President Cancels Prelate on Mocking Islam

Nov 6, 2020 by

by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:

Macron vows to protect Catholics, refuses to surrender free speech.

A prominent French bishop is bowing to Islam’s blasphemy law and defending censorship of cartoons of Muhammad following the slaughter of three Catholics in Nice’s Notre-Dame Basilica by a Muslim jihadi.

Arguing that the French republic’s value of “fraternity” is stronger than its values of “liberty or equality,” Toulouse archbishop Robert Jean Louis Le Gall, O.S.B. is insisting on “limits to freedom of expression because of the claims of fraternity.”

The archbishop’s remarks on radio France Bleu Occitanie broadcast Friday has sparked outrage among French Catholics and secularists who are comparing the prelate’s acquiescence to Islam’s blasphemy law with French President Emmanuel Macron’s uncompromising refusal to surrender to Islamic Sharia.

Reiterating his “full support” and “the protection of the French Republic” for French Catholics in an interview the same day with Arab television Al Jazeera, Macron said: “I shall continue defending the freedom in my country to speak, to write, to think and to draw.”

“I will never accept anyone justifying any physical violence on account of these caricatures,” Macron emphasized, pointing out that the cartoons did not single out Islam for mockery but lampooned all religions and politicians, including himself.

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