Biden Adm Allocates $223 Million For UN Agency That Promotes Jihad, Jew-Hatred In Textbooks
Raising the next generation of recruits for Palestinian terror.
President Joe Biden’s administration has allocated $223 million for the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a body which has a history of promoting terrorism and Jew-hatred among Palestinian children.
The Biden State Department raised the annual funding for the agency by $16 million, despite repeated reports showing that the UNRWA-run schools are used to indoctrinate Palestinian youth in the ideology of jihad terrorism.
The textbooks, generously funded by the U.S. and European countries, are designed to raise the next generation of recruits for Palestinian terrorist organizations, investigative reports show. “UNRWA teachers and schools regularly call for the murder of Jews and create institutional teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism, a recent report found,” the news agency Jewish News Syndicate noted June 25.
In 2018, President Donald Trump ended all funding for the UNRWA, rightly labelling it an “irredeemably flawed” organization. President Biden reversed the decision shortly after taking office, pledging $235 million for the UN agency in 2021. The U.S. pays nearly one-third of the agency’s $1 billion annual budget.
“Textbook incitement continues as US reaches peak support of UNRWA,” Ynet News, June 26, 2023:
The U.S. State Department announced Monday that the United States support budget for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will reach a record high of $223 million this year.
The increasing amount of support, which is $16 million higher than the previous year, solidifies Washington’s position as the largest donor to UNRWA. Former U.S. President Donald Trump halted all funding of the agency, but since the beginning of President Joe Biden’s term the U.S. has allocated almost a billion dollars to UNRWA.
The announcement of support for UNRWA comes despite the statements of Barbara A. Leaf, the U.S. assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, who criticized UNRWA. In a conversation with members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, Leaf said that the State Department is aware of ongoing reports of incitement to violence in UNRWA schools.
We have concerns about curricula or classroom instruction that promote violence and terrorism. It’s a work in progress, and we are committed to it,” Leaf said. However, she did not elaborate on how the State Department plans to address this issue….
REALITY: THESE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION FRANCE AND EU WILL IMPORT TO WORK CHEAP.
Poisoning the Next Two Palestinian Generations
Palestinian leaders do their Nazi job.
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
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?
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On Cam: Hundreds of Cars Gutted in France's Marseille; Nearly 3,000 Vehicles Torched Amid Riots
In France, Muslim Mayhem and (Attempted) Murder
Muslim migrants repay the French for their tolerance and inclusion.
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.
Watson Video: The Truth About France
"Largely peaceful" looting, arson, and violence.
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.
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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]
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 Macron begged 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.
The tinderbox that is ethnic relations in France burst into literal flames just hours after the killing and so far has seen over 1,000 buildings set on fire, 5,600 vehicles destroyed, and over 3,300 people — mostly teenagers — arrested since the riots began last week. Radical rioters even attempted a direct assassination against a mayor of a French suburb, injuring his wife and child as they fled for their lives.
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 tells Le 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! 🇫🇷
— LastKnightsTemplar ✝ 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 (@LeoLazio2) July 1, 2023
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" 🔥 #SaveTheWest pic.twitter.com/w6zk56owaS
SHOCKING: Race rioters chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they torch France, 719 arrestedhttps://t.co/nX0zvg6fdK
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 2, 2023
Allahu Akbar: France's Child Soldiers...
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) July 2, 2023
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
Image: Twitter screen shot
France on Fire
Muslim violence in France – and everywhere.
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 Ã…kelsson – who will say “enough is enough” and actually act on it.
Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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The Leftist-Islamic Alliance Makes its Move in France
An entirely foreseeable crisis.
[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
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.
Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur’an and The Sumter Gambit. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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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.
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
Hey, at least he has a sense of humor.
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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.
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