August 31, 2004
The Conflict France Can't Avoid
by Jeremy
Two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq have pleaded for Paris to meet their captors' demands and reverse a ban on Muslim headscarves for girls in public schools.
It shouldn't be necessary to point out that this is not about the headscarf ban, whatever one thinks of that. This is about France's inescapable choice -- the policies of Chirac and company notwithstanding -- to protect its culture of Enlightenment values, democracy, liberalism from the assault of theocratic fascism. This confrontation is inevitable. Let's hope these two journalists, somehow, will avoid becoming the latest victims of this gruesome Jihad.
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