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Talking of Muslims in France, does anyone remember the Cathars?
"Cathars called themselves simply Christians; their neighbours distinguished them as "Good Christians". The Catholic Church called them Albigenses, or less frequently, Cathars... They were strict about biblical injunctions - notably those about living in poverty, not telling lies, not killing and not swearing oaths."
And naturally, they were a bunch of heretics, according to the Catholic church...
"Basic Cathar Tenets led to some surprising logical implications. For example they largely regarded men and women as equals, and had no doctrinal objection to contraception, euthanasia or suicide."
http://www.cathar.info/
No wonder the Cahtolic church had to kill them all off...
"The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in the south of France."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade
Half a million people were killed. In one attack - by Christians, against Christians - the entire population of Beziers, some 15-20,000 people, were massacred.
As the Parisian graffitist wrote the other week, "Au nom de quoi?"