http://www.gulfnews.com/world/France/10097209.html Blocking Turkey 'keeps Islam out of the European Union' By Emmanuelle Landais, Staff Reporter Dubai: Nicolas Sarkozy's recent comment that Turkey does not have its place in the European Union is just to keep Islam out of Europe, according to the former editor of Le Monde Diplomatique. Currently on a three day tour of the UAE, Alain Gresh, former editor and author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and expert on the Middle East, on Monday said problems associated with Islam are socio-economic rather than religious. In France today, as in other Western countries, the simple mention of Islam can cause a debate, at least a concern, and even sometimes an unconscious fear, added Gresh. "Religious differences have replaced the social differences in the public speech, and there lies the real threat," he said. "Personally I'm against any enlargement of the European Union. They expanded to 25 countries too fast, no decisions are made because it is too big. To keep Turkey out of Europe is a way political parties think because it is popular to talk about it," said Gresh. "In France Muslims tend to be poor immigrants. They were discriminated against because they are Arab and now they are being discriminated against because they are Muslim." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
