Why is the Anglo media portraying France as the villain? - "When Charlie Hebdo was struck in 2015, France was defiant. When blood soaked the floors of the Bataclan later that year, France despaired. Now, after seeing a schoolteacher assassinated for simply doing his job, for doing what the Republic asked of him, France is furious.For France, the time of hashtag solidarity and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” has passed. After years of terrible bloodshed on its streets, the usual lines and excuses are well worn out among French audiences. Now, France is clearly staking out its position: that the jihadist terror they’ve endured — more than any country in Europe — is a product of the growth of Islamist ideology inside its own borders, and the cultural chasm it creates... According to expert Gilles Kepel, whose thinking is influential on Macron, the Islamist ecosystems thriving in the banlieues are inculcating children with a sense of hostility towards French values and culture. By the time kids make it to school, they are caught in a disorientating riptide between Islamists and the state school system’s efforts to impart the values of secular France. Whether one agrees with Macron’s proposals or not, as these kids emerge into adulthood, the potential for an unprecedented social rift could prove a looming disaster for the Republic. When Samuel Paty was decapitated in the street in broad daylight for trying to teach his students a civics lesson, the New York Times ran with the woefully misleading headline “French Police Shoot and Kill Man After a Fatal Knife Attack on the Street”. The attack — in which the assassin who had just cut someone’s head off was shot by gendarmes — was awkwardly framed through the lens of liberal America’s anxieties over police violence, and it didn’t get much better from there.In Le Monde, Hugo Micheron, a leading jihadism expert, slammed “hallucinatory” American coverage, writing that: “the progressive media appear uncomfortable with the facts. In the New York Times and the Washington Post, the two most influential newspapers on the left, the term ‘jihadism’ never appears.” Indeed, in some American coverage there is barely an admission that Islamic extremism is a real problems confronting France. The term “Islamism” is rarely found, unless directly attributed to Macron, as though a mere figment of his imagination. The American coverage, Micheron wrote, “illustrates the ongoing polarisation of American politics, and an increasingly distanced relationship with freedom of expression”. As other articles bizarrely warned of rising nationalism and a French “crackdown on Islam,” President Erdogan was launching his own international version of the agitprop campaign that got Samuel Paty killed, this time against the entire nation of France. Commenting on the media amplification of Erdogan’s portrayal of France as hostile to Muslims, prominent journalist Caroline Fourest told me: “This is American soft power helping Islamist soft power.” In an interview with L’Express, Fourest said: “The Anglo-Saxon press does not care. It understands nothing about the French situation and only reflects the American situation… The cultural misunderstanding runs deep.. It’s a form of cultural imperialism, a desire to push the French model into the American.” Fourrest is not the only one to complain of cultural imperialism. There is a sense in France that ideas largely imported from elite US university campuses — the likes of intersectionality and identity politics — run counter to French universalism and undermine France’s efforts to tackle its unique social challenges in its own way. To then be hectored by liberal America on how to do community relations on top of this unwanted ideological import, especially in 2020, has left a sour taste in the mouth... Erdogan has accused Macron of mental instability and compared the situation of French Muslims to that of Jews in 1930s Germany (notably, Paris’ Grand Mosque vehemently disagrees), yet the early silence from the British Government compared to other European leaders was deafening, and certainly not lost on French diplomats.France has just witnessed one of its schoolteachers decapitated for blasphemy in the street in the year 2020, yet it is somehow coming out of this situation as the menace, the deliberate provocateur bringing all this violence on itself. This is despite most of the appalling atrocities France has suffered having nothing to do with Charlie Hebdo whatsoever. France is its own country with its own history and its own complex challenges, and it has every right to defend itself against Islamist subversion and jihadist atrocity. While the accusations of colonialism and islamophobia are expected from Imran Khan and Erdogan, perhaps not so from France’s friends. The next time our countries face these horrors — which we will — no doubt France will be more generous and understanding with us than we have been with her."
Rishi Bagree 🇮🇳 on Twitter - "Apologist speaking notes
1 #FranceBeheading is not about Islam - AL Jajeera
2 Killer was mentally unstable - BBC
3 The Killer has no religion - CNN
4 "Minorities" fear backlash - The Time
5 Misguided Youths - The WaPo
6 Right Forces will gain from #NiceAttack - Liberals"
Yet liberal keep claiming that when a Muslim kills people it's automatically labelled terrorism by the media, and that it's only mental illness when it's a white guy
This is Al Jazeera actually
Egypt says freedom of expression 'stops' when Muslims offended - "Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday freedom of expression should stop if it offends more than 1.5 billion people, following the display of images in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous... The Grand Imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar university, one of the world’s most eminent seats of Sunni Muslim learning, also called on the international community to criminalise “anti-Muslim” actions... Turkey’s leader Tayyip Erdogan has called for a boycott of French goods and Pakistan’s parliament passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris."
It is telling that being anti-Islamist is seen as being anti-Muslim. This suggests that Muslims think there is no difference between Islam and Islamism
Pakistan PM accuses Macron of attacking Islam by 'encouraging' blasphemous cartoons - "“Sadly, President Macron has chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims, incl his own citizens, through encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam & our Prophet PBUH,” Khan said on Twitter."
Not obeying Islamic law is Islamophobic>
Poll shows 57% of young Muslims in France believe Sharia law more important than national law - "the majority of Muslims under the age of 25 (57 percent) believe Islamic law to be more important than French law in France – an increase of 10 percent since 2016. About 38 percent of French Muslims overall felt the same. Meanwhile, only 15 percent of the Catholic population believe that their religious laws should come before French law... Of the 515 French Muslims who took part in the survey, 66 percent opposed the right of teachers to show caricatures of religious figures to their students. French people overall (75 percent), including Catholics (80 percent), overwhelmingly supported the right of teachers to show the images... Further examples show Muslims being overwhelmingly in favor (81 percent) of specific hours for women to use municipal swimming pools and the teaching of Arabic in public schools. French people have generally been fiercely opposed to both notions."
