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France: Deputy editor of Le Figaro condemned for saying everyone has the “right to hate religion”

Oct 19, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

A religion is a set of ideas. Ideas can and should be evaluated on their merits, that is, their truth or falsehood. If Yves Thréard had said that everyone has a right to hate Christianity, or Judaism, he would be hailed as a “courageous” thinker whose right to free speech should be upheld. But the Western intelligentsia has decided that Islam should be off-limits to criticism, which just happens to coincide with the Sharia prohibition of criticism of Islam. We see this in the condemnation of Thréard, as well as in the reflexive campus condemnation of any resistance to jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women and others as “Islamophobia.”

“Hate,” of course, has become a primary rhetorical weapon of the Left today. “Hate” is wrong and evil in itself; one is expected to love everything and everything — except, of course, those whom the Leftist political and media elites deem “hateful,” such as Yves Thréard. Such people can be hated with impunity, and as we see with Antifa’s activities in the United States and elsewhere, violence done to such outcasts is acceptable, and is not “hate.” This is the level of intellectual discussion these days.

“Deputy Editor of Le Figaro Condemned For Saying Everyone Has the ‘Right to Hate Religion,’” by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News, October 16, 2019:

Deputy editor of French newspaper Le Figaro Yves Threard was condemned after arguing during a television appearance that Islamophobia doesn’t exist because everyone has the “right to hate religion.”

During a broadcast of Le Grand Soir (the grand debate) on Monday night, Threard brazenly stated, “I hate the Muslim religion.”

The comments were made in the context of a discussion surrounding the banning of the Islamic veil in public as well as the recent murder of 4 people at a police station in Paris by a man who had converted to Islam.

Julien Odoul, a member of France’s populist National Rally party, related the story of how he and his colleagues “had asked the president of the Regional Council in France, Marie Guite Dufay, to tell a veiled Muslim woman accompanying her son at a school activity to remove hijab or leave,” reports Morocco World News.

Dufay refused to ask the woman to leave, accusing National Rally of whipping up a “surge of hatred” and being “unworthy of elected officials of the republic.”

Threard responded by saying he had once left a bus because he saw a woman wearing the full veil and that Islamophobia “does not exist,” because everyone has the “right to hate religion.”

In the same country where Islamic jihadists slaughtered Charlie Hebdo cartoonists for expressing similar views, numerous public figures piled on to denounce Threard.

“Thank you for the idea,” tweeted journalist Samuel Gontier. “From now on, I will wear a veil to take the bus to avoid any meeting with Yves Threard.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 12:19 pm

    Question for Leftards:

    What EXACTLY gives Islam the special privilege (not afforded to any other religion) to be above criticism?

    Note Soviet communists and Chinese communists have lots of criticisms for Islam. The exoneration of Islam is inconsistent with your neo-Marxist principles.

    • Lydia Church says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 10:18 pm

      Question for mortimer:

      What would you say to someone who made this quote;

      “Changing this logo, and certainly the team name is not long for this world, is a sign of the acceptance of the idea that Westerners should be ashamed of the Crusades. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS proves otherwise. It demonstrates from primary sources that the Crusades were not a gratuitous imperialistic venture, but a late and small-scale defensive reaction to 450 years of imperialist jihad aggression that had conquered and Islamized what had been half of the Christian world, and threatened the life of the Christian empire, the Byzantine empire.”

      It is by Robert Spencer.
      And I fully agree with it!
      : D
      See article about the Crusades logo and Christchurch.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 19, 2019 at 10:48 pm

        Lydia, why would you think that Anti-Jihadist Mortimer would not agree with Robert Spencer here?

        • mortimer says

          Oct 20, 2019 at 1:05 am

          Response to LC: my prior comments are directed to the Leftarded neo-Marxist Globalists (with whom I disagree). Globalist leftists are unwittingly the lackeys of multinational corporations that want to level the playing field for their factories around the world by lowering Western wages. They use Islamic migration as way of lowering wages and changing the freedom-loving culture of the West. Islam hates freedom.

          The Leftards have tried to claim that Islamic ideology may not be criticized because the IDEOLOGY of JIHADISM is actually a ‘RACE’ of humans and not simply an IDEOLOGY (who knew?) Islam is a political ideology and a mental product of thinking that people of all races may adopt or refuse. 80% of all humans reject Islam, including the Leftards.

          On what basis do the Leftards then permit the critique of one ideology (capitalism, multiparty democracy) and forbid the critique of another ideology? That is inconsistent.

  2. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 12:51 pm

    Bravo, Monsieur Thréard! Bravo!

    • elee says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 1:11 pm

      +1.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 10:43 pm

      Hear, hear!

    • Lavéritétriomphera says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 6:22 am

      Le Figaro is the third largest national newspaper in France after Le Parisien and Le Monde, and it is well-known for its ”islamophobia”.

  3. elee says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    One gets to say these things in America. We owe this to some pretty smart dead white guys. Wake up France!

    • mortimer says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 1:10 am

      France needs VOLTAIRE to RETURN and SHOUT about the evils of Islam as he denounce the corrupted, authoritarian French church of his time.

      France went through a LONG PERIOD OF ANTI-CLERICALISM.

      How ‘INTELLECTUAL’ is it for French thinkers to instituted ISLAMIC CLERICALISM in France?

