Iran’s state-controlled Press TV here says that Zemmour “was convicted for saying that France has been ‘colonized’ by Muslims, even though colonization is done by a group with power, whereas France’s Muslims are on the bottom of the nation’s social ladder.”
Yes, of course. This is indeed a historically unprecedented type of colonization. But the idea that a group at the bottom of a nation’s social ladder could not possibly take power is, to say the least, unsupported by history.
Note also how this piece from Press TV has the same tone and resorts to the same tropes that we constantly see in the Western establishment media: any opposition to mass Muslim migration into Europe is “Islamophobia” and “racism,” Muslims are the new Jews, etc. The latter claim is as offensive as it is risible. Jews during the Nazi period weren’t committing terror attacks or boasting of imminent conquest. Nor is anyone calling for a mass extermination of Muslims; nor criticism of jihad violence and Sharia oppression tantamount to such a call.
“France’s despised Eric Zemmour guilty of Islamophobia,” by Ramin Mazaheri, Iran’s state-controlled Press TV, September 19, 2019 (thanks to Henry):
France’s most notorious far-right thinker, Eric Zemmour, has finally been convicted of Islamophobic speech.
He was convicted for saying that France has been “colonized” by Muslims, even though colonization is done by a group with power, whereas France’s Muslims are on the bottom of the nation’s social ladder.
Zemmour said that a young woman wearing a hijab was equal to a violent act of war, which gave far-right sympathizers more cover to attack Muslim women. Zemmour apparently does not believe in France’s tradition of personal liberty, because he said Muslims must choose between Islam and France….
France’s laws against hate speech are incredibly weak, which only encourages more hate speech – Zemmour will only be forced to pay a fine of just 3,000 euros. Despite his most recent conviction, there is no indication that French news outlets like Le Figaro, BFM TV and countless other top media will stop regularly interviewing Zemmour.
The sad irony is that Eric Zemmour is Jewish, and yet he uses the same racist rhetoric that the French used against Jews at the turn of the 20th century and in Nazi-occupied France.
Emilie Green says
Colonization may not be precise as that term is historically understood. What the Muslims are doing, with gobs and gobs of help from traitors, is invading and setting up nesting sites, not unlike what boring insects like termites do.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Me says
I agree.., like a disease invading under bark of tree. It was slowly eat it away…
J D S says
The only way Muslims could possibly have caused France to move into the Islamic realm is for TRAITORS to have helped them. Soon the “”REAL people”” of France will hear the proverbial…”Let Them Eat Cake”
Lilith Wept says
Islam is like a cancer…..and we are ignoring it , hoping it will go away,
IF we finally wake up enough to do something about it will be too late, moslems will be too deeply entrenched in our country to remove ….unless we resort to bloody war.
Islam is like a changer , that at first is small and not harming the host , then it grows ( and Islam is a fast growing cancer) and as it grows it spreads itself and the destruction, damage and death that goes with it….eventually there is Otho g left of the host at all, just the cancer…..
In the instance of real cancer, the host would die, and so would the cancer but in The case of Islam , The host dies and the cancer lives on.
The treatment for cancer is to stop its growth and to kill it……by Radiation , or surgical removal.
I propose we treat Islamic cancer the same way . We remove it , y whatever means we can find that are effective.
Keys says
It’s worth re-reading the Muslim Brotherhood’s “strategic goal” for total world domination and destruction of “Western Civilization from within”:
“The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a “Civilization-Jihadist” process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.”
Read a pdf of “An Explanatory Memorandum: From the Archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in America is published in the United States by the Center for Security Policy Press, a division of the Center for Security Policy.” here:
https://www.investigativeproject.org/document/20-an-explanatory-memorandum-on-the-general
Lilith Wept says
Thanks for posting that link!
I have a paperback copy of this document. I just wish I had the money to buy many copies and distribute them.
I believe this should be required reading for all Americans, especially the politicians.
I’m frustrated and angry as I continue to see this plan progressing successfully and our politicians doing nothing at all to stop and in many cases, aiding the moslems in achieving their plan.
It’s wonderful to see the posts on sites like this, to know that so many people are aware of the threat Islam poses.
BUT, we need to use our numbers, and get behind a national,organization. I know ACT for America does anti Islamic work and has chapters in many states.
