"Contrary to what the left's relativist ideology says, for us all civilizations are not of equal value. Those which defend humanity seem to us to be more advanced than those that do not. Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred."
-- Claude Gueant, the French interior minister and a key Sarkozy ally. Feb 2012