Here are a few instructive tweets from members of the French Student Union:
The first is from Hafsa Askar, vice-president of the Lille branch of the National Union of Students, who in December 2017 had tweeted “all the whites ought to be gassed, this subhuman race.” Nothing happened to her for expressing this genocidal wish; just imagine the national uproar if a French woman had tweeted a similar sentiment about Muslims or blacks. The very day of the Notre-Dame fire, Askar tweeted “I don’t give a damn [“je m’en fiche”] about Notre-Dame. I don’t give a damn about the history of France. Go right ahead, use my name.” Later, having received many angry responses from French people, she shut down her Twitter account.
The second [tweet] is from Majdi Chaarana, former president of the Lyon branch of the Union of French Students, and now a member of its National Committee.
He tweeted “Quelqu’un a des nouvelles de Quasimodo? Sa maison crame.”
“Any news from Quasimodo? His house is on fire.”
These displays of nastiness, written while Notre-Dame was still engulfed in flames, did not go over well among the French.
My informant, an ex-Muslim now in Paris, reported:
Thousands of Muslims have demonstrated their joy [at the burning of Notre-Dame].
Numerous French Muslims have taken to social media to express, in a half-Arab half-French patois, their joy at this tragic event. I will let you see for yourself.
Rokhaya Diallo is a French citizen, both Muslim and black, who describes herself as a “writer, journalist, film-maker, television host” and “militant.” She’s a stout Defender of the Faith of Islam; when the offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed in 2011 for mocking Muhammad (just as the paper always did with Jesus and Moses), Diallo refused to denounce the attackers and instead criticized Charlie Hebdo, demonstrating her indifference to freedom of speech. In her own television appearances and in her writings, her every third word is “racism,” and her every fourth word is “islamophobia.” She believes that the French are inherently racist, that there is a “racism sanctioned and spread by the state,” and it is her duty to endlessly discuss race, racism, racists. Her mind is neither wide nor deep. Her spoken and written pieces usually begin in one of two ways: “As a black woman…” or “As a woman who is both black and Muslim….” She has been interviewed by Al Jazeera on “Race,Religion, and Feminism in France.” She has written a few books. You can guess their titles. That’s right: “Racism. A Guide.” She has also published “Afro,” which consists entirely of photographs of black Parisians who are described as “unafraid” to wear Afros, as if they were in any danger; “France Belongs to Us,” (“Us” being non-whites, that is, blacks and Arabs, staking their claim to the country), “France: One and Multicultural,” and “How To Talk To Kids About Racism.” You can see Diallo on television debate shows, constantly interrupting her interlocutors, and speaking a mile a minute, never answering but merely drowning her critics in a torrent of verbiage, here and here. She now appears regularly at the Washington Post, writing about Racism and Islamophobia. Did those at the Post who thought she would be a fresh new voice worth hearing not realize that she has only these two topics — racism and islamophobia — and has nothing new to say about either? Recent pieces for the Washington Post have been “French Islamophobia Goes Global,” and ”Don’t Let France’s World Cup Victory Erase The Issues of Black French People.”
After the Notre-Dame conflagration, Diallo, who is always so free with her comments, tweeting away like nobody’s business, and appearing on all sorts of talk shows, never listening to her interlocutors, always cutting them off to make some inane claim, had no comment to offer about the fire. Her last tweet about the country which has given her so much, and which she so clearly despises for its supposed “racism,” was “Nique la France” (“Fuck France”). That sums up Diallo’s appeal to all the malcontents, both Muslims and anti-white racists, who take whatever they can from the French government and French people, and who, in return, offer only resentment, contempt, and hatred. No comment from someone who always has a comment is itself telling: Notre-Dame is not her concern. It’s not part of her France. Its destruction doesn’t move her. Days later, Rhokaya Diallo still has yet to express a syllable of sympathy.
