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Originally Posted by 98MustGT
An anxious French government accelerated its diplomatic bid to save two French reporters held hostage in Iraq on Tuesday as a fresh kidnapper deadline neared for Paris to scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
The kidnappers on Monday night gave France a further 24 hours to repeal its ban on headscarves in schools which is part of a broader law aimed at anti-Semitism that bars Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5756110/
Appeasement does not seem to be working |
I actually thought the French had framed their law as a nationalistic movement, rather than an anti-semite one.
This seems to speak to the issue of non-appeasement failing--but I'm not sure if I understand what you were trying to convey.
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