Is truth a defense? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as fabricating things and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); claiming that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more.
“Leading Jewish Scholar Prosecuted in France for Alleged anti-Muslim Remarks,” JTA, December 20, 2016:
One of the world’s leading historians on the Jewish communities in Arab countries is being prosecuted in France for alleged hate speech against Muslims.
The Morocco-born French-Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan, 64, is due to appear next month before a Paris criminal court over a complaint filed against him for incitement to racial hatred by the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, the group recently announced on its website.
The complaint, which leading French scholars dismissed as attempt at “intimidation” in a statement Friday, was over remarks about anti-Semitism by Muslims that Bensoussan, author of a definitive 2012 work entitled “Jews in Arab Lands,” made last year during an interview aired by the France Culture radio station, the Collective said.
The Collective based its complaint on two remarks by Bensoussan.
“Today, we are witnessing a different people in the midst of the French nation, who are effecting a return on a certain number of democratic values to which we adhere,” read the first quote flagged.
The second quote cited read: “This visceral anti-Semitism proven by the Fondapol survey by Dominique Reynié last year cannot remain under a cover of silence.” Conducted in 2014 among 1,580 French respondents, of whom one third were Muslim, the survey found that they were two times and even three times more anti-Jewish than French people as a whole.
“Besides, with the animosity toward the French nation, there will be no integration as long as we will not be rid of this ancestral anti-Semitism that is kept secret (…) as an Algerian sociologist, Smain Laacher, very bravely said in a film that will be aired on France 3, ‘it’s disgraceful to keep in place this taboo, knowing that in Arab families in France and beyond everybody knows but will not say that anti-Semitism is transmitted with mother’s milk,” the quote continued.
At least 12 people have been murdered in three attacks by suspected jihadists from France on Jewish targets in that country and in Belgium since 2012.
The anti-Islamophobia collective called Bensoussan’s statements “dangerous and in line with far-right rhetoric” targeting Muslims.
But three prominent French writers and historians — Jacques Tarnero, Yves Ternon and Michel Zaoui – disputed the allegations, calling the complaint against Bensoussan “scandalous.”
The cautions taken against Bensoussan “are part of a strategy of intimidation intended to censure any lucid statement, any form of criticism,” they wrote in a statement they published online last week….

eduardo odraude says
Maybe the West Europeans will have to experience real tyranny before they will have the sense to adopt the equivalent of a First Amendment protecting freedom of speech. If any European looks down on the U.S., just laugh at him, until Europe figures out that civilization worthy of the name requires robust freedom of speech.
john spielman says
Maybe, France ( and Germany etc ) need a new REVOLUTION SO THAT THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY IS DONE!
Rob says
It must be very weird for a child growing up in these times.
An imam screeches hatred in public and demands that Jews and Christians must be killed for their faith; and when someone comments that this is not right, the COMMENTER is charged with “hate speech”.
How does a human child make sense of this? How can (s)he ever develop a sense of logic and reason when reason itself is turned on its head by the very government which is responsible for education?
During the UK’s 20-year-long Rotherham Islamic Child-Sex scandal, a father took police to the flat where his daughter was being raped by a group of Muslim men; and asked them to save her from the paedophiles. He was arrested by those same police for inciting hatred against Muslims…
Are these the “Interisting Times” about which the Chinese curse spoke…?
Dave says
Eurabia
They are about to understand the gift that the UN & Brussels globalists have given them!!!!!!!!
Blood, death, rape, murder, slavery: SUBMISSION AKA ISLAM
Chana Sarah says
France had tyranny under Hitler. Obviously that was not enough.
gravenimage says
I wish Europeans *did* have a First Amendment.
IQ al Rassooli says
The French government – like most of the other European ones – is attempting to seal the vent of an active volcano: Europeans have at last realized how dangerous Muslims and Islam are to the survival of their cultures and future generations
The magma is brewing and the election of D J Trump has energized millions of Europeans to have a backbone, to raise their voices and not be intimidated by the criminal leftist elites
Georges Bensoussan will not be on trial because the corrupt and subservient French judges and judicial system that will be on trial since 2017 will be the TRUMPXIT of Europe and the overthrow of their regimes because the following are the irrefutable FACTS about Islam and Muslims~
Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of current humanity
Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough
Every Muslim is therefore a Time Bomb primed to go off
All other explanations are superfluous and redundant
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Pong says
I feel it is disingenuous to talk about militant, radical or moderate moslems. Every moslem authority states that there is no such things, islam is islam. From those statements comes up an obvious conclusion – a moslem is a moslem.
eduardo odraude says
I hope those bringing the suit against the scholar can be made to pay his court costs. Europe is now bringing top scholars to trial for their opinions? SHAME!
