Bilal Khan (Quwa)
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I agree..in of itself, the UK, US, etc, aren't examples of anything better. However, if our assessment criteria was, "states that profess in freedom also implementing freedom," we'd see that the U.S. and U.K are generally ahead, even at the cost of their internal problems. Those internal problems are precisely due to freedom, which exposes problems within the ideology itself as it can't solve core issues.Look,I'm against the dumb "expression of freedom" when it comes to stuff like certain magazines and the attitude the French politicians have about that. I'd also want a real Christian France like back in the days before the French Revolution,but I dislike this forced multiculturalism and this expansion of other religions on Christian Europe. Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism,I want Europe to remain Christian and with European culture.
Now,for me it's ridiculous when I see Muslims on PDF badmouthing France all the time,while they praise Britain which has basically the same "woke" culture,drunkards,slutty women,swinger couples and has supported the Americans in almost all their invasions of Muslim countries the last 30 years,
And especially when the same Muslims are Pakistanis and complain about France all the time and forget that Britain controlled all of the Indian subcontinent.
However, if France wants to take this route (of regulating dress), then it should stop championing freedom and human rights on the world stage. Just say it's a neo-classical European state or whatever, and eat the cost of it (incurring the ire of pro-freedom investors who drive the world's economy) and move on.
No, I'm holding France to its own standard. It says it believes in freedom, yet doesn't implement it properly, while still eating the fruits of being a "free" society (e.g., economic investment, leveraging the global financial system for trade, no sanctions, etc).Yes, this has some merit to it.
So you are holding France and the West to a higher standard. Interesting
Now, if it wants to be like Baathist Iraq or Imperial Iran by becoming a regulated secular society, then go ahead -- their country, their rules. However, doing that in the open will come at a cost from an economic and geo-political standpoint -- and the French won't do it.
DeGaulle tried resisting the US' fiat exchange once upon a time, and American investors attacked the French economy. France walked back into line. If France openly stands up against freedom and becomes a beacon against freedom culture, the same will happen again.
So, the French are taking the convenient cowardly route...profess freedom in the open, but break its rules at home. I mean, to the Islamists' credit, they'll at least eat sanctions and condemnation for their beliefs (e.g., Afghanistan, Iran, etc).