Posted on 04/15/2017 5:59:00 PM PDT by Spiridon
FRANCE'S LE PEN ACCUSES MACRON OF BEING SOFT ON ISLAMISTS
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Saturday accused her main rival for president, centrist Emmsnuel Macron, of being soft on Islamists, in a blistering attack eight days before the vote.
Le Pen pounced on remarks by Macron defending one of his top campaigners in the gritty suburbs north of Paris whom the far-right has labelled a "radical."
Mohamed Sarou was asked to step back form Macron's campaign after a website published several of his old Facebook messages, one of which criticized the Charlie Hebdo newspaper targeted by jihadists in January 2015 for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
"He did one or two things that were more....radical...But he's a good guy otherwise," Macron told Beur FM radio on Friday, adding he did not want to fire Saou.
Addressing around 1,000 flag waving supporters in the southern city of Perpingan Le Pen accused the leader of the "En Marche" (On the Move) party of doing the bidding of Islamist groups.
"With Mr Macron, it would be Islamism on the move," Le Pen said. "It's as if he's writing a new chapter of Houllebecq's book Sourmission," she said, referring to a novel by author Michael Houllebecq which portrays a fictional Islamist president coming to power in France....
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In round numbers, England booted Catholics 500 years ago.
France did much the same about 230 years ago.
Will either or both ban satanic islam? Not likely.
Neither will the US. Who knew the Constitution was a suicide pact?
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