So that’s how many French Muslims have reacted to the partial destruction of Notre-Dame. Some of them have been cheering the news, in tweets using the smiling emoji to express their happiness. Some Muslims who are leaders in local chapters of the Union of French Students have expressed not solidarity with, but contempt for, both the French, and for France. “I don’t give a damn about France,” tweeted Hafsa Askar, Vice-President of the Lille branch of the Union of French Students. “I don’t give a damn about French history.” Yet she complains about being made to feel that she is not part of France. And she added in another tweet that “jusqu’a les gens ils vont pleurer pour des bouts de bois vs. aimez trop l’identite français aloes qu’on s’en balek objectivement c’est votre desire de petits blancs.” Roughly translated: “[I don’t give a damn about France] and that includes the people who cry over sticks of wood you love your French identity while we don’t give a shit objectively it’s just your lower-class-white delirium.”
The Notre-Dame fire, which touched so many in the Western world, offered a perfect opportunity for Muslims in France to express sympathy for, and solidarity with, the French people, to show that they could identify with the supreme symbol of French civilization, and to mourn the damage caused by the fire. Instead, many Muslims chose to celebrate online the destruction, with thousands tweeting their pleasure, along with smiling emojis to emphasize the point. Some even suggested the fire was retribution for jokes having been made about Mecca. Then there were the Muslim officers of the SNEF, the Union of French Students, who went beyond mere expressions of pleasure, and made jokes about the church in flames, calling it Quasimodo’s place. and loudly proclaming that they didn’t care about the church, or France, or the French, whose sorrow was mocked as the hysteria of lower-class whites (“petits blancs”). This could have been a moment for Muslims, beyond a handful, to demonstrate fellow feeling; instead, it was a display of Muslim resentment and hostility and Schadenfreude that will not, in France, be forgotten.
Don McKellar says
I’m waiting for calls from moslems to rebuild Notre Dame as a mosque. Surely some will, or maybe they have and I haven’t seen it yet.
Moshe says
Perhaps the many millions of Muslims who were deeply saddened by the fire at Notre Dame are simply not being quoted by the press. In these troubled times provocative statements by an intolerant minority might instead be more newsworthy. In this way journalism sadly divides us instead of building bridges of peace.
Therefore, let J-W readers remember former President Obama’s wisdom in relation to interfaith dialogue:
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance,” observed President Obama in 2009. “We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.”
As historic was this speech in 2009, it current importance is even more compelling. Concluded the young American President at that time, “That [i.e., multicultural tolerance and respect] is the spirit we need today.”
French President Macron announced yesterday that the tragic fire was the result of an electrical short circuit, which can happen anytime anywhere and has no connection to workplace violence or man-made disasters. This scientific fact is important to keep in mind. The technical truth is important.
Don McKellar says
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance,” observed President Obama in 2009. “We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it first hand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshipped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/asia/indonesia-church-attacks-surabaya/index.html
Jerald Nott says
There is no tolerance of other religions by Islam and Muslims !!!! When Muslims move to another country, they will not assimilate into their new home. Muslims have the intention of conquering the whole world and kill anyone who is not a Muslim or will not convert to Islam !!!!!! Muslims do not know peace, they only know hate !!!!!!
Michael Copeland says
Tolerance:
“If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him…”
Koran 3:85, part of Islamic law
“I am telling you that my religion doesn’t tolerate other religions. It doesn’t tolerate. The only one law which needs to spread – it can be here or anywhere else – is Islam”.
“Abu Bakr”,
Abdul Nasser Ben Brika, imam in Australia 2005
https://www.abc.net.au/lateline/suspect-under-asio-surveillance–says-he-is-not/2074350
Lydia Church says
Uh… a typo occured.
“islam has a proud tradition of INtolerance…”
and that is the truth. The quote above as well as the whole of the koran is the proof.
