Majalli Wahabi Quotes
I think my appointment is the example and answer for those who accuse Israel of being an apartheid state. It shows minorities have equal rights and we are part of the government, the state and the parliament
There were some accusations that Israeli was an apartheid state. There are a number of Muslim members of the Israeli Knesset and the Government. There are no Jews in any political position in any Islamic nation except Turkey. In the apartheid state of South Africa, there was no black member of parliament or government official.
Majalli Wahabi, Druze member of the Israeli Knesset (Kadima), Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Acting President—the only non Jewish Head of State, Jeremy Last, “Israel's Arab President: So Much For The Lie About Israeli Apartheid", March 3, 2007
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Similar formal opposition to Jewish parochial schools was more formally voiced later—see American Council for Judaism.
He was referring to whether or not Iraq should be a Muslim state.
The rights possessed by the Arab minority of Israel exceeds not only those of Jews in any Arab nation, and exceeds those of any minority in an Arab state. And because Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, the Arabs of Israel possess more political rights than do Arabs anywhere else in the Middle East. The number of Arab political parties in Israel is larger than that of most Arab nations where opposition parties are rarely permitted.
At the time, Australia had a whites only immigration policy and were relaxing it slightly for non-white business people. At the time, few could imagine Australia of the 21st century. The Prime Minister was one.
This problem which was so well described over a century ago in Egypt, still vexes most of the Islamic world.
In addition to Christians, Muslims and Jews, each of these has enclaves and sects who are as different from one another as they are from the other religions.
Before the French Revolution, Jews could freely practice their own religion in France but they could not hold citizenship, become professionals, or a host of other privileges of citizenship. Clermont-Tonnerre and other liberals argued that Jews should be given citizenship. The Jacobins--conservative Catholics close to the Papacy--opposed granting citizenship to Jews or Protestants. One argument that the Jacobins gave was that each of these sects would be separate nations within France and not necessarily have French national interest as a priority. Clermont-Tonnerre gave this response which has been the French philosophy about minority citizenship since then. Their thought was that anyone may become a French citizen as an individual but he or she should do so because he/she wants to accept French values and support the French nation. This view worked quite will over the years until the large immigration of Muslims starting in the 1960s where many new immigrants just wanted to live in France and earn a living there, but did not want to identify with French national aspirations or adopt French culture or values. America, had no such demands and those immigrants who tended to identify primarily with their country or culture of origin and not assimilate were allowed to do so, but the American way of life was so attractive that many immigrants did adopt it and even if they did not, their children almost inevitably did. That has not happened in France.
Adopted in 1776 as the motto for the seal of the United States
Half the population of Amsterdam was at the time non Western in origin including many Muslims. Cohen was one of the few major Dutch leaders who worked to make multiculturalism work. However, there were so many religious Muslim extremists already active in the Netherlands, that it was very difficult. The Dutch had elected a Muslim as a member of Parliament and whole many Muslims were very proud of this, the religious extremists were furious. She was a woman, and she did not believe or advocate that Holland adopt Sharia (Islamic) law. She was an Islamic reformer who was opposed to Sharia even in Muslim states. The most successful Islamic nation, Turkey, does not allow Sharia law, and Indonesia, the largest of the Muslim nations also does not follow it.
Majalli Wahabi is an Israeli Druze politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud, Kadima and Hatnuah between 2003 and 2013. He briefly assumed the position of Acting President due to President Moshe Katzav's leave of absence and Interim President Dalia Itzik's trip abroad in February 2007, making him the first non-Jew and the first Druze to act as Israel's head of state.
