Make no mistake: this law has many supporters here. My wife tells me that a friend of ours supports it, and she is a professed advocate of civil and human rights. Many Westerners, especially white, middle-class professional and academic “feminists” see this law as a law “liberating” women from oppressive Islam. On that, a posting some days ago on the CBC, someone pointed out that Western women are hardly free in matters of dress, citing the expectations of fashion and work-place dress norms and dress codes.

White, middle-class Westerners are always ready to tell other people how to live: they are great ones at denying that basic human right, self-determination.

The words Sarkozy spoke were despicable and outrageous.

Amad, you’ve now written a well-researched and interesting piece exposing the evil and folly of Sarkozy’s deliberate choice of words against us; before writing this you should have already written similarly well-researched and sensible pieces exposing the evil and folly of Obama’s deliberate choice of actions against us.

Indeed, Sarkozy’s speech against us fits very well with his country’s answering Obama’s call to the world to join him in his despicable and outrageous actions against us–his increasing troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan; his intensifying bombings and killings of Muslims; his driving millions of us out of our homes in Pakistan and Afghanistan and then praising himself and America for giving financial aid to Pakistan; and, all the while, his calling on others, including France and even including us Muslims, to join him in his war against us in the name of rooting out what he, like his comrade Bush before him, call extremism and terror and a grave threat.

The same speech that you direct us toward so that we can soak in Obama’s hollow words regarding hijab, also has his loaded words in which he invokes the sham government story of the 9/11 attacks–which he tells us is a fact not open for debate–as justification for his escalation of killing us Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan and driving us out of our homes.

Keep things in perspective, Amad.

I don’t like Sarkozy. Do you?

This piece communicates that you don’t.

I don’t like Obama. Do you?

I am one of many readers who are dissappointed in your lack of balance and await well-researched and sensible pieces from you exposing Obama’s outrageous wrongdoings and demanding us to stand up and take him to task–not to thank him–wrongdoings which eclipse his occasional decent-sounding utterances, contradict them, and expose them for the shameless boldfaced lies that they are.

You can write, for instance, on any of the following current news or its like:

–his drones bombing our Muslim brothers and sisters today and then bombing our funeral in which we bury the dead from the first bombing.
–Obama’s drones bombing our Muslim brothers and sisters in Pakistan from January until now
–his drones bombing Muslims in Afghanistan
–how about his proposal for ‘prolonged detentions‘

Thank you for that very astute reply. I agree, and I think you’ll find most Muslims see the value of the concept of secularism and how it is practiced in America as opposed to France and some of the European nations.

It is interesting that the secularism in France initially was a response to the establishment of the Church and its power and now has morphed into what it is today — is it a problem the French have with religion in general?