I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray the principles of Islam.

We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.

One cannot insult a religion whatever it is. To defend the dignity of one's religion does not mean one is radical.

Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the life of humanity as a whole,

We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.

The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.