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| Muslim and Jewish leaders gather at Paris concert hall memorial |
| 2015-11-16 |
| French Muslim leaders gathered outside the Bataclan concert hall on Sunday to honour the 89 people who died there in the bloodiest attack by jihadi terrorists France has known. They carried white roses, which they laid among the hundreds of candles and bouquets left by members of the public and were accompanied, as a show of inter-faith solidarity, by representatives of the French capital’s Jewish community. As the group stood at the barriers around the music venue where heavily armed gunmen went on a murderous rampage on Friday night, they broke into a ragged rendition of La Marseillaise. The message and symbolism was perfectly clear: the four gunmen who stormed the Bataclan, cutting down concertgoers in a hail of bullets then picking survivors off one by one with cold-blooded precision, may have claimed to be killing on behalf of Islamic State, but their actions had nothing to do with Islam. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 “Anyone who uses hate speech has no place in France and those places that preach hate are not places of prayer but are those of a sect. After this tragedy and the more than 100 deaths, now is the time to close these places of hate,” Who gets to define whatever 'hate speech' might or might not be? Is this actually an attempt to criminalize criticism of Islam? Is it possible that the Imams' president is actually a totalitarian theocrat who does not condone terrorism but who nonetheless wants to impose Sharia on the West? This was wasn't a 'tragedy.' It was a pre-planned massacre that unfolded largely as planned. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-11-16 03:10 |