[padre35]

With the Cathedral at Tours and Notre Dame, why would France run away from such a rich History?

Joan of Arc etc. ?

Seems to me the Socialists are an awfully uptight bunch of ninnies.

And Sarkozy is also the President of 7 million Muslim French, so is supposed to go to the home of Mecca and Medina and say -0-?

[J Aguilar]

Many churches and monasteries were destroyed during the French Revolution. A disguised Atheism, translated into Laicism in politics, is very strong there since then.

I applaud Sarkozy for trying to rebuild a religous moral reference, cornered by the French establishment, even if it is Muslim.