Posted on 10/12/2016 6:10:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A new book titled “A President Should Not Say That…” has revealed that François Hollande calls Nicolas Sarkozy “a Duracell bunny”, how his ex-partner was obsessed by another ex-partner, and how he believes a Muslim woman could one day be the symbol of France (if she feels free enough to ditch her veil).
The new book was penned by journalists Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme who met with the president 61 times since he has been president. They recorded their private conversations with him in which the president made several headline-making statements. Firstly the one that has caused the most fuss, as might be expected in a country on edge and insecure about the place of Islam in its culture: “The veiled woman of today will be the Marianne of tomorrow”. Marianne, a statue of whom stands in the Place de la Republique in Paris, is a strong symbol of France and represents liberté and reason.
The statement has caused a storm in France, mainly because it was taken out of context and was used as an example of how Islam would one day take over French culture — a fear that has long gripped certain sections of the French population, particularly the far right. […]
In reality, Hollande was talking of how a liberated Muslim woman who stops wearing the headscarf or veil could become fully integrated in French culture, albeit at the same time suggesting a veiled French woman was not really a French woman. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Napoleon, on his invasion of Egypt, told the Imams there that his invasion was so his army could convert to Islam.
He had a problem on his hands when the soldiers balked when they found such a conversion required circumcision!
Pant load, dammit! :)
Hollande: 'Muslim women could be symbol of France'
Oh great!
Au revoir, Marianne
Bienvenue, Salma!
This clown, Hollande, should be banished to Algeria, like the German Vichy puppet Nazis.
... or hanged.
Aux armes, citoyens
Formez vos bataillons
Marchons, marchons!
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!
Would someone who can please photoshop a "proper" Mariam (in the burka?) if you get my drift...
Get a few koranimal heads to explode...
The world needs Trump so bad.
He's saying in essence that the France of tomorrow will not be the France of today, and even more terrifying, the French of tomorrow will not be the French of today.
It makes me think of people who are excited about this trans-human business. People who will gladly surrender their humanity to possibly live in an imaginary "perfect" future.
Surrendering one's humanity, or one's nation or national identity, I do not understand it. So many have been completely demoralized it is astounding.
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