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French mayor tried for saying large number of Muslims in his city was “problem”

Dec 22, 2016 7:51 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Another witch-hunt on a truth teller who is justifiably concerned about Muslim immigration into France. Even as Islamic jihadists cause problems all over Europe, no one is allowed to mention the fact. Notice that such a concern never comes up with other groups. As Robert Spencer has explained:

To emigrate in the cause of Allah – that is, to move to a new land in order to bring Islam there, is considered in Islam to be a highly meritorious act. “And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many locations and abundance,” says the Qur’an. “And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him, his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah. And Allah is ever Forgiving and Merciful.” (4:100) The exalted status of such emigrants led a British jihad group that won notoriety (and a shutdown by the government) a few years ago for celebrating 9/11 to call itself Al-Muhajiroun: The Emigrants.

“French Mayor to be Tried for Muslim ‘Problem’ Comments”, AFP, December 22, 2016:

(AFP) – A far-right French mayor will be tried on hate charges over comments that include a claim the number of Muslim students in his city was a “problem”, a judicial source said Wednesday.

Robert Menard, who is an ally of France’s anti-immigrant National Front party, will face a charge in a Paris court of incitement to hatred or discrimination, the source said.

“In a class in the city centre in my town, 91 percent of the children are Muslims. Obviously, this is a problem. There are limits to tolerance”, he said in September 5 comments on French news channel LCI.

Also in September, on France’s first day back to school, he tweeted his regret at witnessing “the great replacement”, using a term by xenophobic writer Renaud Camus to describe the country’s white, Christian population being overtaken by foreign-born Muslims.

Menard, who is the mayor of southern France town Beziers, denied his comments were discriminatory.

“I just described the situation in my town,” he told AFP. “It is not a value judgement, it’s a fact. It’s what I can see.”

According to France-based anti-racism group Licra, the trial is set for March 8.

Menard prompted outrage in October by putting up anti-migrant posters and calling for a local referendum ahead of the arrival of asylum-seekers in his town.

Under the headline “That’s It, They’re Coming”, is an image of a crowd of migrants, all of them men, outside the cathedral in Beziers.

It is reminiscent of a controversial poster created by leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, former head of Britain’s anti-immigration UK Independence Party (UKIP), showing a vast queue of migrants under the slogan “Breaking Point”….

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  1. marina says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    Another brave man. Europe needs more like him.

    • Panda says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 10:55 am

      Guess there is no longer free speech in France — if there ever was.

      As a side-note “his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah” — referring to those that emigrate to help the cause. Incumbent? And here I thot allah was all-knowing and all-powerful. Somehow I don’t think I can boss the Almighty around.

      Another idea shot …

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 4:33 pm

      Run him for French President!!! Get these people out of jail and into office.. Save France!! Where is the modern day Joan of Arc??

  2. mortimer says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:01 pm

    BRAVO, Monsieur MENARD, et encore BRAVO! Hip hip hooray for Mayor Menard!

    Robert Menard is obviously a real leader who DID HIS HOMEWORK ABOUT ISLAM, learning how Islam THINKS as well as how Islam ACTS (the strategy and tactics of jihad).

    Islam’s basic techniques are BAIT AND SWITCH. Muslims say one thing (‘religion of peace’) and then DO ANOTHER (political action of jihad).

    I don’t believe Mayor Menard is an anomaly either. I believe we have turned a corner in the counterjihad. From now on, the COUNTERJIHAD MOVEMENT we are in will begin to make victory after victory against SUPREMACIST ISLAM. Now is the time for all counterjihadists to take heart and speak out.

    At Christmas dinner this year, pray for the success of the COUNTERJIHAD and toast our great, brave leaders ROBERT SPENCER, PAM GELLER and many other HEROES!

    God bless them all!

    • EYESOPEN says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 pm

      Well said Mortimer. And a very Merry Christmas to you and all here at JW — and a Happy New Year!

    • jayell says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 1:11 am

      I don’t really understand this sort of situation, which is happening all over Europe. It’s what one might call ‘defeat syndrome’ similar to the sort of that happened in Nazi-occupied countries, where Quisling-type authorities would bow to the behest of their new masters and deal stasi-style with anyone who stepped out of line in the way that this mayor and others like Gert Wilders and Nick Griffin have been treated. The strange thing is that there hasn’t been a proper ‘conquest’ yet (as per Hitler & chums) yet here we are with the Quislings doing their (non-existent) master’s bidding completely against the will of the people, and with talk of wartime-like ‘resistance movements’. Proof that we now have war?

      • Real McCoy says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 10:20 pm

        The only solution is spread the ARMY in the streets.

    • Denny says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 10:18 am

      Excellent post. Merry Christmas. I must admit that I’m not as optimistic about the counterjihad in Western Europe as you but it is alive and strong in Eastern Europe. Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Poland are eliminating the assault on their cultures.