Liberal logic: some Catholics believe that Catholic laws should come before French law. Therefore it's Islamophobic to say that it's a problem that so many Muslims believe that
Turkish jihadists terrorize the French city of Dijon - "More than 250 people carrying Turkish flags called for violence against Armenians. Turkish racists could be heard shouting "Where are you, Armenians?", "We will kill the Armenians" and "Allahu Akbar" as could be seen in the videos posted on social media."
French moderate imam requests extra police protection amid death threats over support for Macron - "One of France’s highest profile imams has appealed to President Emmanuel Macron for increased police protection after receiving “thousands” of death threats over his condemnation of terrorist attacks.Hassen Chalghoumi, imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy and a leading Muslim moderate, said he had received a torrent of new threats since he spoke out against the beheading of a French teacher last month... As president of the Conference of Imams of France, Mr Chalghoumi has worked to improve relations between Muslims and Jews. He supports France’s ban on the face veil and has called for tolerance of caricatures of the prophet.The 48-year-old Tunisian-born imam has lived under police guard since Islamic State called for his “execution” following the 2015 Paris attacks. He now believes the danger has risen sharply with the surge in threats on social media."
Chechen teen who beheaded French school teacher buried with honours - "A teenager who beheaded a French school teacher in a killing that convulsed France has been buried in his native Chechnya after his relatives repatriated his body, a local human rights expert said on Monday.Abdullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old male born in Muslim-majority Chechnya, was shot dead in October by French police after slaying middle school teacher Samuel Paty in a suburb of Paris... Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s leader, has criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s handling of the killing, accusing him of inspiring terrorists by justifying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as protected by free speech rights."
Tunisian man beheads woman, kills two more people in Nice church - "A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday before being shot and taken away by police... the suspect in Thursday’s attack was a Tunisian man born in 1999 who had arrived in Europe on Sept. 20 in Lampedusa, the Italian island off Tunisia that is the main landing point for migrants from Africa. A Tunisian security source and a French police source named the suspect as Brahim Aouissaoui."
Clear evidence of racism and islamophobia!
Visegrad 24 🇨🇿🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰 on Twitter - "The Chechen refugee who decapitated a French history teacher in a Paris suburb on Friday after he showed a caricature of the prophet Muhammad to his pupils. was initially refused asylum by Poland."
Based Poland
Douglas Murray on Twitter - "Europe must strengthen border controls after attacks, says Macron"
"Imagine if someone had thought of this earlier. What might they have been called?"
Leftists are already slamming Macron as racist, so
Terror Might Be Unstoppable But France Has Awoken From 'Virus of Political Correctness' - Ex-Mossad Spy - "It is almost impossible to eradicate the lone-wolf terror attacks currently sweeping France, thinks a former Mossad operative, simply because it is extremely tough to penetrate the minds of thousands of radicals across the nation and track them down... In a country where ten percent of the population is Muslim and where radical ideas are often dispersed in mosques, sports, and cultural centres across the nation, that prediction is alarming...
'"France and the entire world are waking up. In 2015 [during the wave of terror attacks - ed.] Paris was cautious about calling those assaults Islamic terror. Now it is changing. The virus of political correctness is gone and people are no longer shy to spell it out".'"
Mark Hughes - "Justin Trudeau compared drawing a cartoon and then getting beheaded to yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre. I think people would be less upset if he replaced “fire” with “Allahu Akbar.”"
France’s love affair with decapitation - "Not only has the official response to the appalling murder of the teacher expanded France's extant official Islamophobia (the closure of mosques has been one of the many measures taken), but this white-supremacist response also includes Interior Minister Darmanin's moves to close down the organisation that monitors French Islamophobia, the Collectif contre l'islamophobie en France (CCIF). Thus, Islamophobic acts and crimes will continue to be committed by the French government and the white supremacist French public, but no French organisation will or can be allowed to record and register these grave violations of the rights of France's Muslim citizens. Macron has recently insisted that French Muslims must give up their ways to be true French citizens. He proposed a law to create a new "French Islam" to combat what he termed Muslim "separatism". This is a typically racist, Christian-centric and laic — in short, French — response to the non-Christian communities in the country... Today, Macron wants to de-Islamicise French Muslims, just as Napoleon insisted on de-Judaising French Jews, as a condition for their citizenship or to criminalise them and have the state and French racists hound them. The knife attack on two Muslim women in Paris a few days ago is but one example of what the French racists are capable of. Blaming all French Muslims and Islam itself for the teacher's beheading is itself the height of official French Islamophobia. Would it then be fair, in light of the French government's reign of terror against its Muslim citizens, to blame every French person for the horror of what their country visited upon its non-white subjects from the 18th century onwards, including the decapitation of numerous brown and black people around the world? If the Chechen immigrant's horrific crime should remind us of anything, it is that decapitation is a quintessential French political tradition... contrary to Macron's assertion that it was another Muslim act that sought "the destruction of the republic", the Chechen immigrant's horrific murder of Samuel Paty showed that there was at least one Muslim in France who was assimilated fully into the Republic's bloody culture."
Predictable, but still depressing
Macron launches crackdown on 'Islamist separatism' in Muslim communities - "France has struggled with homegrown Islamist militancy for years, but Macron’s government is increasingly worried by broader signs of radicalisation - often non-violent - within Muslim communities, French officials say.They cite the refusal of some Muslim men to shake women’s hands, swimming pools that impose alternate time slots for men and women, girls of as young as four being told to wear full-face veils, and a proliferation of ‘madrassa’ religious schools... More than 250 people have been killed on French soil over the past five years in attacks by Islamist militants or individuals inspired by jihadist groups... Macron said Islam and radical Islamism should not be conflated and that he wanted an “enlightened Islam” in France"
Islamophobia!
Humanists UK - Posts | Facebook - "What the attack on Vienna shows is that those who tried to put the blame on France for its secularism, love of satire, or tolerance of blasphemy, were wrong.Austria has no concept of laïcité and already strictly enforces a blasphemy law to protect Islam from satire or criticism. It has used this law in recent years to punish people who 'insult' Muhammad.There is no appeasing religious fanatics. The only thing that will pacify violent extremists (of any stripe) is victory. This we must not give them."