Jerald Nott says
There is no tolerance in Islam !!!!!! The Koran teaches hate, not peace !!!!! Muslims kill anyone who is not a Muslim or will not convert to Islam !!!!!! You Lydia are very ignorant !!!!!
smoris says
This would appear to be untrue. The person supervising the work said no work had been undertaken in the church yet – only scaffolding had been set up. There was supposedly no electrical wiring in that part of the church (near the roof where the fire started) for the very reason that they wanted at all costs to avoid any fire hazard there where the old wood was. The very fact the Macron is making such announcement, confirming his preemptive declaration of the night of the fire itself (while it was still burning) that it was “accidental” is disingenuous and obviously not the result of careful study. This announcement was made long before anyone could have entered the building, much less conducted a thorough investigation. Spreading stuff like this is no good. By doing this Macron basically made it impossible for any serious person to believe anything more he says about it. You cannot begin with an obvious lie and then be believed. Not to mention the utter inappropriateness of claiming it will be rebuilt “more beautiful than before”. That was contemptuous.
Jean (old) says
Moshe.
I note that the many millions of deeply saddened Muslims are also not quoted by you. Could you please provide some quotes? It would mean a lot to people on Jihadwatch to see some heartfelt expressions of sympathy for the damage to Notre Dame proffered by Muslims. Just a few will do. Thank you in advance.
Thank you also for the, though unrelated and a bit dated, quote by Mr. Obama. Has Mr. Obama offered his condolences to France for Notre Dame, by the way?
Jerald Nott says
Obama hates Christians because he is a Muslim. He won’t offer condolence to France or any other Christian church that gets destroyed by Muslims !!!!!!
Kerry Wade says
Round up these scum and put them in detention centres, examine them and the deport, period.
James Hilborn says
It is war. Detain or deport. By the boatload.
762x51FMJ says
The valuable artifacts were removed for the restoration, the temperature above the roof during the fire did not affect the stone structure below, it will be much easier and way less expensive to replace the roof with antiqued copper and steel beams so it is fire proof and sufficiently grounded to prevent lightning damage. Notre Dame has had many roof fires in the last 800 years, due to the height of the spires attracting lightning.. .
This fire was a blessing because newer stronger and safer materials can be used to make a nearly identical roof , without wrecking the old roof which would take many months and compromise the stone gingerbread above the roof beam supports.
James Hilborn says
A blessing? Insanity!
Kerry Wade says
There is no doubt in my mind that Notre Same is so much more that an iconic building. Anyone who attacks it is morally depraved, an enemy of the human race. Who could this be? Well I guess its the a an anim alstic filth that calls itself Muslim.
John Allan says
‘“I don’t give a damn about France,” tweeted Hafsa Askar, Vice-President of the Lille branch of the Union of French Students. “I don’t give a damn about French history.”’
Then what the fu_k is she doing there?
WPM says
“Then what the fu_k is doing there” because the third world Islamic shitholes ,because they are Islamic run governments they fled from are threadbare broke shitholes. They want the wealth and easy living of western benefits without the work, obeying western law or assimilating into western culture. They are “the best of people” according to their holy books we should be their willing slaves ,if we put up a fight or make a fuss ,we are evil bigots. They made there own world a backward shithole with Islam ,they will drink the life blood out of any country they get a toehold in. It is not a” race thing” it is a supremist machine run for 1400 years on lies, violence ,thief ,rape, and murder ,
Dian says
WPM.
So true.
observer says
Born to hate…
Live with hate…
Die consumed wth hatred.
While Western leaders and most politicians sleep the sleep of the dead… until the horde comes a-marchin’, a-lynchin’, a-rapin’ &
a’slaughterin’ that they, like their possessed prophet, might be made victorious through terror. By which time it will be too late – they know they rule the West already. Western leaders and politicians are mere puppets.
Savvy Kafir says
This conflict is not over yet. In fact, it’s barely begun.
If our political “leaders” don’t start acting as if they give a damn about their own people & their own societies, at some point, desperate citizens will push these useless politicians & bureaucrats aside and take action themselves to save the West. Many people who appreciate the importance of Western civilization & culture would rather die fighting than meekly surrender to Islam.
