Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

[46Tbird]

Maybe the radical Muslims should be a little nicer to the French, since they stood up for them in defiance of us..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=2&u=/ap/20040830/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_hostages_13

[AL P]

Maybe the radical Muslims should be a little nicer to the French, since they stood up for them in defiance of us..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=2&u=/ap/20040830/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_hostages_13

When you are nice it only means you are weak.

[TAMUz06]

militants calling themselves the Islamic Army of Iraq demanded France revoke the headscarf law, calling it "an aggression on the Islamic religion and personal freedoms."


Sorta like "women can't drive"...and "women can't talk to men"...and "women can't do anything but pump out babies"

hmm...

[mikeb]

The abduction shook the notion that France's opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq gave some safety to French citizens amid the rash of kidnappings in Iraq


So much for trying to deal with and coexist with terrorists. Dumbasses.


Chirac appealed on Sunday to the kidnappers


As Al P said - weakness.

Sooner or later I think there will begin to be acts of terrorism in the EU and MAYBE then some of those countries will begin to see the light about what needs to be done with terrorists.