      • A Harris USA says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 4:35 pm

        As a daughter of someone from Eastern Europe, I can tell you there is not one drop of love for Islam in Eastern Europe!! Remember they had Soviet Rule for many years, they know hell when they see it!!

      • RL Robison says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 7:45 pm

        Denny…Eastern Europe also has had, historically speaking, the most recent encounters with and subjugation to Islam. How ironic that the last Islamic conquest of Europe was halted at Vienna’s gates, the same place where the current Islamic invasion is being met with collusion and apathy. It appears that when Western European nations joined the E.U. they gave up their will to survive along with their sovereignty.

  3. Lee Hicks says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    This weak face that western nations are showing will only aid the rise of the coming Islamic Antichrist, as he re-forms the old Ottoman Empire as a new Caliphate.

    There will be nations that won’t fold before Islam, but much of Europe isn’t looking too promising right now.

    Taking a supportive Dhimmi role to Islam only hastens their conquest of your nations.

    The coming Mahdi will be a regional warlord, likely controlling all of the original nations of the Ottoman Empire in his new Caliphate.

    Unless they wake up and recognize the threat that all of Islam poses, his reach may even extend into areas of Europe and England.

    This is a very important and critical time for the nations, as they will reveal whether they will be complicit in the Mahdi’s war against Christ and His, and also his war against Israel.
    Islam will ultimately be on the losing side of the coming struggle, and nations that are complicit with the Mahdi and Islam will lose more than those who are not.

    It’s definitely time for everyone to wise up and see the poisonous serpent of Islam for what it is, before you find yourselves on the receiving end of Allah’s corrupt influence.

  4. davej says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    When you cannot say a problem is a problem then Shariah has already won.

  5. blues4allah says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    Let’s see how this “trial” goes … I’m hopeful that the Trump/Brexit/etc. movement will spur more Euros to open their eyes. I have an 80 year old French friend who would see nothing wrong with Menard’s statement, but his cohort is quickly waning. I think after these next four years we’ll either see a slow deliberate reversal of the suicidal policies of (some) European nations … or we’ll be able to witness a true breaking point in the Islamazation of the continent. I guess I’m an optimist 🙂

  6. Shariafarts says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Why don’t we just all lay down and die then. They can rape and mutilate and bomb but shshs don’t say anything because we might offend the murderers. Am not going for it. Arrest me, arrest us all. Doubt there is one person here that doesn’t think, oh let’s see what will happen if the whole of France just puts their love of pislam on the internet. Holy cow.

  7. Thomas says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    Me thinks hate crime and hate speech laws contradict the rights and laws of free speech when the purported crime is nothing more than a verballly stated opinion and/or statement of fact or even fiction.
    Power given to any government to try and prosecute citizens who state opinions is nothing less than tyranny. Hmmmm, appears very similar to some parts of sharia law itself (ie Obey the caliph or off with your head).

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 5:28 am

      Hate speech laws do infringe an individual’s right to free speech and they were intended to do so. It is to his eternal shame that the poor excuse for a Prime Minister, David Cameron, enacted Britain’s hate speech laws when in office.

      • Carolyne says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 9:29 am

        Don’t EU countries have laws protecting free speech? To proscribe what one may say versus what one may do is not liberty.

        OK Europe, listen up: You are allowing your governments to take away your freedom to speak, to live where you wish, and to criticize them. You are being forced to hand your countries over to monstrous barbarians. Do Something!!!

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 4:40 pm

      Thomas, exactly!!! Remember that if one speaks out against the invaders then you must BE the EMEMY!!! Just as when Hitler took over Europe, speak out, and your done.. Islam is the natural friend of Nazi rule. Always has been always will be!!

      • RL Robison says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 8:31 pm

        A Harris….read your history and note the Islamic nations who were German allies in both WWI and WWII.

        But America and Europe need to take heed. The social upheaval and eugenics advocated by Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini is the same “liberal” philosophy held by Saul Alinsky and his admirers, the same philosophy being taught on college campuses throughout the West (now branded as “progressivism”), and the same philosophy held by many people holding or aspiring to high political office (Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and Angela Merkel are examples). It is this philosophy that is paralyzing the West, enforcing political correctness and stifling – even physically punishing – anyone (Geert Wilders and Robert Menard are examples) who dares to speak truth to power.

  8. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:54 am

    “…a charge of incitement to hatred or discrimination”?

    This is what the Koran, part of Islamic law, says (60:4):

    “….the best examples for you to follow. They told the people, “We have nothing to do with you…… We have rejected you. Enmity and hatred will separate us forever….””