We need involvement on all levels as well as someone in Washington to lobby the politicians. I believe ACT does this.
But we need to use our numbers and make damn sure that our voices are heard, when CAIR “demands” something or tries to hound someone because of a supposed “Islamophobic” thing they said or posted, we need to drown out CAIRs voice and support those that speak the truth about Islam. Especially if they are a politician.
We need to be seen as well, we need to be seen in umbers when there is some pro Islamic event , rally or speech, to protest in numbers when a anti Islamic speech is canceled because some moslem or Moslem organization complained….
We used our numbers to elect someone like Trump, and we need to continue he tomuse our numbers and our voice.
I want to try and turn this around and if we can’t, I’d rather go out screaming and kicking rather than keeping silent .
jayell says
Right. So muslims ARE colonising Europe. They as good as say so themselves. Eric Zemmour is absolutely correct. And observing and correctly analyzing and reporting this phenomenon cannot possibly represent an ‘irrational fear of islam’ so, yet again. that ‘phobia’ word is a load of ignorant rubbish.
william carr says
“not believe in France’s tradition of personal liberty” The main problem is that most Muslims in France and elsewhere do not believe in it either – except for their own liberty to do exactly as they desire of course.
Whenever I think of Muslims in Western states I am reminded of the Ichneumon wasp. Quote:
“The females lay their eggs in or on the larvae or pupae (rarely eggs or adults) of the host. The ichneumon larva feeds on the fats and body fluids of the host until fully grown then usually spins a silken cocoon. I especially like the silk cocoon part!
Angemon says
Nah – drop the SJW nonsense about “have” and “have nots”, only those already adhering to the cult buy that. Migration – integration = colonization. What do you think the commonly called “no-go zones” are?….
Citation needed.
Are islamic values and French values compatible? If not, what he said is absolutely right. And not going against the tradition of personal liberty- muslims are free to chose which side to support.
Meaning that you’re upset because this “islamophobe” will get none of the treatment he’d get under Iran’s blasphemy laws. And you write this after complaining about Zemmour not believing in personal liberty – rules for him but not for you…
I, for one, don’t remember the Jewish “No-Go” zones in occupied France, zones where non-Jews were advised not to go and where even police dared not set foot into…
Angemon says
Going off-topic now. Out of curiosity, I went to the original Press TV article, and I recognized the name of the author – Ramin Mazaheri. He contributes to an anti-Western propaganda blog (thesaker) and a couple or so of months ago published an article denying the existence of “millionaire mullahs”, decrying it as a Western, Iranophobic invention. Nasty piece of work.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Angemon.
Yes, “The Saker” site is really ugly–it also features Muslim supremacist material.
william carr says
In no way are the Muslims the ‘new’ Jews. Not only were the Jews a very small proportion of the peoples of Europe including Germany, they were highly integrated at all levels of society. Not only in business but the arts and sciences and also in academia. There were also Jewish judges and lawyers. They even fought gallantly in WWI for Germany and many won Iron Crosses. It is one of the ironies of history that the Cross of which Hitler was so proud was pinned on him by a Jewish officer! The situation of Jews in Europe is that they were valuable members of society, self supporting and often wealthy. Which of course was one of the reason the Nazis hated them. A very large percentage had sought refuge in Germany from the pogroms in Russia. Which is the only thing they had in common with our recently arrived ‘friends’
strambotik says
You can’t believe those mullahs. Zemmour said nothing about colonization.
The appeals court upheld his conviction for 3 statements he had made in 2017:
1. Muslims must be given the choice between Islam and France
2. France has been undergoing an invasion for 30 years
3. In countless French suburbs where young women are veiled, a struggle is being waged to Islamize a land, a veritable jihad
On the other hand the appeals court overturned his conviction for saying that all Muslims consider jihadists good Muslims, whether they say so or not, since this statement contained no exhortation to hatred, even implicitly; recent case law has held that hate speech must contain a command or exhortation.
Source :
http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/eric-zemmour-definitivement-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans-19-09-2019-8155785.php
Warren Raymond says
The invasion of France started right after the French pulled out of Algeria. Nearly 60 years now.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s rather oblivious the all this Muslim immigration into the nation is an invasion with intentions of setting up some type of Islamic colonization of that Western country.
