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2007-01-15 04:59:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

Do the French have affirmative action for radical islamists?

2007-01-15 05:00:53 · update #1

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I truly hope not. But it looks like it from here.

Has anyone heard from Spain, lately?

2007-01-15 05:03:49 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1 0

With the point of immigration that this united states of america (U.ok.) has sustained because the 2d international conflict there's no answer. except for the lately highlighted muslim no-bypass parts, there are also many West Indian (Caribbean) parts the position you does not opt for to bypass. each and every British authorities because the conflict has inspired British Commonwealth immigration with out the approval of the indigenous inhabitants, specially for economic motives yet with complete push aside for the social complications it has brought about. except for the white higher center classification, who may have the funds for the severe priced housing and poorer operating classification whites, who're left in interior sight social housing, whites were leaving inner city parts in droves for decades. The politicians of all events parrot the line that we stay in this remarkable multi-racial society, ignoring the actual undeniable truth that that's with an ever lowering white inhabitants on the city parts. only one aspect about the U.S. You do say that the priority of no-bypass parts does not be tolerated yet i can undergo in concepts being in lengthy island various years in the past at the same time as it became not conceivable for an elementary white man or woman to visit Harlem; besides the actual undeniable truth that apparently, the priority has now replaced. ultimately; besides the actual undeniable truth that there has of route continuously been crime, the priority with violent crime has spiralled uncontrolled. yet why might want to we anticipate something else at the same time as Asian/Caribbean cultures, which have under no circumstances had an same respect for the regulation as elementary Britons are allowed into the country? We actually have a particular police unit referred to as 'Operation Trident' which covers black on black crime, because a lot violent crime has been imported from those places. P.S. basically study willhobe and that i can assure you that i'm not a Conservative. i have been a Labour supporter (loosely Democrat) all my existence! P.P.S. i'm satisfied for politics... to disagree with me in a reasoned way. regardless of the indisputable fact that, i imagine you'll locate that Operation Trident got here into being through exhibit requests from African/Caribbean community leaders. also, if his description of Thamesmead would not make it a no-bypass section, then i do not recognize what does?!?

2016-10-17 01:32:28 · answer #2 · answered by sovak 4 · 0 0

France has been fighting against radical Islamist longer than we have.
The Armed Islamic Group (known by its French acronym, GIA) is a radical offshoot of Algeria’s main Islamist opposition. Since the North African country plunged into a bloody civil war in 1992, the group has been linked to terrorist attacks in Europe and to the massacres of tens of thousands of civilians in Algeria. In the past few years, many GIA members have joined other splinter Islamist groups or have been jailed or killed in government crackdowns. The GIA is now thought to have between a few hundred and a few thousand operatives and is listed on the U.S. roster of foreign terrorist groups.

Whom does the GIA target?
Both Algerians and others. The GIA’s massacres of civilians reached their height in the mid-1990s. Other GIA targets have included Algerian journalists, intellectuals, and secular schools. More recently, the GIA was thought to be behind two bombings in Algiers in August 2001.

The GIA is also accused of killing more than one hundred foreigners, mostly Europeans, since 1993. The group has a particular disdain for France, the country’s former colonial ruler and a major supporter of Algeria’s military-backed regime. In 1994, GIA members hijacked an Air France flight, and in late 1999, a French court convicted several GIA members for a series of bombings in France in 1995.

Does the GIA have ties to al-Qaeda?
Possibly. Experts say that some GIA leaders may have had contact with Osama bin Laden while fighting in the 1979-89 Afghan war against the Soviet Union. Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network also includes some Algerians, and European authorities have arrested dozens of Algerian militants suspected of being al-Qaeda operatives plotting attacks on European cities, perhaps involving chemical weapons.

But while the full extent of the connection between the GIA and al-Qaeda is unclear, experts say, it is probably at least somewhat limited. The GIA operates principally in Algeria, and its objectives are more local than al-Qaeda’s ambitions for a global holy war. But some intelligence officials say that al-Qaeda’s leadership is increasingly interested in using national Islamist movements such as the GIA to breathe new life into the wounded al-Qaeda network.

Does the GIA target Americans?
The GIA has not targeted Americans in Algeria. But some Algerian terrorists who have tried to attack the United States may be linked to the GIA. In December 1999, Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian living in Montreal, was arrested at the U.S.-Canadian border with a carload of explosives; he was later convicted of plotting a millennium-eve attack on Los Angeles International Airport. Ressam has since led authorities to alleged co-conspirators in Canada and the United States.
France cracks down hard on these types.

2007-01-15 05:46:41 · answer #3 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 0 0

What the hell, I was expecting the word Islamofacsists..

No they are not BFF's, everyone knows that the French are BFF's with the Russians.

2007-01-15 05:08:36 · answer #4 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 1 0

I wouldn't go that far. But they have a lax immigration policy (especially from former colonies of theirs) and negative population growth in ethnic French people. That'll eventually add up to the Calphate of France.

2007-01-15 05:05:17 · answer #5 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 0 1

beacuse france is 20 percent muslim and they dont wanna offend anyone

2007-01-15 05:21:43 · answer #6 · answered by mike 2 · 0 1

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