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Come on people, enough with the French bashing. Despite the French government's on current international issues, at least they don't cower to "shame on us!" leftie educationists on the home front.

So freakin what if a few towel heads got mistreated by the French colonial government? The Arabs from that region had been raiding Europeans and taking slaves (yes, that word: slaves! Around a _million_) for too long anyway. They pretty much deserved it.

Why should the French degrade 100+ year history of French Algeria just to appease a pack of rabid Arabs? Arabs, whose own versions of history, say absolutely nothing about how terrible they themselves and fellow co-religionist Muslims have been throughout the centuries. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Do you guys, as Americans, want to see your schools teaching how "terrible" it was that the southwest states were won from Mexico? Aren't you yourselves sick enough yet of having to celebrate everyone else's cultures except for the white American culture that actually made America great in the first place? Well after you've answered those questions the way I expect you would, perhaps consider that the French feel similarly about their own country.