Sarkozy: "Islam one of the Most Beautiful Civilizations the World has Known"
Sarko, what are you doing man?....
PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy's increasingly frequent and positive references to God and faith have drawn fire from critics who accuse him of violating France's separation of church and state.
Sarkozy, a taboo-breaker whose whirlwind love life has distracted the media for weeks, broke with traditional presidential reserve about religion to stress France's Christian roots in a speech in a Rome basilica just before Christmas.
In Riyadh on Monday, he hailed Islam as "one of the greatest and most beautiful civilisations the world has known" and described his Saudi hosts as rulers who "appeal to the basic values of Islam to combat the fundamentalism that negates them".
His praise for a kingdom that enforces and propagates a strict version of Islam, during a visit aimed at securing lucrative export contracts, was the last straw for his critics.
ZIP
Disgusting. This "beautiful civilization" has destroyed many in the past and continues to do its best to destroy more today. This Sarkozy guy is a lot like Tony Blair-today Koranism is bad, tomorrow it's good. No politician is willing to say it sucks and stick to it.
If you can't say anyting bad about Koranism then say nothing about it at all. Quit praising it!
Posted by: Poopyhead | January 18, 2008 at 03:04 PM
""one of the greatest and most beautiful civilisations the world has known""
Quick Zip... pleaseeeee get me the puke bucket..
He'll be eating those words soon!
Posted by: Pam | January 18, 2008 at 03:12 PM
ughhh, just when you think you have an ally in the war against Islamic radicals, now this.....
Posted by: John | January 18, 2008 at 04:02 PM
It's true. Nothing is as beautiful as a man being hung because he is homosexual, or a woman getting her brains blown out in the middle of a soccer field for adultery, or the leader of this religion having sex with a nine year old girl, or young pre-teen boys carrying AK-47s, or female genital mutilation, or the blood of the Jews and infidels in the streets, or the mass oppression of women, or the death and destruction caused by cartoons, or the murder of artists, or rape rooms, or the use of the internet to show the wonderful decapitation of a innocent man, or... gee, I can go on and on.
The beauty is breath-taking.
Posted by: Steve | January 18, 2008 at 04:34 PM
Hey Sarko, How beautiful are the Carbecues In your paris suburbs?
Sarko Is a dissapointment !
Posted by: sheepdog | January 18, 2008 at 06:14 PM
Any Euro leader besides Gert that seeks to stand up to Islam?
Posted by: Elric66 | January 18, 2008 at 06:38 PM