Presumably Austria's sin was in not welcoming even more 'refugees'
The age-old tension between Islam and France - "In 1798, Napoleon embarked on the first French invasion of Egypt since the era of the Crusades. He prepared for it with his customary attention to detail. Conscious that he was travelling to a predominantly Muslim land, he sought to make a careful study of Islam. Top of his reading list was, of course, the Qur’an. Raised as he had been to view the Bible as the archetype of scripture, he found it a surprising text. The character of Muhammad’s revelations, he realised, was radically different from that of the New Testament.The Qur’an did not content itself with what Napoleon had been brought up to think of as “religion”. Its scope was much broader than that. From fiscal policy to sumptuary laws, it offered prescriptions for entire dimensions of what, in Europe, had long since come to be defined as “secular”. Napoleon, sorting out the library in his cabin, duly catalogued it, not under “Religion”, but under “Politics”... In 1854, when the Ottoman Empire was facing a critical threat from Russia, France joined Britain in insisting as a condition of its entry into the Crimean War that the slave trade across the Black Sea be abolished.Also abolished was the jizya, a tax on Jews and Christians that reached back to the very beginnings of Islam, and was directly mandated by the Qur’an. Such measures, to the Ottomans, risked immense embarrassment. The effect, after all, was to reform Islamic jurisprudence according to the standards of non-believers. It was, for Muslim traditionalists, an ominous straw in the wind... Governments across the Islamic world began to adopt constitutions that directly contradicted what Muslims had always believed was the perfect and eternal law given to them by God. Simultaneously, they began to sign up to international bodies that, despite their claims to neutrality, were shot through with the ideological assumptions of the West. The most significant of these was the United Nations, which in December 1948 issued a definitive statement of its guiding principles: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.This, which claimed in its preamble that acknowledgement of “the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world”, was in reality not at all as ‘universal’ as it affected to be. Standing recognisably in a line of descent from the proclamations of the French Revolution, it served as well as a repudiation of some of the more foundational assumptions of Islamic theodicy. The concept of human rights was an alien one to Islam. Muslims, traditionally, had not believed in natural law. There were only laws authored by God. The insistence of United Nations agencies on “the antiquity and broad acceptance of the rights of man” derived, not from the great inheritance of the Sunnah, but from the philosophes of the 18th century. Tellingly, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had been signed — where else? — in Paris... In 1791, when the revolutionary state granted citizenship to Jews, it had done so on the understanding that they abandon any sense of themselves as a people set apart. No recognition or protection had been offered to the Mosaic law.The identity of Jews as a distinct community was tolerated only to the degree that it did not interfere with the shared civic identity of all Frenchmen and women. “They must form neither a political body nor an order in the state, they must be citizens individually.” Today, in France, Muslims are expected to subscribe to a very similar orthodoxy. Islam as it was classically understood — a framework for regulating every aspect of human existence – could have no place in a country proud of its secularism: its laïcité... The roots of the Western concept of the secular — as Napoleon’s reaction to the Qur’an suggested — reached back much further than the Enlightenment. “Not just religious; it is civil and political. The Bible only preaches morals.” Napoleon’s appreciation of the fundamental differences between Christian and Islamic scripture was one that Muslim scholars — those few who could be bothered to read the New Testament — had been struck by too.Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval historian, noted with surprise that the Gospels consisted largely of sermons and stories, “and have an almost complete lack of laws”. It was this lack, in the opinion of medieval Muslim jurists, that served to condemn Christianity as an inadequate and superceded revelation. Unlike the Jews, who at least had a written law from God, Christians were forever changing their minds, devising new law codes, revising the ones they already had. How were such people possibly to be taken seriously?The charge is the same that prominent Islamic radicals today level against the secular order of the West, and against those Muslim states that ape it: that they are taking earthly legislators as their lords rather than God. More clearly than many in the West itself, they have recognised the Enlightenment, not as an emancipation from Christianity, but as a mutation of it. That there is a distinction between twin dimensions called “religion” and the “secular”; that humans enjoy universal rights; that the laws by which earthly states are governed should be authored by mortals, not by God: all of these were assumptions rooted, not in the Enlightenment, but in the deep seedbed of Christian history and theology."
So much for "universal values"
Proud of my son, says father of Pakistani man who stabbed 2 in Paris - "The father of Ali Hassan, a young man who stabbed two persons in an attack using a meat cleaver outside the former Paris office of the controversial Charlie Hebdo magazine last week, has said he is “proud” of his son. In an interview to the web-based channel Naya Pakistan, the father, whose name is not revealed, said his son has “done a great job” and he is “very happy” about the attack... Ali Hassan aka Zaheer Hassan Mehmood is accused of stabbing two persons believed to be working with the magazine... Back in Pakistan, the attacker’s father appealed to the Imran Khan government and other Islamic countries to help bring his son home. “I want to appeal to the Pakistan government to bring my son home. He has done service in the cause of Islam and we are a Muslim country”... “My son has the heart of a lion”"
Guess Ali is not "misled" because he is estranged from his family, which i no doubt the fault of white people
Sumisha Naidu on Twitter - "FLAGGED: After massive backlash, @Twitter flags Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad’s tweet that “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” as being in violation of Twitter Rules. It is no longer visible in his thread."
