Posted on 04/17/2018 7:08:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
He has said that in the coming months he will announce “a blueprint for the whole organization” of Islam. And those trying to anticipate what that will look like are turning their attention to Hakim El Karoui, a leading voice on how Islamic traditions fit within French culture.
It’s hard to miss that the man who appears to have Macron’s ear on this most sensitive of subjects cuts a similar figure. Like the president, El Karoui is an ex-Rothschild investment banker with an elite social pedigree who favors well-tailored suits, crisp white shirts and the lofty province of big ideas.
The son of a Tunisian Muslim father and a French Protestant mother, as well as a nephew of a former Tunisian prime minister, El Karoui identifies himself as a French Muslim. But he is not overtly religious.
El Karoui is in many ways the embodiment of the modern French elite — for some Muslims, perhaps too much so. In line with the strict interpretation of French secularism known as laïcité, he opposes religious displays such as the veil — which he sees as a political tool that reinforces inequality between men and women and therefore runs counter to the core French value ofégalité.
It wasn’t until after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, involving French Muslim suspects, that El Karoui began to research and write about Muslims in France — a fragmented community of about 4.5 million, although the exact figure is unknown, given the French government’s refusal to collect official statistics on race, ethnicity or religion.
The sum of his various stances are on display in a recent book, “L’Islam, Une Religion Française,” an intervention that delighted much of the French elite because of El Karoui’s call for Muslims themselves to take charge of their own community.
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Maybe France should conduct a Crusade to effect the change they claim to want?
G’luck with that.
The most effective, long range reform of the muslem can be achieved by placing the muzzle of a medium to large caliber pistol appox. 3-6” from the spot half way between the eye socket and the ear and administering one shot. This shot will last the entire lifetime of the muslem and will render him peaceful and content FOREVER.
France has a rather poor record when it comes to religious reformation.
“Paris is well worth a mass.”
Islam has been at war with the rest of humanity since 622 A.D.
Islam must remain at war with the rest of humanity until there is only Islam or no Islam.
Mad Mo made it so.
Someone actually spent time thinking about this failure in the making!!??
Near as I can tell, France has made a point of destroying Catholicism.
It not’s going to work with Islam. Islam destroys everything else wherever it spreads.
They’ve already taken charge of their neighborhoods. They are called no go zones.
Didn’t work 500 years ago.
It hasn’t changed.....................
Bonne chance avec tout ça !
Why do people always seem to identify with a “minority” religion rather than a mainstream, western one? His mother was a Christian and yet he identifies as a muzzie. What are Christians doing wrong?
France wants to ‘reform’ Islam
Lots of luck.
Down the road it may change but for a reason no one is anticipating......The same may hold true for several other religions as well.
Yeah. Like that’s going to work. Islam was a phony syncretist religion created by a nutty warlord as a way to consolidate his power, and used by all of the Muslim invaders after him for the same purpose.
There is no way to reform a bloodthirsty death cult. What do you get when you reform bloodthirsty? How do you make a death cult stop killing?
Nobody can reform islam. It is what the founder (false prophet) made it. Mohammed cannot return and change the evil things he wrote or his evil way of life. It is what it is.
All that can be done is for muslims to find out the truth about the religion they have been raised to believe. They can then decide if they want to continue to follow such a violent and hopeless way of life, or if they want to seek out a peaceful and loving religion, and convert. Sadly, it may mean risking their lives, as the false prophet had that covered as well.
Ah yes because appeasement has worked so well in the past. Smh
LOL they want to reform a Terrorist ideology?!?!
Under current muslim doctrine, this guy is already the worst kind of infidel.
So why wouldn't they listen to him on the subject of reforming islam, right?
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