Marty says
Absolutely.
His comments were mild & I thought that France was a secular state.
eduardo odraude says
Actually, not only should the “Islamophobia collective” have to cover his court costs — the organization should have to pay punitive damages, some sort of massive fine for irresponsible and frivolous lawsuits.
CrankyWW says
Truth is the new hate speech.
Jaladhi says
Is this state of affairs coming to America – perhaps not with the Trump win to White House. It would have happened if the Democrats had won this election. What puzzles me is how the intelligent people go in denial when it comes to telling truth about Islam and Muslims! The West is committing suicide and doesn’t know it!1
missinfidel says
I marvel daily at the willful ignorance about Islam among otherwise educated people. It makes no sense to me.
Dave says
Part of the globalist plan, unleash the Rabin Muslim dogs to submit the population and use them to guard the slaves.
That’s why you believe what they say, main stream media is privately owned by the globalists
No other explanation can explain this insanity.
Lukas says
Many globalists were Jews, unfortunately, further used as a justification for jewish conspiracy theories which flirting on antisemitism.
gravenimage says
Actually, this has more to so with “political correctness” than with some secret plans to use the ‘poor Muslims’ to control society.
quota raven says
to Jahadi – don’t relax too much. USA has already implemented the atrocious (anti first amendment, anti free speech) “hate crime” designation for anyone who, in the commission of a crime, sez anything that offends anyone else.
As demonstrated by the noxious Collective Against Islamophobia in France illustrates, civil suits will follow anything thought to be “hate speech”.. You can’t think that this sort of lawsuit won’t materialize in the litigation-mad USA.
My question about designating a crime a “hate” crime is and has always been this: Who, exactly, has the ability and right to read the perp’s mind? “Hate crimes” already carry stiffer sentences. If a black guy sticks his tongue out or yells “Die, you cracker!” as he shoots a white man, is this a “hate crime”? The whole concept is counter-intuitive and toxic to anyone who holds freedom of speech and thought as a natural right, named and upheld by the US Constitution.
Welcome to post-Constitutional USA.
Cheers!
quota raven
quota raven says
Sorry – Make that “Jaladhi” qr
Pong says
“What puzzles me is how the intelligent people go in denial when it comes to telling truth about Islam and Muslims! ”
Intelligent people don’t do that.
common sense says
Hate is not a crime the elite snobs just want everyone to believe it should be while they perpetuate their own brand hate.
Trump does hate many things ABOUT or govt as do we all which is why he was elected. Flashes of anger are warranted and necessary that is the difference between us and them.
Islam obviously goes WAY to far, it is instructive and instinctive for them to naturally hate Jews and Infidels, its way beyond arrogance it is a deep seeded belief as Bensoussan suggests.
Muslims are offended by everything we are unless you submit to Allah, pay their Jizzyah or they get to kill you.
JW_reader says
I just checked the website for Collective Against Islamophobia in France. They are filling a class action law suite against one French Minister for merely saying that veiled Muslim women were comparable to Negros who were in favor of slavery. Negro is Spanish for black. Other than using Negros for Black, I do not see anything remotely objectionable. Off course, truth always hurt- but class action law suite? Muslims are like big babies, crying out loud any chance they get, just like their ideal man Mohamed.
Guest says
I don’t think the word is considered ‘racist’ in French. It is just the general word for ‘black person’. Nothing like the English status of the N word.
Richie says
and yet nothing happens to Muslims who call for Jews to be killed. Jews who complain about the death threats are the ones to get in trouble. Someone please explain the logic
Paul says
That’s how leftists think. There is no logical explanation.
Dave says
Globalists
Ciudadano says
“a strategy of intimidation intended to censure any lucid statement, any form of criticism”
Well, actually that is a good definition for Islamophobia
common sense says
And the ‘collective against Islamophobia’ (really?) is the most deeply offensive group of hypocrites that stands as a shield to ISIS, every other offensive Islamic group and life hating Muslims.