  9. eur says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 3:15 am

    Today is the last day of school for children, it is typical that they go to school dressed in the traditional local costumes of this small part of Europe. There are black, Asian, native children … all mixed up, for them it’s a holiday. Do you know who are the only ones who are not dressed in traditional dress? Indeed, those of the religion of peace, love and tolerance. For them everything is lived from a religious point of view, if the natives do something is because it is our religion so they do not. Of religious has nothing, has transcended, children sing, play … but Muslims push to end this. Since small they teach them not to integrate. They have gotten the songs that sing the children where the word came to be changed and of course if any one makes reference to jesus, the wise men of oriente … nor to mention. Religious Fascism 100%

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 4:10 am

      Indeed, they teach their children not to integrate. This is Islamic Apartheid. More than that they actively instruct them to hate the non-muslims, the kuffar:

      “You should hate them, disown them and their religion and be proud of your religion.”
      From Alminbar.com

      “Allah (SWT) tells you to … hate those whom He tells you to hate … Therefore you must love the Muslims … and hate the kuffaar … .”
      From Muslims Against Voting

      http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/islam-instructs-hatred-muslims-speak

  10. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 4:43 am

    You can see this guy on YouTube personally telling “refugee” squatters they’re not welcome. He wears a sash of office while he does it. Très drôle!

  11. Tom from Brussels says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 4:43 am

    Robert Menard was charged following complaints from two organizations: ” The League against racism and anti-Semitism” and ” The movement against racism and for the friendship among people” . These organizations need “islamophobia” to validate their existence and do everything to counter self evident truths. They are however strangely silent concerning the very abundant cases of hate and attacks against Jewish people.The latest public opinion surveys show that Menard support in Beziers has increased by a significant amount.Lincoln was right: you can’t fool all the people all of the time.

  12. Marty says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 5:37 am

    Being English, I often find the senior French political classes questionable
    in their attitudes.
    However, this man is brave & wise. Like many French, he is proud of his culture,
    particularly so when the French drove back the mohammedan savages at
    the Battle of Tours in the Early Medieval period.
    The terrifying fact remains that 10% & growing of the French population is
    mohammedan.
    I used to drive through France many times for annual vacation in Nice
    & the South West.
    No more.
    The area is crawling with foreign, mainly arab, low life & aggressive begging is rife.
    I used to go to Nice Jazz Festival, this year, during the festival, a mohammedan
    coward mowed down innocent people on the Promenade des Anglais.
    Some festival goers were murdered.
    The cost of islam to the French holiday trade is massive.
    Notably to Paris where attacks on Western women by immigrants are a major, though rarely
    discussed problem.

  13. Dave Flang says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 7:15 am

    ALL Muslims must follow the Quran and therefore ALL are potential lone wolves.

    WWIII and Christmas celebrations turn into screams and sirens.

    Safety & Security Guidelines for Lone Wolf Mujahideen

  14. Lodeman says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 8:27 am

    Even Chaimberlin in the terrible shadow of WWI, with great reluctance, drew the line. I hope that we find a Churchill before it’s too late.

  15. Lodesman says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 8:34 am

    Even Chamberlin,in the terrible shadow of WWI, with great reluctance, drew the line. I hope that we find a Churchill before it’s too late.

    • john spielman says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 8:56 am

      we have, his name is TRUMP

  16. OhOneMoreThing says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 8:47 am

    The French Government has lost it’s moral compass. Muslims extremists are a problem. Every ordinary citizen knows this. Bravo for standing up to failed government.

  17. duh swami says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Yer not allowed to ‘slander’ Islam or any part of it…I thought everyone knew that…

  18. Angemon says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 9:55 am

    A far-right French mayor

    “Far-right”? But I keep being told over and over that the “far-right” are white supremacists – isn’t that gentlemen a bit too tanned to be a member of the “far-right”?

    Anyway, his trial is a sham. I hope at least he will be able express his defence to the whole country without being censored.

  19. quota raven says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:27 am

    “Under the headline “That’s It, They’re Coming”, is an image of a crowd of migrants, all of them men, outside the cathedral in Beziers.”

    I suppose this image was somehow faked? Posed? Dishonest, in some way? Staged?

    Right. Don’t believe your lying eyes!!!

    Cheers!

    quota raven

  20. Florida Jim says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:48 am

    This man should run as the French Trump and cleanse France and Europe.

  21. Louise M. says

    Dec 24, 2016 at 12:03 am

    Before the Muslim era, sponsored by the Globalists, telling the truth was rewarded…

    • quota raven says

      Dec 24, 2016 at 12:11 am

      To Louise M – Would you mid expanding a bit on what you mean by “…the Muslim era, sponsored by the Globalists…”?

      I make fuzzy connections, and any clarification would be appreciated.

      Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

      Cheers!

      quota raven

      • quota raven says

        Dec 24, 2016 at 12:12 am

        Oh, dear. Make that “would you MIND expanding…”

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