CAIRO (AP) — France’s top diplomat visited Egypt on Sunday in an effort to calm tensions with the Muslim world following anti-French protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and three Islamic extremist attacks on France.
Jean-Yves Le Drian spoke at a press conference amid meetings with Egyptian political and religious leaders, saying that France is fighting against terror and extremism, not Islam.
“We are facing a terrorist threat and fanaticism on our soil and elsewhere. This a collective fight,” he said. “As we always defend the freedom to practice Islam in France … we are also determined to fight against extremism and terrorism.” (…) (Hervorhebungen GB)
Jean-Yves Le Drian spoke at a press conference amid meetings with Egyptian political and religious leaders, saying that France is fighting against terror and extremism, not Islam.
“We are facing a terrorist threat and fanaticism on our soil and elsewhere. This a collective fight,” he said. “As we always defend the freedom to practice Islam in France … we are also determined to fight against extremism and terrorism.” (…) (Hervorhebungen GB)
Top French diplomat visits Cairo amid tensions over cartoons
Kommentar GB:
An dem oben genannten Satz hängt vermutlich die gesamte Politik der Mittelmeerunion, einem faktisch wohl längst gescheiterten Großmachtprojekt Frankreichs (und der EU). Wenn sich Frankreich offen so gegen den Islam stellte, wie sich der Islam klar erkennbar gegen Frankreich (und Europa insgesamt) stellt, dann wäre diese Politik sofort dauerhaft beendet.
Paris eiert – wie man sieht – immer noch um diese Konsequenz herum, die aber kommen muß.
