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August 29, 2004

Iraqi Militants Hold 2 French Journalists

A new dilemma for the French.

From the Washington Post:

Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq and said they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves in schools, according to footage aired Saturday by an Arab TV station.

The station, Al-Jazeera, said the group gave the French government 48 hours to overturn the law but mentioned no ultimatum.

Posted by Robert at August 29, 2004 2:33 AM
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When the dhimmi government of a dhimmi nation dares to affront the followers of the messenger (mhrih) of allah, they will be treated as what they are: self-made dhimmis that are losing their country. (What would Charles Martel say? Or the Frankish Holy Roman Emperor Carolus Magnus? All their efforts to defeat the accursed Saracen were in vain?)

Will the head scarves be allowed again? Or will the dhimmis remember that they once ruled much of North Africa--when they were not afraid of the Moslems that now menace them?

Posted by: unicorns62000 [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 4:10 AM

New weblog by female ex-Muslim:

http://ibn_rushd2.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Ali Dashti [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 5:57 AM

UH-OH seems that turning your nose up in the air and showing your back side does not work.

I anxiously await France's response to this scenario although I have a feeling as to the response that will probably focus on the fact that France is not involved in Iraq and that the free lance photographers now kidnapped went there on their own accord thus allowing no precedence to the demand.

Posted by: Chuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 6:04 AM

France backing off on the issue of headscarfs, I think, would pretty much make them appears Fools to the entire world. It certainly wouldn't help their standing or hopes in the EU.

Scratch two French journalists. The really bad part? We'll never get to hear the final thoughts of those two, as the Leftist government they were so proud of sells them out to maintain its last shred of 'intergity.' I'm sure it will have been a learning experience about the ideaology they (and their compatriots over here) espouse.

Posted by: Gary [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 7:25 AM

Finally, the Muslims respond to the headscarf ban! Will the French stand up to them, or will they be like Spain, and appease? Stay tuned.

Posted by: idontslam [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 8:47 AM

Whatever happens here, do not worry that this will spoil the cozy French/Moslem relations. The Moslems always have the option of denouncing the militants as Zioninst agents working for the Mossad.

Posted by: George R [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 10:27 AM

CAIR Canada made the Headscarf an issue for the Customs Officers at entry points in Airports,CAIR also posted a "Action-Alert" article about Canada's stand on religious dress in the Public schools system.
The Islamists are creating Muslim states by proxy,non-Muslims are treatened with death to allow Islam to be part of the Political system and
soon Shariah-Law will be active in Canada.
I believe the Hijab will be used in the Public schools to create tension which will justify another course on "Islamophobia" to be taught in
the classroom.
Don't be surprised if all girls are forced to wear a Hijab to not offend Allah's dress code,next femaloe teachers will be barred from
teaching Muslim students,then Morning prayer's will be mandatory to appease the Muslims,tyhen the pools and Gym's will be shut down and lunch rooms will have Halala only food to appease Muslims.
A well known Canadain Muslim is against funding for separate Muslim schools,he pretends to be fighting bigotry and ghettoizing of minorities,truth is,the Public system is the best way to teach Islam to non-muslims and do it through the guise of "Raciam and Islamophobia" ,I know this because it's alredy being done and is backed by Mosques and taught by Muslims in the classroom.
They teach that Muslims discovered American before Columbus,and that Muslims had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack,the media is against Muslims and Islamophobia has been around for 700 years. The courses refer to "white-people" as the Europeans,and the blacks as African-Muslims.
This attemp to poison children with a revised history just breeds hatred and anti-Americanism
which creates a future supply of Jihadists that
will blindly murder God's children for Allah.

Posted by: ala-sux [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 12:20 PM

Why not? This kidnapping thing seemed to work on shaping foreign policy in dhimmi countries, so why not domestic policy too? Of course folks seem to forget that the Madrid bombings were being planned long before the invasion of Iraq, so really what was that all about? Re-re-conquista? If so, we should probably expect that only the Basque culture will be left standing.

I expect in typical Vichy capitulation cum collaboration fashion, that the dhimmi French government will accede in some way to this latest threat, in what promises to be a long, long list of jihadi demands ad nauseum.

