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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-249/
- Published: 2020-10-28T17:30:44.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-29T19:45:19.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, Free Speech, News, Religion, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

#### French Ambassador After Islamist Beheading: “France is a Muslim Country”

Responding to the beheading of a school teacher by an Islamist in Paris, French ambassador to Sweden Etienne de Gonneville told broadcaster SVT, “France is a Muslim country.”

Yes, really.

Samuel Paty was decapitated by an 18-year-old Chechen jihadist in revenge for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils in a class on free speech.

The country responded with mass protest marches in major cities and President Emmanuel Macron vowed to protect freedom of expression in honour of the victim.

**[Read the full article here.](https://summit.news/2020/10/27/french-ambassador-after-islamist-beheading-france-is-a-muslim-country/?ref=goodoil.news)** Comment on it on *The BFD.*

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France’s ambassador to Sweden, Etienne de Gonneville has claimed that “France is a Muslim country.”