[ May 4, 2024 ]
Could it be that France, in the wake of the beheading of a schoolteacher for the crime of showing his class a Muhammad cartoon, is actually going to get tough against jihad violence?
There are some indications that it might actually take decisive action this time: AFP reported Monday that French police had “launched a series of raids targeting Islamist networks.” Meanwhile, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin vowed that there would be “not a minute’s respite for enemies of the Republic.” At least fifteen people have been arrested in connection with the murder of teacher Samuel Paty by Muslim migrant Abdullakh Anzorov, including Muslim leader Abdelhakim Sefrioui (who issued a death fatwa against Paty), four students whom Anzorov paid to point out Paty to him, and four members of the jihad murderer’s family. More arrests may be in the offing.
The arrest of Sefrioui is particularly significant. He is, according to AFP, “well-known to French intelligence, whose agents have monitored his statements and activities for nearly 20 years.” He has expressed “virulent anti-Zionism and antisemitism. In 2006, he campaigned on behalf of the presidential campaign of the comedian Dieudonné — who was recently banned across a host of social media platforms for his Holocaust denial and his crude antisemitism.” Not only that, but he has threatened to kill the imam of the Paris suburb Drancy, Hassen Chalgoumi, for not being bloodthirsty enough for Sefrioui’s taste.
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Yet until now, all French authorities have been doing is “monitoring” Sefrioui. For twenty years! Twenty years while Sefrioui preached jihad hatred; how many people has he influenced who are walking free in France today?
But now things are different, or at least appear to be. “We want to harass and destabilize this movement in a very determined way,” said an Interior Ministry source. Darmanin himself, meanwhile, “said the government would also tighten its grip on NGOs with suspected links to Islamist networks, including the Anti-Islamophobia Collective, a group that claims to monitor attacks against Muslims in France.”
President Emmanuel Macron affected a tough-guy pose, declaring: “Fear is about to change sides.”
Is it, now? All too many jihadis in France don’t seem to be taking the swaggering President seriously. On Wednesday, according to LaProvence, “an Avignon man” was arrested after “strolling drunk on the public highway, the man annoyed passers-by and residents, who alerted the police. A police patrol arrived at the scene and the troublemaker began to threaten and insult them and even shouted ‘Allah Akbar,’ threatening them with death.” The following day, Reuters reported that the Part-Dieu railway station in Lyon was evacuated after “ a woman carrying several bags had threatened to blow herself up and had shouted ‘Allahu Akbar.’”
Meanwhile, Marianne, a teacher in France says: “The death of 47-year-old colleague Samuel Paty is a loss on the front lines, at the front. Suddenly, we understand that we are doing a dangerous job. The day before yesterday, I didn’t think about it, and today it jumps out at me: we are potential targets.”
Another recounts: “Naively, last year, for my very first class on this subject [the freedom of speech], I decided to put my foot in the dish and broach the subject of the Muhammad cartoons. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite turn out the way I imagined….Whatever the profile of the students, there was an immediate consensus to say that we cannot touch religions. It hit me.” A Muslim student declared: “For several years, freedom of expression has been threatened because some journalists lack respect for religions and do not take into account the laws… If we go beyond the limits, there will be attacks.” What’s more, “faced with a video of French flags being burnt in Pakistan, most of the students applauded.”
Still another teacher in France stated that some Muslim students, even as young as sixth grade, “defend terrorists.” When a teacher brought up Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoons, Muslim students “exploded. They immediately insulted the newspaper; some even explained that they wanted blasphemy to be prohibited by law … And when I tried to argue with them, they tried to make me say certain things to trick me. I was no longer in control of anything.” When he showed a video of Muslims burning the French flag in response to the cartoons, “I thought I would make them think, but most of the students stood up and clapped….For many, Charlie is the symbol of what they see as a persecution of Muslims and that they call it ‘Islamophobia.’ They have a very confused political vision. To them Charlie is the far right. So, to fight against them, all means are legitimate. Insults are like violence. To disagree with them on this issue is to side with the ‘racists.’”
“Fear is about to change sides”? Really?
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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31 Comments
3 years ago
Till someone confronts Islam directly for what it is, nothing will change. Their empty rhetoric is like a dog chasing its tail. Exposing it for what it is, might also wake up the prayer mat warmers who just go along with it because their family and friends are Muslims and they don’t dare deviate, question it or too lazy to explore it beyond the verses they like.
3 years ago
far too many herds of useful idiots to change anything soon
3 years ago
Reply to
Wingnut
An ideology isn’t cutting throats, enslaving the kafir, persecuting/forcibly converting the kafir, waging war on the kafir (Armenia), it’s people called muslims, without them, islum would be just be the ugliest, bloodiest footnote to history.
