Nicholas Sarkozy
Is it just me or is happiness starting to get unnecessarily complicated?
It feels like every time you turn around someone else has written a book that offers the key to what seems like one of the most confusing and elusive experiences since the dawn of time - being happy.
So what does anyone stand to gain from French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s proposal to bring the happiness phenomenon to public policy making?
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If I was married to Carla Bruni I wouldn’t be a big fan of the burqa either, so it is perhaps no surprise that French President Nicholas Sarkozy is not in favour of women covering themselves from head to toe.
But Sarkozy’s forceful condemnation of the Islamic shroud as a symbol of female “subservience”, not religious faith, was absolutely right.
There is no greater way, other than locking the front door, to ensure a woman’s total invisibility in society - and thereby formalise her lack of worth - than to cover every inch of her, including her eyes, in heavy fabric.
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Jim says:
I think they should ban the Burqa , it’s no different from wearing a balaclava in public is it, and be serious were not allowed to wear one of them are we. I ride a motorcycle and am banned from wearing my helmet in service stations , Banks and some… Read more »
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tahira says:
The fact is extermist are murderous thugs maskerting as holy men.they have hijacked the language and culture of islam. There is no complusion in religion. Jihad is to strive to self improve and not about terrorrism. Read more »
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