James Hilborn says
I suspect the French people will believe this to be arson. I’m waiting for their reaction.
Christopher Watson says
Writing horrible things about people seems a rather pointless pastime. Why don’t they just go home? Oh, I forget, they couldn’t sponge of Europeans and would have to work for a living.
Emma says
funny how all these muslims hate western christian countries, yet will skip over dozens of islamic countries to get here. Yet when they are confronted with this contradiction, will often justify the discrepancy by saying their countries were colonised by the white man, so now they are entitled to the white man’s country. And this kind of reasoning is supported by the whole education system, the media, the multi-national companies seeking to expand the consumer market.
elee says
“Entitled” is not a term of praise in the mental health professions. In that usage it describes so many Muslims.
somehistory says
Very interesting and informative article in FPM this day. Here is an excerpt:
“Will Macron suggest a “multi-faith prayer space” in order to be “truly inclusive” of France’s “multicultural society”? Don’t bet against it, folks. Already the calls are going out from elitist architects—in Rolling Stone, natch—that the rebuilding should not reflect “white European France.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273524/notre-dame-fire-our-fault-our-most-grievous-fault-milo-yiannopoulos
elee says
Once again Islamophobes and Muslims say exactly the same thing about Islam. Only dhimmis deny.
Ade Fegan says
muslims just being muslims .. the left are the real evil
Jean (old) says
Ade Fegan
That makes no sense. One evil doesn’t cancel out another. Please watch a few IS videos, then return and try to repeat that that is not “real evil”.
lebel says
There are a few things that are certain in life: death, taxes and the fact that jihadwatch will always news such as this
https://www.timesofisrael.com/radical-rabbi-says-notre-dame-fire-retribution-for-13th-century-talmud-burning/
Why? well it’s not a guy with a Muslim name. Change the name and you have a front page story
CogitoErgoSum says
I suppose if the name of this site were Jew Watch the story would be news here. But then Jews do not follow any kind of doctrine similar to Jihad. This site is concerned with Jihad …. hence the name Jihad Watch.
lebel says
But that means that it’s only bad when Muslims do it. That’s called a double standard.
James Hilborn says
No, it is not. It is a Jihad Watch, not a Russian Watch or a Chinese Watch.
CogitoErgoSum says
Lebel, what is bad … Jihad? For sure, if Jews were to join in with the Jihad I think that would be front page news. Can you point out to me a place in Jewish scripture where fighting or converting non-Jews to Judaism is demanded by God and if those people do not convert they must pay some sort of tribute to the Jews — and this is to be an obligation for them to follow until Judgment Day?
gravenimage says
This Rabbi is an idiot.
But there has been no outpouring of Jews gloating over the burning of Notre Dame, as there has been of Muslims doing just that.
lebel desperately hopes we don’t know that, though.
FYI says
There are a few things that are certain in life these days:islamic terrorism,islamic dissembling,the death of innocent infidels on a daily basis at the hands of murderous muslims..
As for the extremist radical rabbi…”Holy” men in all religions make me laugh.
Where oh where is the holiness in these “holy” men?
It seems,in his hatred, that he missed Leviticus 19:18;But then a zealot in ANY religion would not get that.
A rabbi who doesn’t know YHWH’s supreme laws is a failure!
A rabbi who does not follow the law of Lev 19:18 is a waste of space to YHWH.
A rabbi who doesn’t not understand the import of these Supreme Laws does not know YHWH!
I thought muslims were bad in their wilful disobedience to God’s Laws:Jews are EXPECTED to know and obey the SUPREME laws of God:the 2 chief commandments are placed ABOVE the Exodus 20 laws.
These laws YHWH EXPECTS Jews to obey!
Jews are required to OBEY them.
Deut 6:4-9 Supreme Law of God #1
Lev 19:18 Supreme Law of God #2
These laws are so important they are placed ABOVE the Exodus 20 laws.
And the rabbi doesn’t get it!
All that study and he lacks the WIISDOM to understand.
