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THE FRENCH UNDER MUSLIM MOB RULE - French Politician States the Obvious: All the Rioters Had Immigrant Backgrounds
French Politician States the Obvious: All the Rioters Had Immigrant Backgrounds
In an appearance at the French National Assembly, Minister of the Interior Gerard Darmanin insisted that “only 10%” of the rioters were “foreign,” while 90% were “French citizens.” That may be true, but those 90% were French citizens only on their identity cards. By their mental makeup, they were still the Muslim migrants whom their fathers and grandfathers had been. They still refused, as citizens, to integrate into French society, still tried to milk the French welfare state of every conceivable benefit – free housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits, family allowances, and more – that it offered. They still saw the world through the lens of Islam. French citizenship did not change their view that, as Muslims, they were the “best of peoples” and the French non-Muslims who had welcomed them into their midst and provided such largesse remained, as Infidels, “the most vile of created beings.”
More on the response to Darmanin’s claim can be found here: “French riots: Top politician says ‘of course there is a link between immigration’ and devastating riots across France,” by John Cody, Remix News, July 5, 2023:
In a video that has garnered over 1.5 million views on Twitter alone,the leader of the Les Republicans senate group, Bruno Retailleau, said that it is clear that immigrants, including second- and third-generation people with an immigration background, were responsible for the rioting that caused widespread destruction across the country.
“I heard that (French Interior Minister) Gerard Darmanin, yesterday at the National Assembly, said there is no link between these events and immigration. Of course there is… I’ve asked many mayors. They all tell you that it’s precisely in the neighborhoods where there are migratory [migrant] ghettos.Certainly, they are French, but they are French in their official identity, and, unfortunately, for the second, third generation (of immigrants), there’s a kind of regression back towards their ethnic origins,” said Bruno Retailleau in an interview with FranceInfo.
The first generation of Muslim immigrants are actually more willing to try to fit in, so grateful are they for what the French state provides, than those who come after. It is the second and third generations of Muslim migrants, secure in their French citizenship, who become more hostile to the French, religiously more devout, less willing to try to integrate with non-Muslims. Bruno Retailleau was simply pointing out what everyone knows but few dare say: that the rioters were almost entirely Muslims, and having been granted French citizenship made no difference in their behavior.
The remark came after French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin stated on Monday that there was no connection between immigration and the riots in France, saying that 90 percent of those arrested were French citizens.
However, Retailleau countered the French interior minister’s claim, saying that these rioters may be French citizens, but they are also second- and third-generation migrants who have not integrated into French society, and they have presented a serious security problem.
Retailleau said he feared that politics will fail to address the root problems following the week-long riot that caused over €1 billion in damage.
“We know the causes. And I want to reiterate them. Unfortunately, I’m afraid the government is tempted by the politics of failure. Once more, the French, the silent majority do not understand that there is a cold anger that is rising in the country. Because it is a double punishment for the French, because they paid into the neighborhoods, and now they have to rebuild because the savages burned them down.”
Everyone — except the demented politicians on the far-left, in the party La France Insoumise, led by the quasi-communist Jean-Luc Melenchon – knows that the Muslims alone were responsible for the riots. And the French, knowing how much their government has spent – tens of billions of euros – on the Muslims, whether citizens or not – are now enraged that after more than one billion euros worth of destruction by the Muslims, it is they, the indigenous French, who will have to rebuild the very structures, replace the cars and businesses, restock the shops, that the Muslims vandalized, pillaged, and burned down.
He points out that there are also issues in the schools, and the justice system’s response to these perpetrators, especially those who are arrested as minors, is “inadequate.”
Retailleau knows that the insubordination of Muslim students in the schools continues unpunished. The teachers are afraid of them; they don’t dare touch on certain subjects, such as freedom of expression, or any discussion of Islam, lest they end up like Samuel Paty. The Muslim students refuse, for example, to study certain subjects, such as the French monarchy, the Crusades, and the two world wars, for they are indifferent to French history – it has nothing to do with them, even if they are French citizens – and are especially unwilling to learn about subjects, such as the Dreyfus Affair and, above all, about the Holocaust, that would naturally cause sympathy for the hated Jews.
Retailleau also noted that the idea to hate France came from the French themselves, stating: “I think we share some of the responsibility. We simply don’t believe in France ourselves, and we’ve often presented France as an anti-model, a counter-example. How can you make young people from immigrant backgrounds love France if you say that France is detestable?”
It is certainly true that all over the Western world, there is a failure of self-confidence, a crazed belief that we in the advanced world have done great historical wrongs – slavery, colonialism, imperialism – and thus owe “the others” something, and at the head of the list of those “others” are the Muslims.
The left was quick to accuse Retailleau of racism after his remarks.
“This is a racist remark,” stated Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of the far-left party La France Insoumise.
One more time: Islam is not a race. Muslims are not a race. Islam is an ideology, one that is murderously hostile to non-Muslims. We see the dismal results everywhere that Muslims rule, and make life hell for Infidels who live in their countries. Con sider the treatment of the Copts in Egypt, the Chaldeans and Assyrians in Iraq, the Christians in Nigeria, and the Christians and Hindus in Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Communist Party MP Elsa Faucillon wrote on Twitter: that this is a “racialist thesis par excellence. The right is slipping a little more every day.”
The week-long riot produced 3,000 arrests, hundreds of wounded police officers, thousands of arson attacks, and historic landmarks, including the famed Alcazar Library [in Maraseille], nearly burned to the ground. In one case, a flaming vehicle was even sent into a mayor’s home, nearly killing his family.
Right-leaning and conservative parties have pointed out that very few ethnic French people have participated in the riots, and for the most part, those who have are migrants or the children or grandchildren of foreigners.
It is not the presence or absence of citizenship that defines the rioters, but the presence or absence of Islam. Retailleau dares to suggest this, and for that, the leftists of both La France Insoumise, and of the Communist Party, choose to condemn him, preposterously, as a “racist” spreading a “racialist thesis.” More and more of the French, recently mugged nation-wide by the reality of Muslim mobs, are listening to Retailleau and the Republicans – the party of Marine Le Pen — with greater approval than they ever have before. More of the French are at last coming to their senses. Not a moment too soon.
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“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
Koran 2:191 "s lay the unbelievers wherever you find them" Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends" Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam" Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran" Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels" Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them" Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, k ill the infidels wherever you find them" Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood" Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies" Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them".
The Nightmare of Being Christian in Pakistan
A lying police officer puts two Christian boys into mortal danger.
Two Christian boys in Pakistan, one of them a minor, have just been arrested and charged with blasphemy after a police officer alleged they had named a puppy Muhammed Ali and were laughing about it. If convicted, they could face long prison sentences, or even death.
In fact, the police officer in question, Zahid Sohail, had apparently been beating the younger boy, aged 14, solely for being a Christian; the other boy had intervened to help his friend and was beaten in turn. Then a crowd of both Christians and Muslims intervened, asking Sohail why he was beating the boys so vigorously. He answered that they had blasphemed, but offered no details. It was only much later, when he returned to the scene, that he came up with the supposed reason: the boys, he claimed, had named their puppy “Muhammed Ali” — a clear case of blasphemy. More on this disturbing story can be found here: “Two Christian Teenagers arrested after police officer states they named puppy Muhammed Ali,” British Asian Christian Association, May 23, 2023:
The boys were booked under Section 295-C of the blasphemy law a statute which prohibits disrespect of the prophet Muhammed and is punishable by death.
On Friday 20th May a Judge sent the two boys to prison on judicial remand and now they face a potentially long prison sentence while they try to attain acquittal or bail.
Adil Babar (18 yrs) and neighbor Simon Masih (14 yrs) were arrested by Race Course Police in Lahore on Thursday 19th May, after an altercation led to a Muslim police officer alleging the Christians had blasphemed against Muhammed.
It seems that the policeman simply was angered by the failure of the boys to be sufficiently respectful or submissive to him, and began to beat the younger boy, and then after the older one intervened, continued to beat both of them, to “teach the Christians a lesson.” But he must have been surprised that Muslims joined Christians from the neighborhood who came out to protest his beating. He responded, to justify his behavior, that the boys had both “blasphemed.” He offered no details at the time of that supposed “blasphemy,” because he had not had time to make them up.
Police constable Zahid Sohail, accused the two Christian boys of having disrespected the Islamic prophet Muhammed, after a crowd of people intervened while he was beating the two boys.
Mr Sohail was questioned by local Muslim and Christian leaders at [sic] why he was beating the two boys so vigorously and though he claimed they had blasphemed, he could offer no description of the alleged crime.
If they had indeed blasphemed, he would have at once been able to quote their offending words. But he couldn’t.
Both boys categorically denied any use of blasphemous words or actions. The crowd seemed to believe them. They live in an area where Muslims and Christians live together peacefully.
When he could not satisfy community elders [both Muslims and Christians] that he was acting professionally, Mr Sohail left the location. Later in the evening however, police raided the village and arrested the two boys. Charges were laid against both of them under Section 295C of the Pakistan Penal Code which carries a death sentence. In a First Information Report (FIR) Mr Sohail claimed to have seen them naming a puppy Muhammed Ali and then sniggering about it.
How likely is it that in the presence of a policeman, two Christian boys would have dared to “name a puppy Muhammad Ali” and “snigger about it”? They knew the consequences of such blasphemy. Sohail’s claim is preposterous.
And the most piquant detail of all: It turns out that the boys did not own a puppy. Nor did anyone in the neighborhood. Zahid Sohail could not possibly have seen them naming a nonexistent puppy Muhammad Ali, or indeed any other name.
Many Christian families in the area have vacated their homes and have travelled to relatives, as local mosques have begun to share the news of a blasphemy on their public address systems. There is great fear that a mob could attack the few Christians, about 500 families that live in this town. When our officers spoke to local Christians they all felt this was simply a malicious attack because the boys are Christian. None were brave enough to talk into a camera or be in images as there are still simmering tensions in the area.
Now that the story of the “puppy-naming blasphemy” has spread, some Christians in the area, afraid of possible Muslim attacks, have moved in with relatives elsewhere. And such is the madness of Muslims whipped up by this false tale of blasphemy, that the 500 Christian families remaining in the town might well be attacked by their Muslim neighbors, with whom they had until now had good relations.
The situation has spiraled out of control. It begins with a police officer beating one Christian boy, and then two of them, likely because he simply took umbrage at their failure to be suitably deferential. When an unfriendly crowd gathered as he beat the boys, he simply claimed that the boys had “blasphemed” without being able to offer any details. He would make those up later. By the time that other police arrived in the evening to arrest the boys, Zahid Sohail had claimed that the Christians had named a puppy “Muhammad Ali” and sniggered at the name.
The boys don’t have a puppy. Nor do any Christians in the area where they live. No matter: the word has gone out that the Christian boys had named their non-existent puppy Muhammad Ali, that this constituted blasphemy, and that they were consequently charged with a crime that could result in long prison terms, or even death. That’s how easy it is to put Christians in Pakistan into mortal danger. Even a single, obviously lying police officer, with his absurd claim about the “blasphemous” naming of that imaginary puppy, can do it.
[Robert Spencer's new book, The Critical Qur'an, will be out May 3. Preorder now: HERE.]
If I were queen, I would reward every reader who completed Robert Spencer's new book, The Critical Qur'an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research. The Critical Qur'an is an essential book that every thinking person would benefit from reading. About one in four humans is a Muslim. Given child marriage, polygyny, and women's low status, Muslims have high fertility rates and the percentage of the world's population that is Muslim is predicted to increase till Islam is the world's majority religion in 2075. While it is true that the Qur'an is often not read or understand by most Muslims, Muslims do revere the Qur'an. Muslims may have little idea what the book contains, but they are ready to kill over it. When, in 2005, Newsweek circulated false rumors that Americans were flushing Qur'ans down toilets – which is of course impossible – at least seventeen people were killed in ensuing violence and "a council of more than 300 mullahs …threatened to declare holy war."
In the past, reading the Qur'an was difficult. Some translations used pseudo-King-James English, for example archaic forms like "thee, thou, thine," in an attempt to make the Qur'an sound Biblical, and, therefore, holy. Some translations attempt to paper over the Qur'an's lack of clarity by adding parenthetical fixes. For example, Qur'an 2:1 begins "Alif Lam Meem." No one knows what this means. One translation tries to "help" the reader with a parenthetical explanation: "Alif-Lam-Mim. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Quran and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings]." The reader is left to wonder how the incoherent equals the miraculous. Translators try to draw a smiley face over darker Qur'anic passages. "Jihad," which clearly means actual warfare to claim territory, booty, corpses, and slaves for Allah, is translated as "struggle." Spencer's new translation avoids these pitfalls, and, on the sentence level, it is easy to read.
