Should Ms Le Pen Be Forced To Conform To Islam's Practice Of Covering Their Female's Heads?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/770064/Marine-Le-Pen-headscarf-controversy-Grand-Mufti-Lebanon-meeting-French-Front-National

/// A spokesman for the Grand Mufti said Ms Le Pen's aides had been informed beforehand of their requirement for her to wear head covering for the meeting in Lebanese capital Beirut. ///

[andy-hughes]

jackdaw - //I would not consider posting tripe ad nauseam on a social website as 'tasking'. //

Then feel free to go and do something else.

You could start by controlling your urge to snipe at me at every opportunity, which adds nothing to the debate in question.

[Jackdaw33]

Sniping? God, that's rich.

[andy-hughes]

jackdaw, I am going to ignore anything directed at me, by you, unless it refers directly to the question being discussed.

Someone has to curb your childish nonsense.

[Jackdaw33]

My only problem is that you don't ignore me. I shall hold you to that promise.

[andy-hughes]

allen - you do seem intent on plugging the 'money' angle - I am not sure that everyone is chasing the dollar.

[dieseldick]

NO !! why should she, if it makes her uncomfortable why to hell should she ?

[andy-hughes]

dieseldick - //NO !! why should she, if it makes her uncomfortable why to hell should she ? //

Because international statesmen and women subvert their own discomfort in the interests of courtesy to their hosts, which increases the chances of productive dialogue, which is the point of a visit like this.

If the Grand Mufti was to visit France on a reciprocal visit, and he was offered snails at the banquet, you can be pretty sure he'd have a damn good go at forcing them down.

Cultural courtesies oil the wheels of diplomacy, if you can't fit in, you're in the wrong job.

[andy-hughes]

allen - //But I do believe that religion has its roots in social conflict, whatever name you put on it. //

That statement, I would not disagree with for one moment.

[andy-hughes]

I believe the two have co-existed as long as mankind, and neither can claim to be the cause of the other.

[Khandro]

allen; //I'm trying to encourage a Marxist analysis round here,//

Good heavens! so you've read a book, isn't it about time you read a second one one? Marx......jeeeez!

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - answer the post - or not - but there is no need to be offensive.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, //If the Grand Mufti was to visit France on a reciprocal visit, and he was offered snails at the banquet, you can be pretty sure he'd have a damn good go at forcing them down.//

Muslims don't eat snails so the French would be far too polite to serve them to the Grand Mufti - and if the caterers did make a mistake you could be pretty sure he wouldn’t touch them.

[naomi24]

allen, what’s attractive about Marxism?

[naomi24]

Allen, I didn’t put a time limit on you, but just one insurmountable flaw in that idealistic ideology – it disregards human nature and because of that, in the real world, it can never work.

[Zacs-Master]

'Attractive about Marxism? Well, once you read it (and Engels for that matter), everything starts to make sense. Bits of history that really puzzled you become crystal clear.'

Oh dear.
If it's so great, why hasn't it worked around the world?