Muslim celebrations ‘should be French bank holidays’

[ via France24 ]

France’s Green presidential hopeful raised heckles across the political spectrum Tuesday by suggesting that France should honour Muslim and Jewish festivals as well as Christian ones, by according them a national holiday.

Eva Joly says France should honour Muslim and Jewish festivals as bank holidays

Currently six of the 12 national holidays in France are Catholic calendar events, with the other six having no religious connotation.

Speaking in Paris on Wednesday at her first campaign rally, Green presidential candidate Eva Joly argued that national holiday status should be accorded to the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr and the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.

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