Many make assumptions about the Qur'an based on false comparisons to the Bible. The works are different in important ways. The King James Bible contains 783,137 words in 66 books. These books were composed over the course of hundreds of years in three different languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Christians and Jews agree that their scriptures were not actually written by God himself, but by roughly forty different human authors. The genres of Biblical books include hymns,letters, proverbs, prophecy, erotica, history, allegory, andreportage. Jews and Christians have long engaged in exegesis of their sacred texts – that is, Jews and Christians debate what Bible passages mean and how they should be applied. Jews and Christians respect hard copies of their scriptures, but they do not worship these hard copies, nor do most attribute supernatural attributes to them. To do so would be idolatry.
The Qur'an contains c. 77,430 words, making it less than one tenth the length of the Bible. Islam teaches that the Qur'an was never written by anyone. It is uncreated. Like God himself, the Qur'an has always existed and will always exist. There are numerous rules for handling the Qur'an. Kufar – Non-Muslims – should never touch the Qur'an in Arabic, but may touch "interpretations" in other languages. One must say "interpretation" because the Qur'an exists only in Arabic, the language of Allah. Muslims must perform ablutions before reading the Qur'an. The Qur'an must be stored in a specially designated place, and never be put on the floor or taken into a bathroom.
To say that the Qur'an was created, as opposed to eternally existing, is a death penalty offense. Even Western scholars have hesitated to explore the Qur'an's origins. For example, scholar Christoph Luxenberg must hide behind a pseudonym to protect his life. The Qur'an "leaves no room for dispute"; see also Qur'an 33:36. Indeed, the Qur'an suggests that even a second of doubt will lead to an eternity in hell (e.g. 49:15) . Thus, rather than debating or discussing the meaning of the Qur'an, Islam places emphasis on memorization. A Muslim once said to Robert Spencer that he had memorized the entire Qur'an, and one day he was going to find out what it says. The hafiz, or Qur'an memorizer, did not speak Arabic, and had no idea of the meaning of the sounds he had memorized.
Mohammed Hijab, an Islamic apologist, demonstrated Muslim beliefs about the magic powers of the Qur'an in a November 10, 2021, YouTube discussion with Dr. Jordan Peterson. Hijab began to recite in Arabic, in the voice prescribed for reading the Qur'an. That prescribed voice is a singsong, nasal drone, with drawn out vowels. Peterson asked what Hijab's point was. Why recite Arabic to me, a non-Arabic speaker? Hijab said, "We believe that the Qur'an has divine qualities itself. We believe it is a physical cure." Just exposing Peterson to the sounds of the Qur'an might cause Peterson to convert to Islam. Ibn Kathir, an important exegete, claimed that recitation of Sura 2 causes Satan to fart. It can be argued that Islam treats the Qur'an as if it were a "divine, conscious agent."
Muslim history claims that Islam was founded by an orphaned, illiterate, seventh-century Meccan caravan driver named Muhammad who was visited by the angel Jibril (from the Biblical Gabriel) who ordered him to recite. Muhammad's followers wrote down his recitations and compiled them into the Qur'an. Textual criticism suggests that the Qur'an is a compilation of heavily edited, pre-existing material. Recent scholarship theorizes that, during the Arab Conquest, conquerors decided that their new, Arab empire, no less than the Christian Byzantine and Zoroastrian Persian empires, required a state religion. These Arab conquerors took bits and pieces of Jewish,Christian, Zoroastrian and Pagan material and compiled them into the Qur'an.
Christianity's early centuries were rocked by Christological debates. These debates asked, "What was the nature of Jesus?"Some said Jesus was human; others said he was divine; still others argued that Jesus was some combination of human and divine. Jesus' proposed divinity troubled many. They understood the divinity of Jesus as an assault on Judaism's monotheism. Some were offended by Jesus's divinity for a different reason. If Jesus was both fully divine and fully human, then God urinated and defecated. These bodily functions were seen as beneath a divinity.
Islam's emphasis on Jesus being merely a man, not a divinity, may testify to the influence of nontrinitarian Christianity on the formulation of Islam. The shahada is the Islamic confession of faith. "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of God." Merely stating the shahada makes one a Muslim, yet it may be a buried statement of nontrinitarian Christian creeds. "There is not God but Allah" is a rejection of Jesus' divinity and the trinity. According to new theories, "Muhammad is the messenger of God" may be a reference to Jesus. "Muhammad" is translated as "the praised one" and "the messenger of God" is a denial of Jesus' divinity. "The praised one" was but a messenger, not God himself. The nontrinitarian Christians' discomfort at the thought of God urinating or defecating is reflected in al-Wahidi's commentary on the Qur'an. "Our Lord does not eat or drink nor has He any need to relieve Himself" but Jesus "was fed like any other child, and then he ate and drank and relieved himself … Then how could he be the son of Allah?"
The Old Testament recounts the history of the creation of the world and God's choosing the Jewish people as his own, and leading them out of slavery in Egypt. The New Testament offers Jesus' biography, a short history of the early church, and the letters of early Christians. No clear history of what is conventionally thought of as the early days of Islam is to be found in the Qur'an itself. There's no caravan driver, no Mecca, no new religious revelation, and the word "Muhammad" is mentioned only four times, and it is not clear that the word refers to a person or if it means, only, "praised one." Many argue that early references to Muhammad may in fact be references to Jesus.
Muslims express exaggerated praise for the Qur'an. For example, Ibn Kathir said, "The Arabic language is the most eloquent, plain, deep and expressive of the meanings that might arise in one's mind. Therefore, the most honorable Book, was revealed in the most honorable language, to the most honorable Prophet and Messenger, delivered by the most honorable angel, in the most honorable land on earth, and its revelation started during the most honorable month of the year, Ramadan. Therefore, the Qur'an is perfect in every respect."
In fact, though, the Qur'an is possibly the world's worst-written influential book. Muslims will of course object to this assessment. Their first objection: only an Islamophobe would call the Qur'an badly written. My reply: No, I'm happy to acknowledge the excellence of many Islamic cultural products, for example, the Taj Mahal, calligraphy, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's singing, and Muslim Arab folktales. Second objection: The Qur'an is the product of an oral culture. This objection lacks merit. Most people in the world have been illiterate. The Bible is the product of a population where most people could not read or write. Acknowledged masterpieces of world literature, including the Iliad, the Bhagavad Gita, and Zen Koans all emerged from predominantly oral cultures. One Thousand and One Nights, an Arabic-language collection of previously oral folklore, has entranced audiences around the world. Third objection: translations cannot capture the fine qualities of the Arabic Qur'an. I have never read The Iliad in Greek, the Vedas in Sanskrit, Psalm 23 in Hebrew, or Arabic folktales in Arabic, nor do I need to. The excellence and power of these works transcends translation. For those questioning the quality of Robert Spencer's new Qur'an translation, visit this site. You can find any Qur'an verse as translated by six different translators. Study that website all you might; you will not find a translation that can remedy the Qur'an's many problems.
What's wrong with the Qur'an? The Qur'an uses pronouns like "he," "we," and "they," but the Qur'an offers few clues as to whom is meant by these pronouns. The Qur'an hops from topic to topic, not just paragraph by paragraph, but within the same sentence, for example in 4:29: "Do not squander your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except in a trade by mutual consent, and do not kill yourselves." After telling men that they are superior to women and that men should beat their wives (4:34), the Qur'an offers, in 4:36, a sentence fragment, that is a sentence with a subject but no verb. "Kindness to parents." Other translators rescue this fragment by adding the missing verb, e.g.,"Show kindness to parents" or "Do good to parents." Spencer makes so such rescue effort. Qur'an 6:143 is a similar sentence fragment. It reads, "Eight pairs two of the sheep and two of the goats." There is no verb, and, therefore, no sense. Another sentence fragment, this one also missing a verb: "Those who chose unbelievers for their friends instead of believers." Another fragment, 74:30, reads "Above it are nineteen." Above what are nineteen what, exactly? There are more than a few verses that leave the reader scratching her head, e.g., "Would one of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother?" 49:12, "We used to wade with waders" 74:45, and "Color from Allah, and who is better than Allah at coloring?" 2:138.
Scholar Gerd Puin estimates that twenty percent of the Qur'an is unclear to anyone. This lack of clarity is thanks in part to words, often of non-Arabic derivation, like "jibt," "sijill," "ghislin,""abb," "as-sakhkhah," "sijjin," "illiyyin," "tasnim," "saqar," and many others, whose meanings are uncertain. The full text of a scholarly, 1938 book entitled "The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an" can be found here. The Qur'an acknowledges its own lack of clarity in 3:7, in which Allah states that he alone knows the meaning of some verses. Which verses? He never says. Readers can only guess which verses they are understanding correctly and which verses whose meaning is beyond their grasp.
The books of the Bible are arranged more or less chronologically, with some thematic arrangement, and events in those books are also arranged chronologically. For example in Luke's Gospel, Jesus is first born, then he preaches and heals, then he is crucified, then he rises from the dead. The Qur'an is not arranged chronologically. With the exception of the very short first chapter, the Qur'an's chapters are arranged from longest to shortest. This bizarre choice confounds the reader seeking coherence. Given that chapter length appears entirely arbitrary – the chapters contain more or less the same material, repeated endlessly – why some chapters are long and others are short escapes the reader. Chapter titles do not relate to the theme of the chapter. One of the Qur'an's most notorious verses, "Kill them wherever you find them" is found in the chapter entitled "Women." In any case, the phrase is repeated three times in the Qur'an. Sura 9, perhaps the most bloodthirsty chapter, is titled "Repentance."
That a Qur'an chapter is titled "Women" should not mislead the reader. Women are afterthoughts; they exists as the possessions of men. They appear as child brides, as sex slaves, as Heavenly whores, and as war captives. In verse 43 of "Women," females are identified as a source of pollution. Men should not pray if they have been sick, if they have urinated or defecated, or if they have had contact with a woman. After such contamination, men must cleanse themselves, possibly by rubbing their face and hands with dirt (a practice called Tayammum). Women are inferior to me n (2:282, 2:228, 4:34, 4:11). The Qur'an instructs men on how to handle divorce from pre-pubescent wives with whom they have had sexual intercourse. Females are a "field"that men should enter however they wish. There are dozens of named male characters, but only one named female character: Mary. Compare the Qur'an's lack of named female characters with the indelible females of the Bible, women who changed the course of Jewish and Christian history: Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, Rahab, Deborah, Judith, Ruth, Esther, Elizabeth, Mary Magdalene, the sisters Martha and Mary, Junia, Priscilla, Anna the Prophetess, etc.
The Qur'an chapter entitled "Mary" is, as is the case with other chapter titles, not closely related to Mary. In a commentary on this chapter, Mary is given voice to mourn that she is not "an owned slave woman" – she is unfortunate because she is not some man's property. The Qur'an confuses Mary, mother of Jesus, with Miriam, sister of Moses, who lived over a thousand years before Jesus' mother. The Qur'an tells Mary, "Do not grieve. Your lord has placed a stream beneath you." It's not clear how this stream placement should cheer Mary up.
The Qur'an is repetitious. Repetition is frequently encountered in oral lore. See the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation chant.
"Born was Kumulipo in the night, a male
Born was Po'ele in the night, a female
Born was the coral polyp, born was the coral, came forth
Born was the grub that digs and heaps up the earth, came forth…"
This poetic repetition echoes creation itself; the multiplicity of lines with parallel construction reflects the abundance of creatures the chant catalogues, and also their place in an orderly universe. Repetition makes this important lore easy to remember and its has a hypnotic effect on the listener.
The Qur'an makes no such use of repetition. Rather, as Spencer's footnotes show, the Qur'an includes repetitive, garbledf ragments – not coherent retellings – of Jewish and Christian scriptural and folkloric material, and Zoroastrian and Pagan elements. The Qur'an offers repeated, fragmented mentions of the Exodus story from the Bible, and extra-biblical material like a folktale of Jesus making clay birds fly. A sixth-century Christian legend, The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, tells of seven men who retreated to a cave during Roman persecution. The men awoke two hundred years later and were surprised to find that Christianity was now the empire's official religion. The Qur'an's telling of this tale, found in 18:9-26, is so thoroughly garbled that a reader with no previous knowledge of the Christian source would not have any idea what these verses allude to. Don Richardson, author of "Secrets of the Koran,"estimates that if all repetitions were removed, the Qur'an would be forty percent of its current size.
