like this that I am glad that such decisions are ones which I do not have to make.

[naomi24]

Yes!

[andy-hughes]

bazwillrun - //Good for them...about time...and stop the opening of more mosques //

Stopping the opening of more mosques does two things - it prevents worship by innocent Muslims, and it confirms to the Jihadists that Muslims are being persecuted.

I can't see any pluses on that basis.

[Baldric]

I'm beginning to like the French Prime Minister, it appears someone has woken up at last.

[RandyMarsh]

Other mosques are available Andy.

[fiction-factory]

>Other mosques are available Andy.
Yes, but why stop new ones being built?

[-Talbot-]

You don't need a Mosque to pray ... only to preach.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// I'm beginning to like the French Prime Minister, it appears someone has woken up at last. ///

Similar measures could take place here in the UK, it is just a matter of putting one's cross in the correct box.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/695942/lisa-duffy-Ukip-leadership-hopeful-ban-muslim-schools-Nigel-Farage-Steven-Woolfe

[fiction-factory]

So should we stop building churches too? I don't see what stopping the building of mosques achieves other than it gives extremists even more evidence in their warped minds that the west hates them and they need to fight back

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

/// Yes, but why stop new ones being built? ///

I think that most know the answer to that.

[fiction-factory]

Please remind me . To teach them a lesson perhaps?

[andy-hughes]

AOG - ///// Yes, but why stop new ones being built? ///

I think that most know the answer to that. //

I don't - can you explain please?

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

/// So should we stop building churches
too? ///

Haven't seen any new one's being built recently.

Most of our churches were built hundreds if not thousands of years ago, seeing that this is a Christian country and not a Middle Eastern one.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //You don't need a Mosque to pray ... only to preach. //

Does that not apply to any place of worship in any faith?

[fiction-factory]

There's a new one near me but that was JehWit so perhaps doesn't count

[Bigbad]

Well done Mr. Valls.

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
Talbot - //You don't need a Mosque to pray ... only to preach. //

Does that not apply to any place of worship in any faith?



I would have thought you knew the answer to that.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //andy-hughes
Talbot - //You don't need a Mosque to pray ... only to preach. //

Does that not apply to any place of worship in any faith?



I would have thought you knew the answer to that. //

I do.

That statement applies to any faith - so why should mosques be singled out for having their building programme curtailed - that is my point.