3 years ago
3 years ago
They put away the free speech banners that were being paraded around for a week or two and once again are carrying “Refugees Welcome”.
3 years ago
Until there are deportations weather France, the US , Israel or anywhere else you are going to have an Islam problem. China is taking care of its Islam problem.
3 years ago
Reply to
D
Wholesale deportations is the ONLY way to purge your nation of the Islamic Scourge. Move them out . . . OUT!
3 years ago
Reply to
Don T
What do you do when you have a cancer you cut it out to let remain would be suicide .
3 years ago
Check out this site, ( Sebastian Gorka Fan Page ) , the article is a little ways down. They have a video where Biden admits to voter fraud.
3 years ago
Agence France-Presse (AFP) like AP, Reuters, WaPo, NYTimes, Huffpost and other Western news agencies/sources are packed with Muslims or their paid-off hacks to play down jihadi terror attacks and play up purported Islamophobia in the West so let’s forget about them starting to question Islamic motives in the West.
In Britain, Muslims have infiltrated every nook and cranny of society including the judiciary, bureaucracy, politics to further the Islamic agenda who make it virtually impossible to even deport a migrant or refugee convicted of heinous crimes like rape and murder.
The West has to be taken back one street at a time but it scares me to think it is too late for that.
3 years ago
Only if someone like Marine Le Pen wins office, will France wake up.
3 years ago
Reply to
victoryman
Thanks victoryman. I’ve followed her and her father’s political careers, and it’s been an uphill battle for them to get the French people to see the truth before it’s too late. If they don’t do something quick, the 5th Republic will be France’s last; and there won’t be a France to save.
3 years ago
Reply to
AncientOrthodoxEcclesia
You are SO right, AOE. France and many other counties have populations suffering from a virus even worse than the one from China….the virus called Apathy.
France is desperate for leadership and LePen would offer France centered leadership,
not seen since DeGaulle.
3 years ago
Any religion bold enough to put into print the assassination of anyone by fatwha, does not deserve to see the light of day.
Remember, during WW1 there was a fatwha upon all the enemies of Germany and during WW2 a fatwha issued by the obergrupenfurher El Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Palestine and commander of the Handschar islam division of SS in Kosovo at Hitler’s request. The Grand Mufti oversaw many war crimes but never was prosecuted.
The islam is the evil Jesus warned us about.
3 years ago
Reply to
Wingnut
The very FIRST islamic attack on Australian soil occurred during WW1, a couple of Turkish muslum “immigrants” to AUS went on a rampage killing unarmed picnickers: The Battle of Broken Hill.
3 years ago
“…a series of raids targeting Islamist networks”, yeah that’ll work….NOT.
3 years ago
Meanwhile …………….the ‘Yellow Vests’ protest about working longer hours.
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
Goodbye France, they’re done and allah I can see is that France’s present will be the future across the entirety of the dying, atheist West (incl. the USA).
3 years ago
One wonders where the idiot new generation of radical democrats get their brilliant ideas from
3 years ago
I like France, very much. I love my Renault Duster. It makes me sad to say this but I think France’s days as a free nation are numbered. They have let in countless numbers of muslims who will NEVER understand what France is or stands for. These immigrants will NEVER assimilate into French society, NEVER. They have allowed hundreds of “No-Go” zones which then aren’t really France anymore. They’ve made mistake after mistake. For all practical purposes it’s too late to save France. I cry for France. 🙁
3 years ago
Reply to
DonFrancisco
If you can’t publicly criticize the islamic death cult you are no longer free — you’re living under Shariah law.
3 years ago
So will those Of The Left in France now take note of what Marine Le Pen was telling them years ago because some of the rhetoric coming from that wee soy boy Macaroon is very similar to what Ms Le Pen was saying all those years ago. Will this beheading of a School Teacher be enough for them to take note of the destruction of France by savages that despise them, and yet living among them. Somehow I doubt it…
3 years ago
France would love to look at the world through the eyes of Napoleon, but in reality, they’re a bunch of Neville Chamberlains.
3 years ago
Twenty years, how pathetic the French governments have been. It’s no wonder the citizens have taken to the streets again,. Marcon is just the latest in a long line of useless politicians to disgrace the French people with their compilations to islam and the radicals that walk their streets in complete freedom to spew the disgust and hatred for the Judaeo/ Christian society that has given them those same freedoms
3 years ago
You expect action from a man who married his mother? (Age-wise.)
3 years ago
Meanwhile, in China, all terrorism has stopped, not counting State Terrorism. I wonder why….
