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'You will not have my hatred,' Paris attack victim tells terrorists in moving Facebook post
The Times-Picayune ^ | 11/23/2015

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: culturalsuicide; france; hatred; paris; terrorism; victim
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1 posted on 11/23/2015 9:32:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I couldn’t watch all of that. It made me ill.


2 posted on 11/23/2015 9:33:56 AM PST by Psalm 144 (God grant the French and Russians safety and success while hunting down jidhadis.)
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To: SeekAndFind
This may be cruel...

But the guy is a pussy.

3 posted on 11/23/2015 9:34:43 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Guess what Antoine...they still hate you and want YOU dead too


4 posted on 11/23/2015 9:35:07 AM PST by digger48
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To: SeekAndFind

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:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/bataclan-paris-victim-helene-muyal-husband-antoine-leiris-killers-open-letter


5 posted on 11/23/2015 9:35:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


6 posted on 11/23/2015 9:36:19 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: SeekAndFind

Racist French leftists obviously think they are better than “people of color.”


7 posted on 11/23/2015 9:36:21 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


8 posted on 11/23/2015 9:36:29 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nor his fighting spirit either evidently. ‘Cause that’s somebody else’s job.


9 posted on 11/23/2015 9:37:31 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: jsanders2001

^ meant Leto did a somber delivery of what that guy said last night...


10 posted on 11/23/2015 9:37:38 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: SeekAndFind

They don’t have my hatred. They have my contempt. Just like the six-legged cockroaches ...


11 posted on 11/23/2015 9:38:32 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: SeekAndFind
What type of clap-trap is this.."we will find each other again in a paradise of free souls".
I realize that he has pain. I also know that the all through the New Testament we are commanded to love those that hate us. That revenge is God's not ours.

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.

12 posted on 11/23/2015 9:39:02 AM PST by Paul46360
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To: Louis Foxwell

“Good little slave boy. Nothing Christian about his silly, childish sentimentality. “

Now the terrorists will really hate him : )


13 posted on 11/23/2015 9:39:15 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read)
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To: SeekAndFind

Awwwwwww. Isn’t that special.


14 posted on 11/23/2015 9:40:43 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Paul46360
all through the New Testament we are commanded to love those that hate us.

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.

15 posted on 11/23/2015 9:41:11 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: SeekAndFind
Thank you for the translation.

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.

16 posted on 11/23/2015 9:42:24 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: NorthMountain

very good point


17 posted on 11/23/2015 9:43:17 AM PST by Paul46360
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To: SeekAndFind

FAG


18 posted on 11/23/2015 9:43:53 AM PST by The Toll
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


19 posted on 11/23/2015 9:44:21 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: digger48
Pretty stunning how these leftist believe in "themselves" with such a false front!....


20 posted on 11/23/2015 9:44:39 AM PST by caww
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