re: France to accept 30,000 Sryian refugees over the next two years...

I just saw this on the OT - last thing I am going to say as it really is just a difference of opinion. But this quote I think summarizes what I would like to see this country do.

quote:

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Parisian Father Defeats ISIS After Wife Dies in Bataclan Attack(Posted on 11/19/15 at 11:06 am)
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Video here.

English transcript of his Facebook post:

quote:
On Friday evening you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hatred.

I do not know who you are, and I don't want to know. You are dead souls.

If the God for whom you kill so blindly made us in his image, each bullet in my wife's body would have been a wound in his heart.

Therefore, I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you. You want it, but to respond to hatred with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that made you what you are.

You would like me to be scared, for me to look at my fellow citizens with a suspicious eye, for me to sacrifice my liberty for my security. You have lost. Same player, same game.

I saw her this morning. At last, after nights and days of waiting. She was as beautiful as when she left on Friday evening, as beautiful as when I fell head over heels in love with her more than 12 years ago.

Of course I am devastated with grief, I grant you this small victory, but it will be a short term grief.

I know she will be with us every day and we will find each other in the heaven for free souls to which you will never have access.

Us two, my son and I, we will be stronger than every army in the world. I cannot waste any more time on you as I must go back to [my son] who has just woken from his afternoon nap.

He is only just 17 months old, he is going to eat his snack just like every other day, then we are going to play like every other day and all his life this little boy will be happy and free.

Because you will never have his hatred either.

Antoine Leiris

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The main take away for me is - not the lack of hating but "You would like me to be scared, for me to look at my fellow citizens with a suspicious eye, for me to sacrifice my liberty for my security"