{"id":4827,"date":"2020-06-15T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:15:40","slug":"bravo-to-president-macron-for-defending-his-republic-and-its-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/bravo-to-president-macron-for-defending-his-republic-and-its-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravo to President Macron for defending his Republic and its security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FranceDrawing-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4828\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FranceDrawing-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FranceDrawing-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FranceDrawing-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FranceDrawing-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FranceDrawing.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 85vw, 322px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As per <em>France24<\/em> and the video below from <em>Le Parisien<\/em>, \u201cFrench President Emmanuel Macron vowed Sunday to stand firm against racism but also praised police and insisted that France wouldn\u2019t take down statues of controversial, colonial-era figures\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his address to the nation, he warned that\nthe &#8220;noble struggle&#8221; against discrimination risks being led astray by\n&#8220;communitarianism&#8221; and a &#8220;hateful, false rewriting of the\npast&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: &#8220;I tell you very clearly this evening, my dear fellow compatriots:\nthe Republic will not wipe out any trace or any name from its history. It will\nforget none of its works. It will overturn no statue.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France will look &#8220;lucidly, together, at all our history, all our memory&#8221;\u2026\n\u201cin particular its colonial relationship with Africa\u2026 to build a possible\npresent and future on both sides of the Mediterranean&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the process of doing so, he talked about &#8220;a will to establish the\ntruth but under no circumstances revisiting or denying what we are&#8221;, he firmly\nstated whilst looking straight in the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mind you, this aligns with the message of Mr. Trump: Of course, no to discrimination\nand racism but a definite no to destruction and chaos. Mr. Trump went even\nfurther by cutting the funding of organizations fueling what Mr. Macron called \u201ccommunitarism\u201d.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The communitarism Mr. Macron is referring to is easy to fuel in volatile places of the world (i.e., Lebanon)&#8230; but luckily there too, politicians, religious leaders, and so far the desperate population seem to know (at least until now \u2639) that there is a red line not to be crossed\u2026 for the sake of the safety of everyone. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Macron : aucune statue ne sera \u00abd\u00e9boulonn\u00e9e\u00bb\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dcM_SHR3Kg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per France24 and the video below from Le Parisien, \u201cFrench President Emmanuel Macron vowed Sunday to stand firm against racism but also praised police and insisted that France wouldn\u2019t take down statues of controversial, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}