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French President announces determination to fight “underground Islamism”

Mar 29, 2018 7:37 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The “rightwing Figaro daily” states rightly about France’s jihad problem:

With all due respect for the apostles of ‘living in harmony’, this virus is incompatible with our freedom to live, move and think.

French President Macron is in a bind between the leftists who elected him and what appears to be his new resolve to confront the Salafism that threatens France. Macron pledged to “to clamp down on Salafist mosques and imams” back in January, but how he intends to do so with Muslim lobbies and his leftist base eager to levy charges of “Islamophobia” at every turn remains unclear. If Macron is actually serious about identifying problematic preachers and mosques, he will be targeted as an “Islamophobic” leader.

Macron is between the proverbial rock and a hard place, pressed by an ever urgent public fearful about jihad, “right wing” opposition voices of reason, and the leftist-jihadist alliance that plagues all of Europe.

If France intends to “overcome” the “insidious enemy that is radical Islamism,” as the title below states, Macron’s strategy should begin with casting away political correctness and recognizing that Western laws are in place to protect everyone equally, not serve the interests of Islamic supremacist groups.

“France still wrestling with how to overcome ‘insidious enemy’ that is radical Islamism”, The Local, March 28, 2018:

French president Emmanuel Macron has denounced “underground Islamism” as a new row has again flared in France over how to counter the influence of radical Salafist interpretations of Islam. Some have called for an outright ban.

In the wake of Friday’s shootings by Radouane Lakdim, officials disclosed his links starting in 2013 with “the Salafist movement”, a Sunni Muslim branch originating in Saudi Arabia which promotes a strict conservative lifestyle.

While a majority of Salafists disdain violence as they adher to the fundamentalist traditions of “pious ancestors”, some of its followers embrace using force to promote their beliefs.

“It is not only the terrorist organizations, the armies of Daesh, the imams of hate and death that we are fighting against,” said French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.

“What we are fighting against is also this underground Islamism … which indoctrinates on our soil and corrupts daily,” he said, denouncing this “insidious enemy that requires every citizen to be vigilant and civic-minded.”

Former Socialist prime minister Manuel Valls also addressed the issue in a radio interview Tuesday.

“It’s not about forbidding a religion or even an idea, but I’m saying very clearly that we must forbid the spread of Salafism, because it’s the enemy.”

“Of course not all Salafists are terrorists, but all the terrorists are Salafists,” he said.

Many of the jihadist attackers who have struck France since the January 2015 massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris were later found to have frequented Salafist circles.

Legal experts almost unanimously dismiss the idea of a ban, saying any effort to outlaw a religious movement would run counter to freedom of belief and never hold up in court.

Other critics say such moves would only drive extremist preachings underground, making it harder for authorities to monitor young people at risk of falling under the Salafists’ sway.

But outrage over the killing of Arnaud Beltrame, the French officer whose throat was slit by Lakdim after taking the place of a hostage, and three other people could put new pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to take more aggressive measures.

Some lawmakers have also renewed calls for “preventive detention” of the most radicalised Islamists already on watchlists, after it emerged Tuesday that Lakdim had been on the lists and was summoned for an interview with the authorities days before his attacks in southern France.

“Our country must launch an extensive campaign to eradicate Salafism,” the rightwing Figaro daily wrote in a front-page editorial Tuesday.

“With all due respect for the apostles of ‘living in harmony’, this virus is incompatible with our freedom to live, move and think.”……

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 7:54 am

    Ha, ha, .. there is no “underground Islamism” – it is all out in the open in front of your eyes, idiot!! Just open your eyes and see the elephant in the room and tell the truth about Islam. Get rid of the fake “Islamophobia” narrative and just follow the law wherever it may take you. If you do all that you will be able to fight these murderer jihadis!! Or you can keep on wallowing in your PC filth and keep getting your citizens killed!

    • WPM says

      Mar 29, 2018 at 8:45 am

      +1
      It would be like if he said well go after only some members practicing Nazism ,or on some klans ,in the KKK and leave the majority of them alone. All this when we are importing more of them into our countries putting them to positions of power in our colleges ,schools ,government , without questioning their motives what could go wrong??Islam the best protection against criticism and excuse for most immoral behavior under the banner of “religious freedom”.

    • Bill says

      Mar 29, 2018 at 10:51 am

      +1

      LOL You nailed it.

