Muslim woman refused French citizenship for her 'submissive' views

Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2008-07-14 02:53

Story here. Excerpt:

'The legal ruling, which has just been published, is the first time a Muslim applicant had been rejected by France due to their religious practices.

The unnamed 32-year-old woman is married to a French national. She arrived in the country in 2000, speaks good French and her three children were born in the country.'

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I disagree with the traditional religious view of categorical feminine submissiveness as well. But I also think if one comes across a person with religious views that otherwise do not represent a clear threat to public safety, any state that purports to honor religious diversity and tolerance can't use that as the reason for denying citizenship to an applicant, *all other things being equal*. Unless of course, it happens to be a person with strong religious views regarding sex roles. And ones that place women beneath men's authority. Then that's different.

So I do wonder what the French would have said if a man from another country appeared and was just like this woman only he felt it was religiously correct for a man to be submissive to the women in his family/clan/society/etc. Suppose the French would deny him citizenship for that reason? Doubt it.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2008-07-14 02:58

he could run for president in this country.

too late, he already is.

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Submitted by daveinga on Tue, 2008-07-15 03:08