This is an email I've sent to rachel@msnbc.com: Bonjour, I live in France -- I have both French and American citizenship -- so I watch Rachel via podcast, always a bit late...

Perhaps we should listen to more of what the "real socialists" have to say.... What do you think?

French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie was attacked by a mob in Gaza on Friday morning. Her attackers were enraged over statements she had allegedly made the day before supporting human rights for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

After issuing the veil ban on Sunday, which bars the full-face niqab veil from both public and private universities, Syria is now heading into waters that have proved difficult for Egypt. Courts there struck down similar bans.

A Paris appeals court on Monday began hearing the case of 18 people accused in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of a young French Jew.

September 21, 2010 on SBS Insight (Australia): "The French Senate has voted to ban the burqa in public places. Similar laws are being considered in Belgium, Spain and Italy.

A ranking diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Finland said Friday he has quit his job to protest the Islamic Republic's treatment of its citizens.

"The French resist the Nazis with an emotional rendition of La Marseillaise." ORIGINAL LINK NOT WORKING-- USE THIS ONE INSTEAD.

"France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

Ehad Ever is a religious Zionist. In this video he explains his views on Israel, Zionism, race, policies of the current Israeli government (Olmert's Kadima Party), etc.

A popular Saudi cleric said Saturday it is permissible for Muslim women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned to avoid harassment, while deploring the effort to outlaw the garment in France.

"On the eve of Bastille Day, marking the birth of France's staunchly secular republic, the vast majority of MPs in the country's National Assembly voted in favour of outlawing the burka and the niqab from French streets, making it the second European country after Belgium to cla …

As expected, the French Assembly has indeed voted in favor of banning the full facial veil in public spaces; the measure extends to both burqas and niqabs. The bill is expected to be ratified by the Senate in September.

"A Moroccan man who refused to shake hands with a French female official and whose wife wears the full Islamic veil has been denied French citizenship, the immigration ministry said Friday.

Psychological violence is now a criminal offense in France, but some judges say the new law may be difficult to enforce and prosecute.