      Macron is a clown. He is a weak, submissive man-boy in thrall to Merkel and the socialist globalist agenda. Of course, after doing nothing more than staging a few “show raids”, Macron will in a few months declare victory over “underground Islamism”. Meanwhile, everything blowing up in the wide open will continue to be declared as mental illness and the real power of the state will be used to crush citizen dissent,

      • Johan Elzinga says

        Mar 29, 2018 at 2:49 pm

        No, he is not weak. And he will not be able to declare any victory. In fact, the question posed in the article is where it all boils down to. What is there to do? Those people and those ideas will not go away. Even when the idea of “islamophobes” goes away and the nasty sides of islam are discussed out in the open completely, as they are on this website, those people, those ideas and this bloody religion will not go away. It is only by limiting the amount of immigrants to say 5% of a certain area, and by trying to get a lot of those immigrants to go back to the shithole countries where they came from by luring them with money that some of the most vicious pain will go away. Not Macron, not Robert Spencer, not anyone will be able to prevent new pogroms in Europe. Parts of cities will go up in flames. And of course many people will be victim that are not even involved. I expect this to happen between now and 15 years from now.

        • Save Europe says

          Mar 29, 2018 at 8:48 pm

          Correct Johan.

    • jan sobieski says

      Mar 29, 2018 at 1:21 pm

      Yes, that salafi koran is totally different from the real koran!

      • Andy says

        Mar 29, 2018 at 4:13 pm

        We need millions of people to go to the streets and say we are not going to take this Islamic Fascism anymore!

        Vive la résistance! Vive la France!

        FRANCE, UK & ALL OF EUROPE ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR!!!!!!!!!!

        Every sane human is against Islamic fascism.

        • Tony Holland says

          Mar 31, 2018 at 7:34 am

          “millions on the street” civil disobediance nation strikes,etc,etc,nice idea,couldn’t even get the French to turn out for the Presidential election,lowest turnout ever, thats why the little psycopath got shoehorned in by the establishment,by Brussels by big business and by his ‘old boss’ Hollande’.The French had their opportunity to install the only person who really cares about the future of country Le Pen,she would have started ‘exporting’ the subhumans to their original ‘shithole’ countries by now which would have provoked the subhumans into some kind of resistance and that is exactly what is needed,lethal response by the French army,and she wouldn’t have given a stuff about international opinion,HER COUNTRY COMES FIRST.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 29, 2018 at 11:42 pm

        Ha ha. True–all mainstream Islam.

    • infidel says

      Mar 30, 2018 at 1:06 am

      + 1 trillion Jaladhi. And even as we are discussing this, Muslims are going on a rampage in the Eastern Indian state of West Bengal that borders the Islamic hellhole of Bangladesh… Illegal Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh (read Rohyingyas) are making life HELL for WB’s Hindus and many Hindus are now fleeing their ancestral lands… Classic thing that Islam specializes in.. driving out people from their own homes and lands..

      • Sharyati says

        Mar 30, 2018 at 3:07 am

        Well infidel there is no difference in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Politicians are now pawns of Jihadi organizations. They shout atheism whenever Hindu festivals are celebrated but when it comes to Bakrid or Ramzan, the wax eloquent on the merits of “Fasting(????)” during Ramzan, when in actuality people are literally waiting on their toes to hear the call of Aazan in the evening prayers. And then after this, what follows is 2-3 hours of solid gluttony and people are so filled and are almost immobilized like a python after having devoured a goat!!! Also Ramzan is just 3 months away and the “Great Ramadan “Jihadathon” will start with aplomb!!!

    • Laveritétriomphera says

      Mar 30, 2018 at 3:49 am

      +1, but Macron is not an idiot … Muslims are not the only ones to practice taqiyya.

  2. Sentinel says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 8:07 am

    Isn’t it strange that a politician says this when if any individual dares to speak the same truth he will get arrested, prosecuted and persecuted ?

    • Westman says

      Mar 29, 2018 at 10:37 am

      Europe has never achieved actual freedom as America knows it. From the time of Kings there has always been, in France, special privileges for the Aristocratic class that survived the revolution. That the UK still has a “House of Lords” should put the notion of real equality under the law in doubt.

      France is particularly littered with “pockets of privilege”. Note the phrase, “noblesse oblige”, which in French means: Privilege entails responsibility. Noblesse means Nobility.