Facebook - "The best part about his rant is the part where giving woman the right to vote is the downfall of civility that lead to this Lololol"
Opinion | Malaysia's Mahathir : A moderate voice for Islam - The New York Times
Samuel Paty: French schoolgirl admits lying about murdered teacher - "Samuel Paty was beheaded in October after showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.The girl, whose complaints sparked an online campaign against Paty, has now admitted that she was not in the class... The 13-year-old girl, who has not been officially named, originally told her father that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave the classroom while he showed the cartoon during a class on free speech and blasphemy... As he had done in similar lessons on free speech in previous years, Paty warned students that he was about to show a depiction of Muhammad. He said anyone who thought they might be offended could close their eyes.The girl had originally claimed the teacher had asked Muslim pupils to leave the room. When she objected she was suspended from school, she said. It now appears that the girl was suspended the day before the class was given, according to Le Parisien newspaper, because of repeated absence from school.The girl explains in her leaked testimony that she made up the story so as not to disappoint her father... In a separate development, two university professors have been given police protection after they were accused of Islamophobia by student protesters.An investigation has begun after posters were put up last week at Sciences Po university in Grenoble that read "Fascists in our lecture halls, Islamophobia kills", naming the two professors. Junior Interior Minister Marlène Schiappa said their lives were in danger and the campaign was reminiscent of the harassment of Samuel Paty. "We can't tolerate this kind of thing," she said."
Samuel Paty murder: how a teenager's lie sparked a tragic chain of events - "The teenager said her history teacher, Samuel Paty, had instructed Muslim students to leave the classroom so he could show the rest “a photograph of the Prophet naked”... Paty is said to have invited Muslim pupils who thought they might be shocked to close their eyes or briefly stand in the corridor while he showed pupils a caricature of the Prophet.Two days later, the girl told her father that Paty, 47, had asked Muslim students to leave the class before showing the caricature. She said she had expressed her disagreement with the teacher and he had suspended her from classes for two days. After hearing the story, her outraged father, Moroccan-born Brahim Chnina, 48, shared a video on Facebook in which he denounced Paty and called for him to be sacked from the secondary school at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. A second, equally angry video was posted on social media accusing Paty of “discrimination”.Chnina complained to the school and the police, claiming Paty was guilty of “diffusing a pornographic image”, and sparking accusations of Islamophobia at the school.Once set in motion, the issue snowballed on social networks and reached Anzorov, 18, a radicalised Chechen migrant living in Normandy and scouring the internet for a cause. On 16 October, Anzorov travelled to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, paid two teenagers from the school to identify Paty as he was leaving for home on a Friday evening and beheaded him.The lie had led to the killing of a man and father of a five-year-old boy... The girl’s lawyer, Mbeko Tabula, insists the weight of the tragedy should not fall on the shoulders of a 13-year-old girl.“It was the father’s excessive behaviour, making and posting a video incriminating the professor that led to this spiral,” Tabula told the Parisien. “My client lied, but even if it had been true, the reaction of her father was still disproportionate.”Chnina, who is under investigation for “complicity in a terrorist killing”, told police he had been “idiotic, stupid”.“I never thought my messages would be seen by terrorists. I didn’t want to harm anyone with that message. It’s hard to imagine how we got here, that we’ve lost a history professor and everyone blames me.”"
French teacher's murder brings media terminology to spotlight - analysis - "The New York Times headline describing the incident was originally “French police shoot and kill man after a fatal knife attack on the street.”... There was focus on how the headline was a reminder of biased reporting against Israel over the years where murders have often been sanitized in headlines, or focus changed to Israeli security forces killing terrorists. These discussions raise several questions about how media frame stories about terrorism. Firstly, there are terms such as “militants” that are used to obscure what are generally brutal murderers. Then there is terminology such as “terrorist” or “violent extremist” used to describe certain attacks. There are questions about how victims and attacks are framed, such as criticism that purposeful attacks are described as “blasts” that “bomb buses” as opposed to naming the individuals responsible. These questions are important because the media often use different terms when describing other types of attacks. For instance, the ramming attack in Charlottesville in 2017 was described as a “white nationalist who killed a woman by ramming his car into a crowd” and headlines describe him as a “white supremacist.” In September 2020, a man was killed by police in a shootout in California. The headline said: “White supremacist killed in shootout.” There are also questions of religious and political motivations. A recent report in June by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that “violence by far-right groups and individuals has emerged as one of the most dangerous terrorist threats faced by US law enforcement.” The bifurcation of the terms “jihadist and right-wing extremists” is sometimes used by major media to create groups of extremists that use violence, without much thought or explanation given as to why “jihadists” are not defined as “far-right.” In another instance a New York Times opinion piece in February 2017 argued that “saying ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ isn’t enough.” The author, Richard Stengel, who advocated using more general terms such as “violent extremism,” noted that for years in the Obama administration, officials purposely avoided words that might link attacks to religion. Different countries use different terms; different media do the same. This leads to questions about how the media reports may downplay the severity of crimes or sanitize attacks. This sanitization works both ways. Some countries use the term “neutralized” to describe killing alleged “terrorists.” Some countries use terms such as “jihadist” and “Islamist” and others do not. There is often not much reporting on the actual statements of the murderers themselves. For instance, the use of beheading to kill the teacher in Paris is linked to many other beheadings which are the method used by religious extremists to kill people they term as the “kuffar” or infidels, who they view as sub-human. That means that the method of – in their view – “execution” is tied to the nature of what they see as a “crime” of blasphemy. In 2016, a priest in France was also beheaded in a church by two ISIS supporters. To ignore the obvious connection between numerous beheadings, or the targets of their attacks, is to ignore what they are trying to do: impose their extremist religious beliefs on a country. This is also why a Jewish school was targeted in Toulouse in 2012 and a kosher supermarket was targeted in 2015 by the same group that attacked Charlie Hebdo. It’s not a coincidence that Jews were targeted, because hatred of Jews is part of the worldview of hatred of “kuffar” as well as support for ISIS and the intolerance preached by the extremists who motivate the killers. That narrative is not widely dealt with in the media, which prefer the simpler story of a man who was radicalized, killed someone and was then shot by police – end of story. The problem with this coverage is that it would be like telling the story of lynchings in the US South by the KKK as a series of “extremists” killing “random people.” For instance, the 2015 attack on the kosher market in Paris was described by US president Barack Obama as “a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.” But it wasn’t random. Terming the systematic murder of African-Americans by the KKK as “random” would miss the nature of the terror campaign being conducted. The KKK sought out specific targets to spread fear, not just random people. The same methodology tends to underpin killings like the murder of the teacher. This leads to questions about whether calling the KKK “violent extremists” would be better than reporting more narrowly on its white supremacist motivations. “Religious supremacist” is a term rarely, if ever, used to describe the terror attacks in places like France, but at the root of beheadings is a form of far-right, religious, supremacist attacks."
