Gibbon in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire wrote what would have been had al-Rahman won at Poitiers:It is happening now.
The name Bordeaux – the sixth metropolitan area of France (1,200,000 inhabitants) – evokes a legendary wine, the cathedral, Montaigne, Montesquieu and the Bourbons.
But demography makes history and numbers make culture.
So a few days ago some parents of students from the Emile Combes college in Bordeaux discovered that the meal offered was halal. An exclusively halal menu, says Bfmtv. Parents are “restless”. And they are right to be. Maybe they remember when, ten years ago, Le Monde branded the fear of halal in schools as a “right-wing conspiracy”. The left lügenpresse.
