French President Francois Hollande said that, “there’s a problem with Islam” and that too many immigrants were arriving in France who “shouldn’t be here”.
“It’s true that there’s a problem with Islam. No one doubts it… It’s not that Islam poses a problem in the sense that it is a dangerous religion, but in as far as it wants to affirm itself as a religion of the Republic,” Hollande is quoted as saying in the book ‘A President Should Not Say That…’.
His comments, made to respected journalists Gerard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme, risk dividing his party before next year’s presidential election.
“I think there are too many arrivals of immigration that shouldn’t be there,” he further added.
The Le Monde journalists met with Hollande 61 times in December 2015, a month after Islamist militant gunmen and bombers attacked Paris, killing 130 people. Their book was published on Wednesday.
The release of the book eclipsed any media boost for Hollande from a wide-ranging interview with L’Obs magazine also published on Wednesday, which people close to him said was supposed to take him a step closer to formally launching a bid for re-election.
Source : India Today
