I know nothing about American Christian fundamentalism, but I can tell you that in the UK it is the "non-integrationist" attitude of "Asian" immigrants which has been a major cause of friction. Also, whereas corporal punishment has been outlawed by European law it is covertly still rife in Islamic "after hours" religious schools... a blind eye no doubt being turned by PC conscious officials.
I am sure you are correct in your assessment of "self interested interference" by the West in the government of other countries, but given the seeming inability of certain countries/groups to establish viable democracies I think this interference could be more a matter of expediency than malicious intent. (Better the Devil you know...).
I know nothing about American Christian fundamentalism, but I can tell you that in the UK it is the "non-integrationist" attitude of "Asian" immigrants which has been a major cause of friction.
French mosque fires draw protest
Seynod's prayer room was devastated by fire
About 250 people have held a protest rally in the south-eastern French town of Annecy after two local mosques were damaged in suspected arson attacks.
One fire ravaged a mosque in the Alpine town itself while the other burned a prayer room in nearby Seynod.
French President Jacques Chirac condemned the "odious acts".
In Paris, the issue of the Islamic veil in schools resurfaced as thousands of feminists marched in support of the new state ban on religious symbols.
Kamel Kabtane of the French Council of the Muslim Faith said in Annecy that the suspected cases of arson were "not an act of vandalism... [but] an attack" and complained that no senior French politician had joined the protest.
The Paris march comes ahead of Women's Day on Monday
"We are in a pre-electoral period and many politicians did not dare come, fearing perhaps a backlash from voters," Mr Kabtane said, presumably referring to regional polls later in March.
The organisation's president, Dalil Boubakeur, warned the arson could "only worsen the sensitive religious climate" in France.
The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France also "strongly condemned" the attacks, expressing solidarity with the Muslim community.
No group has said it started the fires, and police have made no comment about the investigation. No-one was injured in either blaze.
Women's rights
Many of France's estimated five million Muslims are outraged at a new law which will ban religious symbols such as the headscarf from schools from the start of the new school year in September, in line with France's secularist tradition.
But in the French capital, about 7,000 feminists marched on Saturday in support of greater rights for women and in support of the ban on symbols.
At the same time a group of about 30 women in Islamic veils demonstrated against the law during the march which was organised by women's groups, trade unions and leftist political parties.
Prominent at the march were members of Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores nor Slaves), a group which campaigns for the rights of women of North African origin in France which strongly opposes the headscarf.
"It's years since I demonstrated but today I am here to support those Muslim women who do not have the same rights as us," one marcher, Jeanne Chevalier, told the AFP news agency.
"Recovering Muslims?" And you have the gall to imply you are not bigoted?
I consider that website to be not dissimilar to those that attempt to prove the bible, Q'uran, etc.. as litereally "true." Such sites are geared toward those with weak minds, and little education. Don't insult the intelligence of those on this board by attempting to imply that they hold any amount of veracity.
