What do you think of the victory of the National Front in France?
The problem with Madame Le Pen is that she is just as much a product of the French Revolution as the rest of them. They think they can mold the Muslims into good little secular Frenchmen. Madame Le Pen, who joined her family's National Front because of her admiration for General Bonaparte and his Jacobin army, will crush them with two of the Revolution's most destructive ideologies – nationalism and radical secularism – laïcité -- enforced by the powerful French state – she will ban the nun's habit along with the burqa. Such a sad situation – ever since Europe threw off Christianity they have no heritage, nothing to bind them but liberalism and nihlism. [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/1TJPMNBBut[/c] I would feel a little bit better with her niece, [b]Marion Maréchal-Le Pen[/b] , who is a devout Catholic trained by the Sisters [c=#BF0000]http://ind.pn/2pqRHCr[/c].....
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Le Pen leads a party with fascist heretage. She had skillfully given it a makeover and uses the rhetoric of secular republican values but its a dog whistle.
The burqa ban is not really motivated by an atheist desire to seperate church and state but is aimed squarly at criminalising an non offensive aspect of Muslim culture. Any aspect that targets Christians is a thin veil of faux consistency. She is more Mussolini than Jacobin.
Le Pen will almost certainly lose the second round to Macron, who I am also no fan of but is a lesser evil.
