French hero who sacrificed himself to save a hostage from an Islamist won’t have a place named after

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French hero, who sacrificed himself to save a hostage from an Islamist, won’t have a place named after him as ‘it may offend Muslims’
 By Abdelhamid Kaddour
 13 October 2018

French hero Arnaud Beltrame, who sacrificed himself to save a hostage from a Islamist terrorist, won’t have a place named after him because it may upset Marseille’s huge Muslim community, Valeurs Actuelles reports.

On 24 March 2018, an ISIS terrorist stormed a supermarket in Trèbes, armed with a handgun, a hunting knife and three homemade bombs. He shot two people dead and took others hostage. During the negotiation with the police, the terrorist accepted Beltrame’s offer to swap places with the last hostage, a female cashier.  ...

But apparently, paying tribute to Beltrame’s sacifice is seen as being potentially offensive by Marseille’s leftist elected officials.

Here’s what Stephane Ravier, Marseille’s 7th district National Rally mayor, revealed during a town council with Marseille’s elected officials: “Leftist elected officials, socialist and communist, refused that a place in the 15th district be named after Arnaud Beltrame, in the first time, they’ve said, under fallacious pretext, that this place wasn’t prestigious enough, before telling the truth in these terms: we are on the field, we witnessed that the population has changed and if we give the name of Arnaud Beltrame in this district, the population will take that as a provocation”.  ... Full story at Voice of Europe

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Christopher Long   @OctaneBoy
14m14 minutes ago
Replying to @HarmlessYardDog

That thing where France thinks it's some type of nation, with ideas, principles, and perspective, that's a funny thing.

Not exactly "funny ha ha" so much as "funny sad." I just visited France and saw the Maginot Line and tributes to the French Resistance. Perhaps those days are long, long gone.

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Mountaineer wrote:
"I just visited France and saw the Maginot Line and tributes to the French Resistance. Perhaps those days are long, long gone."

They are.
And they ain't comin' back.

Book suggestion:
"The Strange Death of Europe" by Douglas Murray:

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Disgusting.

This is how an entire culture dies.

Wimpering, on its knees before an evil, parasitic invader.

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Disgusting.

This is how an entire culture dies.

Wimpering, on its knees before an evil, parasitic invader.

Ditto Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, et al.