PARIS: A French Muslim who attacked a male gynaecologist for examining his wife just after she had given birth, saying it was against Islam, has been jailed for six months by a Paris court.
Fouad ben Moussa burst into the delivery room at a Paris hospital last November and shoved, slapped and insulted Dr Jean-Francois Oury as he examined the woman after a complicated birth, the prosecution said in court on Wednesday.
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"This is a public and secular place," prosecution lawyer Georges Holleaux said of the state hospital where the attack occurred. "This is not the place where one can invoke religion to get different treatment."
Well, I'm glad that the French are beginning to come to their senses and will not allow people to break the law in the name of religion in their country. If they don't allow other religions to break the law, then they must not grant exemptions for Islam, either.
I think justice has been done here. I think the correct message has been sent: that France will not tolerate any Islamic supremacism and will enforce French law and codes of conduct.
I recommend that other countries make it similarly clear that no special exemptions will be granted for those who cite their ideology as an excuse to not obey the laws of a country which all must obey equally.