Writer sparks fury after condemning 'brutal police murder' of Paris terrorist shot after beheading teacher - "Dana Nawzar Jaf - who has written for the New Statesman in the past - said he condemned the "senseless murder" of the Chechen fanatic who decapitated a teacher with a kitchen knife on the streets of Paris... "I fully condemn French police’s brutal senseless murder of the Muslim suspect last night. Macron and his security apparatus should explain to the public what was the need for the use of the disproportionate force against someone suspected of a knife crime. France is in crisis."... Dana Nawzar Jaf also added that showing such "disrespectful" caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed to Muslim children is "child abuse." He said: "Bullying Muslim children in the name of teaching them free speech has to stop.""
Roshan M Salih on Twitter - "#CharlieHebdo must be shut down immediately by French authorities. This racist, Islamophobic rag is causing community relations to completely break down with its repeated provocations. They are literally crying fire in a crowded theatre. Freedom of speech isn't worth civil war."
Facebook - "Progressive French cop (PFC): Why did you behead the teacher?
Terrorist: My religion dictates it.
PFC: I'll put you down for climate change.
Terrorist: No, my religion.
PFC: Trump pushed you over the edge?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
PFC: Toxic masculinity with a sprinkle of white supremacy?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
PFC: Islamophobia pushed you over the edge?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
PFC: Lack of art exposure coupled with poverty?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
PFC: American imperialism in Noble Lands of Peace?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
PFC: OK, so we may never know your true motives.
Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome kills. Read Chapter 6 of The Parasitic Mind."
Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons projected onto government buildings in defiance of Islamist terrorists
The same people who complain about this wear hijabs proactively in "solidarity" with "oppressed" Muslim women
Facebook - "Watching major media outlets publish articles in which French society is supposedly responsible for its own citizens being beheaded and murdered over cartoons is one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in the year 2020.  Lacité isn’t perfect - it would never work in the United States because our first amendment is so robust - but to think therefore it motivates people to cut off peoples heads reminds me of one of the greatest quotes by Orwell. “ There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”"
Hillel Neuer on Twitter - "What starts with campus slogans about words being violence and actual violence not being violence leads to a world news agency explaining how cartoons incite beheadings."
On AP
I ♥ Muhammad - Posts | Facebook - "If you love the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, do not use French products. Just 72 hours after the start of the campaign to boycott French products, the industrial stocks of many French companies have witnessed their worst weekly decline, and it is expected that the French economy will contract by 11% in 2020, according to the French Ministry of Finance. The boycott entered the dictionary for the first time in 1880 as a form of freedom of expression. #Boycott_French_Products #welovemohammadﷺchallenge"
According to these Muslims, being against terrorism is being against Islam
Hillel Neuer on Twitter - "What starts with campus slogans about words being violence and actual violence not being violence leads to a world news agency explaining how cartoons incite beheadings.
AP just deleted their tweet. Screenshots so you can see what I was calling out:
"AP Explains: Why does France incite anger in the Muslim world? Its brutal colonial past, staunch secular policies and tough-talking president who is seen as insensitive toward the Muslim faith all play a role.""
France's Macron vows to fight 'Islamist separatism' - "French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans for tougher laws to tackle what he called "Islamist separatism" and defend secular values. In a keenly awaited speech, Mr Macron said a minority of France's estimated six million Muslims were in danger of forming a "counter-society". His proposals include stricter oversight of schooling and control over foreign funding of mosques. But some accused Mr Macron of trying to repress Islam in France."
Muslim world needs no lecture from you about free speech, Anwar tells France’s Macron - "Freedom of speech is an essential value of Islam and the Muslim world does not need any more lectures about its significance, least of all from those who suffer from Islamophobia... France recalled its ambassador to Turkey after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested Macron undergo “mental checks” for his thoughts about Islam and its followers."
Good luck exercising freedom of speech in a Muslim country
11yo Muslim student threatened to behead teacher at Berlin primary school, teacher says - "The head teacher of a primary school in Spandau, Berlin has told German media that an 11-year-old Muslim pupil threatened to behead his teacher after defending the murder of Samuel Paty in France. Karina Jehniche, the head of the school, told Der Tagesspiegel that fellow students were stunned when they heard the pupil tell his teacher “I’ll do the same with you as the boy did with the teacher in Paris.” The pupil was also allegedly involved in an earlier shocking incident during a minute’s silence in memory of Paty. The 11-year-old reportedly told a fellow student that it was “OK” to kill someone “who had insulted the prophet.”... officials in France said that children as young as eight were under investigation for defending Paty’s murder at memorial services. Across France, according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, 66 inquiries were opened into alleged support of terrorism following the teacher’s murder"
France's Macron asks Muslim leaders to back 'republican values' charter
Indonesian Muslims ramp up global outcry against Macron the 'real terrorist' - "Thousands of angry Muslims protested outside the French embassy in the Indonesian capital on Monday carrying banners calling French President Emmanuel Macron the “real terrorist” and demanding the country’s ambassador be immediately expelled... the French president has enraged Muslims for describing Islam as a “religion in crisis all over the world” and for vehemently defending free speech that some have deemed blasphemous and inflammatory. Macron’s remarks came before and after two recent attacks in France. Last week a knife-wielding Tunisian man yelling “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in the French city of Nice. Two weeks earlier a teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old, who was apparently enraged that a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad had been shown in class."
French Soldiers Warn Macron of Civil War in Second Open Letter - "A group of active French military personnel has published a new letter to President Emmanuel Macron, warning him of a “civil war” in light of the “concessions” he granted to Islamism. The message, having since received more than 130,000 signatures of support from the public, was published in the magazine Valeurs Actuelles on Sunday and mirrored the message published by a large number of retired generals last month."
