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Sunlei

(22,651 posts) Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:37 AM Jan 2015

France to protect all religions, vows Francois Hollande

Source: BBC

French President Francois Hollande has vowed that his country will protect all religions, saying that Muslims are the main victims of fanaticism.

Speaking at the Arab World Institute, he said Islam was compatible with democracy and thanked Arabs for their solidarity over terrorism in Paris.

Speaking on Thursday morning, Mr Hollande said that the French were united in the face of terror.

"French Muslims have the same rights as all other French," he said. "We have the obligation to protect them

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30829733

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France to protect all religions, vows Francois Hollande (Original Post) Sunlei Jan 2015 OP

Thanks for posting. I read it too, but you got there Surya Gayatri Jan 2015 #1

I love the way the French people handle this 'issue' & am so impressed at how millions! turned out. Sunlei Jan 2015 #2

Love my adopted country and people (dual-national, FR/US)... Surya Gayatri Jan 2015 #4

I love l'Institut du Monde Arabe uppityperson Jan 2015 #5

Nobody does it better. French curators' sense of history and esthetics Surya Gayatri Jan 2015 #6

Although I'm atheist madokie Jan 2015 #3

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

1. Thanks for posting. I read it too, but you got there

Reply to Sunlei (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:45 AM

Jan 2015

before me. Will this mitigate some of the egregious French-bashing going on around DU?

"Wait and see", as the French love to say...and in English no less.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

2. I love the way the French people handle this 'issue' & am so impressed at how millions! turned out.

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:56 AM

Jan 2015

The USA has many good citizens too, but it disappoints how fractured/divided/socially depressed & knee jerk our society is.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

4. Love my adopted country and people (dual-national, FR/US)...

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:39 AM

Jan 2015

They can be frustratingly blasé and cynical, with a penchant for analyzing everything to death. "I THINK, THEREFORE I AM!"

They don't call themselves "cartésien" for nothing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian

But, whatever their stripe, most French citizens share beloved, founding "Valeurs Républicaines" and will not allow them to be trampled under the boot of terrorist tyranny.

Very proud of my adopted second nationality right now...

uppityperson

(115,681 posts)

5. I love l'Institut du Monde Arabe

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 10:18 AM

Jan 2015

Their windows and the room of astrolabes along with all the historical cultural, art and other science stuff. Very interesting collection.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

6. Nobody does it better. French curators' sense of history and esthetics

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 10:24 AM

Jan 2015

is unbeatable.
Uppity!

madokie

(51,076 posts)

3. Although I'm atheist

Reply to Sunlei (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:10 AM

Jan 2015

I agree with what Hollande is saying here. who knows for a fact that there is or isn't a holy one so I leave that judgment for those who want to make the call for themselves. Just don't be trying to shove that crap down my throat and we'll get along just fine.

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