{"id":2238,"date":"2016-02-01T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2016-02-02T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:33:46","slug":"political-action-and-the-primacy-of-the-good-daniel-mahoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"In the News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political Action and the Primacy of the Good — Daniel Mahoney<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cManent thus proposes a \u201csocial contract\u201d with French Muslims that accepts them as they are, along with their moral practices, with two notable and crucial exceptions. He argues that the burqa is inadmissible because \u201cit prevents the exchange of signs by which a human being recognizes another human being.\u201d Europeans have never covered their faces. This \u201clugubrious servitude\u201d is incompatible with a free society. France has the \u201cright and duty to impose the most absolute prohibition on this manner of dress.\u201d The second prohibition is that of polygamy. The family, with one husband and one wife, is the building block of civil society and an indispensable pillar of a free society.<\/p>\n

\u201cManent recognizes that the increase in open acceptance of Muslim ways (e.g., dietary restrictions in schools, separation of boys and girls in certain social activities) comes with certain risks. Those risks can be compensated for by active efforts to preserve or reinforce the \u201cancient constitution\u201d of France. To begin with, Muslims must accept that they live in a nation of a Christian mark with a strong and enduring Jewish presence. They must break with the umma<\/i>, a universal Islamic empire, and proclaim their loyalty to France. They must wean themselves of reliance on foreign funding and repudiate extremism of every kind. Most of all, they must stop hiding behind accusations of Islamophobia. In practice, the reflexive evocation of Islamophobia has led to serious restrictions on the ability of Europeans to think, write, and speak as they please. It undermines even the minimal capacity for self-criticism in the Arab-Islamic world and among Muslims in Western countries. French Muslims accordingly see themselves as victims and involve themselves in the civic forum only to express grievances.\u201d Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political Action and the Primacy of the Good — Daniel Mahoney \u201cManent thus proposes a \u201csocial contract\u201d with French Muslims that accepts them as they are, along with their moral practices, with two notable and crucial exceptions. He argues that the burqa is inadmissible because \u201cit prevents the exchange of signs by which a human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}