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Trouble for fasting in one country, and for breaking it in another

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Muslims get into trouble for breaking their fast in Algeria – and for maintaining it in France. Plus, it’s almost summer time for France’s politicians, so the newspapers are grading the class of 2012, the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault - and guess who comes out on top?

IN THE PAPERS

There are a couple of very different stories about fasting during Ramadan in today’s papers. L’Humanité reports on a 36-year-old man in Algeria who was eating bread and drinking water,when he was surprised by police, and, according to the French daily, beaten and imprisoned.

Quite a different story north of Paris in Le Figaro: A regional manager visited one of the summer camps in his charge two weeks ago, and noticed during breakfast, that two of the camp leaders were not eating. The two workers were suspended for endangering the lives of the youngsters in their charge because they risked being hungry, tired and fainting. But a media storm brewed as a result. Want to know what happened next ? Watch the video!

In the class of 2012 Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac is among those getting good marks from the Parisien for finding a way to trim billions. But Le Figaro castigates the government for raising 7 billion euros in tax rises while failing to make any significant cuts in expenditure until 2013.

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Fake

by Anonyme - 02/08/2012 - 12:20

There is no ideological message. People who come from non-democracies with little or no respect for other cultures or religions insist on prominence in others. But it is France's fault for allowing so many of one culture and denying so many others who actually want to be french. If you love your religion and want to practise it however you want why not stay in the country where you are able to do so. Was a gun put to their heads forcing them to live in a secular country? Were they fooled by someone claiming that France is an islamic state? They are free to stay or leave. Clearly if France was like their countries of initial origin where they can practise islam openly they would have left. So why try to turn a wonderful country into the one you or your forebears can't stand to live in? Nonsense. But again it's France's fault.

Absurdity

by Anonyme - 01/08/2012 - 15:23

Your ideological message here is absurdly obvious when you put these two news together. You want to say although we sack Muslims because they fast in Ramadan, but never mind, because in Algeria the police arrest a 35 year old for breaking his fast.

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