The New Leviathan Blog

Oiseux debate on national identity in France The French population numbered 64.3 million inhabitants on January 1, 2009 (mainland and overseas territories). The fertility curve, which had reached two children per woman in 2006, had fallen very slightly in 2007, a decline with no future since French women broke a record again in 2008, with 2.02 children per woman, which brings France's natural generation renewal threshold ( 2.07). Just two children per woman would not be e...Read More >>

Ethnicity: right-thinking limitations on the right of expression French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was found guilty Wednesday by the Paris Court of Appeal of provoking discrimination, hatred or racial violence for comments made in April 2004 about Muslims in France. At first instance, he had escaped any conviction, the Paris criminal court having "cancelled the proceedings" against him. On Wednesday, the 11th chamber of the Court of Appeal sentenced the p...Read More >>

The cross and the crescent: the improbable dialogue  A study by the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) attests to this: more than half of those questioned believe that wearing the veil “goes against the grain of modern society”. Nearly one in four do not even tolerate it on public roads. The veil is seen as a sign of submission (by nearly seven out of ten people), as an anti-Western symbol (by 31% of respondents), or even as a provocation (23%). Barely one ...Read More >>

 The ethnic politics of Leviathan (II) The rector of Lyon, Alain Morvan, should today be dismissed from his functions and thus pay for his excessive freedom of tone (…). He will return to his chair as professor of English at the university. A snub for this man who allegedly failed to fulfill his duty of reserve as a senior civil servant. Alain Morvan had recently opposed the opening of the al-...Read More >>

The ethnic policies of Leviathan (I) 1, Flanders will carry out the first official recognition of mosques in 2007, Flemish Minister of Civic Integration Marino Keulen said on Tuesday. This recognition, conditioned by the fight against extremism and the defense of a pluralist society, will be accompanied by subsidies for buildings. This concerns the implementation of the Flemish decree on the financing of religions, the man...Read More >>

The slow death of the “multicultural society” 1, Danish justice abandoned at the beginning of January, for lack of proof of incitement to violence, from prosecuting imams established in Denmark who had carried out a "tour" in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon in December 2005 to draw attention to the publication of the caricatures and the lack of reactions from the Copenhagen government (see also below). On the other hand, those responsible for "Charlie Hebdo" are being prosecuted...Read More >>

On the interest of bringing together facts usually perceived separately Fact 1: Without the voices of the “new Belgians”, Antwerp would have been darker than ever on October 8, according to an analysis by Jan Hertogen, Flemish sociologist. It is in the districts where the new Belgians have experienced the greatest progress, such as Antwerp and Borgerhout, that the Vlaams ...Read More >>

Pig soup: the failure of xenophile power The decision, taken on Friday, curiously went almost unnoticed. Curiously given the current media and political excitement around the issue of homelessness. Curiously also given its character as a snub for the authorities. They have just been condemned for having in the past banned the distribution to the most deprived on public roads of a "pig soup" prepared by far-right charitable ass...Read More >>

Schools sick from the social crisis He did not die directly from the blows inflicted on him, but from a serious heart defect which made the stress endured by a banal squabble between college students fatal. The death Thursday evening in Meaux, in the Paris suburbs, of young Karl, who was 12 years old and had been molested by two classmates, nonetheless aroused strong emotion. This drama reignited the controversy over school violence all the m...Read More >>