Posted by: Hulegu Khan [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 1:16 PM

Gosh! Scary but true. ala-sux puts it beautifully. And all this while the mainstream media resolutely ignores all this in a misplaced fit of political correctness!
Well, here's some good news though in a different context. Regarding the SwiftBoats stroy that big media was determined to ignore, the new media compelled the biggies to cover the story if only to deny it!
Read about it here
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/517dhjcp.asp?pg=2

Posted by: voletti [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 2:44 PM

ala-sux wrote:

"...truth is,the Public system is the best way to teach Islam to non-muslims and do it through the guise of "Raciam and Islamophobia" ,I know this because it's alredy being done and is backed by Mosques and taught by Muslims in the classroom."

It has been occurring here in the USA too. Read this link:

http://www.textbookleague.org/121slam.htm

William J. Bennetta (text book reviewer) should be praised for his work. I check his website on a regular basis.


Posted by: Moe's Foe [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 5:12 PM

Apparently French Government are in a state of CONSTERNATION, folks! Because they NEVER supported war in Iraq and spoke out VEHEMENTLY against this war...And for all this - two of their
journalists are seized by Islamic ingrates - Mon Dieu!! Think there may be some in Washington and
elsewhere having a wee chuckle at this Gallic indignation. Words 'I TOLD YOU SO,SUCKER' come to mind...

Posted by: Morgane [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 11:38 PM

Veiled Venus
By Sher Khan
MohammadJamal al Din takes a deep breath before he finishes the last stitch. He is a tailor by profession and faced no problem making a burqa for this marble statue.The 61/2 ft tall sculpture was the most recognizable works of art from the ancient world. The statue, with its elegantly twisted pose and missing arms symbolized the goddess of beauty and love. Former citizens of this country proudly named this beautiful lady,Venus de Milo. Current Islamic Government has decided to bring all statues of this country in one place and blow them into pieces. Problem arose when Mullah officials noticed the graceful body of Venus is half-naked. They ordered Mohammad Jamal al Din to make a burqa and cover up the whole body of Venus to ensure Muslims are not offended by seeing her unsheathed body while she is being moved.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/SherKhan40829.htm

This is not very far fetched. So throw away all the literature and arts and get ready cos here they come. Chirac had better make quranic studies compulsory so his people can adapt to the new culture.
BTW muslims are not permitted to eat frogs (amphibians)either. French had better do something about that too-someone please tell the Democrats.
O and another thing Chirac must intoduce wife beating immediately. Many women are getting out of line.

Posted by: hutchrun [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 12:22 AM

The nation of France has allowed a gang of Islamic thugs to dictate the dispatch of the French Foreign Minister to a war zone "to develop the necessary contacts there and coordinate our representatives’ efforts", so says Mr. le President!!!

Charles Martel is surely fallen from Paradise for cursing the present generation of cowards who now inhabit the land of his former glory. All that he has bequeathed is lost.

The only thing that will satisfy the jihadis is if Mr. Barnier has come to pay his jizyah while being struck like a disobedient dog by his new masters. The French will call it a "ransom", but those who are informed of the truth will know it for what it is, the accession of the French nation to its status as dhimmi. Through the office of the Foreign Minister the French nation formally surrenders to the fascists of jihad and proves as it did in WWII, that in France, la Liberte est mort encore.

It is perhaps ironically fortunate that France made the transition to the Euro as we would now all have to scrape off the words "liberte" and "egalite" from the edges of the franc coins.

Posted by: Hulegu Khan [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 1:16 AM

Le resistance is dead. The French are fat and lazy. Vichy France is back. Juden Raus. Get out while you still got the chance.

Posted by: hutchrun [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 1:31 AM

Le resistance is dead. The French are fat and lazy. Vichy France is back. Juden Raus. Get out while you still got the chance.

Posted by: hutchrun [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 1:32 AM

Le President is either himself brainwashed with the 'liberte et egalite' twaddle, or has since the beginning of his term been put in a difficult position of having to comply with it whatever the circumstances.

However, the situation is about as ominous as portrayed in the article referred to by Hutchrun (see above). It appears, nothing substantial can be done to halt the demographic and terror conquest of the European Dar al-Harb without the National parties taking the reins of power. To do so, that is, to turn them from leftist or 'radical' into government mainstream factions, we are likely to need sponsorship.

Who could have a hand in that? If you want my opinion, it's the Vatican with its vast money reserves. All it would take is ditching the blasted political correctness and dubious attempts to appease Islamist aggression.