      They are offensively stupid idiots.

      • Lavéritétriomphera says

        Oct 20, 2019 at 8:18 am

        Oui, nous n’avons pas un souvenir très heureux de la toute puissante église catholique accusée, à tort ou à raison, d’avoir soutenu un monarque absolu de droit divin; but Islamic ideology is collapsing and Muslim leaders panic https://youtu.be/M-7-lK_mDak.

  4. somehistory says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 2:43 pm

    Good for him! The more people who have the courage to speak up and tell the truth about this scourge on mankind, the easier it will be for more people, who may have a greater fear of reprisal, to speak up and the greater likelihood that even these will speak up loudly and encourage clear thinking and Truth to be heard.

  5. Jon Sobieski says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    People who want to be slaughtered – what to call them? Chickens. Cows.

    Watching Bryant Gumbel on NZ Soccer, team player who is a muslim, Christ Church mosque attack, etc. What a propaganda piece! Gumbel say that white Christians kill many more people in mass shootings in the US than Muslims kill in terror attacks here or something.. what a lie. These guys just read scripts that spew lies as facts and haven’t a clue. They are sure o fit, afterall, it’s in the script!

    • FYI says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 5:52 pm

      Speaking of WHITE folk,what about the WHITE “prophet” of islam,muhammed,the mass-murderer of JEWS{Abu dawud 4390}and slave trader of BLACK AFRICANS{sahih muslim 3901}?

      muhammed:the WHITEST man that ever lived.

      Perhaps Mr Gumbel missed those politically incorrect facts{or rather it is,chooses to IGNORE them as it just doesn’t fit the pro-islam narrative of such folks:And they never get the Irony of defending a religion of “peace” whose founder was a mass murderer of JEWS AND also, the owner,buyer and seller of BLACK AFRICANS SLAVES.

      Folk like obama,the defender of muhammed.Isn’t Mr Gumbel’s ancestry both Jewish and African?

      Imagine the cognitive dissonance required to be a defender of islam given the facts about it.Easier to blame it all on white folk or christians isn’t it?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 10:39 pm

      Yes, Jon–that disgusting story is covered here:

      “New Zealand: Crusaders rugby team drops sword from logo because of Christchurch mosque massacres”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/new-zealand-crusaders-rugby-team-drops-sword-from-logo-because-of-christchurch-mosque-massacres

  6. P. Douglas says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 6:13 pm

    Izlam, the creed of SATAN, has been rejected UTTERLY by every sane group of people on the Planet!
    AS WELL IT SHOULD BE!

  7. Lydia Church says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    I criticize islam all the time.
    Too bad for the cry babies who don’t like it!

  8. gravenimage says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    France: Deputy editor of Le Figaro condemned for saying everyone has the “right to hate religion”
    …………………

    This is ludicrous–*of course* everyone has this right. And–as noted–if the only religions in question were Christianity and Judaism, or perhaps also Hinduism and Buddhism, no one would have batted an eye. But including Islam in this, even by inference, is deemed unacceptable. Why?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 10:35 pm

      This is especially insane, of course, considering how vile Islam is.

  9. mortimer says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 1:07 am

    Hold it a minute! How is it that it is ILLEGAL TO CRITICIZE RELIGION in the LAND OF VOLTAIRE???

    IMPOSSIBLE!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 1:10 am

      +1

    • Rufolino says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 4:04 am

      It’s illegal because no one cares about Voltaire’s thought, it doesn’t fit with the Left.
      E.G.: “If you want to know who has power over you, look for those you may not criticise” !
      Voltaire nailed it.

  10. Jim J Fox says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 1:51 am

    HATE- a word universally condemned but is it not fully justified for certain issues? Who does not hate slavery, mass murder, rape, gratuitous killing for ridiculous reasons and absurd, racist, violent, beliefs? Oh, wait–

  11. Angemon says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 5:07 am

    and that Islamophobia “does not exist,” because everyone has the “right to hate religion.”

    Indeed.

  12. Giacomo Latta says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 10:12 am

    In grade school I was always told there was a separation of church and state, which today would be religion and state. Therefore, any of us who are searching for freedom from religion should have it automatically whether it is written explicitly in a constitution or implicitly in common law. Then we could all be free from people who think that taxpayers should pay for their game where is the ghost hidden. You know, the one telling us how to live instead of us figuring out how to do that democratically ourselves.
    As has been noted, bravo Mr. Thréard. Now if we could only all be free from religion. Not only the cult of hate that is Islam and the Left but also from those who raise Islam to the status of religion just so they enter a religious debate.

  13. Patriotliz says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 10:15 am

    Brave and intelligent man…everyone has the right to hate a “religion” that is obviously a fascistic ideology which wants to destroy our freedoms. The problem has been the censorship by the Leftist Globalist totalitarians who are using and protecting Muslims as their allies in their quest for a Marxist Totalitarian NWO. No religion or political ideology can even surpass the totalitarian domination and genocide that Islam has racked up in the past 1400 years. That’s why the Marxists Globalists love it. It’s a nice wedge to break the backs of the passive Christians and all individualistic freedom-loving Westerners. Totalitarian birds of a feather flock together.
    BUT…the useful idiot infidel commies may not be able to dominate their Muslim allies when they gain demographic control.

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