{"id":3187,"date":"2016-01-29T08:31:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2016-01-29T08:31:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:31:54","slug":"french-president-francois-holland-cancels-lunch-after-iranian-president-asked-not-to-share-wine-during-his-visit-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=3187","title":{"rendered":"French President Francois Holland Cancels Lunch After Iranian President Asked Not To Share Wine During His Visit To France"},"content":{"rendered":"

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French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande decided having wine with lunch is more important than breaking bread with Iran\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani during an official visit to Paris.
Hollande scrapped the lunch at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace after Rouhani asked for a halal menu in keeping with his Muslim faith, and that also meant no wine at the table during his first visit as president to the City of Light.
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\u201cIt is not the halal which was a problem but the wine,\u201d France’s ambassador to the United States, G\u00e9rard Araud, said on Twitter. \u201cNobody should constrain anybody to drink or not to drink.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hollande\u2019s decision means he\u2019s likely to avoid the criticism leveled at Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi this week.
In Italy, where wine is just as much a part of the culinary routine as in France, officials submitted to the Iranian leader\u2019s demands during a state dinner Monday. Italian officials also erected large boxes around nude statues at Rome\u2019s Campidoglio museum to protect the gaze of officials from the Islamic Republic from falling on artists\u2019 renderings of the human form.
Renzi\u2019s decision outraged critics on the left and right.<\/p>\n

“Respect for other cultures cannot and must not mean negating our own,” said Luca Squeri, a lawmaker in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right Forza Italia party. “This isn’t respect, it’s canceling out differences and it’s a kind of surrender”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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