“L'Islam est une religion magnifique qui a aussi été, parfois, au cours des siècles, une culture brillante et généreuse. Mais malgré toutes les protestations du contraire, ce n'est en aucun cas la religion de l'Europe.”
Une révolution sous nos yeux - Comment l'Islam va transformer la France et l'Europe, 2009
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Medieval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West. The surprise, ladies and gentlemen, is the extent to which Islam has been a part of Europe for so long, first in Spain, then in the Balkans, and the extent to which it has contributed so much towards the civilisation which we all too often think of, wrongly, as entirely Western. Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart.
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Ernest Renan (1823–1892) écrivain, philologue, philosophe et historien français.
Conférence prononcée à la Sorbonne en 1883.
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