Just in Paris alone there are areas of “No go zones ‘ for none Muslims. What gall they have !
Likewise , with such no go zones also applies Sharia law. If the want to live by Sharia law then they should go to a Muslim nation to live and stop attempting to push, force and implement Islamic law, Sharia law, on any Western nation.
Furthermore , the Muslims are too religiously blind by Islam to see or understand that Islamic laws , Sharia laws have much of its origin in ancient pagan law.
For in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started.
Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam. Therefore Islam is a hoax.
Walter Sieruk says
This Muslim colorization of France is part of what is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism to enact Sharia law in nation of France . In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
PBH says
So, Iran is virtue-signaling about Islamophobic hate speech in France?
Note to Macron – maybe you should reconsider that bailout?
Zemmour is guilty (obviously!) of a new kind of Orwellian speech crime, known as wrong-speak, for misusing ‘Colonized,’ which is a Sanctified Word.
He has committed blasphemy, and must therefore be excommunicated from civil(?) society.
Walter Sieruk says
Such Islamic colonization of France by those hose scheming stealth jihadist /Muslims who attempt to have Sharia law set up in France engage in the doctrines of the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya which is very insidious. Taqyyia is the jihad dogma that deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam.
Nevertheless, the God of the Bible “condemns those who devise wicked schemes…” Proverbs 12:11. [N.I.V.] Likewise, Proverbs 12:20 teaches “Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil.”
Wellington says
Charles Martel, were he still around, would be imprisoned for life.
Upside-down world. You betcha’.
gravenimage says
Yes, it is, Wellington.
From the article:
The sad irony is that Eric Zemmour is Jewish, and yet he uses the same racist rhetoric that the French used against Jews at the turn of the 20th century and in Nazi-occupied France.
……..
Of course, Jews were and are good, loyal French citizens–would that this were true of violent, supremacist invading Muslims.
Brian Hoff says
Than Jewish French office was false accuse of selling French military secret to the Germany empire in the 1890:I believe that the antijewish in French military and nation was so widespread that he was not clear until just before ww1. it as than nonjewish office who sold the military secret to the German.
gravenimage says
This was the appalling Dreyfus affair. Yes, antisemitsm has an ugly history in France–but today most of the antisemitism and virtually all of the physical attacks on Jews in France come from “Brian Hoff’s” own fellow Muslims.
mortimer says
Jews are leaving France at an alarming rate and one the top leaders of that community recently opined that there would be no Jews in France within 10 years. And why are Jews leaving France?
Because they are being persecuted by France’s 5 million + Muslims.
But the Jewish victims of this Muslim bigotry are not supposed to speak against the bigotry that oppresses them … France has abandoned its Jews and sacrificed them on the altar of the Unholy Red-Green Axis.
I hope American Jews will soon realize that the RED-GREEN AXIS works AGAINST the interests of Jews.
American Jews have been supporting a party that will stab them in the back and then silence them …. JUST LIKE THE LEFTARDS ARE DOING IN FRANCE.
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Mortimer.
gravenimage says
Éric Zemmour is a French Jew, originally of Berber origin, His ancestors knew what living under the Muslim heel was all about. He wrote “The French Suicide” in 2014 about just this kind of insanity.
Jay says
There is a great book everyone should read to fully understand the enemy within! Not only in the USA but worldwide! ” The Red/Green Axis 2.0, An Existential Threat to America and the World” by James Simpson.
It’s knowledge every American citizen needs NOW and every next generation!
Even more so in an election year! Knowledge is power !
God bless and save America!
Who will save France and Europe and England now that Churchill is gone!
Read the book to be informed and educated on this worldwide threat!!
Debra says
Mr Simpson is gratin this excellent documentary
https://youtu.be/swBfmVKzUjU
Debra says
***Mr Simpson is FEATURED……(damn spellcheck)
Lavéritétriomphera says
Some returned to France after the Aliyah https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2017/07/10/une-alyah-avec-retour-pour-les-francais-decus-d-israel_1582944.
gravenimage says
Sharia France: Islamocritic Eric Zemmour guilty of “Islamophobia” for saying France “colonized” by Muslims
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Eric is of course entirely correct. Clearly, telling the truth is no defense.
And how did such a case come to court in a democracy, in any case? Stating an opinion like this should fall firmly under the rubric of freedom of speech, even if it hadn’t been accurate. That it was makes this an even worse miscarriage of justice.