Tangata says
Ironic that a Jew is prosecuted for revealing the factual truths about Islam from its most fundamental traditions and sources… He is fighting for the survival of the Jewish community against the tide of riding Islamism in Europe… Islamism with a core of anti-Semitic and anti-Christian teachings and practices… Europe has gone altogether whacky.
Jack Diamond says
Jews are the majority target of “racist crimes” in France, thanks to the Muslim influx, to the point the military are required to help protect Jewish sites because the police cannot handle the threat-level alone. But Muslims are a protected class, officially anyway, protected from criticism, protected from infidels who refuse to submit to Islam’s prohibitions on free speech, even in a majority-infidel country. Protected exclusively from “thought-crimes” against them, though they be less than 10% of the population.
Jacques Ellul wrote in 1994 “In France it is no longer acceptable to criticize Islam or the Arab countries.” No longer acceptable now means legal jeopardy when stealth jihad groups like CAIF have the backing of French courts. That’s why Brigitte Bardot has been on trial five times for insulting Muslims, or inciting racial hatred or whatever they call it. Everyone has to speak in euphemisms about Muslims or Islam. Walk on eggshells. Officials have to refer to Muslim run neighborhoods (banlieues, such as Saint-Denis) as “Sensitive Urban Zones” even though police privately call them what they are, Sharia Zones.
The whispers and hushed tones are more befitting a tyranny, not the French Republic.
somehistory says
The wild beast from satan, trying to build its image so large and powerful as to eliminate any who tell the truth about how very evil it is.The false prophet, working hard at helping the beast.
Jesus Christ will eliminate the false prophet, beast and its image and throw their father into the abyss.
Davegreybeard says
@somehistory says
“Jesus Christ will eliminate the false prophet, beast and its image and throw their father into the abyss.”
With all due respect sh, Jesus Christ has had fourteen hundred years to “throw their father into the abyss” and as of yet there is no visible progress in this regard there is no evidence of this happening anytime soon.
It is well past time for CHRISTIANS TO GET OFF THEIR ASSES and proselytize the Muslims and expose the devil’s religion for what it is.
Champ says
“Jesus Christ will eliminate the false prophet, beast and its image and throw their father into the abyss.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Indeed He will, Somehistory! Hear, hear! 🙂
citycat says
@ somehistory
With all due respects, i’m just being logical-
that is
“aggression to a minority faith”-
ie Satanism.
Satanists worship Father Satan.
Satan is not Allah.
Satan is before Allah was created, possibly by pagans, i don’t think anyone really knows.
I don’t believe in any of it, except there is a spiritual power in the followers that is stolen by or given to the religion, and it would seem, sometimes at least, that the spiritual power of the followers is not properly respected by the leaders.
Just a thought.
Take it easy.
abad says
The Leftists in France, as pro-Islam, anti-Jewish as they are, seem to delight in shutting up people who say anything that they do not personally endorse.
Huck Folder says
Dreyfuss
Angemon says
Good to see some Frenchmen know their Niemoller.
RL Robison says
Georges Bensoussan, Jacques Tarnero, Yves Ternon and Michel Zaoui should all be congratulated and supported for having the courage and conviction to speak truth to power. And that truth is that there are magnitudes more anti-Semitic incidents taking place these days than there are anti-Islamic incidents,
The West has been asleep at the wheel and allowed our colleges to become hot beds of antisemitism, thanks to years of infiltration by Saudi cash and Islamic professors. Destroy from within is a tried and true tactic of war, and the Qur’an, Mohammad’s teachings and Islamic “scholars” all clearly state that war against nonbelievers will not cease until all nonbelievers are either converted or exterminated.
Renee says
La France est perdu.
France is lost.
Paul says
Maybe not. Maybe this will turn more people against the establishment.
Kepha says
Had I a farm, I would bet it that poor Dr. Bensoussan thought he was safe in France when he first landed there. This is an absolutely obscene miscarriage of justice. I hope, for the future of my country, that all American federal judges from AJSC Kaplan on down who ever supported “hate speech” codes get investigated, impeached, removed from the bench, and disbarred from ever practicing law in the USA.
For the whole election cycle in the USA, I’ve heard the Left screaming about the rise of American “Fascism”. Yet which side violently disrupted the other’s political rallies? Which side threatened and is threatening violence? While I think that the poor soul who burned that church down south and scrawled “Vote Trump” on the ruin and turned out to be a member of the same church was probably acting more out of personal and emotional motives than political ones, who has tried to turn this into a mini-Reichstag fire? Who slanders whose supporters for “hate crimes” to cover up staying out after parental curfew hours? I would also bet that the homosexual couple who harassed Ivanka Trump on the plane and tweeted their deed thought they’d get away with it because they were SOOOOOOO young and handsome. This is the sort of thing (along with conversion and the discovery of the pro-life movement) that moved my much younger self out of the politically liberal milieu in which I was raised.
