Electrifying Elections
Yesterday was elections day in Aarhus. The local elections that is, for city council and regional offices. For the past few weeks they have been stuffing my mailbox with pamphlets and flyers but this particular flyer caught my eye. It says something like "Against Mosque" and "Say no to Big mosques and Islamisation". Maybe I am just a conservative asian boy from a country where election campaigning is almost unheard of but this leaflet really struck me as... well it struck me.
I don't think it is a conicidence that there are riots in France, (the title of this entry has nothing to do with electrocution of any non-white teenagers fleeing from police whatsoever) and that there are ghettos in Denmark or all over Europe. Ghettos or rather suburbs where immigrants live on their own free will or ordered to do so by the Government. Suburbs where it feels more like North Africa than Europe.
France's problem could be western europe's problem soon. There was a symbolic torching of a car a few nights back in Aarhus by some immigrants, as a sign of solidarity for their brethren in France.
So is the solution to the problem to stop building mosuque and to put an end to all immigration? To start a mass deportation? Is Islam to be blame? Why Mosque? Why a place of worship?Why religion?
Is relgion and race really an issue or just economics? I think economics and religion is a flammable combination (no pun intended). Almost as potent as religion and politics.
“IN THE deprived suburbs, a kind of soft terror rules. When too many young people see nothing ahead but unemployment after they leave school, they end up rebelling. For a time the state can struggle to impose order, and rely on welfare benefits to avoid worse. But how long can this last?”
This speech was made by Mr Chirac and I think it highlights that religion is not the underlying problem but rather economics and policy. Such a pity that this speech was made by Mr Chirac 10 years ago. If something was done then or has been done since then, perhaps religion today wouldn't have to be the whipping boy for economic and policy failures.
posted by Jammy at 6:44 pm
3 Comments:
Was having the same discussion with my french bf yesterday and didn't come to a satisfying conclusion; but u nailed it man!!!
C
i think that it's sad people don't understand that the way to solve a problem is to actually get down to solving it and not just purging it. it's like sweeping the dirt under the carpet where u dun see it, but it's still there.
Agreed. But nobody wants to do the dirty job. Solve the problem of immigration and you risk offending or upsetting the rest of the indigenous people. And votes are at stake here. I believe this is called democracy...
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