Mayor Charged with Hate Crime for Claiming There Were Too Many Muslim Students


Media sources say the trial is set for March 8, 2017. How they’re going to back up their charges is currently unknown, but things don’t seem to be working in Mernard’s favor based on all of his Twitter posts that the media keeps writing about.

On 1 September, France’s first day back at school, he said on Twitter he was witnessing the “great replacement”, a widely used term to describe the alleged eviction of the country’s white and Christian population by Muslims in parts of France.

Then, on 5 September, he said on French news channel LCI: “In a class in the city centre of my town, 91% of the children are Muslims. Obviously, this is a problem. There are limits to tolerance.”

French law prohibits any gathering of data based on people’s religious beliefs or ethnicity.

Mr Menard defended his comments, saying: “I just described the situation in my town… It is not a value judgement, it’s a fact. It’s what I can see.”

If the shoe was on the other foot and a politican who practices Islam in France gathered statistics on Christians or Catholics, chances are he or she would probably get nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Apparently hypocrisy works the same in France as it does in America. Either way, how are you supposed to be a politician if you’re not allowed to have an opinion. What’s the point?

Source: bbc.com

 



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