France is a nanny state, seemingly overly protective of its citizens, as so many other countries with high standards of living, particularly superior health and education systems, and publics willing to pay for them.
For all that, I was surprised 10 or 12 years ago when a major Canadian private family corporation, world leader McCains, said France was the best of the 42 countries they do business with: slow, bureaucratic but ethical.
Miller, I admire persons of faith, either way. Christians, Jews and Muslims abide generally by their holy books. Heretics thrive among Catholics and Protestants, Shias and Sunnis etc by reading The Word differently for their purposes.
There’s a lot of similarity within the three Abrahamic religions. As in many Jewish texts, the Qu’ran recognizes Jesus as a prophet but not His divinity because---according to some scholars ---it would be a renunciation of monotheism.
The Qu’ran mentions the flood and the aborted sacrifice of Abraham’s son (although he’s not given a name) and, perhaps more germane to our discussion, nowhere does the Qu’ran refer to jihad in the sense of holy war or a legal system called sharia.
Muslim terrorism casualties are less than a gnat’s eyelash compared to those of colonization and “regime change“ of British, French, Portuguese, Spanish and American empires now all in decline, and the West has given up on having kids.
So, yes, by democratic means Muslims may have sovereignty, doing as they do in my province, working hard as community leaders, where Arabic is the second language in the capital of Halifax, the last time I looked. We’re proud of them.
