France wants to build Mosques...

How do you fight islamo-fascism? Well, you just build more mosques.

A call for a change to a century-old French law to allow the state to fund new mosques has sent sparks flying in a society deeply attached to the separation of religion and state.

Concerned that a shortage of mosques is allowing extremists to gain a foothold among Frances 5.5 million Muslims by funding places of worship, interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this month named a panel to look into the prickly question. Due to report to the government in June next year, the committee is being asked, among other things, to suggest ways of reviewing the 1905 Secularity Law that bans the state from funding places of worship.

The initiative placed Mr Sarkozy squarely at odds with both President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who sees the century-old law as one of the pillars of our Republican system and rejects the idea of updating it.

This initiative might well fail...hopefully. The French must fight islamo-fascism amongst the people -- not by building new mosques...