So a couple of French journalists have been taken hostage by Al Qaeda forces in Iraq in order to pressure France to revoke ban on Muslim head scraves:
But Prime Minister Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq said bluntly that the kidnapping proved that France’s position on Iraq ? presumably its opposition to the war and the absence of troops ? offered it no protection from terrorism.
“Neutrality doesn’t exist, as the kidnapping of the French journalists has shown,” Mr. Allawi said in an interview with several European and American newspapers. “The French are deluding themselves if they think they can remain outside of this. Today, the extremists are targeting them too.”
Suddenly, in France as well, there is the realization that its opposition to the American-led war in Iraq has not innoculated it from Iraqi-inspired terrorism. “Nobody is safe,” said an editorial in this afternoon’s editions of the daily Le Monde.
Freedom of religion is good, and so is a strong stand against terrorists. Good luck to the Froggie journos, and may Allah bless them. Turkey has banned head scarves for years, BTW, but the terrorists know better than to mess with them.
Your comment about Turkey not allowing head scarves for Muslims is very interesting.
With respect to “messing with Turkey,” not sure if the two double bombings in Istanbul within a week at a British multinational bank and the British embassy in Nov 2003 rise to your level of “messing”…?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3222608.stm