Posted on 11/23/2015 9:32:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A Paris man's open letter to the killers of his wife is moving people to tears as it spreads on social media and television.
Antoine Leiris' wife, Helene Muyal-Leiris, was among the 89 slain in the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Friday. His original letter in French on his Facebook page has been shared more than 194,000 times since Monday and has been translated into several other languages.
He tells the attackers that he will not give them the gift of hating them, saying: "Responding to hatred with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that has made you what you are."
"I saw her this morning. She was just as beautiful as she was when she left home Friday evening, as beautiful as when I fell madly in love with her more than 12 years ago," he says.
Leiris adds he is devastated with grief over the loss of his 35-year-old wife, but says it will be a short-term grief.
"I know that she will join us every day and that we will find each other again in a paradise of free souls, which you will never have access to."
The conclusion emphasizes Leiris' determination to ensure he raises the couple's 17-month-old son "happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
I couldn’t watch all of that. It made me ill.
But the guy is a pussy.
Guess what Antoine...they still hate you and want YOU dead too
Here is the translation of the full facebook post from Antoine Leiris, who lost his wife in the Paris attacks :
Antoine Leiris November 16 at 7:18 am ·
You will not have my hatred
Friday night, you took an exceptional life — the love of my life, the mother of my son — but you will not have my hatred I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know, you are dead souls. If this God, for whom you kill blindly, made us in his image, every bullet in the body of my wife would have been one more wound in His heart.
So, no, I will not grant you the gift of my hatred. You’re asking for it, but responding to hatred with anger is falling victim to the same ignorance that has made you what you are. You want me to be scared, to view my countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my liberty for my security. You lost.
I saw her this morning. Finally, after nights and days of waiting. She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago. Of course I am devastated by this pain, I give you this little victory, but the pain will be short-lived. I know that she will be with us every day and that we will find ourselves again in this paradise of free love to which you have no access.
We are just two, my son and me, but we are stronger than all the armies in the world. I don’t have any more time to devote to you, I have to join Melvil who is waking up from his nap. He is barely 17-months-old. He will eat his meals as usual, and then we are going to play as usual, and for his whole life this little boy will threaten you by being happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either.
We are two, my son and I, but we are stronger than all the armies in the world. I have also no more time for you, I must join Melvil who wakes up from a nap. It was 17 months ago, he eats his lunch like every day, then we will play like every day and his whole life that little boy will make you the affront of being happy and free. Because no, you will not have hatred either.
https://www.facebook.com/antoine.leiris/posts/10154457849999947
http://abcnews.go.com/International/paris-man-writes-powerful-letter-defiance-terrorists-killed/story?id=35256304
Video of Antoine reading his open letter to the Paris terrorists:
I sense a Muslim sympathizer using The Taqiyyan method to take the winds out of the sails of anger that have been flying since the Paris incident. You know how these guys work by now. That guy was Jared Leto on the American Music Awards last night so it was probably well rehearsed.
Racist French leftists obviously think they are better than “people of color.”
Good little slave boy. Nothing Christian about his silly, childish sentimentality. He should at least be capable of hating the sin that brought his wife and so many others an early, violent and horrendous death in which their bodies were dismembered. If hate is inappropriate for evil love is not appropriate for good.
Nor his fighting spirit either evidently. ‘Cause that’s somebody else’s job.
^ meant Leto did a somber delivery of what that guy said last night...
They don’t have my hatred. They have my contempt. Just like the six-legged cockroaches ...
Maybe we could do the same to ISIS that was done to Jericho. OH that's right we can't believe in God, cause that offends some people.
“Good little slave boy. Nothing Christian about his silly, childish sentimentality. “
Now the terrorists will really hate him : )
Awwwwwww. Isn’t that special.
And I do. I pray for their repentance and conversion.
Until that day ...
Hominid bipeds are divided into two categories: "People" and "Targets".
They're Targets.
His tribute is beautiful and I wish him and his son the very best but the rabid Islamic terrorists will kill again. Hopefully, lightening doesn't strike twice.
very good point
FAG
I don’t think they have the slightest interest in his hatred, love or any of his feelings. They’re interested in his subjugation and/or his death. And his assets.
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