Macron accuses US media of legitimising terror attacks in France - "Emmanuel Macron has accused the press of legitimising terrorist violence in France by suggesting the country is racist and Islamophobia because of his stance on extremists... the French president had argued 'foreign media failed to understand 'laicite,'' or secularism, a pillar of French policy and society. Domestic support for a firm line on the need for all citizens, including immigrants, to embrace French national values is stronger than ever after the grisly beheading last month of teacher Samuel Paty, who showed his pupils controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a lesson on free speech. While paying tribute to the slain man, Macron defended France's strict brand of secularism and its long tradition of satire. 'We will not give up cartoons,' he vowed. He reiterated his point in an interview this month with Le Grand Continent, a French publication, in which he stated that, despite his respect for different cultures, 'I am not going to change our laws because they shock elsewhere.'... The Financial Times published an opinion piece by a correspondent that was titled 'Macron's war on 'Islamic separatism' only divides France further.' The paper later took down the column, citing factual errors... France has been hit by several major terror attacks in recent years... Attacks have also occurred in other countries amid the latest furore."
Ironically the accusations of racism and Islamophobia are ethnocentric but come from the people who accuse others of ethnocentrism
Can Macron stem the tide of Islamism in France? | The Spectator - "That Macron even gave an anti-Islamism speech was itself a sign of how fast the debate is moving in France. Five years ago, when Fox News referred to ‘no-go zones’ in Paris, the city’s mayor threatened to sue. Now we have an avowed centrist like Macron warning that the ‘final goal’ of the ‘ideology’ of Islamism is to ‘take complete control’ of society. Anyone making such arguments just a few years ago would have been condemned by the left as an extremist. Macron is promising a law on ‘Islamist separatism’, restricting home-schooling of Muslims and demanding that Islamic groups in receipt of French state funding will have to sign a ‘secular charter’. But if he’s serious, why stop there? A week before his speech, for example, there was a stabbing outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which France’s interior minister described as an ‘act of Islamist terrorism’ and a ‘new, bloody attack against our country’. It would be brave and powerful to put up a monument in memory of people who were killed by the Islamists while fighting for freedom of speech: perhaps a statue of the Charlie Hebdo team or my late friend Theo van Gogh. At the statue’s unveiling, Macron might refute the false notion — increasingly widespread today — that scrutinising Islamism and Islamists is an act of ‘Islamophobia’. Defending universal human rights is an act of compassion, not a ‘phobia’; failing to make this point only leaves an opportunity for the real bigots of the far right. In his speech, Macron also said that the ‘challenge is to fight against those who go off the rails in the name of religion... while protecting those who believe in Islam and are full citizens of the republic’. If he really means this, perhaps he could provide security and support to those French Muslims courageously speaking out against radical Islam? He could also support those French Muslims who seek to modify Sharia, historically contextualise the Sunnah (traditional Muslim practices) and establish a meaningful boundary between religion and state by challenging doctrinal purity. In the effort to combat the extremists, it is vital to distinguish the Muslims pushing for real change from the Islamists with silver tongues. A great many French Muslims are fighting against the Islamists, and Macron could do far more to support them... He might also strengthen immigration laws to ensure that French civic values are taken into account in admission decisions. Those admitted to the Republic from abroad should be told to embrace the French notion of social cohesion, which means they cannot embrace separatism or Islamism, or belong to organisations that do. Existing laws should be used more too. Not so long ago, an Algerian woman who refused to shake hands with male officials at a French naturalisation ceremony was denied citizenship as a result. Islamists can, in this way, be served notice that France is not their natural home."
Islam in 'Crisis All Over the World' France's Macron Says - " Share French President Emmanuel Macron Friday called Islam "a religion that is in crisis all over the world," in a speech addressing what he calls “separatism” in France’s Islamic community. In remarks delivered in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux, Macron said Islam is a religion in deep crisis worldwide, even in countries where it is the majority religion, because of “tensions between fundamentalism and political projects … that lead to very strong radicalization.”... The French president said in France there is a “parallel society” of radical Muslims thriving outside the values of the nation, a “separatism” as he describes it, that thrives in some neighborhoods around the country, where Muslims with a radical vision of their religion take control of the local population to inculcate their beliefs. But Macron said everyone can share in the blame for this so-called separatism."
Where’s the solidarity with France? - "Now I know what the term ‘victim blaming’ means... Why is President Macron saying that Islam in France needs reform, they’ve raged? Such behaviour creates ‘further polarisation’ which ‘inevitably leads to radicalisation’, said Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan, skating perilously close to saying that France brought the Paty atrocity upon itself. The victim, not the perpetrator, is the problem. In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose the aftermath of the slaughter of Paty to chastise France for disrespecting Islam. In response to Macron’s sensible, measured suggestion that Islam in France requires reform, and that any Islamic extremists who threaten ‘the republic and its values’ should be dealt with harshly, Erdogan asked: ‘What is Macron’s problem with Muslims?’ Macron is pursuing an ‘anti-Islam’ agenda, he said. He even suggested that Macron requires ‘mental treatment’ – which is actually in keeping with the idea of ‘Islamophobia’, which likewise depicts any criticism of Islam as a form of mental instability, a ‘phobia’, an irrational fear. Erdogan called upon Turks to boycott French goods. That’s right: mere days after France suffered an appalling atrocity, Erdogan was marshalling his population to punish France... proof of France’s ‘Islamophobia’ is that Macron responded to the murder of Mr Paty by clamping down on radical Islamist groups, even expelling some foreign-born extremists from France, and that some local authorities projected caricatures of Muhammad on to public buildings to express solidarity with Mr Paty. An official at the foreign ministry in Tehran says France is promoting hatred of Muslims under the ‘guise of freedom of expression’. A hardline newspaper in Iran depicted Macron as Satan. Protesters in Karachi have burned pictures of Macron. Why are so few political figures in the West commenting on the perversion of France being demonised in this way after it was attacked by extremists?... Close to 250 people in France have been slaughtered by radical Islamists over the past five years. Jews, including Jewish children, have been murdered by extremists. Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are on the rise... The idea that Macron’s concern about Islamist separatism is ‘Islamophobic’ only proves how cynically that term is used to demonise and censure anyone who wants to have an open, honest discussion about radical Islam, the crisis of integration, and the separatism unleashed by both identitarian and Islamist narratives in recent years... If only arrogant, liberty-obsessed Westerners would stop mocking Muhammad, then there wouldn’t be extremist violence, we’re told. You’re as likely to read this sentiment in a politely worded editorial in the New York Times as you are to hear it expressed at a febrile protest in Karachi... What this does, of course, is give Islamic extremists a veto over public debate. It says we must circumscribe public discussion of Islam in order to appease those who would murder us for criticising their religion. This implicit empowerment of terrorists to determine what is and isn’t acceptable discourse is promoted as much in woke circles in the West as it is in Islamist circles in the East... Where are our politicians in all of this?"
