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Sarkozy moves quickly to tighten immigration laws
By Katrin Bennhold
Published: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/world/europe/12iht-france.4.6112573.html
Sarkozy in clash over immigration
Monday, 2 April 2007, 12:38 GMT 13:38 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6517477.stm
Meetings Debate The Question Of French Identity
December 28, 2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a series of town hall-style debates on the question of French identity. He says the meetings will help to clarify and reaffirm the nation's values in an age of mass immigration.
But critics say the debates are divisive and call them a thinly veiled ploy to win over right-wing voters.
Hundreds of debates across the country are posing the question of what it means to be French to businessmen, local politicians and regular citizens.
At a recent debate in Nanterre, a working-class suburb of Paris, the local mayor led a group of about 45 people in discussing French history, culture and the importance of symbols like the flag.
Ultimately, the government plans to produce a handful of policy proposals from the outcome of these meetings. And Sarkozy says he hopes the national soul-searching might help answer questions such as whether people should be obligated to sing the national anthem and how to share French values with immigrants.
But if Sarkozy thought an examination of Frenchness would bring people together, the debates are having the opposite effect. They have ignited controversy and exposed both fears and raw nerves. The opposition Socialists accuse Sarkozy of whipping up xenophobic sentiment.
It wasn't long before hints of such sentiment arose during the gathering in Nanterre.
"I feel like the French republic is retreating in certain areas," said one man who stood up to speak. "Our kids aren't even served pork in school cafeterias anymore."
The speaker, David Racheline, turned out to be a member of France's far-right National Front party. Most French people think the debates are a political stunt by Sarkozy to garner votes from the far right. But Racheline said the tactic won't work.
"Mr. Sarkozy got elected on certain ideas, and he's betrayed them all. We've never had more immigrants than now. The economy is in shambles. We have no national security, and we're the lap dogs of the Americans once again. That is why he is so unpopular," Racheline said.
As the debate in Nanterre swung from the glories of the French Revolution to the darker days of the Vichy regime's collaboration with the Nazis, tempers flared.
Many Muslims showed up at the debate. France has Western Europe's largest Muslim population and has long searched for ways to accommodate Islam without undermining its cherished separation of church and state. But Muslims say they are stigmatized by these debates, which they say highlight who is not French rather than underlining a common identity.
Mohamed El Madani grew up in rural France. "It's hard when you see that out of France, you are seen like French, and in France, you're not French," he said.
El Madani's parents moved from Morocco 40 years ago to work in French factories. But he said he has always been treated like an outsider.
"You know, the symbol of France is liberte, egalite, fraternite. We don't practice that. I'm not equal with other French people. I'm not," he said.
A schoolteacher got up to speak about the importance of secularism. The separation of church and state seems to be one point everyone at the debate in Nanterre agreed upon. A Muslim headscarf ban in public schools has largely been accepted because most Muslims also embrace the French republic's secular ideals.
While the debate on national identity is raging in parliament, the French public looks on in amusement and horror as every day brings a new and more outrageous revelation from some corner of France. The mayor of one small town was caught on camera making an anti-immigrant remark.
"We're being eaten alive," he said. "There are already 10 million of them who are getting paid to do nothing."
And one of Sarkozy's own ministers said she expected young Muslims not to wear their baseball caps backward and to use correct grammar when they speak.
Sarkozy has condemned such deviations but insists that the debates are a priority.
"France was built by immigrants, and people who come here are welcome," Sarkozy said. "But they have to respect our values. This is a noble debate that will help us to avoid what happened in Switzerland with the minarets."
Sarkozy said the Swiss referendum to ban minarets is proof that many people in Europe feel threatened by the growth of Islam.
"We must speak about this together," he said. "If it is kept hidden, the sentiment could nourish a terrible rancor."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121963766
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:qg1sDC09wK8qkM:http://www.pourquivoter.com/images/290sarkozy_1.jpg
Sarkozy: The Challenge of the 21st Century: Racial Interbreeding
DECEMBER 17, 2008
"The objective is to meet the challenge of the mélange - the challenge of coming together that the 21st century is confronting us with. The challenge of the melting pot, France has always been familiar with it and, by meeting the challenge of the mix, France remains faithful to her history. Moreover, IT IS CONSANGUINITY THAT HAS ALWAYS PROVOKED THE END OF CIVILISATIONS AND SOCIETIES… In the course of centuries, FRANCE HAS ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD ‘INTER-BREEDING’, FRANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN MIXED RACE.