BTW
people who do bad things in the name of Christianity are CONDEMNED in the Gospel.
Yet people who do evil things in the name of allah are glorified in islam and the koran.
The Law for Jews{Exodus 20{the ten} + the 2 chief Laws} is the SAME for Jews and Christians.
One would expect a rabbi to have at least SOME understanding of that.
A wise rabbi would have the WISDOM to rise above such petty ignorance and would know that YHWH is a God of Justice who metes it out to those who are victims of injustice,like say,aggrieved Jews.
Christians who behave badly are condemned by the Gospel and the LAW of God{10+2}:they don’t escape God’s Justice.
Religious Zealots,in any religion, are always ignorant of God’s Supreme laws,so lacking in Love..more in love with their religion than God.Full of self-love and hate…and false piety:you see them everywhere and in all religions.The Holy Joe,The Holy Yusuf..
A Zealot loves his religion more than he loves God.
Down with religious Zealots!
Lydia Church says
And again… the racists turn out to be….
(drumroll)…. the muslims!
At least these are showing it.
elee says
I’m glad I reread this posting. There is good news in it. It’s in the very last clause of the very last sentence of the article.
thebigW says
Yeah, our great great great grandchildren while they’re slaving for their Muslims masters will never forget when their great great great grandparents were free. Good news.
James Creekmore says
It seems that Satan is using the Islamic religion to persecute Christianity.
“…And you shall be hated of all men for my names sake..”
It is the exposing of the the (darkness of the soul”)for which the gospel of Christ is hated.
…”Even because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge”…
It is the Christians who are sent shining the light of this gospel, in a world of darkness.
The light that now shines, has become a torment to those in darkness (who have rejected the council of God) and yet the light shining is a reminder of that God. The only “Earthly” sense of peace for them is to remove from the earth every reminder and so they have set forth in agreement with Satan to do just that. Through legislation(laws are passed that greatly disagree with christian lifestyle) They spin news articles to condemn/reject Christianity, all the while embracing Islam. Through the education system the children have been brainwashed to accept teachings straight from hell as just another equally valid perspective way of life.
And if all these things fail they at last seek to remove from the earth anyone holding to traditional biblical christianity. If you are a true Christian you are a painful reminder of the God that the world has rejected and does not want to be reminded of. You must either convert or be killed. You have become as the 2 witnesses of Revelation, “A Torment”. They will rejoice at your demise just as in Revelations.
gravenimage says
Rhokaya Diallo also wrote a book entitled “France Belongs to Us”–“us” being Muslims, of course.
gravenimage says
And here she is, blaming the French for her coreligionists murdering Charlie Hebdo staff and Jews:
“Through Denial, France Has Created Its Own Monsters”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/france-created-own-monsters_b_6464036
She then claims that the real problem is not Jihad terror attacks, but a fictive backlash of French Infidel attacks on Muslims.
SpinCipher says
Bitching about the behavior of Muslims will accomplish nothing. France will continue to complain until it is too late to reverse the Islamization of the country. Unless military action is taken to drive the ummah from France, the country will pass the point of no return (and may already be finished), and eventually all of Europe will fall to this satanic ideology.
thebigW says
“The Notre-Dame fire, which touched so many in the Western world, offered a perfect opportunity for Muslims in France to express sympathy for, and solidarity with, the French people, to show that they could identify with the supreme symbol of French civilization, and to mourn the damage caused by the fire. Instead, many Muslims chose to celebrate online the destruction”
Looks like the Muzzies are getting bolder & realizin’ they don’t need to pretend to be “standing with” us. Shows that more and more of ’em are catchin’ on to just how cowardly we tremble in fear of bein’ “racist” / “Islamophobic”.
ms. says
French Islamic Leader Calls for Muslims to Aid Notre Dame Rebuilding, Citing Their Veneration of Mary
https://churchpop.com/2019/04/16/french-islamic-leader-calls-for-muslims-to-aid-notre-dame-rebuilding-citing-their-veneration-of-mary/