To liberals, whether you're a victim depends on whether you're one of their favored groups. So Muslims are the real "victims" after each Islamist attack
Given that what Western countries have been doing so far hasn't been working, clearly the solution is to double down and issue even more platitutdes
France teacher attack: Pupil's father 'exchanged texts with killer' - "The 48-year-old father, who has not been officially named, is accused of issuing a "fatwa" against the teacher... the French government ordered a mosque to close for sharing videos on Facebook calling for action against Mr Paty and sharing his school's address in the days before his death... Around 29% of Muslim respondents told a recent poll that Islam was incompatible with the values of the French Republic - a sharp increase over the past few years. And among those under 25, the figure was much higher."
Apparently 29% of Muslims in France are Islamophobic
France’s War on Islamism Isn’t Populism. It’s Reality. - "The coverage has puzzled if not angered French observers. An op-ed in Le Monde denounced a “disconcerting American blindness when it comes to jihadism in France.” Macron’s measures have frequently been analyzed through the prism of domestic electoral politics as allegedly trying to co-opt the far-right. But this analysis represents a gross misunderstanding of the French political reality. A recent poll on the upcoming French presidential election in 2022 shows a situation eerily similar to the one that prevailed in 2017, when Macron roundly defeated Marine Le Pen in the second round. The vast majority of French citizens feel deep concern over the situation. According to a IFOP survey last month, 89 percent of respondents considered the terrorist threat to be “high,” 87 percent that “secularism is in danger,” and 79 percent that “Islamism has declared war on the nation and the Republic.” Are these all National Rally voters? While pointing to a “crisis” within Islam, Macron was careful to distinguish the majority of French Muslims living and observing peacefully from the radical minority that poses a threat. The comparisons with far-right rhetoric, which precisely refuses to make such distinctions, thus completely miss the point... The term “separatism” was chosen concertedly. Scholars such as Gilles Kepel, who has been influential in Macron’s thinking, have documented that France faces a struggle with Islamism that extends beyond terrorism. The deeper societal challenge involves the growing influence of radical groups in certain neighborhoods that exist outside the state’s purview, a countersociety that operates at the expense of women, LGBT people, Jews, and many others. Kepel’s book Terror in France recounts the trajectory of figures like Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who killed seven people, including three Jewish children, in Toulouse in 2012. At the time, Merah was seen as the ultimate “lone wolf,” a former petty criminal-turned-radical, acting on his own, without receiving orders from an organized terrorist network such as al Qaeda or the Islamic State. But years of investigations showed a different picture from the convenient lone-wolf narrative. Merah was socialized in a radical ideology that was the norm in his direct environment. From his family to his friends to his mosque (that Islamic State leaders Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain also attended), Merah’s ideological surroundings laid the groundwork for his radicalism. Rather than look at individual profiles and the psychological underpinnings of radicalism, the French government wants to tackle the ecosystems that have allowed them to prosper. All this adds to many reports over the years of growing pressure on teachers trying to teach about the Holocaust, sex education, or even basic biology. In 2002, a book written by a collective of high school professors, The Lost Territories of the Republic, warned of alarming sexism and anti-Semitism in the French banlieues. A female professor interviewed by the Financial Times last month reported: “I don’t feel safe. If I have to show a film with a nude scene or a couple embracing, there’d be shouting, and not just the normal teenage stuff, real aggression, kids saying, ‘This is not OK. It’s not allowed.’” Male physicians have been put under pressure to avoid attending to female patients alone. Mayors have come under criticism for acceding to demands from religious groups for separate hours for women in public swimming pools. More recently, a group of Sorbonne scholars (a university not known for its far-right activism to say the least) led by Bernard Rougier published a series of empirical studies titled Territories Conquered by Islamism, warning that “Islamist networks have managed to build enclaves at the heart of popular neighborhoods.” Jews, who represent 1 percent of the French population but are disproportionally targeted by hate crimes (about 40 percent of attacks most years), have largely deserted these areas in the last decade. According to the jihadism scholar Hugo Micheron, currently at Princeton University, about 2,000 French individuals are considered to represent a direct jihadi threat; another 20,000 are monitored by French intelligence as potential accomplices; and a third, much larger group is influenced by Salafi ideals and is at threat of breaking away from French society. This third group is the one targeted by the new policy on separatism. Micheron quotes an influential 2016 study by Hakim El Karoui at the centrist think tank Institut Montaigne, estimating that 28 percent of self-declared French Muslims are seen as “secessionist,” according to which Islam becomes a means of self-assertion against French society. Similarly, according to the respected pollster Jérôme Fourquet, the author of the bestselling book French Archipelago, around 750,000 individuals show sympathy for radical ideology... A key fact often overlooked in this context is the diversity of France’s 5 million Muslims, of their political opinions, and of their religious practice. In public service, in the business community, in journalism, and in politics, a new generation of French citizens of multiple religious, ethnic, and social backgrounds are making a name for themselves. They often don’t want their public or political identities to be conferred by their religion. Other French people carry their religious identity more visibly, and that’s their full right, even if it is not always well received in a deeply secular, even atheist society. It is paradoxical that so many news outlets in the world claim to care for Muslims in France without giving a voice to the different opinions they have or even speaking with them. It is up to them, not Erdogan or Khan, to speak for their identity. Meanwhile, denouncing policies targeting Islamists as “Islamophobia” bundles all Muslims together with the radical minority that is precisely attempting to prevent their integration with society as a whole. It’s a trap. To name things wrongly is to add to the world’s misery, Albert Camus said"
Ironically the liberal impulse to dismiss Islamist terrorists as lone wolves runs counter to their penchant for social explanations. One way around this is to blame larger non-Muslim society rather than the Muslim ecosystem
In Open Letter To Muslim World, French Muslim Philosopher Says Islam Has Given Birth To Monsters, Needs Reform - "In an essay published October 3, 2014 in the French newspaper Marianne, French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar, author of Self Islam: A Personal History of Islam (Seuil, 2006); Islam without Submission: Muslim Existentialism (Albin Michel, 2008), and A History of Humanism in the West (Armand Colin, 2014), wrote that Muslims cannot make do with denouncing and repudiating terrorist barbarism, but must acknowledge that its roots lie within Muslim society, and especially within the Islam that is prevalent in the Arab world today. He points out that Islam, like all religions, has throughout its history been a source of much good, wisdom and enlightenment, but that today's mainstream Islam rejects the freedom and flexibility that are advocated by the Koran and instead promotes rigidity and regression that ultimately give rise to terrorism. The Muslim world, he concludes, must therefore reform itself, and especially its education systems, based on principles of freedom of religion and thought, equality, and respect for the other...
