A Mind That Suits
What doesn't kill me, makes me laugh... usually.
Friday, April 25, 2003 ::: How Does This One Sit With the Vast Army of Francophiles who Love to Bash the US? An interesting column on today's Taste Page (WSJ) recounts a typically ham-handed effort by the French to control their Muslim population by controlling the mosques themselves. France famously tried to de-Christianize itself by similar tactics at the end of the 19th and early part of the 20th Centuries, and only the fact that their entire governing class goes to the same university hides the persistence of religious belief among the French themselves. One doubts that this effort will work, but it is worth reading about.
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