Originally Posted by Benjh
The UK goes through (unnecessary) hell to forbid water on airplanes, but the french let dangerous ppl work in secure areas!
2 PSs here: 1, I'm french. 2, the fact that those people are muslim has nothing to do with why they're being fired.
Being French, may be a little history might help
http://www.paris-link-home.com/news/...006-10-26.html
"We must not forget that when it comes to tackling Islamic fundamentalism, France was one of the first in the firing line. In the 1990s, Paris suffered a wave of bomb attacks, including two on the RER B train line which bisects Paris, killing many and injuring hundreds more.
London has often called upon Paris for advice on how to deal with the terrorist threat from Islamic fundamentalism simply because Paris has the greater experience in finding the culprits and infiltrating the networks."
So one can't just pluck some workers out of the blue ( or just for the sake of it
) before assessing the seriousness of the intelligence and proof of claims that they are would-be terrorists before crying "wolf" and forbidding them to work.
Anyway, I guess under the Napoleonic law, "guilty until proven innocent"