Posted on 05/06/2016 8:53:46 AM PDT by rktman
Thirty-seven years ago, at the age of 32, Moustapha Dali quit show business. An Algeria native, he'd begun to build an acting career in France but tired of his Paris agents telling him he'd have to change his name to one "less Arabic, more French." As Dali recounts it, "I told them I wanted to keep my name. I said Omar Sharif didn't change his name, but they said, 'He's not a French actor, he works in Hollywood.' "
Today, at age 69, the scholarly, erudite Dali is the soft-spoken but righteous rector of the Mosquee Al Madina, the main mosque in Cannes, which sits above the Croisette, just 600 meters from the Palais des Festivals. Although he once dreamed of being in their company, Dali watches the annual influx of movie stars descending on the Croisette "as if they are a bunch of martians landing. We're so near, but I know they have no idea of what's really going on here."
Dali inhabits another world, one far removed from the festival's red carpets, swank parties and luxury suite wheeling-dealing: Instead, he lives on the front lines of France's increasingly explosive relationship with its more than 5 million Muslim residents. His mosque was used — without his knowledge, he says — in 2012 as a rendezvous point for one of the most dangerous terrorist cells in French history. And in late 2015, his mosque's imam, or prayer leader, was rousted from his home in the early hours of the morning, accused of encouraging radicalism and told he no longer could work there — although the charge later was dropped and the young man received an apology.
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Muzzys are the only ones with prejudice.
Je suis malade de cette merde.
LOL! I’m pretty sick of the “merde” aussi.
The difference...
37 years ago Muslim immigrants came to Europe and assimilated in to the culture of the host nations.
Today, hundreds of thousands are invading and turning the host nation in to the cesspools they fled. They are demanding welfare, destroying their housing, raping their women, rioting in the streets, and refusing to assimilate.
Living in Berlin there is a large population of Turkish Muslims that you wouldn’t think twice about as they go about their business and work away as any other German. The new wave of immigrants are turning the place in to a violent dump.
So if the muzzies blow these A-listers into hamburger meat can we expect a bunch of Hollywood PSA’s exalting the virtues of diversity and islam?
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