God's rebuke of David, recounted in 2 Samuel 12, is one of the most moving, terrifying passages in the Bible. I can hardly think of it without crying. Through the prophet Nathan, God rebukes David for murdering Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, a woman David lusted after. The Qur'an takes this terrifically moving, cinematic passage and flubs it so badly in the retelling that it is a literary crime (38:21-25).
Qur'an 4:157 states that Jesus did not die on the cross. Muslims believe that Allah placed either a dummy or a Jesus lookalike on the cross. Spencer's footnotes identify this belief as an appropriation from a third century Gnostic text, "Second Treatise of the Great Seth." Gnostics were nontrinitarian Christians. As Spencer writes, they held an "abhorrence of the material world and the flesh, which led to their denying altogether the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation." Jesus was too supernatural to suffer death on the cross.
Ex-Muslim Ridvan Aydemir insists that Qur'an 4:157 deals a devastating blow to the Qur'an's integrity. Aydemir argues that, yes, the Gnostics had a reason, that was consistent with their own belief system, to tell a story in which Jesus did not die on the cross. Those compiling the Qur'an borrowed that passage from a Gnostic document, but could not borrow the logic behind the passage. The Jesus of the Qur'an is not, as was the Gnostic Jesus, a supernatural creature, too rarefied to be crucified. The Jesus of the Qur'an is simply a human being, comparable to any other mortal. Aydemir quotes Qur'an passages that mention other prophets being killed; similarly, Jesus, a mere prophet, could have been killed. The Qur'an's logic, that prophets are killed and that Jesus is merely a prophet, as human as anyone else, does not support Jesus' not being killed on the cross. Aydemir points out that the Qur'an borrows other belief system's narratives without borrowing the logic informing those narratives.
The Qur'an has a limited number of themes that it hits upon with a thudding monotony. Those themes include the following. Allah is all powerful. Allah saves and damns arbitrarily. Allah created some people just to send them to hell fire. Muslims must not pray for these damned souls or feel sad for them. Compare this to the Bible, which records that God wants all to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9, Ezekiel 18:23) If Muslims don't please Allah, Allah can kill them all and create a new group of people who will please him. In a footnote, Spencer points out that Allah says that he "loves" only those who fight for him in jihad, and he does not love unbelievers. Allah has a very thin skin and grouses about humans who "mock" and "ridicule" his "warners." Allah promises sadistic tortures to scoffers. He will burn off their skins and replace those skins with new skins so that they can be burned off again "so that they may taste the torment" 4:56 He will turn white faces black. Kufar in Hell will consume boiling water, pus, and a fruit made of devils' heads. This fruit will boil in their bellies. "As for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them, boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads, By which what is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted, And for them are hooked rods of iron" (22:19-21). The Qur'an's narrator says that those who disagree with him should hang themselves (22:15). Allah promises an afterlife of pleasant gardens, fruits, and silk clothing to Muslim men.Heavenly beings with large, firm – "not sagging" – breasts will service Muslim men.
The Qur'an is ferociously hostile to non-Muslims. The Qur'an directs special fury at Christians and Jews. The very first chapter condemns Jews as having angered God, and Christians as having gone astray. Muslims who pray the full allotment of daily prayers repeat this condemnation of Christians and Jews seventeen times daily. Muslims are as superior to Christians and Jews as human beings are to animals (3:110, 98:6). Jews are so irredeemable that Allah turned them into apes and pigs. In 2:54, Moses tells sinning Jews to kill themselves; Ibn Kathir, a commentator, reports that 70,000 Jews lost their lives as a result of Moses' suicide command.
The Qur'an repeatedly emphasizes that one must not worship anyone but Allah. This point is hammered home in various ways. Don't assign a partner to Allah. Don't pray to anyone but Allah. Don't imply that Allah needs "helpers." All of these phrasings have one target: Christians, and their belief in the Trinity. The Qur'an misunderstands the Trinity, suggesting that Christians worship God the Father, Jesus, and Mary. This is not the Trinity. The Qur'an also drastically misunderstands the purpose of the incarnation. To say that Allah has a son is a "monstrous thing" (19:89) because to do so is to imply that Allah has some weakness or need and his son is a "helper." The incarnation of God as a human being was not so that Allah would have a "helper." Rather, the purpose of the incarnation is expressed succinctly in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
No other world scripture is so obsessed with condemnation of two other belief systems, in this case, Judaism and Christianity. Without its condemnations of Jews and Christians, the Qur'an would not be a book-length work, but a pamphlet, .
Jihad is another main theme of the Qur'an. The Qur'an makes abundantly clear that jihad is warfare for the sake of expanding Islam's worldly power, not an interior struggle to, say, remain on a diet, a message promoted by a 2013 CAIR public relationscampaign. The Qur'an says, multiple times, that believers should strike the necks of kufar, kill them wherever the Muslims find them, etc. As if these passages were not grisly enough, a Qur'an commentator offers, "Strike them on their foreheads to tear them apart and over the necks to cut them off, and cut off their limbs, hands and feet." Other commentators are even more bloodthirsty, demanding that Muslims smite the very toes of the kufar.
Muslims should suspect even their wives and their children of being traitors to Allah (64:14). "Among your wives and your children there are enemies for you, therefore beware of them. Your wealth and your children are only a temptation, while with Allah is an immense reward." Other verses warn the believer against ties with parents and children who are not Muslims (9:23-24). Muslims are warned not to take Jews or Christians as friends (3:118, 5:51). Astute readers will, of course, recognize in these warnings the rules set down by cults, who demand that members sever ties with those not members of the cult.
The Qur'an is as remarkable for what it lacks as for what it contains. The Qur'an does not offer that new, world-changing expression of a timeless, soul-deep truth. There is nothing in the Qur'an that compares to the Jewish Ten Commandments, or tzelem Elohim, a loving God who creates humanity in his own image; the Christian Sermon on the Mount; the Hindu Kalidasa's Exhortation of the Dawn; Buddhism's Four Noble Truths; or the Greek Protagoras' observation that "Man is the measure of all things."
In a 2006 lecture at Regensburg University, Pope Benedict quoted a Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologos. "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Mohammad himself is said to have said something similar. In hadiths, Mohammad announced that he was "superior" to other prophets because he alone was made "victorious with terror" and the earth's treasures were made lawful to him; in other words, he could violate the most primordial taboos. He could kill, he could steal, and he could rape other men's wives.
Spencer's new "Critical Qur'an" doesn't offer only an accurate and accessible translation. It offers commentary by canonical Islamic experts, including Ibn Kathir, a fourteenth century exegete, and Syed Abul Ala Maududi, a twentieth-century author. Thus, the reader knows not just what the Qur'an says, but how influential Muslims understand it. Spencer's footnotes also draw the reader's attention to variations in the Qur'an. These variations are of a utmost importance, as it is a tenet of Islam that the Qur'an is a perfect, eternal, unchanging and unchanged document that exists in Heaven. Variations in the text give the lie to this tenet.
Spencer's footnotes relate Qur'anic passages to taqiyya; to Islam's intellectual stasis; to suicide bombing; to Muslims'resistance to Israel's right to exist; to why it is morally acceptable for Muslim men to harass non-Muslim women; to why it takes four Muslim male witnesses to prove a rape case; and to treatment of dhimmis, that is, non-Muslims who live in Muslim states, and who must be economically fleeced and publicly humiliated. As Spencer points out, Qur'an verses, for example 10:94, record that the scriptures of Jews and Christians in the seventh century were authentically divine products. And yet Muslims today insist that Jews and Christians "corrupted"their scriptures. The Qur'an contradicts current Muslim belief about Jewish and Christian scripture. David Wood describes this as the "Islamic Dilemma."
Spencer's footnotes describe Islamic traditions designed to justify changes in the Qur'an, a book that Islam teaches is perfect, unchanging, and unchangeable. Again, one current theory is that the Qur'an was not written as one document, the product of one man, Muhammad. Rather, many scholars now think that the Qur'an was pieced together from pre-existing materials, materials that were then heavily edited to meet the needs of Arab conquerors. These changes occurred over time. Some early Muslims might have witnessed, and questioned, such changes. Traditions were invented to explain away the changes. For example, Muhammad's child bride Aisha is made to say that sheep ate some Qur'an verses that previously existed but then went missing.
Spencer points out the Qur'an's contradictions. Iblis is identified as a jinn, but, contrarily, as an angel. Sometimes one can intercede for another; sometimes one cannot. In one Qur'anic retelling of Exodus, Pharaoh survives. In another, he drowns. The number of days it took Allah to create the world varies, as does the substance from which Allah created mankind. Muslims insist that the Qur'an contains prescient scientific knowledge. In fact, though, as Spencer points out in a footnote, the Qur'an presents a pre-scientific picture of the earth and the solar system 13:2. For example, the heavens rest on "invisible supports" and the sun sets in a muddy pool, 18:86.
Spencer's footnotes also help bridge the gap between the English translation and the Arabic original, pointing out words of non-Arabic origin and places in the text where the rhyme scheme and other formal features break down, indicating interpolations into a pre-existing source document that was then patched into the Qur'an.
An Islamic website offers attractive quotes from the Qur'an. One of the quotes says "speak to people kindly," but this appears in the midst of a text that calls non-believers apes, pigs, and the vilest of created beings, describes graphic tortures for them and tells Muslims never to befriend them, not even if they are parents or children. "Remember me; I will remember you," says one quote. This from an Allah who states repeatedly that if Muslims displease him, he will destroy them utterly and take up a better group of people . "Wives are a garment for you," says one quote. Yet this book includes instructions on how to divorce a pre-pubescent child; before dumping her, one must make sure that she has not somehow gotten pregnant. "Allah does not burden a soul more than he can bear," says another quote. This same Allah repeatedly says that he creates people for the specific purpose of sending them to Hell, a Hell he describes with fiendish enthusiasm. "The life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception." And yet Paradise is utterly earthbound. It's all about rivers of booze, delicious food, silk garments, and sex slaves with round, "not sagging" breasts. The only thing that's missing is big-screen color TVs. There is no description of what Heaven will entail for women. "Men are in charge of women" are superior to women, and should beat them, says 4:34. But this website translates that verse as saying that men should protect women.
Compare this to the matrix of Bible quotes. Hosea, a prophet, married Gomer, an adulteress. Even though she cheated on him, Hosea could not quit her. Their story reflects God's love for the Jewish people. When the ancient Hebrews went astray, God could not get over his love for them. In the book of Hosea, God speaks of his frustrated love, "I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks; Yet, though I stooped to feed my child, they did not know that I was their healer." God's frustrated love for sinning humanity is also expressed in the New Testament which records, Christians believe, the son of God dying a torturous death for his love of humanity. In the extreme of pain, Jesus says, "Father, forgive them. They know not what they do."These quotes are deeply embedded in rich narratives that demonstrate the truths the quotes hope to convey. Compare this to the Qur'an that mentions "kindness to parents" just a few words away from the advice to husbands to beat their wives. Both quotes are completely free of any supportive, illustrative narrative.
Please buy and read Robert Spencer's "Critical Qur'an." I emphasize "buy" because his book is a gift to thinking people, and "the workman is worthy of his hire." The most moving sentence in this translation was written by Spencer himself. He dedicates his book thus, "Offered with love to all the people of the world who love the Qur'an." I do not see how anyone could read this book, and all of its footnotes, and conclude that the Qur'an is divinely inspired. Muslims deserve to have access to the research presented so very clearly herein.
The first thing the Nazis had done upon assuming power in Germany was to turn the children into loyal Nazis, and ultimately into heartless killers. The Palestinians under Yasser Arafat and Mahmud Abbas have done the same. Peace can not be made with a regime that indoctrinates their youth to wage an uncompromising war against the Jews and encourage them to become martyrs for Palestine. That is what the Nazis did, and this is what the Palestinians are doing now. And if one wonders why there is no peace between the Palestinians and Israel, one clear answer is the Palestinian educational system, Palestinian media and the mosques that support it.
The Hitler Youth turned a generation of young people into Nazis. Hitler banned all other youth movements including the Boy Scouts, and consequently, 90% of young German children became members of the Hitler Youth. Already in 1922, the Nazis had a youth arm designed to train and recruit members for its paramilitary. Once the Nazis became more powerful, their youth arm grew exponentially. In January 1933, when Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany, there were 50,000 members of the Hitler Youth. By the end of the year, there were more than 2 million. As the 1930’s progressed, the Nazis waged war on popular groups with German youth. They banned children’s groups associated with political parties, such as the Socialists and Communists, and then proceeded in 1936 to ban all youth groups including the Boy Scouts. Jewish children were banned from any participation.
