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Following the January 7th attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve expressed \u201cprofound gratitude\u201d that his country phrased the laws which cause institutional discrimination against Muslims, without resorting to \u201cdisgraceful or objectionable language.\u201d<\/p>\n
Referring to a 2011 law banning face coverings \u2013 including niqabs, hijabs, and burqas \u2013 Cazeneuve told The Dealer <\/em>he was thankful the law contained references to the \u201cpromotion of egalitarian secularism\u201d rather than \u201cAladdins\u201d or \u201ctowel heads.\u201d<\/p>\n Pressed about a 2013 lawsuit accusing French police of systemic profiling of Arab citizens, the minister reiterated his appreciation that internal documents used the phrase \u201cidentification of suspicious behavior\u201d rather than \u201cdirty-kneed oil barons.\u201d<\/p>\n Cazeneuve ended the interview by sharing a behind-the-scenes look at 2014\u2019s highly restrictive immigration bill. \u201cUp until the final vote, the bill still <\/em>contained the words \u2018camel fuckers,\u2019\u201d chuckled Cazeneuve. \u201cThank God that draft was voted down by the Senate. That would have been super <\/em>racist.\u201d <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Si Squires-Kasten Jan. 14, 2015 Following the January 7th attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve expressed \u201cprofound gratitude\u201d that his country phrased the laws which cause institutional discrimination against Muslims, without resorting to \u201cdisgraceful or objectionable language.\u201d Referring to a 2011 law banning face coverings \u2013 including niqabs, hijabs, and burqas \u2013 Cazeneuve told The Dealer he was thankful the law contained references to the \u201cpromotion of egalitarian secularism\u201d rather than \u201cAladdins\u201d or \u201ctowel heads.\u201d Pressed about a 2013 lawsuit accusing French police of systemic profiling of Arab citizens, the minister reiterated his appreciation that internal documents used the phrase \u201cidentification of suspicious behavior\u201d rather than \u201cdirty-kneed oil barons.\u201d Cazeneuve ended the interview by sharing a behind-the-scenes look at 2014\u2019s highly restrictive immigration bill. \u201cUp until the final vote, the bill still contained the words \u2018camel fuckers,\u2019\u201d chuckled Cazeneuve. \u201cThank God that draft was voted down by the Senate. That would have been super racist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}