France has mixed cultures, ideas and histories. France, who was able to blend these cultures and these histories, constructed a universal language, because FRANCE HERSELF IS UNIVERSAL IN THE DIVERSITY OF HER ORIGINS…
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the last thing: if republican will power does not function, IT WILL BE NECESSARY FOR THE REPUBLIC TO RESORT TO EVEN MORE FORCIBLE METHODS…
We don't have a choice. DIVERSITY AT THE BASE OF THE COUNTRY MUST BE REFLECTED BY DIVERSITY AT THE HEAD OF THE COUNTRY… IT IS NOT A CHOICE. IT IS AN OBLIGATION. IT IS AN IMPERATIVE. We cannot do otherwise at the risk of finding ourselves faced with considerable problems.
WE MUST CHANGE, SO WE WILL CHANGE."
http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2008/12/mtissage-now-its-obligation.html
http://www.iamanenglishman.com/page.php?iCategoryId=1248&iParentId=1223
Download this video free at MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/?degice47u3fuu5t
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The Engineer of Diversity
2009-01-26
Recently Nicolas Sarkozy announced plans to pursue a vigorous policy of diversity and métissage. Concretely, this means giving preference to minorities in job hiring and prosecuting those who do not comply. In other words, affirmative action as a government policy from which none are exempt.
In his message Sarkozy insisted that the French people must change, that there will be dire consequences if they don't, and that not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country. Thus he amalgamated the concepts of preference for minorities in job hiring with that of the need for the French to intermarry racially.
These are two separate things. But in the mind of Sarkozy they go together. Last December he chose a highly successful Algerian-born businessman, known as an impassioned advocate of diversity, Yazid Sabeg, to be his "high commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity", and to implement these government orders.
It is well-known that in France ethnic statistics are forbidden by law, so in order to determine how many minorities are employed in any given enterprise, Sabeg will have to use all his resourcefulness, as this article from Le Figaro points out:
Recently named commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity, Yazid Sabeg has political representation [i.e. the number of minorities in politics] as a priority. In a few days he will meet with parliamentarians and party leaders. He intends, he says, "to listen to what they propose to advance the cause of diversity and to break the glass ceiling." But he already states that he will recommend "normative measures". Otherwise, the agreements are worthless."
"Normative" means that the measures adopted will all have to obey the same criteria.
To advance the process, the commissioner will rely on a new study that determines the presence of minorities in political life. The Montaigne Institute, a think tank for entrepreneurs and businessmen, published an article on Wednesday tallying the ethnic composition of Parliament and the city councils of the ten largest cities in France, using an innovative method: photographs. Yazid Sabeg, a longtime pillar of the Institute, is enthusiastic for this method. "It's an interesting possibility to deal with the crucial issue of racial discrimination. I have myself advocated a family photo in the assessing of enterprises," he explains. He had proposed that big companies provide such a photograph as a way of measuring visible minorities for purposes of promoting diversity.
The article goes on to explain how a sociologist. Eric Keslassy, attempted to use photographs to determine the number of minorities in public office. He found in the National Assembly only three deputies belonging to minority groups, and in the Senate, four. Again using photos, he found that Paris had the highest rate of minority elected officials (17%), then Strasbourg (13.84%), Montpellier and Lille (11%), Toulouse (10%), Lyons (8%). Marseilles and Nice fared poorly, and Bordeaux had no minority elected official.
Keslassy says that to renew the political class there are other, better, methods such as ending the practice known as "cumul" where one politician holds several posts, and introducing primary elections.
"All of that will take time," Yazid Sabeg is quick to point out, "since minority candidates cannot aspire to a position without a public profile or a history of accomplishments." The art of the new commissioner will be to navigate between the need to promote people up the social ladder and the uncomfortable fact of counting the numbers of minorities by their facial features.
Eric Besson, the new minister of immigration, who replaces Brice Hortefeux, claims to be skeptical over the use of photographs: "We must come up with trustworthy methods, in keeping with our traditions, without classifying people by race, ethnicity or religion... It's rather complex... I do not want to criticize those who are trying out new experiments, and I fully intend to work hand in hand with Yazid Sabeg."
While they search for the perfect method to use for increasing the number of minorities, the system advocated by the High Council on Integration seems for now to be the most effective. Using family names and given names that were common in France at the end of the 19th century, and names that have recently appeared, a software program can determine persons of North African and sub-Saharan African origin, and persons from Europe, or even from overseas. This program showed that of the 35,000 elected officials in towns of more than 9000 inhabitants, 6.68% were minorities. A low figure but growing since 2001. While France is split from East to West, a reflection of the migratory waves.