Making the Hitler Youth the exclusive and only youth group in Germany allowed Hitler and the Third Reich to indoctrinate children in their most impressionable years, and it let the Nazis separate the children from the influence of their parents. The Nazis understood that cohesive family units would be an obstacle to their goals. The Hitler Youth was a way to get Hitler’s racist and antisemitic ideology into family units. It worked! Many Hitler Youth members denounced their parents to the Nazi authorities, displaying their loyalty to Hitler over their own parents. The Hitler Youth became more like a mini military than a Boy Scout den. The Nazis imposed military-like order and trained the youngsters in the use of weapons. In addition, hefty doses of propaganda were used to turn the boys (and girls) into a blind and almost religious devotion to the Fuhrer, namely Hitler.
If one wonders why a 12-year-old Palestinian youngster sets out from his home to stab and kill any identifiable Jew, a peek into the Palestinian Authority and Hamas textbooks, and school curriculum would explain it. The Palestinian leadership’s educational emphasis is focused on blaming Israel and Jews for Palestinian misfortune. Billions of aid dollars from the USA and the European Union is pocketed by corrupt Palestinian officials. Instead of making genuine efforts to find creative solutions for peace through cooperation and compromising with Israel, Palestinian school material propagates the destruction of Israel. Rather than investing in superior education for its young people, the Palestinians in both the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza, are militarizing their young people. The longer the Palestinians reject solving the conflict with Israel, the more it becomes intractable.
A report by IMPACT-se organization on changes in the 2020-21 Palestinian school curriculum grades 1 through 12 found that in contrast with previous Palestinian curricula, the new curriculum omits discussion of peace education in the context of the conflict with Israel. Peaceful resolution as the ultimate goal isn’t taught to students. References to historical Jewish presence have been erased. Instead, Jewish history and heritage are presented as falsified; Jewish holy places are presented as Muslim areas usurped by Zionists. Jewish existence in contemporary Israel is characterized as an act of racist aggression against the Palestinians, and there is no mention of Jewish historical roots in the land.
An 11th-grade history textbook implies that Jews control the world, using classic antisemitic imagery that would make the Nazis proud. Students are presented with the antisemitic canard that Jews control money, the media, and politics, and are characterized as sinful liars and fraudsters that turned against the Prophet (Muhammad) in early Islam. Jews are described as “the enemies of Islam in all times and all places.”An Islamic Education chapter teaches that Jews are corrupt and are doomed to extinction as their “corruption of the land will be the cause of their annihilation.”
The 2020 edition of the IMPACT-se study shows an emphasis placed in the Palestinian school curriculum Martyrdom on the killing of infidels, which is glorified. It stresses that those who die as martyrs (shuhada) while killing Christians and Jews, will go to paradise, where Allah will raise their status. In summary, the IMPACT-se study found that the Palestinian curriculum had “moved further from meeting the UNESCO standards, and contains a systematic insertion of violence, martyrdom, and Jihad across all grades and subjects. Therefore, it concludes that the curriculum rejects the possibility of peace with Israel.
The Holocaust, in which Six Million Jews were murdered, including one and one half million children, was made possible by a Nazi hate and racist educational system that deemed Jews to be sub-humans, and therefore expendable. It enabled young men who just left high school and now served in Hitler’s army to smash Jewish babies’ heads. Today, young Palestinian graduates of the Palestinian educational system go the distance to knife Jews to death regardless of age, sex, or orientation. Racist hate pervades in their decision to murder, and they believe in the promise of heavenly rewards for their deeds.
American and European policymakers, and non-governmental agencies who reward the Palestinians with generous aid packages seem to be oblivious to the impact of their “generosity.”In more than one way they are responsible for the blood of innocent Israeli Jews who are knifed by young Palestinians, gunned down, and killed by vehicular homicide. A two-state solution won’t change the hatred among the Palestinians who know no boundaries. As long as the Palestinian educational system indoctrinates its young people to kill Jews and become martyrs, peace hasn’t got a chance. The poisoning of a young mind is hard to expunge. Deborah Singer Soffen, in a Times of Israel piece, wrote “The path to peace begins in the classroom…”
Joseph Puder, a freelance journalist, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Taskforce for America and Israel (ITAI). He is a regular contributor to Frontpage.
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MASS IMMIGRATION France riots: Has the country imported its own problems?
To hear his friends tell it, and of course his mother, Nahel Merzouk, the 17-year-old Algerian-French young man who was shot by the police, was a splendid fellow, never in any trouble, so why did the police have to go and do what they did? But it turns out that, having nearly run over a bicyclist and a pedestrian, Nahel was finally forced to stop by two police officers. As one of them leaned over to talk to him, his pistol aimed downward into the car, Nahel suddenly accelerated the car with that policeman still leaning into, but not in it. As the car’s sudden movement forward knocked the officer off-kilter, in a split-second attempt to halt the driver, the policeman shot at what he thought was Nahel’s leg, which was where his gun had been pointed. But it no longer was, and the bullet instead hit Nahel’s chest.
The maghrébins all over France went on the rampage. Frenzied mobs in Paris, Marseille, and Bordeaux and hundreds of other cities and towns, pillaged and destroyed stores, choosing judiciously to hit the luxury-goods emporia on the rue de Rivoli, as well as Apple stores, the famed department store La Samaritaine, and high-end sneakers stores, making off everywhere with armfuls of loot. In one southern city, the Swarovski store was emptied, with everything smashed or stolen. So, too, was the optician’s store on the same block, where thousands of pairs of glasses were taken or destroyed, and next to it, a computer-and-phone store emptied of everything. And so on, store after store, destroyed and its merchandise stolen or smashed, all to express “the rage” of young Muslims over the death of the “angelic” Nahel Merzouk. By Sunday, Muslim mobs have torched many thousands of cars, and hundreds of buses all over the country. They tried to burn down the largest library in Marseille, the Alcazar, and as they did in so many other places, those mobs shouted “Allahu akbar.”
Are the French police too aggressive with drivers during traffic stops? Hardly. In the three years since 2020, there have been 21 fatalities among drivers. That comes to seven drivers a year who are shot. In the U.S., in the five years between 2017 and the beginning of 2022, there were a total of 600 fatalities, or 120 a year. 120 a year in the U.S., 7 a year in France.
There are now 45,000 police on the streets of France.
“French Riots Begin to Abate Even as Economic Costs Mount,” by Tara Patel, Bloomberg, July 2, 2023:
The economic costs of the unrest are also mounting. On July 1, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said some 10 shopping malls, more than 200 supermarkets, 250 tobacco shops and 250 bank outlets had been attacked or looted in just the previous night. When this is all over, the total damage will be much much higher — thousands of shops have been destroyed.
“All types of businesses have been targeted, especially those with valuable merchandise,” Jean-Luc Chauvin, head of the Chamber of Commerce of Aix Marseille Provence, told France Info. A first estimate by insurers put damages at more than €100 million ($109 million), a number that will undoubtedly rise, he said.
“French riots: French-Algerian teenager killed by police was ‘no angel,’ while those who protested migrant rape and murder of 12-year-old Lola were branded ‘racist’ and ‘fascist,’ says Éric Zemmour,” by John Cody, Remix News, June 30, 2023:
Many media reports are excusing the mass riots that are destroying France over the last three days due to “rage” over the police shooting that killed a 17-year-old teen. However, that same media labeled those who protested the rape and murder of 12-year-old schoolgirl Lola by an Algerian migrant in 2022 as “fascists” and “racists,” according to Reconquête party leader Éric Zemmour.
Do you remember Lola? She was the 12-year-old French girl, raped, then killed and dismembered – so that her body would fit into a suitcase — by her Algerian assailant. There were quiet marches to protest her death, and to protest the fact that her killer had managed to remain in France long after he had received an order of deportation. Those who marched, in order to remember the victim, and to protest this intolerable state of affairs where those ordered to be deported nonetheless remain in the country, were attacked by some for being “Islamophobes” and “racists.” Apparently protesting against Muslim criminals – and there are tens of thousands of these in France – makes one a “racist.”
Zemmour said on France 1, a television talk show:
“The death of a young man is always sad, no matter what. But he was not ‘an angel,’ as Kylian Mbappé says. At the age of 17, he already had a very extensive criminal record. On the other hand, when you demonstrate calmly for a child who has been cut into pieces by an Algerian in an irregular situation, little Lola, you are called ‘rebellious,’ ‘fascists’ and ‘racists,’” said Zemmour during an appearance on Europe 1 television station.
As Remix News reported yesterday, the 17-year-old French-Algerian Nahel M., who was shot and killed during a traffic stop, had 15 offenses on his criminal record, including resisting arrest, narcotics offenses, and driving violations, including driving with a fake license plate. On the day he was stopped by police, he also reportedly almost hit a cyclist and pedestrian.
Many media reports have been silent about Nahel M.’s criminal history, with instead many alluding that his shooting was based on “racism.”
Media outlets outside France, their needle stuck at “racism,” with all sorts of idiotic invocations of Black Lives Matter, have said very little about Nahel Merzouk’s extensive criminal record. It would only get in the way of properly understanding Nahel’s death as the act of a “French racist” policeman killing an innocent young Arab. And of course, the only way to protest against “racism” is to burn down buildings, set thousands of cars on fire, steal iPhones, computers, and Swarovski crystal.
The officer in question is a greatly respected police officer, several times honored for his bravery. No matter. He is French, Nahel was Arab. Therefore he was the “racist” and Nahel a little angel. The President of the Republic, who ought to have said that the judiciary will examine the conduct of the policeman, instead condemned him in advance, calling the policeman’s action “inexplicable” and “unforgivable.” The Prime Minister, Elizabeth Borne, and the Minister of Security, Gerald Darmanin, also issued statements condemning the policeman – whatever happened to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty? — in their craven attempt to quell the Muslim mobs.
Of course, the UN human rights office took time off from bashing Israel to express its “concern,” but that concern was not about the mobs attacking and destroying stores, often after emptying them of their contents, not about the attacks on shopping malls and medical buildings, the pillage, the looting, the vandalism, not about libraries sacked or set on fire, not the attempts to murder people.
No, what the UN human rights office was concerned about was not this countrywide mayhem, the pillaging, the mass thefts, the antisemitic scrawls, the burning of automobiles and buses, the attempted murder of a mayor. The UN office was, as France 24 pointed out, “concerned” about police racism following the shooting.
“This is a moment for the country to seriously address the deep issues of racism and racial discrimination in law enforcement,” spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said.
There is no racism or racial discrimination by the French in France. There is instead, a deep and abiding hatred directed at France and the French by the Muslim Arabs. It is anti-French racism. The French are now faced with this orgy of hate from those on whom the French state has spent tens of billions of euros, more per capita than it has on any other immigrant group, and far more than the state pays to support the “diagonale du vide” — the people of rural France.
Fortunately, the French government at once, and angrily, rejected this UN attempt to start to lecture Paris on its non-existent “racism” and to side with the rampaging Muslim mobs. Now France can perhaps begin to understand how Israel feels when the UN, that most antisemitic and anti-Western of international bodies, decides to denounce it.
Remix News continued:
In contrast, when 12-year-old Lola was raped and killed by an Algerian migrant already scheduled for deportation, the same media went into damage control mode, claiming migrants were “threatened” by growing anger over the issue. Those who marched in Lola’s honor were branded as racist and fascist, even though they conducted peaceful demonstrations and did not resort to widespread looting and violence.
Because Lola’s rapist and murderer was an Algerian, those who expressed sympathy for her had to be dismissed as “racists.”
As Remix News reported in 2022, even memorials to the murdered schoolgirl were torn down, while Nahel Merzouk., a known criminal, is being lionized by migrant communities across France.
Zemmour also points to similar riots that took place in 2005, but he says these are far worse than that year.
“These riots are much more serious than those of 2005. Why? Because at the time we used 10,000 to 12,000 police officers, today we are at 40,000 [now 45,000]. And clearly that is not enough Because today all of France is affected and not just the suburbs [where most Muslim migrants live]. Small towns are also affected because for 20 years immigrants have been distributed there,” wrote Zemmour on Twitter.
Damien Rieu, who is a politician for Zemmour’s party, has been regularly posting footage of the ongoing riots and covering them in detail. However, last night he wrote that the scale of the riots is overwhelming.
“This is the first time in 15 years of watching the news that I can no longer follow at all because there are so many riots. If the night does not end in tragedy, it will be a miracle,” he wrote on Twitter.
There is now talk of a state of emergency being called in France, with French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly deciding against it up until now.
However, politicians are questioning whether France even has the means to enforce a state of emergency, as 40,000 [now 45,000] police officers have so far failed to quell the disorder.
