President Sarkozy sparked new controversy late last week when he announced that every fifth-grader in France would learn about the Holocaust by studying the story of one of the 11,000 French children that were victims of the Holocaust. Some think that this would only serve to traumatize children so young.During the same speech Sarkozy is reported to have blamed the wars and violence in recent history on an "absence of God." The statement was seen by secularists as yet another example of the President's overzealous promotion of religion in the face of the country's traditional separation of church and state.
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