The High Council on Integration (HCI) dates back to 1989. It is a government agency, composed of 20 members, dedicated to the study of the integration of minorities.
As for the East-West split, this is news to me. Does it mean that Eastern France has more immigrants, or vice versa? Since Marseilles, Lyons and Strasbourg are in Eastern France, and Paris roughly in the center, it seems reasonable to assume that there are more immigrants in the Eastern half of the country, especially since that is where the borders with other countries lie.
English-language readers can review Sabeg's accomplishments in this article from January 2005 posted at Business Week. There is also some information at MLive. If you do a Google on him you will find numerous English-language references.
French readers can review his CV and get a closer look at his circle of friends in this article, also from January 2005, posted at L'Expansion. For the record, this millionaire is said to be a bon vivant, warm, with a wide range of cultural and intellectual interests. He is married and the father of three, but I could not find information on his wife. I am almost certain I remember reading that she is of Danish-French origin, but after a time-consuming search I could not find proof of that assertion.
Finally, one of his goals is to introduce diversity as early as possible in the schools:
"It should be an objective of the national education system. (...) You cannot create diversity in schools unless you change the school districting so that the high-schools in the downtown areas can accept students from the disadvantaged middle schools of the ghettoes, without ethnic quotas. (...) As for myself, I feel French and republican, and also Arab-Berber. I speak Arabic, and I am a Muslim. I repeat, I am a Frenchman and in no case will I renounce one single element of my identity."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3764
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOV1KaVx134y0eY7R4FCyVrP8X459WC lRGefChowPBmA8A-A7JkA&t=1
Solal Sarkozy, the French president’s first grandchild, was circumsised
http://www.ejpress.org/article/42122
Sarkozy’s first grandson, circumcised according to Jewish tradition
http://yadbeyadeng.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/sarkozy%E2%80%99s-first-grandson-circumcised-according-to-jewish-tradition/
Nicolas Sarkozy, new President of France: Past and Future
http://www.ejpress.org/article/16491
Is Sarkozy A Rothschild Puppet?
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=222
Sarkozy's son and Jewish heiress tie the knot
http://www.haaretz.com/news/sarkozy-s-son-and-jewish-heiress-tie-the-knot-1.253572
France
http://balder.org/judea/Hate-Speech-Laws-Immigration-Jewish-Influence-France.php
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Sarkozy moves quickly to tighten immigration laws
By Katrin Bennhold
Published: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/world/europe/12iht-france.4.6112573.html
Sarkozy in clash over immigration
Monday, 2 April 2007, 12:38 GMT 13:38 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6517477.stm
Meetings Debate The Question Of French Identity
December 28, 2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a series of town hall-style debates on the question of French identity. He says the meetings will help to clarify and reaffirm the nation's values in an age of mass immigration.
But critics say the debates are divisive and call them a thinly veiled ploy to win over right-wing voters.
Hundreds of debates across the country are posing the question of what it means to be French to businessmen, local politicians and regular citizens.
At a recent debate in Nanterre, a working-class suburb of Paris, the local mayor led a group of about 45 people in discussing French history, culture and the importance of symbols like the flag.
Ultimately, the government plans to produce a handful of policy proposals from the outcome of these meetings. And Sarkozy says he hopes the national soul-searching might help answer questions such as whether people should be obligated to sing the national anthem and how to share French values with immigrants.
But if Sarkozy thought an examination of Frenchness would bring people together, the debates are having the opposite effect. They have ignited controversy and exposed both fears and raw nerves. The opposition Socialists accuse Sarkozy of whipping up xenophobic sentiment.
It wasn't long before hints of such sentiment arose during the gathering in Nanterre.
"I feel like the French republic is retreating in certain areas," said one man who stood up to speak. "Our kids aren't even served pork in school cafeterias anymore."
The speaker, David Racheline, turned out to be a member of France's far-right National Front party. Most French people think the debates are a political stunt by Sarkozy to garner votes from the far right. But Racheline said the tactic won't work.
"Mr. Sarkozy got elected on certain ideas, and he's betrayed them all. We've never had more immigrants than now. The economy is in shambles. We have no national security, and we're the lap dogs of the Americans once again. That is why he is so unpopular," Racheline said.
As the debate in Nanterre swung from the glories of the French Revolution to the darker days of the Vichy regime's collaboration with the Nazis, tempers flared.
Many Muslims showed up at the debate. France has Western Europe's largest Muslim population and has long searched for ways to accommodate Islam without undermining its cherished separation of church and state. But Muslims say they are stigmatized by these debates, which they say highlight who is not French rather than underlining a common identity.