Posted by: Nikoz [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 8:10 AM

I'd like everyone to pay attention to the following.

They've made the page on victims of Islamic violence unavailable at Yahoo! GeoSites. Please, check out whether it's so.

http://www.geocities.com/arabracismplusjihad/Victims

Posted by: Nikoz [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 8:35 AM

Not Available.
Another attempt at sounds of silence. Yahoo supports Islamic violence then?

Posted by: hutchrun [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 8:50 AM

“Mr Duplicity”, PA/PLO “President” Yasir Arafat, has emotionally requested the kidnappers of the French journalists in Iraq to release their captives. Greatly buoyed up by a recent visit from the FM of France, M. Michel Barnier, this is ONE MORE of shifty Arafat’s “political” ploys, seeking a shot at openly resuming his over-lengthy career in prevarication, subterfuge and TERRORISM.

There was fleeting news yesterday evening of gun-battles in Lebanon’s UNWRA-run Ein el-Hilwe “Palestinian Refugee Camp”, between elements of Arafat’s personal Fatah gunmen and those of Anfal el-Ansar - allegedly related to el-Qaeda - which established a strong base in the “Camp” several years ago and has been operating out of it, largely unhindered, ever since.

In ordering his Fatah militiamen into action there, the odious, ever-deceitful Arafat, is soliciting to re-ingratiate himself with the USA by expelling a detachment of Osama bin-Laden’s terrorists from his “PA-controlled territory”, thus “amply proving” his own “anti-terrorist” credentials. (Mr Kerry, whom Arafat’s counting upon seeing in the White House in November, scarily, COULD WELL BUY this further ruse of his: another step in - insanely - “rehabilitating” him!)

This incident - not the first of its sort in Ein el-Hilwe, there’ve been a few previously in the last couple of years - ought not necessarily to be read as a preliminary of the impending “Palestinian” civil war, but instead as nothing more than an opportunistic gambit by that pathological narcissist, Arafat, to return to strutting (and declaiming his lies) on the international stage.

Ironically, though there’s NOT liable to be any Peace for Israel eventuating from Arafat ever being loosed on the scene again, the total horror of the “Palestinian”civil war will be DELAYED if, indeed, the obscene Arafat CAN re-emerge into the lime-light (as he so slavers to do), plus it can hypothetically be held off for as long as he’s basking in it.

Meanwhile in “poor Palestine”, the constituents for internal chaos would continue to mount inexorably, festering, gathering in tension (and poison) till their brutal product’s freed to explode in every direction, as soon as Yasir Arafat’s THROUGH. The looming, full-scale conflict there won’t erupt in its PEAK, unbridled violence - feeding ferociously off the armed anarchy that’s bound to engulf the West Bank and Gaza Strip - until Arafat’s FINALLY GONE permanently.

Several urgent regional and multilateral problems could be resolved forthwith, if the Angel of Death, should swoop on the vile, repulsive, genocidal Yasir Arafat, in Ramallah TONIGHT.

However, it’s unlikely that Peace will promptly spring into life with his demise. Following his most welcome departure, in a flash there’ll be a power-vacuum in Gaza and the West Bank, with a wild plethora of contenders hastening to fill it (or lucrative sectors of it, anyway). The rivals for a nice piece of “Palestine” will no doubt find that this can be secured exclusively BY FORCE, wielded against their competitors. The consequent frictions, once no “ultimate authority” (as Arafat views himself) is around, unchecked, will dash them headlong, irrevocably into civil war.

This won’t be the clash of Cavaliers and Roundheads in 17th Century England, Whites versus Reds in post-Czarist Russia, Blue versus Gray in America, Spanish Loyalists and Nationalists, the Marians and Sullans of the Roman Republic, etc (except, possibly, towards its culmination).

In the INDEFINITE interim-period, the strife’ll be closer in kind to that of Beirut in the 1970s and ‘80s, than to any of the fighting in the civil wars above. With a host of power-claimants in “Palestine”, there’ll be the ongoing, bloody grind of a mess of Arab factions, gangs and mafias - “political”, paramilitary, feudal, criminal, et al - set squabbling voraciously, for years, over the rancid spoils of their increasingly-ruined West Bank and Gaza Strip, “brother” killing “brother”, before two major opponents can crystallize, to battle it out in their Endgame….

Posted by: HGII [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 7:02 PM

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