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Arnaud Beltrame: a most unusual Frenchman
By now, after years of assiduous preaching in our schools, our parliaments and by taxpayer-supported human rights bodies, all sensitive and caring souls know that stereotypes are wickedly wrong. Thus does everyone now grasp that Melbournians cannot be said to be besotted with AFL, it should not be assumed that Sudanese youths on your doorstep at 2am are there to rob you, and the incidence of Islam’s devotees involved in terrorism is just an unfortunate coincidence. Still, it can be hard to avoid generalisations about certain groups when they seem determined to confirm the worst suspicions. Take the French, for example, who have long bristled at the popular caricature that the other side of their Tricolour is virgin white for ease in surrendering. Now read this:
A French police officer who heroically saved a hostage from an ISIS terrorist will not be honored in public over fears of offending Muslims.
Arnaud Beltrame, a police officer from Marseille, France, negotiated with an ISIS terrorist during a Mar. 2018 hostage situation in which he traded himself for a female hostage and was later stabbed to death. Attempts to name the city’s 15th district after Beltrame were recently rejected over concerns of offending the Muslim community, Voice of Europe reported Saturday.
Stephane Ravier, Marseille’s 7th district National Rally mayor, said that the proposal was refused during a Marseille town council meeting.
“Leftist elected officials, socialist and communist, refused that a place in the 15th district be named after Arnaud Beltrame, in the first time, they’ve said, under fallacious pretext, that this place wasn’t prestigious enough, before telling the truth in these terms: we are on the field, we witnessed that the population has changed and if we give the name of Arnaud Beltrame in this district, the population will take that as a provocation,” Ravier said.
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