It has now been five days since the riots started in Paris and Marseille, and now they are all over France. Even the 40,000 extra police and gendarmes on the streets have been unable to quell the rioters.
“The collapse of the country comes to light. Do we even have the means to enforce a state of emergency? Committed to the front line, our police forces will not be able to compensate for the generalized political bankruptcy forever,” wrote Les Republicans MP Aurélien Pradié on Twitter.
Over 850 [that figure has now risen to close to 3000] arrests have been made and dozens [now more than 280] of police officers injured during the riots that have spread from Paris to Lille, Marseilles, Lyon and Toulouse.
So what do we know now, after six days of Muslim riots:
First, that France needs more police on the streets at all times, and ought to be willing to call out the army to deal with what is a mass uprising of people hellbent on theft, vandalism, arson, and worse.
Second, this was not about protesting “racism” – there were no solemn marches or protests. Instead, there was only mayhem, one vast orgy of theft and vandalism by frenzied mobs. What fun to set many thousands of cars on fire, and then to do the same to buses and apartment houses and doctors’ offices and supermarkets and shops, after taking everything of value. And at the same time, all those Muslim Arabs who were engaged in this stealing, with smash-and-grab attacks on stores, making off with armfuls of expensive goods, have presented themselves as virtuously protesting against “racism.” It’s complete nonsense. These are criminals. This supposed “outrage” is their excuse. They are well-provided for by a crazily generous state. But they want more. And they want the Infidels to have less.
There are lots of claims being made about how France must spend more to make Muslims feel welcome. But government figures show that more is spent per capita on the Muslims than on any other group. No other immigrants – not the Chinese, not the black Christians from Africa and the Caribbean, not Hindus from India, ,have received the kind of largesse of every kind that is lavished on the Muslims. But these others do not riot.
Some lecture or hector the French and call for greater “integration.” What are they talking about? Every third government office seems to be about programs encouraging “integration.” How do you integrate people who despise you, whose holy book tells them that the French are, like all Infidels, “the most vile of created beings”? Maghrébins do not come to France to become French. They come to live off the what the French state provides, supplemented what they can obtain through crime. Muslims are less than 10% of the population in France, but comprise 70% of the prison population.
Eventually, the Muslim mobs will have hauled away enough loot to feel temporarily sated, and the riots will stop, though only until the next excuse comes along, something to “spark” an “explosion of anger.” That could be a verdict in favor of the officer, or a prison sentence that Muslims deem insufficient. In an interview with French television, the police officer’s lawyer, Laurent-Franck Lienard, said his client had aimed at the driver’s leg but was bumped when the car took off, causing him to shoot towards his chest. “Obviously (the officer) didn’t want to kill the driver,” he said according to the report.
Can the officer get a fair trial? Not in much of the media, but possibly in a French court. Already a crowdfunding effort has raised nearly $700,000 for the officer’s defense. Let us hope.
In his latest short video, commentator Paul Watson addresses the ongoing riots and chaos that hold France in their devastating grip — the result largely of Muslim immigrants ostensibly enraged over the police shooting of a young suspect.
Don’t miss it below:
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New French Revolution? Majority Support Ending ‘Fifth Republic’ as Macron Fails to Maintain Order
Two-thirds of the people of France would support the end of the Fifth Republic, as the government of President Emmanuel Macron continues to fail to restore social order in the country.
While the streets of France have descended into scenes similar to those seen in violent revolutions not witnessed in supposedly stable Western European countries for some time, the French public is apparently prepared to back a political revolution of their own, with a majority supporting the abolition of the republic that has governed the country since 1958, the fifth such republic since the violent revolution which abolished the Bourbon Monarchy in 1792.
The Fifth Republic, ushered in by Charles de Gaulle, is the second-longest lasting republic in France since the Third Republic, which was formed following the fall of Emperor Napoleon III in 1870. Yet, despite its relative longevity, increasing political instability and a growing sense of division between the public and political elites in Paris have apparently soured the people on the Fifth Republic.
According to a survey conducted by Ifop and Fiducial found that 67 per cent of the public would support the formation of a Sixth Republic with a new constitution based upon a parliamentary system and proportional representation, compared to just 33 per cent who would oppose the fundamentally revolutionary move.
FRANCE – JANUARY 01: Le 28 Juillet; la Liberte guidant le peuple. July 28th 1830; Liberty guides the people. Oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm. R.F. 129. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Le 28 Juillet; la Liberte guidant le peuple. Gemaelde. um 1830]
With the departure of the United Kingdom, France currently stands alone in the European Union as the only country to not have some form of proportional representation, using a system that makes it more difficult for parties outside of the established mainstream to wield parliamentary power. This appears to have had the effect of leaving millions of French men and women feeling as though their voices are ignored by the ruling elite.
The entrenched powers in Paris have pointed to the political instability that can come with proportional representation, as was the case during the Fourth Republic of France between 1946 and 1958, during which time there were a staggering 20 different governments in just three legislative terms.
It could be argued that the current system has led to more political instability — particularly over the past decade — in which the public has repeatedly felt compelled to take to the streets in order to have any meaningful impact on government policy.
In some instances, street actions have been successful, such as the Yellow Vest protesters who forced the Macron government in 2018 to abandon planned hikes to the fuel tax.
However, more recently, months of protests and riots throughout France failed to force the government to back down from the rise in the pension age. Yet, what does seem to be the case is that there is a growing sense of political alienation among the middle and working-class people in France, in which political fights must be waged on the streets rather than with the electoral system.
A move to proportional representation would likely see an increase in power for figures such as leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon as well as former populist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. Perhaps it is unsurprising then, that both the so-called far-left and far-right of French politics both align in supporting such a measure.
Le Pen has argued for a split proportional system under which 66 per cent of lawmakers would be elected based upon a pure popular vote, while the remaining third would be awarded to the party victor to prevent political instability. The populist firebrand has said that such a system would allow a “fair representation of the sensitivities that are expressed in the country.”
Implementing a new system of government may seem like a far-off prospect with Emmanuel Macron’s second presidential term officially set to run until 2027, however, it is by no means guaranteed that the ‘Jupiterian’ president will finish out his term, let alone last through what appears set to be a tumultuous summer.
Back in April, President Macronbegged the public to give his government 100 days to implement reforms and regain the trust of the nation following weeks of protests and riots throughout the country in response to the cost of living crisis and his unpopular pension reforms, which were seen as a slap in the face of a struggling working class.
Though the labour union-led protests have somewhat subsided — for the time being — they have been replaced by a more destructive form of rioting, with racial tensions boiling over in the country following the police killing of an Algerian teenager.
In 2021, a letter signed by 20 former French generals, including the former Commandant of the French Foreign Legion Christian Piquemal, warned that multiculturalism and increased radicalisation against the French state among migrant communities could lead to a civil war.
“Today, some talk about racialism, indigenism, and decolonial theories. But through these terms, it is a race war that these hateful and fanatical partisans want. They despise our country, its traditions, its culture, and want to see it dissolve by ripping off its past and history,” the letter said.
The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, circa 1793. Found in the collection of Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Artist Thévenin, Charles (1764-1838). (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
It remains to be seen how long the riots over the death of the Algerian teen will last, yet, they have seemingly doomed Macron’s hopes of restoring order within his 100-day timeframe, which is set to expire this month, ironically on the anniversary of the Storming the Bastille, one of the key moments of the original French Revolution in 1789.
Perhaps France is fated to remain a state of perpetual revolution and will continue to be bound by the prophecy of French political philosopher Jacques Mallet du Pan who warned in 1793 that “like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
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Stores, Banks, Schools, Town Halls Burnt and Looted in France: Damage Bill A Billion Dollars And Counting
At least 1,200 buildings have been burnt, attacked, or looted across France in a week of nightly violence which the head of a business group says has caused at least one billion Euros ($1.1 billion) of damage.
The chief of The Mouvement des entreprises de France (MEDEF, Movement of French Businesses) Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux says hundreds of his members have been attacked over the course of the last week’s rioting, including 200 shops, 300 bank branches, and 250 tobacconists, which appear to have been a particular target for looting in many cities.
While the exact cost of these rioter-set fires and looting raids is not yet known, the running total so far is already “more than a billion Euros”, Bézieux tellsLe Parisien. Not yet calculated as compounding that cost, the business confederation boss said, was the fact the frightening footage of rioting has been broadcasted around the world which will damage France’s reputation as a tourist destination.
Workers fix plywood boards on a Footlocker shop in the centre of Marseille, southern France on July 1, 2023, after a fourth consecutive night of rioting in France over the killing of a teenager by police. (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
Emergency personnel survey the scene of a burnt out building – which housed a pharmacy – in Montargis, some 100kms south of Paris on July 1, 2023, which was set alight overnight during continuing protests following the shooting of a teenage driver in the suburb of Nanterre on June 27. (Photo by MATHIEU RABECHAULT/AFP via Getty Images)
Indeed, tourists were among those caught up in the riots as they happened, with China’s Consulate General complaining to the French government that a tour bus carrying Chinese tourists was attacked, reports Reuters. Windows were smashed, injuring some on board and footage taken from onboard went viral. As previously reported at Breitbart, tourists are sensitive to clear signs that cities like Paris don’t offer a safe holiday destination, with tourist numbers falling over crime and terrorism.
While the French Interior Ministry has not yet put a hard number on the total number of buildings burnt, looted, or otherwise damaged in the unrest of the past week, the government has put the figure at over 1,000. Counting figures given by MEDEF for business premises and government figures for state buildings including 254 police stations, 243 schools — including 60 sustaining significant damage — and several town halls it appears the figure is easily over 1,250 buildings.
This, of course, doesn’t count the enormous number of vehicles burnt, including private cars, trucks, and public transit buses, which after seven nights stands at 5,821.
This photograph shows L’Ile-Saint-Denis city hall partially burnt, north of Paris, on June 29, 2023 (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)
The burnt facade and partial destruction of the Hotel-de-ville or town hall, in Garges-les-Gonesse, north of Paris on June 29, 2023 (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)
Turkey Says No to Sweden in NATO Again over Permitting Qur’an Burning
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey´s foreign minister said Tuesday that Swedish authorities´ failure to prevent Quran-burning protests in the country is raising security concerns and questions about Sweden´s credentials for possible NATO membership.
But Hakan Fidan said Turkey would still approve Sweden´s membership in the military alliance if Stockholm “completes its homework” and presses ahead with efforts to address Turkey´s concerns.
“The fact that the Swedish security system is incapable of preventing provocations and is presenting an image of a (country) that brings problems to NATO – instead of more power – is making us think in terms of the strategic and security aspects,” Fidan said at a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart.
Muslim activists display placards as they shout anti-Sweden slogans during a protest against the burning of a Koran outside a Stockholm mosque, in Mumbai on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP) (Photo by PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images)
“When it comes to Sweden´s membership in NATO, whether it will become a burden or a benefit has become more open to debate,” he said.
Sweden and Finland abandoned their decades-long neutrality and applied to join NATO last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Turkey has been holding off ratifying Sweden´s membership in the alliance, accusing the country of being too soft toward groups that Ankara regards as threats to its security, including Kurdish militants and members of a network that Ankara blames for a failed coup in 2016.
Ankara has also been angered by a series of demonstrations in Sweden by supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers´ Party, or PKK, as well as Quran-burning protests, including one that took place last week that was condemned by Muslim countries.
The PKK has waged a 38-year insurgency against Turkey that has left tens of thousands dead. It is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S and the European Union.
NATO wants to bring Sweden into the fold by the time the alliance´s leaders meet in Lithuania on July 11 to 12, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called a meeting of senior officials from Turkey, Sweden and Finland for July 6 to try to overcome Turkish objections to Sweden’s membership.
NATO requires the unanimous approval of all existing members to expand. Turkey and Hungary are the only countries that have not yet ratified Sweden´s bid.
TEHRAN, IRAN – JULY 03: A woman holds a Holy Quran during a demonstration against the burning of Holy Quran by an extremist in Stockholm, in front of the Embassy of Sweden in Tehran, Iran on July 03, 2023. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Sweden has changed its anti-terror legislation after applying for membership. Fidan, Turkey´s former intelligence chief who was appointed foreign minister last month, maintained that terror groups were able to continue to stage demonstrations, raise money and recruit members in Sweden.
“If Sweden continues with its efforts and does its homework, there are always alternatives, just as there was in the case of Finland,” Fidan said. He was referring to a memorandum that Sweden and Finland signed with Turkey last year under which they agreed to address Ankara´s concerns.
Finland was able to join the alliance earlier this year, after Turkey expressed satisfaction with its efforts to meet demands and the Turkish parliament ratified its membership.
