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The Storm Around France’s First Muslim Cabinet Minister, Rachida Dati

Posted December 24, 2008
Justice Minister Dati at the Elysée Palace after a cabinet meeting.
Justice Minister Dati at the Elysée Palace after a cabinet meeting.

Dati recoils at the notion that she is living a Cinderella life. "My life is not a novel; it is a journey," she told the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur after being named justice minister in May 2007. "The more people try to make a storybook out of my life, the more that in reality they try to take away my legitimacy. I worked, that's all, and no one, not even those who do not like me, can take that away from me."

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Reader Comments

this is an lowlife outrage

Now you encourage these amish addicts,They could care less about a doctor who is most of the time right.They wear too many clothes ,cutting off thier vitamin d.This has a reaction,now they are vampires to our health department,and a waste of time.Before you say anything juncky,ask yourself this amish question ,could you go without a car,or a bike?Its the same with tobacco,or without a lung.YOU ARE ANTICHRIST,WITHOUT A DOCTOR!

This is really wonderful. It is nice to know that many many immigrants in Europe are becoming prominent and powerful. I hope this trend continues.

One new item

Miss Dati had a baby and is now criticized for going back to work too fast... Sets a bed example for women in France...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7819657.stm

I wonder what will happen if she changes hair color...

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