The MP declared his opposition to a declaration made by François Hollande during his official trip to Tunisia, when he declared that "France knows that Islam and democracy are compatible".
"We can't go around proclaiming secularism everywhere and at the same time say that Islam and democracy are perfectly compatible", he declared.
"In France as soon as you have in a crèche, in a school, in a public place, someone who would display an ostentatious sign of belonging to a religion, everyone starts yelling, which seems to me totally legitimate, because I defend the principles of secularism," declared the mayor of Nice. [Islam versus Europe] Read more
