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Not getting your way all the time, no matter what you demand, is not “repression.”

Not being given special treatment is not “repression.”

Being held to the values and laws of the country you choose to inhabit is not “repression.”

Not being allowed to murder anyone who disagrees with you is not “repression.”

No French Muslim is being “repressed.” They’re being held to the same standard as everyone else, regardless of religious belief (or lack of).

Which is, of course, the problem, and precisely what the apologists for the religion of peace object to.

Vive la France.

Source: twitter.com

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Apologists for Islam rush to blame the victim in the name of pandering to the religion of peace.

Apparently, the problem isn’t that the bully is irrational and violent, it’s that the victims won’t do what the bully demands.

Secularism means that no idea or belief gets special treatment or status over any other. That this is identified as a problem should be something of a warning sign.

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France attack: What we know about stabbings in Nice

As France mourns the killing of three people at a church in the city, this is what we know so far.

www.bbc.com

Three people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the southern French city of Nice.

The suspected attacker is in a serious condition in hospital after being shot by police.

President Emmanuel Macron described Thursday's stabbings an "Islamist terrorist attack".

In response, France has deployed thousands of troops to protect churches and schools and raised its national security alert to its highest level.

What happened at the church?

France's chief anti-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, said in a news conference that surveillance footage showed the suspect arriving in Nice via the city's railway station on Thursday morning, where he changed his clothes.

The suspect then walked the 400m to the Notre-Dame basilica, which he entered at 08:29 local time (07:29 GMT).

There, he attacked and "virtually beheaded" an elderly woman, while another victim received fatal wounds to the throat.

A second woman managed to escape the church and reach a nearby bar, but later died of her injuries.

Mr Ricard said the victims were "targeted for the sole reason that they were present in the church at the time".

When police arrived at the scene, the suspect approached in a "threatening manner" and repeatedly said "Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)", according to Mr Ricard.

Officers first tasered the man, before firing live bullets. He was then taken to hospital.

Source: bbc.com

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