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“French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to accept a “charter of republican values” as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam.

President Macron has also announced new measures to tackle what he called “Islamist separatism” in France.

The measures include a wide-ranging bill that seeks to prevent radicalisation. It was unveiled on Wednesday, and includes measures such as:

Restrictions on home-schooling and harsher punishments for those who intimidate public officials on religious grounds

Giving children an identification number under the law that would be used to ensure they are attending school. Parents who break the law could face up to six months in jail as well as large fines

A ban on sharing the personal information of a person in a way that allows them to be located by people who want to harm them

“We must save our children from the clutches of the Islamists,” Mr Darmanin told the Le Figaro newspaper on Wednesday. The draft law will be discussed by the French cabinet on 9 December.

Earlier this year, President Macron described Islam as a religion “in crisis” and defended the right of magazines to publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Such depictions are widely regarded as taboo in Islam and are considered highly offensive by many Muslims.

Following these comments, the French leader became a figure of hate in several Muslim-majority countries. Protesters have also called for a boycott of French products.

France has western Europe’s largest Muslim population.”

TLDR;

• Children will be given an IDENTIFICATION NUMBER to help locate them. 

• Imams must register. 

• No political actions as Muslims. 

imagine having red hair and not having a name for red. imagine being the only redhead in a small town, where no one knows that red hair is a thing that exists. so you grow up being told your hair is just “rusty brown” or “strawberry blonde.” and even though that doesn’t feel right, you learn not to say anything. because even if other people can also tell those labels don’t quite fit, they aren’t about to create a label just for you. after all, it works just fine for everyone else. and when you think about it, you have things in common with brunettes and blondes. so maybe you are just making. a fuss.

then one day you learn people in other towns are claiming to have red hair. you learn this, in fact, because people around you are laughing at them, because it is such a nonsensical thing, for people to pretend to have red hair. because everyone knows, that’s not a real thing. otherwise they would have seen it already. 

but while people laugh, you stand very still, in shock, because you never knew there were other people. you thought you were the only one, which meant you weren’t real. 

so you find out more about these people, people who might be like you, who have all shades of red hair and call themselves redheads. you read their words and look at their photos and it’s all very familiar. and slowly you start confiding in people around you.

you tell them: “you know how hair has always been a weird shade? well it turns out it’s not weird, there’s a name for it.” and some of these people believe you, and some don’t really understand, because “it just looks like a different shade of brown to me.” and some people say you’re making it up, and some people think that maybe you should just dye it brown instead of making such a fuss. and it seems everyone has an opinion on your hair, and on whether or not it exists, and on whether or not it should even be mentioned in polite conversation. 

Matt created an important update. 

Abortion Clinic Employee Shares How Some Pro-Life Women Act When They Come In As Customers

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/

http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has

that’s right fracking you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The questions are all things ordinary people should know.

“Whats the cost of a loaf of bread?”

“What’s the minimum wage?”

And then we move on to practical demonstrations later,

“change this car’s tire”

Or even, “change the bag on this vacuum cleaner.”