Whatever disagreements I may have with Jews over whether M’shiach has come or not, I freely recognize that the Jews are not out to pick my pocket, break my leg, or wreck my country; and that they’ve been good neighbors, colleagues, friends, and patriots her in the USA. This is, to borrow an Ashkenazi-ism, “A viel Shvortser Tag” for civilization when the land of liberty, equality, and fraternity puts a man on trial for noticing something that has been too painfully obvious for far too long.
God grant that some French judge will see this injustice for what it is, and dismiss charges against Georges Bensassoun; and may he go back to a fruitful career of teaching and writing. I will also start looking for his works in translation (I read French slowly). Better yet, may it spur the French and other EUropeans to fight for freedom of speech and press throughout the old continent.
If that happens, one horrible, retrograde, utterly deplorable American fundamentalist Christian at least will be praying for such a European movement.
Richard Paulsen says
A new Dreyfus scandal. Has France not had enough? France must change and stand up for democracy.
annmarie says
The French need Marine Le Pen more than ever. She stands up for Freedom of Speech.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
mr spencer,the chief slave of the evil jews(i dont if you are a jew yourself)which of the evils mentioned in the verses you refered to that is not the characteristics of evil jews?you are telling us that even to say what jews truly are is anti-semetism and punishable under the law in jewish slave christian west.ask the so-called scholar if jews did not do all the evils mentioned in the verses.do you want the history to be erased?impossible! french govt is absolutely right to prosecute this evil man to show that france is geting out of the shackles of slavery from evil jews.let the united states remain slave territory for the jews.
quota raven says
Ibrahim – You really are one sick puppy!
Cheers!
quota raven
IQ al Rassooli says
ibrahim itace muhammed
Spoken like every vile Hatemongering, Irrational Despicable Muslim
Muslims have acute PHOBIAS of Christians Jews Hindus Buddhists Atheists Pagans and any none Muslim
So let me enlighten you and the JW readers ~
Dear Americans, you don’t need more than two brain cells of logic to understand Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~
Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of current humanity
Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough
Every Muslim is therefore a Time Bomb primed to go off
All other explanations are superfluous and redundant
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
quota raven says
Dear IQ – who greets ibrahim itace muhammed with, “Spoken like every vile Hatemongering, Irrational Despicable Muslim
Muslims have acute PHOBIAS of Christians Jews Hindus Buddhists Atheists Pagans and any none Muslim”
Agree with every word. Couldn’t have (and didn’t)))) put it better myself!.
Cheers!
quota raven
Ginger says
Oh, dear. Your very small brain has been thoroughly washed, otherwise you couldn’t possibly spout this gibberish.
RL Robison says
ibrahim itace muhammed…Where is your proof of the charges presented against Jews and Christians? Trot out your proof so that this forum discuss it.
Ginger says
What’s the betting there’s Soros funding for this group? It is incomprehensible that a French judge should allow this vexatious action to go forward.
Lukas says
Ironically several Islamist groups also despise Soros. And some other “Jews” as a pawn of a so called globalists-NWO conspiracy. And they believe those people will ultimately destroy Islam too (Not to defend islam as an Ideology here!)
NELSON says
THE FRENCH HAVE TURNED INTO A NATION OF LEMMINGS. THEY HAVE LEARNED NOTHING FROM THE PAST. WHAT A TRAGIC SHAME TO SEE EUROPE CRUMBLE AS DID THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
Rune Jensen says
What was the result of this?
Did he go free?
I really, really hope so. Else, you have a very huge problem.
I have studied islam. What I read here is very very alarming. It will not just go away, if you leave it alone, it will worsen. That is in the history of islam. You will have to fight it. And if nessesary fight with your life for your freedom. Vote for Le Penn. Anything that can help this situation not to escalate in the wrong direction. Do not lose Freedom of Speech. Just don’t.
gravenimage says
France: Jewish scholar prosecuted for hate speech for criticizing Islamic anti-Semitism
………………………
Suicidal madness.
This poor man. Truth is no longer a defense in much of the dhimmi West.