Meanwhile, Pope Francis lamented last week´s Quran-burning protest outside a mosque in central Stockholm in an interview with the United Arab Emirates’ Al-Ittihad newspaper. Swedish police allowed the event to take place, citing freedom of speech, after a court overturned a ban on a similar Quran-burning.
“Any book considered sacred by its authors must be respected out of respect for its believers, and freedom of expression must never be used as an excuse to despise others, and to allow this, must be rejected and condemned,” the pope was quoted as saying.
In Sweden, a top bishop called the incident “an attack” on all believers.
“Freedom of speech is about standing up for things, but it´s not about being allowed to do it at any price,” Ake Bonnier, a bishop who is acting as a spokesperson for Sweden´s Lutheran Archbishop Martin Modeus, told Swedish broadcaster SVT on Monday.
The Jordanian foreign minister also called for mutual respect of religious values and for the prevention of such protests.
A spokesperson for the United Nations Human Rights Council said Tuesday that following a request by Pakistan, the council will discuss “the alarming rise” in acts of religious hatred such as the desecration of the Quran.
How little it takes for the Muslim masses to erupt in an apoplectic frenzy that shakes the very world to its roots!
His shot killed the driver, Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Algerian parentage who turned out to have a remarkably long rap sheet for someone of his tender years, including over a dozen arrests.
Are France's Muslim migrant rioters engaged in Jihad?
Jihad seems so passe in the wake of Joe Biden's disastrous Afghanistan pullout, which not only took U.S. forces out of the region, but seems to have emboldened Russia and China a consequence.
But to paraphrase the famous saying, it also may be that we are not interested in Jihad, but Jihad is still interested in us.
The example of France with its mass rioting, which has since spread to Belgium and Switzerland, gives one pause.
What do we know about the rioters?
Well, they are deracinated youth from the French underclass, Muslim migrants and the children of Muslim migrants who live in the bleak, ugly banlieue suburbs of Paris where a generous welfare system ensures they don't need and don't want jobs, which for many leaves them without purpose, too. Hatred for France, resistance to assimilation, and their own criminal activity pretty well keeps them in the underclass. They've rioted before in 2005 over claims of racial discrimination, and they will probably riot again. France has no idea what to do about them except coddle them more. France's president is no longer mentioning that they even are migrants, let alone Muslims.
But the role of Jihad from abroad shouldn't be dismissed either, given that France has seen considerable new immigration from Jihad-infested countries.
According to INSEE, the French statistical institute, migration to France from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan African countries is up since the end of the COVID pandemic lockdowns. (The Wikipedia page on immigration to France is outdated). African immigrants, according to its bar chart, constitute 47.5% of all immigrants in France as of 2021, the last date for which data are available, and form the largest group of immigrants. In what may be a sub-category of that, 29.3% are from the Mahgreb, the Muslim north African states that had been French colonies, such as Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. France, a nation of xx people, has about 7 million immigrants from all countries, including 2.5 million naturalized immigrants, 4.5 million migrants, and 0.8 million non-immigrant foreign nationals, or expats.
Meanwhile, Pew Research arguies that about 300,000 to 400,000 additional immigrants in the country are illegal immigrants, a rise from years past.
So yes, the Muslim base for those attracted to Jihad has expanded.
Still, there are counterindicators. The Muslim mosques for one, have called for peaceful protest rather than the barbarism currently on display from migrants across the country.
According to Le Monde (they prohibit reprinting even a small passage of their work), the Grand Mosque of Paris issued its condolences to the family of the man whose death at the hands of police while defying police orders yet called for calm in the neighborhoods, urging the youth not react with violence. The paper noted that there was a Muslim family holiday on, and riots would surely ruin it.
The locals ignored them.
There were tweets like this on Twitter:
🇫🇷Allahu Akbar France! 🇫🇷 Imam brags: "France WILL become an Islamic country through Jihad; The entire world WILL be subject to Islamic Rule" The French will: "Convert to Islam, be Forced to pay Jizya poll tax, or be fought against for the sake of Allah" 🔥 #SaveTheWestpic.twitter.com/w6zk56owaS
— LastKnightsTemplar ✝ 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 (@LeoLazio2) July 1, 2023
SHOCKING: Race rioters chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they torch France, 719 arrestedhttps://t.co/nX0zvg6fdK
At just 8 years old, this child soldier is already prepped to wage Jihad on the French police, bred to harbor a deep hatred for France. Are these the hopeful faces of France's future? Islamic groups view children as potential 'soldiers'… pic.twitter.com/nCQStUX7Op
These aren't verified as things that have happened in recent days, but they appear authentic.
There also are broader indicators like this:
Islamic State promotes migration to the West for the purpose of waging jihad terrorism https://t.co/VzUcqvUwWv
— Lois Levine Fishman (@FishmanLevine) June 29, 2023
Which rather suggests something is going on with these longtime terrorists.
Recent events, such as the toddler knife attack in recent weeks may have had a Jihad nexus, too, according to reports.
There also is the Jihadi upsurge in Israel, where terrorists are enacting monstrous attacks in Israel.
The preponderance of evidence suggests that if Jihadis aren't engaged in laid-out plans of action to strike at France through its terrorism, at a minimum, they may be taking advantage of it.
France is loaded with purposeless migrant youth. France's president, Emmanuel Macron, blames social media for their dispensation to riot, which has something of a ring of truth, given that revolting other phenomenon, such as gangster glorification, and the doings of that movie "Cuties" which depicted North African and sub-Saharan African girls engaging in pervy twerking dances for audiences, which was based on observed activities in France, are rift. Things like that make migrants soulless and without empathy for others, they wreck social capital.
In which case, France better get busy getting rid of the Jihadis in their midst, because they're what happens next -- just read what Eric Hoffer had to say about that in "The True Believer," that fanatics and mass movements arise out of people who've got a sense of already-ruined lives. Right now, France may have reached that stage: The Jihadis are showing what they want to do, and what they can do. That goes for the U.S. and the rest of the West, too
How little it takes for the Muslim masses to erupt in an apoplectic frenzy that shakes the very world to its roots! Last Tuesday, June 27, two police officers in Nanterre, a banlieue (suburb) of Paris, stopped a car whose driver then pulled away, whereupon one of the officers fired at it. His shot killed the driver, Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Algerian parentage who turned out to have a remarkably long rap sheet for someone of his tender years, including over a dozen arrests.
When news of Nahel’s killing spread, swarms of French Muslims – without waiting to obtain further information about the case – took to the streets, setting fire, that night and on the nights that followed, to countless vehicles and bus shelters, plus innumerable buildings, including dozens of schools and city halls and police stations, at first in Paris and its outskirts and later in other French (and even Belgian) municipalities. A library in Metz – recently enlarged for the benefit of Muslim youth “who wanted to work, study, read, and have a haven of peace” – was burned to the ground. So was a transport depot in Aubervilliers. A Holocaust memorial in Nanterre was desecrated, with vandals writing on it that they planned to perpetrate “a new Holocaust.” And the homes of several mayors have been attacked.
On Saturday afternoon, the Guardian reported that, according to France’s finance minister, “more than 700 shops, supermarkets, restaurants and bank branches had been ‘ransacked, looted and sometimes even burnt to the ground since Tuesday.’” Among the protesters has been Nahel’s mother, who, clad in a t-shirt reading Justice pour Nahel, has been photographed cheering, laughing, and shaking her fists; in not one of the dozens of pictures I’ve seen of her does she look remotely grief-stricken. By contrast, Nahel’s grandmother called on Sunday for the rioting to stop, saying that while she abhors Nahel’s killer, she has nothing against other policemen; on the contrary, she said that she was glad they were out there, trying to restore order.
In France, of course, mass unrest is old hat. Riots, and for that matter revolutions, are a time-honored Gallic tradition. No one could ever claim that Muslims in France have done a good job of integrating into the finer aspects of the mainstream culture of their host nation, but at least their own readiness to torch and destroy stuff can make them look like a reasonably neat fit into the country that gave us the Reign of Terror, the June Rebellion of 1832, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the soixante-huitards. Indeed, the large-scale car-burning that has become a regular nocturnal pastime in the banlieues makes the Gilets Jaunes and other native Frenchmen of a rebellious bent, including those who recently took to the boulevards to protest the rise in the retirement age to 64 (!), look like slackers.
As for these latest riots, which have (are you surprised?) featured cries of “Allahu akbar,” they’re part of what, during the past half-century or so, has become a distinct French tradition all its own. The other day, the Sky News website provided a handy list of some of the more destructive Muslim disturbances in La Belle République. The very first, in 1979, took place in a suburb of Lyon “after a young person of North African descent was arrested.” In 1991, violence hit the Paris suburbs, first, in March, after “an Arab teenager was shot dead by a supermarket security guard” and then, in June, after police killed one Youssef Khaif, 23, who was driving a stolen car.
In subsequent years, riots ensued in various French cities when police killed “18-year-old Mohamed Bahri,” who was driving “towards a police roadblock”; when “police killed Algerian terrorist Khaled Kelkal”; when “Habib Muhammed, 17, was shot by police during a car theft”; when one Mohamed Benmouna died in police custody; and so on. These anarchic episodes, of course, should not be confused with the many acts of Islamic terrorism that have occurred during the same period – including the 2012 murder of a Jewish family in Toulouse, the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre and Bataclan attacks, and the 2016 mass killing on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.
So far, this latest wave of lawlessness has led to the deployment of tens of thousands of police officers across the country. In many places, public transport has been shut down after dark to keep buses and trams from being set ablaze. Cities have instituted curfews; political leaders have held emergency meetings; President Emmanuel Macron canceled a trip to Germany (but found time to attend an Elton John concert). Rioters have thrown rocks and other objects at cops, who have responded with tear gas. More than 200 police officers have been injured. In the early days of this clash, police unions declared that their members were “at war with vermin”; on Sunday, the national police union issued a press release that began as follows: “In the face of these hordes of savages, asking for calm isn’t enough: it must be imposed!” Arrests have numbered in the thousands, with the average age of those taken into custody being 17 – exactly the same age as Nahel.
Yet for all the arrests, the rioting has continued, night after night after night. And why not? At present, the weather in France is more than pleasant (chestnuts in blossom, flammable holiday tables under the trees, and all that) – absolutely perfect for outdoor recreation. And even if you get picked up by the cops for torching a few Peugeots, you know you won’t go to prison for long (if at all), you won’t lose your welfare benefits, and you certainly won’t be deported to whatever uncivilized rubbish heap you came from.
While the fires are burning all over France, supposedly in reaction to the killing of Nahel M., elsewhere Muslims have been acting up with equal gusto over another matter. On Wednesday – which happened to be the day after the shooting of Nahel Mehzouk, and which, on the Islamic calendar, was the holy day of Eid al Adha – Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee, burned a Koran outside the Central Mosque in Stockholm.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyiq Erdogan, was quick to kick up a fuss, threatening to block Swedish entry into NATO. His foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, rejected the explanation that Momika was simply exercising his freedom of expression: by permitting such an action, he charged, the Swedish government was complicit in it. Other governments condemned Momika’s action as well. Matt Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, had the nerve to contend – as if it fell even remotely within the remit of the pusillanimous poobahs at Foggy Bottom – that Momika had “created an environment of fear” for Muslims in Sweden. (If Miller wants to experience a real “environment of fear,” I would suggest he take an evening stroll through certain neighborhoods of Stockholm, Gothenburg, or Malmö.)
The Saudi government called the Koran burning unacceptable “under any circumstances.” The Moroccan ambassador was ordered home, while the Swedish ambassadors in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were read the riot act by those countries’ governments. On June 29, a mob stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. On July 2 the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in an emergency session, demanded new measures in Sweden to forbid Koran-burning. All in all, pretty reminiscent of the Danish cartoon crisis of 2005-6, with more than a touch of the George Floyd riots of 2020. Ingmar Karlsson, a Middle East expert, warned Sweden’s government to expect further acts of this kind. “The feeling,” he said, “is that enough is enough.”
“Enough is enough”? The audacity! During recent decades, the rulers of Muslim nations have tormented their Christian, Jewish, and other non-Muslim citizens to a literal fare-thee-well. In those countries, unjust imprisonment and torture for religious minorities are commonplace. Even the left-wing Guardian, which usually prefers to whitewash Islamic malfeasance, acknowledged in 2019 that according to a new report commissioned by Britain’s then foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, the “[p]ervasive persecution of Christians” in the Middle East rises in some cases to the level of “genocide” and has promoted “an exodus” of Christians from those countries.