Mohamed El Madani grew up in rural France. "It's hard when you see that out of France, you are seen like French, and in France, you're not French," he said.
El Madani's parents moved from Morocco 40 years ago to work in French factories. But he said he has always been treated like an outsider.
"You know, the symbol of France is liberte, egalite, fraternite. We don't practice that. I'm not equal with other French people. I'm not," he said.
A schoolteacher got up to speak about the importance of secularism. The separation of church and state seems to be one point everyone at the debate in Nanterre agreed upon. A Muslim headscarf ban in public schools has largely been accepted because most Muslims also embrace the French republic's secular ideals.
While the debate on national identity is raging in parliament, the French public looks on in amusement and horror as every day brings a new and more outrageous revelation from some corner of France. The mayor of one small town was caught on camera making an anti-immigrant remark.
"We're being eaten alive," he said. "There are already 10 million of them who are getting paid to do nothing."
And one of Sarkozy's own ministers said she expected young Muslims not to wear their baseball caps backward and to use correct grammar when they speak.
Sarkozy has condemned such deviations but insists that the debates are a priority.
"France was built by immigrants, and people who come here are welcome," Sarkozy said. "But they have to respect our values. This is a noble debate that will help us to avoid what happened in Switzerland with the minarets."
Sarkozy said the Swiss referendum to ban minarets is proof that many people in Europe feel threatened by the growth of Islam.
"We must speak about this together," he said. "If it is kept hidden, the sentiment could nourish a terrible rancor."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121963766
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:qg1sDC09wK8qkM:http://www.pourquivoter.com/images/290sarkozy_1.jpg
Sarkozy: The Challenge of the 21st Century: Racial Interbreeding
DECEMBER 17, 2008
"The objective is to meet the challenge of the mélange - the challenge of coming together that the 21st century is confronting us with. The challenge of the melting pot, France has always been familiar with it and, by meeting the challenge of the mix, France remains faithful to her history. Moreover, IT IS CONSANGUINITY THAT HAS ALWAYS PROVOKED THE END OF CIVILISATIONS AND SOCIETIES… In the course of centuries, FRANCE HAS ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD ‘INTER-BREEDING’, FRANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN MIXED RACE.
France has mixed cultures, ideas and histories. France, who was able to blend these cultures and these histories, constructed a universal language, because FRANCE HERSELF IS UNIVERSAL IN THE DIVERSITY OF HER ORIGINS…
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the last thing: if republican will power does not function, IT WILL BE NECESSARY FOR THE REPUBLIC TO RESORT TO EVEN MORE FORCIBLE METHODS…
We don't have a choice. DIVERSITY AT THE BASE OF THE COUNTRY MUST BE REFLECTED BY DIVERSITY AT THE HEAD OF THE COUNTRY… IT IS NOT A CHOICE. IT IS AN OBLIGATION. IT IS AN IMPERATIVE. We cannot do otherwise at the risk of finding ourselves faced with considerable problems.
WE MUST CHANGE, SO WE WILL CHANGE."
http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2008/12/mtissage-now-its-obligation.html
http://www.iamanenglishman.com/page.php?iCategoryId=1248&iParentId=1223
Download this video free at MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/?degice47u3fuu5t
I8yaiN6ew_g
The Engineer of Diversity
2009-01-26
Recently Nicolas Sarkozy announced plans to pursue a vigorous policy of diversity and métissage. Concretely, this means giving preference to minorities in job hiring and prosecuting those who do not comply. In other words, affirmative action as a government policy from which none are exempt.
In his message Sarkozy insisted that the French people must change, that there will be dire consequences if they don't, and that not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country. Thus he amalgamated the concepts of preference for minorities in job hiring with that of the need for the French to intermarry racially.
These are two separate things. But in the mind of Sarkozy they go together. Last December he chose a highly successful Algerian-born businessman, known as an impassioned advocate of diversity, Yazid Sabeg, to be his "high commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity", and to implement these government orders.
It is well-known that in France ethnic statistics are forbidden by law, so in order to determine how many minorities are employed in any given enterprise, Sabeg will have to use all his resourcefulness, as this article from Le Figaro points out:
Recently named commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity, Yazid Sabeg has political representation [i.e. the number of minorities in politics] as a priority. In a few days he will meet with parliamentarians and party leaders. He intends, he says, "to listen to what they propose to advance the cause of diversity and to break the glass ceiling." But he already states that he will recommend "normative measures". Otherwise, the agreements are worthless."
"Normative" means that the measures adopted will all have to obey the same criteria.