More:
Iran’s state-controlled Press TV here says that Zemmour “was convicted for saying that France has been ‘colonized’ by Muslims, even though colonization is done by a group with power, whereas France’s Muslims are on the bottom of the nation’s social ladder.”
Yes, of course. This is indeed a historically unprecedented type of colonization. But the idea that a group at the bottom of a nation’s social ladder could not possibly take power is, to say the least, unsupported by history.
……………………….
With the greatest respect for Robert Spencer, there is a precedent of a sort–the barbarian invasion of the Roman Empire. While some of this was violent military invasion, much of it was not. Barbarians encroached on the Empire, invading her lands and displacing and brutalizing Roman citizens. Early on many of these invaders were driven back by the Roman army; eventually there were too many, and Roman borders collapsed. We all know how this all turned out for Rome in the end.
These two situations are not identical, of course–but it does show that colonizers need not be higher status–certainly, the barbarians weren’t–until they were…
Angemon says
“These two situations are not identical, of course–but it does show that colonizers need not be higher status–certainly, the barbarians weren’t–until they were…”
I believe that was the gist of Robert’s commentary – that the idea of a group at the bottom not being able to rise to the top was unsupported by history.
gravenimage says
Angemon, Robert Spencer did say this was unprecedented. Of course, as I noted, these situations were hardly identical, so in some ways it certainly is. I doubt we are in much disagreement here.
Angemon says
“Angemon, Robert Spencer did say this was unprecedented. ”
Yes – the sort of colonization Zemmour pointed out. But RS wrote that there are precedents where a group at the bottom rose to the top of the nation’s social ladder, which is what I read your post exemplified.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Angemon.
Islamaphone says
“Zemmour will only be forced to pay a fine of just 3,000 euros.”
Only? Just? Who wouldn’t go broke if they were fined 3,000 Euros for EVERY thought crime against Islamic hegemony?
gravenimage says
Islamophone, this is PressTV–a mouthpiece for the oppressive Iranian government–saying that France’s “hate crime” laws are incredibly weak. I suppose compared to a long stint in Evin Prison, torture, rape, and execution that you find under the Mullahs that this is true…
Lydia Church says
I know, that last claim is as absurd as it gets!
The media are using such nazi ploys against him, not him against the invading armies of muslims.
The analogy does not fit at all, like you said. But one of their favorite things is making false analogies. Another one is the opposites game. They accuse the other side of doing exactly what they themselves are guilty of. Then there is the false accusation out of nowhere.
We should label these. We see them so often.
#1 Dirty mirror
This can refer to their false analogies. They claim it is comparable, but one side does not reflect the other at all. So it is like looking into a mirror and seeing something totally different, and someone says how it is an exact likeness, but it is not.
#2. Opposite day
This was a game in school that kids used to play. If one said it was cold, that meant it was actually hot. Whatever they said, it was supposed to be the total opposite of what it actually was, which was the real truth. For some reason they found this fun, and for an even stranger reason, the media still finds this sort of falsehood fun today too.
#3 Black copper
This is the ‘pot calling the kettle black.’ The pot is black, the kettle is copper. But the pot accuses the kettle of being black, when it is in fact the pot and not the kettle that is black. We see that one all the time with the media claiming the threats are coming from ‘the far right,’ when in fact they are coming from the far left, which includes the media.
Lydia Church says
There are so many new developments now it’s hard to keep track of them all.
1. As I mentioned, there are those new items about the pope and the one world government and strides in that direction. On ‘ratherexposethem,’ under Sept. 1, 8, and 15 he has info. on that.
2. Then a few days ago on that same website, he has info. about the pope’s new plan to infiltrate education with his goals.
3. He is also calling on world leaders to meet with him on May 14, 2020 for global goals. I think I mentioned how the year 2020 is significant in many occultic globalistic ways, but I do suspect it will be a very ‘transformational’ year. It’s already getting off the ground.
4. The pope has labeled this plan the ‘new humanism’ or something to that effect. I was looking at youtube video expose’s and there was even a nun who called him out on it and all the evil plots afoot with it. It was under lifesitenews.