Rarely have Western governments dared to criticize this systematic infamy. Surely none of them has gone so far as to say about this genocide that “enough is enough.” On the contrary, they routinely turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of Christians in the Muslim world, however savage, just as they try their best to move past every new act of bloodthirsty jihadist terrorism as quickly as possible, never saying anything remotely like “enough is enough.” And despite all the anti-Christian genocide and anti-Western terrorism, despite all the manifest Muslim contempt for all things non-Islamic, these Western governments have continued to roll out the red carpet for Muslim immigrants in massive numbers, even though it’s long since been demonstrated beyond a doubt that their religion isn’t just incompatible with Western values (notably the freedom of expression that Momika was exercising in Stockholm) but is also explicitly hostile to those values.
By now, we should all know the drill: according to Islam, the West is part of the House of War, which Muslims are solemnly obliged by their faith to bring, both through holy war and through “softer” types of jihad (e.g., pressuring the Swedish government to take a more sharia-like attitude toward freedom of speech), into the House of Islam. This isn’t to say that every last one of the Muslims who are rioting today in France and elsewhere around the world necessarily thinks of himself as a holy warrior. But that doesn’t matter: the reflexive anti-Western hostility that’s intrinsic to their belief system, and that they’ve imbibed since infancy, is hard-wired into them – which explains why it doesn’t take very much at all to trigger their irrational fury.
On Sunday, French authorities said that the violence in that country had seemed to begin ebbing the night before. So maybe it’ll be over soon. And then they’ll all be acting as if it never happened. And then, sooner or later, something else will happen to trigger another, even bigger, convulsion. And it’ll keep happening, on an ever larger scale, until it turns into the Fourth French Revolution. Unless somebody does something. And the same will happen in Sweden. And everywhere else in Europe. Unless, that is, our leaders in the West dare to look squarely at what Islam has done in recent decades – to Christians and Jews and Hindus, to Western welfare systems and Western freedom and Western law and order – and, at long last, speak the words “enough is enough”; or, more to the point, unless voters across the Western world stop electing craven invertebrates like Macron and instead hand over power to somebody like Éric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen – or, in Sweden, Jimmie Åkelsson – who will say “enough is enough” and actually act on it.
While the Leftist-Islamic alliance is cracking elsewhere due to the Left’s determination to normalize gender delusions and fantasies and sexualize children, in France, it has the whole country aflame, and could conceivably bring about the end of the Republic. What is happening now in France was entirely foreseeable, but few dared foresee it, for fear of being called “racist,” “Islamophobic,” and “far right.” Once again those who have been smeared with such terms turn out to have been right all along.
The now-nationwide riots started as video spread of an incident that look place last Tuesday, when a 17-year-old Muslim, who has been identified only as Nahel M., was shot by police. According to the New York Times, “French news media, citing anonymous police sources, initially reported that the teenager, driving a yellow Mercedes, had plowed into police officers, leading one of them to shoot.” However, “video soon surfaced on Twitter that seemed to contradict the police. The teenager, the video shows, was stopped by two police officers, one of whom has his gun drawn. As the teenager drives away, a loud bang is heard as an officer appears to shoot within point blank range in broad daylight. The police officer who fired the shot later told investigators that he was trying to stop the driver from fleeing and was worried that he or his colleague would be hurt if the driver got away.”
That officer has now been charged with homicide, but that did nothing to quell the rage on the streets. Muslim migrants in France, along with their far-Left allies, contend that the shooting of Nahel M. is (according to the Times) “emblematic of a deep-rooted racism within France’s law enforcement agencies and its history of disproportionately targeting Black people and immigrants of Arab descent, particularly in France’s poor urban suburbs.”
And so the George Floyd riots have come to France, featuring the same dubiously-based righteous rage cloaking organized and clearly planned operations designed to destabilize the state. As in the George Floyd riots, Leftists are out in force, as journalist Andy Ngo described in one of several videos of the riots that he tweeted: “In scenes reminiscent of the 2020 American BLM-Antifa insurrection where police stations were attacked, officers witnessed black bloc militants carrying out a coordinated assault on the Fresnes Prison near Paris during the ongoing race riots.”
Antifa black bloc militants, however, were by no means the only forces taking advantage of the situation. Another demonstrator shouted: “Allahu akbar, we are Muslims, if the police kill us we have the right to kill, it’s written in the Qur’an!” Many, if not most, of the rioters and looters are Muslim migrants. France is around ten percent Muslim, and that population is significantly more youthful, and growing more quickly, than the non-Muslim population.
When France embarked upon its policy of admitting Muslims into the country in massive numbers, there were many who predicted that a significant percentage of those Muslims would refuse all efforts to assimilate them into French society and culture, out of the belief that French culture was the product of the “most vile of created beings,” as the Qur’an calls non-Muslims (98:6), while Muslims were “the best of people” (Qur’an 3:110). The French government did little or nothing to stymie the growth of Sharia enclaves all over France, as these enclaves were the natural product of the ethos of multiculturalism; anyone who noted how inhospitable they had become to non-Muslims was shouted down as “Islamophobic.”
Likewise marginalized and silenced were those who pointed out that given the Islamic imperative to wage jihad against non-Muslims in order to extend the hegemony of Sharia (“Fight them, till there is no persecution and religion is all for Allah,” says Qur’an 8:39) made conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in France (and elsewhere) inevitable. While some Muslims would ignore this imperative, French authorities were foolish in the extreme if they were counting on all of them to do so. It’s more likely that those authorities neither knew nor cared that such a passage existed, or that Islam has a doctrine of jihad involving warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers.
As is so often the case in our victimhood-obsessed modern age, this jihad proceeds by means of grievances. The alleged plight of individual Muslims, or of the Muslim community as a whole, both stirs up the believers to fight and provides a theological basis for doing so: when a Muslim land is attacked, it becomes incumbent upon all Muslims to fight to defend Islam. The jihad proceeds on this basis against Israel, India, and other countries, with injustices magnified or concocted outright in order to provide a pretext for fighting back. The Leftist establishment media happily amplifies these fabricated atrocities.
Will the French government be toppled? Macron is ostentatiously unworried, even to the Marie-Antoinettish extent of attending an Elton John concert as his nation burned. But his position is more precarious than he is letting on, as the riots are ubiquitous and so far uncontrollable. Will an Islamic state be imposed in France? Almost certainly not, or at least not yet. Given demographic trends, one may be inevitable, but there will likely be a few intermediate steps first. Since the rioters are both Leftists and Muslims, the first government after the fall of the republic could be an authoritarian Marxist one. But for the Left’s allies in France, that will not do in the long run.
As the Leftists of Iran quickly discovered in 1979, their alliance with the warriors of Islam was one of expedience, not a lasting partnership. As they languished in the prisons of the Islamic Republic, those Leftists had plenty of time to regret having done so much to bring the rule of Islam to their nation. Now that the next act of France’s prolonged drama is unfolding, the black bloc militants who are being so helpful this week may have plenty of time (behind bars, of course) to muse upon how unwise it was for them to enable the rule of Sharia in France. But none of them can say that they weren’t warned.
Yes, he fervently assured us, more than once, that God had truly blessed America. In hearing this I couldn’t help but think about the left’s favorite president – Barack Obama - and what his Pastor Reverend Wright thought God’s judgment on America was. The contrast was jarring. The cognitive dissonance was building.
A Black Pastor Speaks Truth to Power in Berkeley
Law Student Uses Graduation Speech to Spew Anti-Semitic Hate
Fatima Mohammed's declaration of war on Israel, the NYPD, and the Law itself.
Chosen by her classmates to be class speaker at CUNY’s Law School graduation, Yemeni-American Fatima Mohammed did not disappoint. She attacked Israel as a “colonial settler state” that wantonly rains death on Palestinians, denounced the NYPD for “fascism,” and described the law itself as an expression of “white supremacy,” a claim which would no doubt come as a surprise to the thousands of lawyers and judges who have used the law – that is, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that applies to the states, and since 1954 has been applied to the Federal government through the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment – to dismantle segregation and all manner of racial discrimination.
There was applause for her five minutes of name-calling by the callow classmates who were graduating that day, but others were appalled at her spewing of vicious leftist bromides, and at the administration of the CUNY law school as well, for it could have easily discovered Mohammed’s long record of making outrageous and antisemitic statements, and prevented her from speaking.
CUNY’s Jewish Law Students Association — a collection of appeasement-minded fools — issued a statement in solidarity with “our friend and classmate Fatima.” Quoting from her remarks that Israel continued “to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshipers,” the statement said that it was “disingenuous to characterize these factual descriptions as antisemitic, when they describe the conditions of Palestinian life.”
But Israel does not “indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshippers”; her statement was false, and the Jewish Law Students’ Association was morally obtuse in choosing to stand in solidarity with “our friend and classmate Fatima.”
It is Hamas and PIJ that indiscriminately hurl bombs into civilian areas of Israel. It is Hamas and PIJ terrorists who “indiscriminately” stab, shoot, and ram with vehicles Israeli civilians. Perhaps Fatima Mohammed’s cheerleaders in the Jewish Law Students’ Association should google the words “terrorist attacks on Israelis” to find out more, before cheering her on. “She Attacked Israel and the N.Y.P.D. It Made Her Law School a Target.” By Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, June 2, 2023:
“Let us remember that Gaza, just this week, has been bombed with the world watching,” she said at one point. “That daily, brown and Black men are being murdered by the state at Rikers.”
Israel did not “bomb Gaza,” but with astonishing precision hit terror targets inside the Strip, right down, in some cases, to the very apartment or even the room in which a terrorist target was hiding. Even though 142 sites belonging to the PIJ were hit, only six civilians were killed by Israel. As for those “brown and black” men who are “daily” being “murdered” at Rikers Island, this is a dangerous falsehood that could whip up violent anti-police sentiment, and even encourage attacks on the guards at Rikers. About one prisoner a month – not “daily” as Mohammed claims — dies at Rikers Island. The causes of death range from hitting their heads in falls to drug overdoses on Fentanyl. No one is “murdered” at Rikers by the guards, which is what Mohammed wants us to believe. Nor are “brown and black men” the only prisoners held at Rikers.
Mohammed praised the CUNY law school as “one of the very few legal institutions created to recognize that the law is a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around the world.” In other words, the CUNY law school is to be commended, in her view, because it sees through the pieties and recognizes that law “is a manifestation of white supremacy.” In fact, beginning in the middle of the last century, the law became the chief instrument in the dismantling of white supremacy. See Loving v. Virginia, Brown v. Bd. Of Education, Bolling v. Sharpe, among other landmark cases.
In Gaza, during Operation Arrow and Shield, Israel conducted airstrikes on 142 terror targets. They included weapons storehouses, command-and-control centers, weapons production plants, rocket launching pads, fighters’ hideouts, terror tunnels, and more. In five days of fighting, according to the figures given out by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 22 PIJ fighters were killed, and 11 civilians died. Of those eleven Palestinian civilians killed in the conflict, four – one adult and three children – were killed in Gaza when PIJ rockets misfired and fell short, landing in the Strip; another Palestinian, who had been working in Israel, died when hit by a PIJ rocket. That leaves exactly six civilians who were killed by Israel in the five days of fighting. Meanwhile, the PIJ hurled more than 1,400 rockets into civilian areas of Israel. One Israeli woman was killed. There are two reasons that more Israeli civilians did not die. First, Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system had a 95% success rate in intercepting, and destroying, incoming rockets. Israel’s David’s Sling defense also intercepted a mid-range missile headed for Tel Aviv. Second, almost every Israeli multi-family dwelling, and many single-family residences, too, have small rooms made of reinforced concrete that are used as bomb shelters, to which Israelis can run whenever an alarm goes off signaling an incoming attack.
Fatima Mohammed’s unhinged denunciation of “Israeli settler colonialism” and of CUNY’s collaboration with “the fascist N.Y.P.D.” especially infuriated many, leading to front-page headlines including the New York Post’s “Stark Raving Grad.”
Fatima Mohammed claimed that Israel “rains bullets and bombs on worshippers.” What can she be thinking of? She has things topsy-turvy. Where are Palestinian worshippers being shot at or bombed? The only “worshippers” who are being attacked are Jews. On the Temple Mount Jewish visitors need to be accompanied by armed guards in case Palestinians decide to throw rocks and fireworks at them. The Palestinians also rain down rocks and bottles, when they can, on Jewish worshippers praying far below at the Western Wall. If the Israelis had been “raining death” on Palestinian worshippers, they certainly weren’t doing a good job of it – not a single Palestinian worshipper was killed by the IDF during Operation Shield and Arrow.