To advance the process, the commissioner will rely on a new study that determines the presence of minorities in political life. The Montaigne Institute, a think tank for entrepreneurs and businessmen, published an article on Wednesday tallying the ethnic composition of Parliament and the city councils of the ten largest cities in France, using an innovative method: photographs. Yazid Sabeg, a longtime pillar of the Institute, is enthusiastic for this method. "It's an interesting possibility to deal with the crucial issue of racial discrimination. I have myself advocated a family photo in the assessing of enterprises," he explains. He had proposed that big companies provide such a photograph as a way of measuring visible minorities for purposes of promoting diversity.
The article goes on to explain how a sociologist. Eric Keslassy, attempted to use photographs to determine the number of minorities in public office. He found in the National Assembly only three deputies belonging to minority groups, and in the Senate, four. Again using photos, he found that Paris had the highest rate of minority elected officials (17%), then Strasbourg (13.84%), Montpellier and Lille (11%), Toulouse (10%), Lyons (8%). Marseilles and Nice fared poorly, and Bordeaux had no minority elected official.
Keslassy says that to renew the political class there are other, better, methods such as ending the practice known as "cumul" where one politician holds several posts, and introducing primary elections.
"All of that will take time," Yazid Sabeg is quick to point out, "since minority candidates cannot aspire to a position without a public profile or a history of accomplishments." The art of the new commissioner will be to navigate between the need to promote people up the social ladder and the uncomfortable fact of counting the numbers of minorities by their facial features.
Eric Besson, the new minister of immigration, who replaces Brice Hortefeux, claims to be skeptical over the use of photographs: "We must come up with trustworthy methods, in keeping with our traditions, without classifying people by race, ethnicity or religion... It's rather complex... I do not want to criticize those who are trying out new experiments, and I fully intend to work hand in hand with Yazid Sabeg."
While they search for the perfect method to use for increasing the number of minorities, the system advocated by the High Council on Integration seems for now to be the most effective. Using family names and given names that were common in France at the end of the 19th century, and names that have recently appeared, a software program can determine persons of North African and sub-Saharan African origin, and persons from Europe, or even from overseas. This program showed that of the 35,000 elected officials in towns of more than 9000 inhabitants, 6.68% were minorities. A low figure but growing since 2001. While France is split from East to West, a reflection of the migratory waves.
The High Council on Integration (HCI) dates back to 1989. It is a government agency, composed of 20 members, dedicated to the study of the integration of minorities.
As for the East-West split, this is news to me. Does it mean that Eastern France has more immigrants, or vice versa? Since Marseilles, Lyons and Strasbourg are in Eastern France, and Paris roughly in the center, it seems reasonable to assume that there are more immigrants in the Eastern half of the country, especially since that is where the borders with other countries lie.
English-language readers can review Sabeg's accomplishments in this article from January 2005 posted at Business Week. There is also some information at MLive. If you do a Google on him you will find numerous English-language references.
French readers can review his CV and get a closer look at his circle of friends in this article, also from January 2005, posted at L'Expansion. For the record, this millionaire is said to be a bon vivant, warm, with a wide range of cultural and intellectual interests. He is married and the father of three, but I could not find information on his wife. I am almost certain I remember reading that she is of Danish-French origin, but after a time-consuming search I could not find proof of that assertion.
Finally, one of his goals is to introduce diversity as early as possible in the schools:
"It should be an objective of the national education system. (...) You cannot create diversity in schools unless you change the school districting so that the high-schools in the downtown areas can accept students from the disadvantaged middle schools of the ghettoes, without ethnic quotas. (...) As for myself, I feel French and republican, and also Arab-Berber. I speak Arabic, and I am a Muslim. I repeat, I am a Frenchman and in no case will I renounce one single element of my identity."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3764
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOV1KaVx134y0eY7R4FCyVrP8X459WC lRGefChowPBmA8A-A7JkA&t=1
Solal Sarkozy, the French president’s first grandchild, was circumsised
http://www.ejpress.org/article/42122
Sarkozy’s first grandson, circumcised according to Jewish tradition
http://yadbeyadeng.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/sarkozy%E2%80%99s-first-grandson-circumcised-according-to-jewish-tradition/
Nicolas Sarkozy, new President of France: Past and Future
http://www.ejpress.org/article/16491
Is Sarkozy A Rothschild Puppet?
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=222
Sarkozy's son and Jewish heiress tie the knot
http://www.haaretz.com/news/sarkozy-s-son-and-jewish-heiress-tie-the-knot-1.253572
France
http://balder.org/judea/Hate-Speech-Laws-Immigration-Jewish-Influence-France.php
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