5. The democrats have passed some legislation in CA at a convention or something that is also very antagonistic to true Christianity, morality and conservative ethics. They have also passed some law ‘something 99’ that comes against true churches who preach God’s Word, wanting them to side with the sinful lgbt agenda, and one leader of some Evangelical association was encouraging this sin. It’s just a domino effect slippery slope into apostasy, and the slide is accelerating. There is the proposed HR5 which will be a huge threat to true Christians in the US and definitely usher in persecution for those like me who choose to stand with the ways of the Lord.
6. On Friday they had worldwide protests for the environment, in the name of saving the earth, and trust me, this all ties in with the pope’s environmental encyclical and the recent comments he made in those items I listed above.
7. Saturday was the ‘international day of peace,’ and there were no significant events related to it otherwise. Of course there will not be world peace until the return of Christ. The antichrist will mislead the world into thinking otherwise and I’m sure that day will be used for this agenda soon. But as we type away, there is escalating tension once again between volatile nations in the middle east and the slow dance to Armageddon may have begun.
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24; 15
Come what may!!!!!
FYI says
At a recent press conference Mr Bergoglio {ok “pope” francis} said..
“We must obey international institutions.That is why the UN was created”
“We must OBEY”:no true Christian would say we should surrender to the world…
The unexpected voice says
Well, what he said was right, also not just France, but Islam is colonizing Europe.
Truth says
Maybe the USA should dismantle the Statue of Liberty and send it back to France? The French don’t seem to know what freedom of speech is.
Lotus says
Oh, what sad days for France.
The key figure in protecting north-west Europe from the Muslims was of course the Frankish leader Charles Martel, and the key battle was the Battle of Tours, October 10th, 732 (the anniversary is coming up soon: make a note in your diary and raise a toast to Charlie boy!)
Although some historians have tried to play down the significance of the battles in what is now southern France, there is no real doubt that the victories on land and at sea were decisive in throwing back the Muslim horde (up to 80,000 soldiers). Charles defeated them with a force of only 20-30,000 men. What a hero!
The line of Charles eventually went down to his grandson Charlemagne, a legendary leader who profoundly shaped and advanced Christian Europe. If they could see the state of France now, they would surely be disgusted at the way their legacy has been thrown away.
Where are the men of yesteryear?
https://www.thoughtco.com/muslim-invasions-charles-martel-2360687
https://www.thoughtco.com/muslim-invasions-battle-of-tours-2360885
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Kepha says
Interestingly enough. Eric Zemmour’s family were Algerian Jews who moved to France after 1961. He himself belongs to an assimilated minority group. It is disgusting that a writer is penalized for seeking to protect the country that gave his family a home and that somehow, the brave, courageous, free-thinking secular West bares its b—t every time Islam demands it.
gravenimage says
+1
tgusa says
Western governments will not take your legitimate concerns seriously. Quite to the contrary western governments will attack you over your legitimate concerns. It is beyond obvious where western governments stand on this.
Cece says
When I consider that the Turks were in the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Turkey) and it was Muslims that developed the yellow star for Jews to wear so they could be recognized on the street. The Jews have every right to fear Islam.
I would be up for giving refugee status to French Jews, none for Muslims (they have other countries they can migrate to) and white South Africans.
max brenner says
“Despised”? “Despised”? France’s controlled media says he is “despised” which is a State message to any and all who might be in danger of telling the truth. The message is sut up or be “despised” with all the consequences that a Stalinist State can bring down on you.
Ad says
The ultimate goal of islam and duty of muslims is very simple, xenophobic, barbarian and intolerant: conquer, submit, convert and eliminate all other ideologies and cultures, islamise the world. Right rom the beginning of their calendar, with the migration of Mo, through all of their history of hate, crime, conquest and war: jihad by any means, military or demographic, by arguments or force. Completely amoral and relentless, just like criminal so-called christians did in the past, totally contrary to Jesus’ example.
AP says
I say we make a trade with the French. The States will take the Jews and they can have all of the muslims who were bought here against the will of the people.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Jews serve in the government and some are journalists, doctors … but I am afraid there’s is no consensus among them. One thing is certain, Jews are well accepted by a large percentage of the French population.
I believe E Zemmour is supported by many, he says he is franchouillard (and I am a support of this), that means he claims to be a FRENCH in every sense of the word. He believes, and he is not the only one, that he acts as a defender of the homeland.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!