French journalist under police guard over her report on Islam in town where shops sell FACELESS DOLLS, restaurant has cubicles for women to eat and Muslim who spoke out was threatened with beheading

Will the islamophobia never end?

As the target of multiple assassination attempts, this is not new. Had the West stood up for its fundamental principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression in the wake of the global jihad movement, we would not be in the low state of the world we find ourselves in.

Anywhere Western law and Islamic law conflict, it is Western law that must give way.

Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.

If speech that offends a group is outlawed, that group has absolute power, and a free society is destroyed. A group that cannot be criticized cannot be opposed. It can work its will no matter what it is, and no one will be able to say anything to stop it.

The Muhammad cartoons were a flash point in the discussion about free speech because according to Islamic law they are blasphemy, punishable by death. Many have been killed over them. At issue is whether we will protect those who draw them and exhibit them, and thereby protect free speech and free society, or censor ourselves and others over them, thereby in effect adopting Sharia.

Inoffensive speech needs no protection. The First Amendment was developed precisely in order to protect speech that was offensive to some, in order to prevent those who had power from claiming they were offended by speech opposing them and silencing the powerless.

The Threat to Free Speech

French journalist, 34, is given police guard over her report on radical Islam in town where shops sell FACELESS DOLLS, restaurant has cubicles for women to eat and Muslim who spoke out was threatened with beheading

• Reporter Ophélie Meunier presents French documentary series Zone Interdite
• The recent programme looked at the impact of radical Islam in Roubaix
• She and witness Amine Elbahi have received death and ‘beheading’ threats
• The pair have been placed under police protection after Zone Interdite aired

By: Lizzie May For Mailonline, 31 January 2022:

French TV reporter Ophélie Meunier, 34, presents documentary series Zone Interdite, with the recent episode looking at the impact of radical Islamic influence in France

A journalist has been given police protection after presenting a documentary on the impact of radical Islam on a French town.

Ophélie Meunier, 34, has received death threats for her part in Zone Interdite, a hard-hitting documentary which focused on the poor northern town of Roubaix.

The programme highlighted a restaurant with cubicles for women to eat in, without being seen by men, and a toy shop which sold faceless dolls for Muslims who follow the Islamic ruling which forbids the depiction of facial features of any kind.

Officials shut down the restaurant featured, Le Familial, after the programme aired on ‘health and safety grounds’.

Locals of Roubaix argued that the cubicles were not just available to Muslim women, but to everyone.

It also brought attention to a local council payout of €64,640 (£53,715), granted to an ‘association’ to help teach poorer pupils in Roubaix, which was later accused by prosecutors of being used for offering Islamic education instead.

A Muslim lawyer from Roubaix, Amine Elbahi, who spoke out about radical Islam in the programme, has also been placed under police protection after saying he was threatened with decapitation.

Mr Elbahi, 26, appears in several sequences of Zone Interdite – translating to Restricted Zone – which aired on the private French TV channel M6.

He has told French news channel BMFTV that his phone number circulated on social media, and ‘several murder calls were broadcast’.

In a clip shared on Zone Interdite’s Twitter page, they show secret footage in a Roubaix toy shop of faceless dolls being sold in order to respect an ultra-radical version of Islam that prohibits the representation of human beings

‘I am threatened with beheading, slitting, attacking me because I held a speech of truth with my face uncovered, and in particular on the inaction of the mayor of my commune’, he said.

‘What I said upset people. Given the threats I am receiving my aim must have been right.’

Mr Elbahi tipped off the criminal investigation into Roubaix-based ‘association’ featured in the programme by M6, Ambitions et Initiatives pour la Réussite (Ambitions and Initiatives for Success).

His lawyer, Mr Jean Tamalet, says that Mr Elbahi received threats on social media, particularly on particular Twitter, but also texts, WhatsApp messages, and voice recordings.

In the threatening messages, he is described as ‘Kafir’, which translates to ‘nonbeliever’ or ‘infidel’ in Arabic.

‘Kafir’ has been a word used by supporters of ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other Islamic extremist groups, to refer to ‘Muslim and non-Muslim adversaries’ through ‘various propaganda materials’, according to the Counter Extremism Project.

Lawyer Jean Tamalet told AFP: ‘He is told that he is going to be beheaded and slaughtered. We won’t let a single threat pass.

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