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...wears a headscarf, I am dismayed with Daniel B. Holoch’s comment, “One Nation, Secular and Indivisible” (Feb. 12). Holoch defines the Muslim girls who wear headscarves as “young French ethnic Arabs who do not adhere to fundamentalist Islam for cultural reasons” but as a means of composing a new identity at odds with the French republic. By describing those who wear headscarves as adhering to fundamentalist Islam, Holoch misses both the point of wearing the headscarf and the meaning of “fundamentalist Islam?...
...ghettoized, and privately educated youth who feel antagonism towards the French republic for helping to aggravate their situation, instead of improving it. Since they will be segregated from mainstream society and perceived as belonging to an unpatriotic religion, this will only fuel extremism and lead many youth towards fundamentalist Islam, not help to integrate them into French society...
...touched a woman—all, supposedly, in the name of God. Fundamentalist Christians continue to support Bush after he lied to America so he could bomb Iraq; yet, they called for Clinton’s head when he lied about having sex. Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell denounce Islam as a “violent religion” but then use Old Testament texts to prove that Christianity isn’t necessarily a peaceful one either...
...imminent" threat. It is hard to find anyone outside the Vice President's circle of friends who still insists that an immediate, unilateral invasion was necessary. The real question for this election year is, Was going to war in Iraq the right choice in the larger struggle against radical Islam? Saddam Hussein is in jail. There may have been ancillary benefits from the American show of force: Libya has given up its nuclear ambitions; Iran may, or may not, be doing the same. But the situation on the ground in Iraq remains chaotic. The possibility of a Sunni...
...with a college or vocational diploma is four times higher than it is among those from more affluent areas. Resignation and hopelessness have sent criminal activity and incivility soaring, and the banlieues' physical isolation makes them islands of anger, apathy and pain. "I've seen guys turn to fundamentalist Islam as the only positive, redeeming option available," reports Cazenave. "Some women start wearing a veil just to get their parents off their backs or escape sexual harassment" from men who assume unveiled women are inviting abuse. Kedadouche, a member of France's High Council of Integration, cites his own recent...