"Where do the crimes of this so-called 'Islamic State' come from? I'll tell you, my friend, and it will not make you happy, but it is my duty as a philosopher [to tell you]. The root of this evil that today steals your face is within yourself; the monster emerged from within you. And other monsters, some even worse, will emerge as well, as long as you refuse to acknowledge your sickness and to finally tackle the root of this evil! "Even Western intellectuals have difficulty seeing this. For the most part they have forgotten the power of religion – for good and for evil, over life and over death – to the extent that they tell me, 'No, the problem of the Muslim world is not Islam, not the religion, but rather politics, history, economics, etc.' They completely forget that religion may be the core of the reactor of human civilization, and that tomorrow the future of humanity will depend not only on a resolution to the financial crisis, but also, and much more essentially, on a resolution to the unprecedented spiritual crisis that is affecting all of mankind... it is the Muslim world's general state of profound sickness that explains the birth of terrorist monsters with names like Al-Qaeda, Jabhat Al-Nusra, AQIM, and Islamic State. They understand all too well that these are only the most visible symptoms of an immense diseased body, whose chronic maladies include the inability to establish sustainable democracies that recognize freedom of conscience vis-à-vis religious dogmas as a moral and political right; chronic difficulties in improving women's status...; the inability to sufficiently free political power from its control by religious authority; and the inability to promote respectful, tolerant and genuine recognition of religious pluralism and religious minorities... "Could all this be the fault of the West? How much precious time will you lose, dear Muslim world, with this stupid accusation that you yourself no longer believe, and behind which you hide so that you can continue to lie to yourself? "Particularly since the eighteenth century – it's past time you acknowledged it – you have been unable to meet the challenge of the West. You have childishly and embarrassingly sought refuge in the past, with the obscurantist Wahhabism regression that continues to wreak havoc almost everywhere within your borders – the Wahhabism that you spread from your holy places in Saudi Arabia like a cancer originating from your very heart. In other ways, you emulated the worst [aspects] of the West – with nationalism and a modernism that caricatures modernity. I refer here especially to the technological development, so inconsistent with the religious archaism, that makes your fabulously wealthy Gulf 'elite' mere willing victims of the global disease – the worship of the god Money. "What is admirable about you today, my friend? What do you still have that is worthy of the respect of the peoples and civilizations of the world? Where are your wise men? Have you still wisdom to offer the world? Where are your great men? Who is your Mandela, your Gandhi, your Aung San Suu Kyi? Where are your great thinkers whose books should be read worldwide, as they were when Arab or Persian mathematicians and philosophers were spoken of from India to Spain? You are actually so weakened behind [the mask of] self-confidence that you always display... You have no idea who you are or where you want to go, and it makes you as unhappy as you are aggressive... You persist in not listening to those who call on you to change by finally freeing yourself from the dominion that you have granted to religion over all [aspects of] life... In the Muslim world, there is only silence regarding this matter; in the Western media, they listen only to all those terrorism experts who increase the general myopia day by day. Do not delude yourself, my friend, by pretending that by eliminating Islamist terrorism we will settle all of Islam's problems. Because what I have described here – a tyrannical, dogmatic, literalist, formalistic, macho, conservative, and regressive religion – is too often the mainstream Islam, the everyday Islam, which suffers and causes suffering to too many consciences, the irrelevant Islam of the past, the Islam that is distorted by all those who manipulate it politically, the Islam that always ends up strangling the various Arab Springs and the voice of the young people who are demanding something else. So when will you finally bring about this revolution in society and conscience that will make spirituality rhyme with liberty?"
French academic: Create a Muslim state within France to avoid civil war - "Professor Christian de Moliner claims that a second society has formed in France, which he described as: “A branch that wants to settle their lives on religious values and is fundamentally opposed to the liberal consensus on which our country was founded. “We can never convert the 30% of Muslims who demand the introduction of sharia law to the merits of our democracy and secularism. “We are now allowing segregation to take place that does not say its name. Rather than veil the face or adopt unimaginable measures in democracy (remigration, forced evictions of the most radical), why not establish a dual system of law in France?” De Moliner writes that Emmanuel Macron winning the Presidential election will not make the problems disappear, it will only kick the can down the road. “We will never be able to eradicate the radical Islamism,” he says, adding: “While we are not yet at open war, the faithful of the Prophet are already regrouping in areas sometimes governed by special rules.” The academic’s ‘solution’ is to create a “state inspired by colonial Algeria and Mayotte of the twentieth century: one territory, one government, but two peoples: the French with the usual laws and Muslims with Qur’anic status (but only for those who choose it).”"
