For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king; and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles…

Source: foreignpolicy.com

"Now the issue has come home to the French. Intermarriage may not be the answer, but an open intercultural understanding is fundamentally necessary in her native land and on the continent where she lived, lest the violence continue and grow unabated. Maybe it is time for the French police to protect not only Jewish sites against anti-Semitic violence, but also Muslim sites against violent retaliation. It might be a good first step toward that cultural reconciliation, toward doing what cartoonist Joe Sacco called for: ‘sorting out how we fit in each other’s world.’ It’s time to let the colonized onto the rest of Prospero’s island, so the cursing stops."

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