I wonder what the French sentiment will be when Muslims are shown celebrating. No, I don’t.
“I wonder what the French sentiment will be when Muslims are shown celebrating. No, I don’t”.
The cathedral is probably beyond saving. What will the French do when it is replaced by a huge mosque?
The government and EU will attempt to cover up the celebrations. The cause of the fire remains unclear. Something related to the renovations is plausible. I recall when workers renovating the dome of the old Iowa state capital in Iowa City, my personal favorite architecture in the state, managed to burn off the dome. But even if there is zero direct muslim guilt for THIS fire many of them will be unable to keep from celebrating over the loss of this symbol. Those celebrations need to be well documented and publicized in contrast to the mourning of real Frenchmen. How well the current government responded to the fire also appears questionable. Whether they could have done better deserves to be asked afterwards. Getting the political change needed to save France has been difficult. If Macron can be reasonably tagged as the man who lost Notre Dame, perhaps some good will have come from the tragedy. Le Pen and her niece need to be careful with their rhetoric, but need to be seen.