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Grendel  ·  3454 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Charlie Hebdo’s Multi-Million-Dollar Pile of Tragedy Money

    Dalil Boubakeur, the president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, told me Charlie exemplifies “an occidental vision of Islam that is perfectly hostile.” He called the French Republic’s laïcité—its fiercely secular identity—“a passport to repress the rights of Muslims.”

    Emmanuel Todd, a historian and sociologist, has described the millions who demonstrated in support of Charlie after the killing as implicitly demanding “the right to blaspheme Islam,” which he characterized as the religion of the “oppressed.” He wrote that “millions of French people rushed into the street to assert, as a priority need of their society, the right to spit on the religion of the weakest.”

What a mess! I don't see how France can avoid a civil war at this point. Let this be a warning to other European countries: multiculturalism erodes a country's national unity, it breeds distrust and violence. It's a suicidal ideology, self-destructive behaviour at a national scale.