Even in Dhimmi France (today’s counterpart to Vichy France), feminism may trump multiculturalism. From the BBC, with thanks to Nicolei:
The French authorities could soon be able to expel foreigners for inciting discrimination against women.
The upper house of parliament has approved legislation that would allow a clamp down on people encouraging hatred or violence against women.The law came after the authorities suffered a setback in their efforts to deport radical Algerian Islamic cleric Abdelkader Bouziane.
Mr Bouziane was accused of publicly justifying wife-beating in an article.
Presidential concern
Under the new legislation foreigners can be expelled for “inciting discrimination, hatred or violence against a specific person or group of persons”.
The 52-year-old Algerian preacher returned to France last month, after a court ruled that his deportation had been illegal.
He preaches at a mosque in a suburb of Lyon.
The cleric was deported to Algeria on 21 April for saying that the Koran authorised the stoning and beating of adulterous women.
The remarks caused an outcry in France, with many Muslim leaders condemning them as un-Islamic.
Well, sure they did. But I wonder what they said about Sura 4:34: “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.”
Or did he just assume that the dhimmis wouldn’t know it existed?