I thought the French had more sense

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Nov 25, 2006 at 12:43

Voltaire must turn in his grave seeing what is happening to France. The country that once gave birth to the Enlightenment , free-thinking and played a dominant role in European rationalism is regressing rapidly towards a tribal society under the compound impact of aggressive Islamic obscurantism and native political irrationalism . What a dismal irony of fate !

After half a century of so when the Islamic Republic of France will be firmly established ( by "vote" due to simply demography) who will remember what this country once stood for ? Who remembers what Asia Minor looked like before the Turkish conquest ?

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