Israel, far from “indiscriminately raining bullets and bombs” on Palestinians, takes enormous pride in the precision of its pilots, hitting their targets while minimizing collateral damage. Israel is also known for the elaborate efforts it makes to minimize civilian casualties in another way. When a target is going to be hit, and the Israelis know there are civilians in the same building as, say, a command-and-control center, or a room full of rockets, the IDF makes great efforts to alert civilians to get out. It telephones the civilians, sends emails to them, drops leaflets in the area, and even uses its celebrated “knock-on-the-roof” technique to communicate the need to get out fast from areas, or buildings, about to be targeted. It is this effort by the IDF to minimize civilian casualties that led Colonel Richard Kemp, the commander of British forces in Afghanistan, and the veteran of a half-dozen other conflicts, to describe the IDF as “the most moral army in the world.”
Ritchie Torres, the Democratic Congressman from the Bronx, who is many shades darker than the “white” Fatima Mohammed prating about “white supremacy,” offered on Twitter the best comment of all on the obsessive antisemite:
“Imagine being so crazed by hatred for Israel as a Jewish State that you make it the subject of your commencement speech,” Mr. Torres wrote on Twitter last week. “Anti-Israel derangement syndrome at work.”
After what amounts to her declaration of war on Israel, on the NYPD, and on the Law itself as a vehicle for maintaining “white supremacy,” is there any lawyer, or law firm, that would hire her as an associate, or any judge who would employ her as a law clerk? Let us hope not. In the end, she may have to settle for being hired by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to spread the same antisemitic message. After all, they deserve each other.
THE QUR'AN IS ABOUT AS SACRED AS HITLER'S MEIN KAMPF
Thousands of Iraqis Protest, Storm Swedish Embassy over Qur’an Burning
BASRA, Iraq (AP) – Thousands of followers of a firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric rallied in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning the burning of a Qur’an during a protest in Sweden earlier this week. Some of the demonstrators called for expulsion of the Swedish ambassador from Iraq.
At the rallies in the capital of Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, a cleric with a large grassroots following and political leader, burned Swedish flags and rainbow LGBTQ+ pride flags and chanted “”Yes, yes to Islam” and “No, no to the devil.”
Supporters of Iraq’s Sadrist movement march with banners during a protest in Basra on June 30, 2023, denouncing the burning of Islam’s holy book in Sweden. (Photo by Hussein FALEH / AFP) (Photo by HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)
Addressing the crowds in a speech in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, Friday prayers preacher Sayyid Sattar Batat, called on Iraqi authorities to “if necessary, expel the Swedish ambassador and cut all diplomatic relations with them.”
The protests came a day after hundreds of protesters briefly stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad.
Supporters of Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr, demonstrate inside the courtyard of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad after they breached the building briefly over the burning of the Koran by an Iraqi living in Sweden, on June 29, 2023. The demonstrators, entered the building and remained inside for about 15 minutes before leaving peacefully as security forces deployed. (Photo by Ahmad AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
On Wednesday, a man who identified himself in Swedish media as a refugee from Iraq burned a Qur’an outside a mosque in central Stockholm.
An Iraqi security official said the man was an Iraqi Christian who had previously fought in a Christian unit of the Popular Mobilization Forces, a collection of mostly Shiite militias that were incorporated into the country’s armed forces in 2016. The official spoke on condition of anonymity under regulations.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ – JUNE 30: Followers of Shia Leader Muqtada al-Sadr gather to protest the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, by an extremist in Stockholm, on June 30, 2023, in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Swedish police had authorized the protest, citing freedom of speech, after a previous decision to ban a similar protest was overturned by a Swedish court.
The act, coming during the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, drew widespread condemnation in the Muslim world. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday suggested that the incident would pose another obstacle to Sweden’s bid for NATO membership.
Iraqi officials have called on Sweden to extradite the man who had burned the Qur’an for prosecution in Iraq.
Taliban Top Dog Insists Women Have it Great in Afghanistan
Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, turns out to be an Afghan Chris Rock. On Sunday, he released a message asserting, contrary to all appearances, that his government is working to improve the condition of women in Afghanistan. The very fact that the condition of women in Afghanistan needs improving is all the evidence we need to establish that Akhundzada is not being entirely honest since the condition of women in Afghanistan is largely due to the actions of the Taliban. Akhundzada is apparently trying to capitalize upon the ignorance of Westerners in order to keep the foreign aid flowing, and given European and American officials’ eagerness to be fooled, it just might work.
The Associated Press reported Sunday that Akundzada’s message claimed “that his government has taken the necessary steps for the betterment of women’s lives in Afghanistan,” regardless of the fact that “women are banned from public life and work and girls’ education is severely curtailed.”
The shadowy Akhundzada, whom AP says is “an Islamic scholar” who “rarely appears in public or leaves the Taliban heartland in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province” and who “surrounds himself with other religious scholars and allies who oppose education and work for women,” said in his message for the upcoming Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha that under Taliban rule, women have been freed from “many traditional oppressions, including forced marriages, ‘and their Shariah rights have been protected.’”
That’s cold comfort. Under Sharia, men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience” (Qur’an 4:34). Sharia also stipulates that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man (Qur’an 2:282). It allows men to marry up to four wives and have sex with slave girls also (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). Women have no equivalent right.
Sharia also rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter (Qur’an 4:11). It even allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” (Qur’an 65:4). Islamic law devalues women to the extent that it says a man’s prayer is annulled if a dog or a woman passes in front of him as he is praying. (Sahih Bukhari 1.9.490).
As the Taliban adheres strictly to Sharia, being barred from getting an education and holding a job is the least of their worries. Akhundzada, however, insists in his Eid letter that “necessary steps have been taken for the betterment of women as half of society in order to provide them with a comfortable and prosperous life according to the Islamic Shariah.”
A comfortable and prosperous life? Really? Akhundzada “appears to have taken a stronger hand in directing domestic policy, banning girls’ education after the sixth grade and barring Afghan women from public life and work, especially for nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations.” These bans are viciously enforced: one Afghan earlier this month registered his disapproval of girls getting even a primary school education by poisoning eighty girls at two schools in a northern Afghan province.
Even before they were fully ensconced in power, the Taliban made their opposition to women working quite clear. Last May, Khatera Hashmi, a woman who briefly served as an Afghan police officer, recounted her ordeal at the hands of the Taliban, “I made the decision to join the Afghan police. The Taliban started calling and threatening me due to their opposition to a woman being police personnel. The incident happened in the early months of 2020 when the Taliban were rapidly advancing to take over Afghanistan. I was pregnant at that time. One day, when I was walking home from the police station, they attacked me. My body was struck by 9 bullets, in addition to 10 knife stabs. They also cut out my eyes after I passed out. When I awoke five days later, everything was pitch black. I had absolutely no vision. I was only able to work as a police officer for three months, and I wasn’t even able to view my first paycheck.”
Banking on your not knowing about such incidents, Akhundzada declared, “The status of women as a free and dignified human being has been restored and all institutions have been obliged to help women in securing marriage, inheritance and other rights.” Akhundzada has some job security: if for whatever reason his Taliban gig falls through, he can always hit the comedy club circuit. But what he’s really trying to do is keep the aid money flowing in.
The UN just cut a billion dollars from the humanitarian aid it sends to Afghanistan, and with good reason since most aid money sent there ends up in the hands of the Taliban. Old Joe Biden and his henchmen, however, are still sending hundreds of millions of our money to Kabul. With a man as dedicated to human rights as Hibatullah Akhundzada in charge, what could possibly go wrong?
Eritrean Migrant Jailed for Life Over Murderous Knife Attack on Teen Girls Walking to School
BERLIN (AP) – A man who attacked two girls and killed one of them in Germany last year was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported.
The 27-year-old Eritrean, who came to Germany as an asylum seeker, was found guilty of murder and attempted murder with dangerous bodily injury, a regional court in the Bavarian city of Ulm ruled.
The man attacked with a knife the two girls on their way to school last December in the southwestern town of Illerkirchberg. A 14-year-old girl died and her 13-year-old friend was able to escape.
The morning attack on the girls as they were walking to catch a school bus caused widespread shock and anger in Germany.
The court also determined the man’s “special gravity of the guilt,” meaning that his early release from prison after 15 years, which is often the case in Germany when people are sentenced to life in prison, is almost impossible.
Christine Williams Video: The Christian-Muslim Alliance against the LGBTQ++ Agenda
Is the "alliance' unified on the cause of religious freedom for all?
Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America, recently interviewed Frontpage Editor Christine Douglass-Williams about the aggressiveness of the LGBTQ++ agenda that is being opposed by Muslims and Christians, but is there more that we should be watchful of than meets the eye? Is this alliance unified on the cause of religious freedoms for all?
PREAMBLE:
As the alliance between opponents of the aggressive LGBTQ++ agenda and Muslims grows, Westerners have been quick to see that Muslim groups get the results that Christians have been unable to gain so effectively on their own. Christians are generally not confrontational and are easy targets, as we saw in Alberta, Canada, when Pastor Derek Reimer was thrown in jail for “hate” after protesting a drag show for kids at a local library. Greater awareness about the alliance with Muslim groups is prudent. While Christians and Muslims can agree about the abhorrent imposition of the trans agenda, as well as the open nudity and vulgarity of some members of the LGBTQ++ community, there are other points of divergence that should be considered.
To start with, in the coverage by mainstream media — which is notorious for its lack of knowledge about Islamic tenets and laws — some have been describing Muslims who oppose the LGBTQ++ agenda as “conservative Muslims.” The term “conservative Muslims” has nothing to do with Western notions of conservatism and/or partisanship; it has everything to do with a Muslims’ level of dedication to Islamic law (the Sharia), and is a term usually reserved for describing the likes of Iranian mullahs, the Taliban and Salafists in general. The misuse of the term “conservative Muslims” in the mainstream media creates the deceptive impression that these Muslims are supporters of Western conservatism or parties that support conservatism. Most of these activist Muslims against the LGBTQ++ agenda are more likely still Democrats or Liberals, given the long established Islamic/Left alliance. There are indeed some Muslims who are aligned with Western conservatism.
Also, aside from questions of partisanship, not all Muslims ascribe to Islam’s supremacist tenets, or support the murder or punishment of gays; however, such liberal-minded Muslims are not regarded by the mainstream as Muslims at all, but as apostates who have shunned the divine Sharia. Some Muslims, despite being shunned by the authorities of normative Islam, are indeed allied with Westerners who are fighting for the freedom of religion, as enshrined in American and Canadian constitutions.
As stated in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Under section 2of the Charter, Canadians are free to follow the religion of their choice. In addition, they are guaranteed freedom of thought, belief and expression. Since the media are an important means for communicating thoughts and ideas, the Charter protects the right of the press and other media to speak out. Our right to gather and act in peaceful groups is also protected, as is our right to belong to an association like a trade union.
But the focus of this Preamble and of the interview below is not the Muslims who stand in unity with non-Muslims for religious freedom and equal rights for all. The focus is on those Muslims who are aligned with Sharia tenets, held by those ranging in beliefs from that of the Iranian regime and the Taliban, to the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Westerners need to be aware that the LGBTQ++ woke aggression will be used and is being used as a launching pad for the expansion of the scope of the Sharia.
A new document, Navigating Differences: Clarifying Sexual and Gender Ethics in Islam, was endorsed by over 300 Islamic scholars and preachers across North America. While one may be quick to support it at first blush, it explicitly lays out the normative Islamic position on sexuality and gender ethics in Islam. It unequivocally states this about Allah:
God says, “It is not for a believing man or woman—when God and His Messenger decree a matter—to have any other choice in that matter” (Quran, al-Aḥzāb:36). By submitting to God, we declare that only He possesses absolute knowledge and wisdom. Therefore, it follows from this submission that the ultimate source and basis of morality is Divine guidance, not just reason or societal trends.
This is non-negotiable, immutable and supremacist. This new document proclaims Islam above all as a basis for confronting the LGBTQ++ agenda. It is hence not a document that fights for the freedom of religion across the board.
In this new video, Frank Gaffney interviews me about the encroachments upon religious freedom from an aggressive element within the LGBTQ++ community and how Muslim communities have joined in opposition to this agenda, but we also address the nuances, which requires diligence as we labor to protect religious freedom across the board. Normative Islam, after all, does not support the freedom of religion.
Another issue discussed (first on the recording): Sweden’s prime minister vows change in his country’s migration policy to the “EU’s strictest” amid soaring violent crime rates.
Christine Douglass-Williams is Associate Editor of Frontpage, regular writer for Jihad Watch, a nine-time award-winning journalist, past Canadian government appointee to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Office of Religious Freedom; author of "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam" and "Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam".
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