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Hard' for France to guarantee freedom of Islam if Muslims don't help country – Valls
August 1, 2016 at 09:24
If Muslims in France don’t help the country to battle extremists and those who threaten the Republic, it will be “increasingly hard” for Paris to guarantee freedom of Islam, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.
“Through its history and its geography… and through its immigration, France maintains very strong ties with Islam,” Valls wrote in a long essay in Le Journal du Dimanche, a French weekly newspaper.
According to the PM, Islam is “second-largest religion” in France and many French Muslims don’t have to identify themselves “as an Arab-Muslim culture.”
Read More (...)Muslim community refuses to bury French priest killer as he ‘tainted Islam’ https://t.co/jeO7C5QdMn pic.twitter.com/R5m1605teJ
— RT (@RT_com) July 31, 2016
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