April 1, 2011

French? No way!

But I am loyal first to my community. The Muslim community.
~ Algerian Abderrahmane Dahmane, former advisor on "diversity" to French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Lottts of diversity and precious little Frenchness, I'm thinking. And precious little interest in increasing Frenchness.

An interesting concept that. An advisor to the President of France on what is French and what isn't. "Monsieur le President, over here we have loyalty to France on the part of native Frenchmen and over there we have people like myself whose primary loyalty is to an alien religion. What is it that you wish me to explain to you about this?"

Why would the president of the French nation need some artiste like this to tell him anything about what isn't French? Or how non-French people interact with French people?

I'm struggling with this concept here. An advisor on how non-French people are rejecting assimilation into French society or giving their allegiance to something alien -- that I can understand.

"Dangerous Debate." By Tiberge, GalliaWatch, 3/31/11.

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