      • Andy says

        Mar 29, 2018 at 3:37 pm

        To what kind of abyss has the country of France sunk?

        http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21909

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 8:16 am

    This is nonsense unless FRENCH INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES remove the very ROOT OF JIHADISM… the ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY.

    ABSOLUTE DEPROGRAMMING is the procedure of eradicating Islamic faith in a self-hypnotized jihadist subject.

    It works through a university-level series of studies, discussions, films, essay assignments and memorizations. ABSOLUTE DEPROGRAMMING is fact-based and statistical. It systematically removes the possibility of Islamic beliefs one by one.

    Once SUBSTANTIAL DOUBT about Islam is firmly installed in a subject, the subject no longer has the SELF-HYPNOTIZED CERTAINTY required to commit crimes against humanity or taqiyya.

    • Save Europe says

      Mar 29, 2018 at 8:50 pm

      The DGSI need major major investment, frankly.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 29, 2018 at 11:46 pm

      Mortimer, you know this “deprogramming” has never worked.

  4. Westman says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 8:36 am

    First Mate: “Captain! We have sighted what appears to be a giant block of ice, dead ahead!”

    Captain Macron: “How big could it be? We shall melt this threat, at its source, with aristocratic charm. Uhh, what is the source?”

    Deckswabber: “Greenland”

    Captain Macron: “Sacré bleu! You swabs know nothing!”

  5. WPM says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 8:52 am

    Captain Macron we have hit this giant iceburg our ship is sinking what do we do? All crew First mate ,second mate and Captain to the” one world life boats” let the passengers of France fare for themselves!

  6. David Ramseur says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 10:35 am

    It is not just Salafists! He is getting closer to the truth, but you know that his preoccupation with one sect of Islam will stop him from getting all the way there. Since we can’t reason with these fools, I wish we could use their brainwashing techniques against them…but this time for the truth.

  7. billrla says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 12:06 pm

    I suggest politely than no one here travel to France until this Monsieur Macaroon fellow is safely out of office.

    • Save Europe says

      Mar 29, 2018 at 8:51 pm

      And MLP is voted ‘in’.

  8. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 12:19 pm

    Question for “The Local”:
    What is the non-radical interpretation of “Kill them” (Koran 2:191)?

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    First, as for the term used by the French President “Underground Islamism” the word “Islamism” is a fake word that uses made up after September 11, 2001 in order offend or upset non-violent Muslims The real ,actual, word is just “Islam.”

    Second, the terms “radical Muslim” and “moderate Muslim” are term and words used by Westerners to attempt to understand the Islamic way of things and thinking in the Muslim World of the East. Such terms a “Racial Muslim in unknown in the Islamic world of the East. For those who Westerner call “Radical Muslims many in the Islamic world view as a “devout Muslim” or even a “normal Muslim” As Muslims who are also jihadist are seen as “normal, as in the way they should be.” Likewise, those who Westerners call “Moderate Muslims “ many Muslim in the world of Islam view a non-devout Muslims or even “hypocrites”, for not joining in to engage in the violent and deadly jihad.
    Thus the battle cry of many jihad-minded Muslims is “Death to infidels [disbelievers] and hypocrites [peaceful Muslims]

    Third, there is much talk about rooting out the ideology of Islamic terrorism. What is not mentioned is that the foundation of this type of terrorism is the theology of Islam’s “holy book” the Quran. For the Quran instructs in the uses of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false ,dangerous and deadly religion.

  10. Save Europe says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    If the word ‘underground’ was removed from the title, and the goal was sought after by the idiot Macron, then I would say – ‘very good!’ But he won’t…..

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 29, 2018 at 11:36 pm

    French President announces determination to fight “underground Islamism”
    …………………

    It’s not all that “underground”, I’m afraid…

  12. infidel says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 1:13 am

    Too little Too late and all this after the French people have been betrayed and thrown to the wolves of Jehaad.

  13. Dante says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 2:30 am

    “Of course not all Salafists are terrorists.” Yeah Right.

  14. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    A waste of taxpayer money. They would be better off deporting all Muslim migrants.

  15. Richard Courtemanche says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    “… between a rock and a hard place…”, that’s pretty well the starting point for a few countries who have let loose for too long. Nonetheless, the sooner leaders join up the easier it’ll be to salvage their nations with less resistance.

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