Posted on 10/14/2016 4:39:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
In an interview with two reporters from France’s top newspaper, French President Fran ç ois Hollande revealed a view of Muslims that surprised many as staunchly xenophobic and more likely to align with the nation’s far-right Front National than the incumbent’s center-left French Socialist Party.
France has “a problem with Islam,” he told Le Monde investigative journalists G é rard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme for a book of interviews with Hollande titled, some might say rather appropriately, "Un pr é sident ne devrait pas dire ç a…", or "A President Should Not Say That…" “I think there are too many migrants, too much immigration that shouldn’t be there.”
The president, who has been in office since May 2015, then backtracked somewhat, adding, “It’s not Islam that poses a problem, in that sense that it would be a religion that would be dangerous in itself, but because it wants to affirm itself as a religion in the [French] republic. Then, what poses a problem is if the Muslims don’t denounce acts of radicalization, if the imams behave in a way that is against the republic.”
While the source of the comments shocked some, France has made headlines in the past few years for controversial policies targeting Muslim culture. Last summer, police in towns along France’s southern coast fined women for wearing the so-called “burkini,” a swimsuit that offers full body coverage. And two years ago, a European court upheld a countrywide ban on wearing the niqab, or full-face veil, in public spaces.
The country has also suffered several major attacks by the Islamic State terrorist group in the past year, most notably the Nov. 13, 2015, Paris shootings and suicide bombings that killed 130 people, and the attack by a truck driver in Nice, who killed dozens when he drove straight into a large crowd at a Bastille Day celebration.
Ya think?!!?
Someone doesn’t want LePen kicking his ass.
Well, what are you going to do about it?
I was in Paris for a week in 2005, and I remember walking a couple miles to the Eiffel Tower. All safe, festive, and happy.
I read the other day that the Tower is now in a secure zone surrounded by some Muzzie no-go areas. I guess I won’t be going to gay Paree any time soon.
Talk is cheap. The downhill slide of the last decade is real.
That's because Islam has a major problem with everything that isn't Islam, a fact that Euro/American progs can't seem to comprehend despite overwhelming evidence confirming it every single day. Their fear of being seen (by both others AND themselves) as "racists" overwhelms whatever pitiful logical faculties they possess.
“...And There Are Too Many Migrants”
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Duh and double Duh.
Was Charles Martel a Socialist? I don't think so.
Day late “Franc” short!...Euro there? france is a f ___ed country...worse than us I think.
You mentioned my hero! (-:
Forgot upped after F___ed there.
It is not the religion that is dangerous. Their desire to replace your government with their total despotic one is the true danger.
Ping from fans....
The idiot refers to Islam as a religion, first strike. It is a military tactic
Islam Is A Huge Problem,Some Religions Can Be Dangerous And There Are Far Too Many Migrants
I fixed it for ya,Monsieur Le President!
Hollande: Islam Is A Problem, Religion Can Be Dangerous And There Are Too Many Migrants
It took him a while to figure this one out. Maybe he and Angela Merkel could get together and discuss this problem, as she apparently has the same. She may have been good in science but in history an absolute no show. It makes a person wonder what besets these politicians that all of a sudden they think they are able to “Domesticate” those (m)uslims when the western civilization has been fighting them for centuries.
Well first off Islam is not a religion.
... and it’s too late.
The French are finally growing a pair. The French culture is of body freedom and Holland’s knows that Islam is not about body freedom, so tourism might decline.
Well, duh...
That’s true... What religion celebrate a person who is a pedophile? Maybe the Cult of the Democrat Party who worship Bill Clinton and other perverts...
I think it’s more like they worship this dead pedophile guy who’s buried out in the desert somewhere whereas the one I worship is still alive and will be highly PO’d when He returns.
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