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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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To: Junk Silver

RE: They don’t want your hatred, they want your submission.

It would seem they’ve already got it.

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To be fair to the writer of this piece, I don’t think he is saying that we should not bring the perpetrators to justice or that we should not even destroy them.

We have to ask him personally to make the above conclusion.


41 posted on 11/23/2015 10:08:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No problem. I have plenty enough hatred of terrorists to go around.


42 posted on 11/23/2015 10:10:19 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reports: Terrorists Stormed Le Bataclan to the Tune of ‘Kiss the Devil’

http://www.charismanews.com/world/53289-reports-terrorists-stormed-le-bataclan-to-the-tune-of-kiss-the-devil

Maybe the irony is too much?


43 posted on 11/23/2015 10:13:03 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: SeekAndFind

The idea that you forgive everyone, of everything, is idiot.


44 posted on 11/23/2015 10:14:00 AM PST by heights
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To: TADSLOS

LOL

And that’s exactly what I think each time I hear that song.

Great melody. Great words.

The words are at the level of a five year old, stars in the eyes and a head just waiting to receive intellectual truths.

Imagine... that’s all Lenin did here. He sure didn’t “THINK” this one out.


45 posted on 11/23/2015 10:14:13 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: DoughtyOne

What makes the song so dangerous, is that its hypnotic melody draws you in. I hate the lyrics but I really like the melody.


46 posted on 11/23/2015 10:18:21 AM PST by heights
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To: SeekAndFind

Good for him, bit I think it is more than OK to hate evil, call me crazy...


47 posted on 11/23/2015 10:20:25 AM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This isn’t about rejecting hatred. Its about refusing to acknowledge that the murders took place in obedience to the teachings of Islam. This is taqqiya, drenched in his own wife’s blood.

How pathetic.


48 posted on 11/23/2015 10:20:26 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is sad.

He is in pain and thinking irrationally.

It is not inspirational in any way but pathetic.

I don’t blame him, per se.

People should leave him alone and let those who know him help him to get help.

He is not right and this writing reflects that.

Not his fault.

It is the fault of those using his pain as some sort of idol.


49 posted on 11/23/2015 10:20:38 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: SeekAndFind

This is how nations fall.


50 posted on 11/23/2015 10:21:30 AM PST by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: SeekAndFind
A Paris man's open letter to the killers of his wife

Talking to animals? Seesh.

Well, I didn't lose anyone there, so, maybe I would do the same.

No, I wouldn't.

51 posted on 11/23/2015 10:28:27 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They cannot ‘have his hatred’?

Hmmm, is he saving it for something MORE contemptable?

What? Like rotten cheese or bad wine?


52 posted on 11/23/2015 10:28:40 AM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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53 posted on 11/23/2015 10:30:19 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

Um, Buddy? They don’t care. They want YOU dead, too. Sorry for your loss, but you’d better get your head out of your arse.

This one is for ALL the marbles.


54 posted on 11/23/2015 10:31:30 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Not cuel and it is a pussy.

Same idiot hates Christians.


55 posted on 11/23/2015 10:32:29 AM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: heights

Me too. And I can see the beauty in the words too, but then I see the danger in them, and IT IS THERE.

Young people buy into that song in amazing numbers. They get lulled, and think, “Oh... yes... if only we could live like that. Why flowers, cherry blossoms, and unicorns all the time...

NEVER GONNA HAPPEN... (’till Christ comes back)

And until then, we have to be ever vigilant.

The world’s a nasty place. We have to be able to fumigate from time to time.


56 posted on 11/23/2015 10:34:02 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: SMARTY

a broken nail maybe...


57 posted on 11/23/2015 10:35:13 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I don't get it.

If it were someone I dearly loved who was murdered by these savages, I would hate them with a white hot hatred until the day I died.

58 posted on 11/23/2015 10:35:26 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: ifinnegan

“He is in pain and thinking irrationally.”

True. His passivity remains ill founded and dangerous.

He just isn’t anyone to take seriously at this time.


59 posted on 11/23/2015 10:36:54 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

“Well, I didn’t lose anyone there, so, maybe I would do the same.

No, I wouldn’t.”

Nope. Most of us on this site would not be wringing our hands.


60 posted on 11/23/2015 10:38:30 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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