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France’s Latest Headscarf Row and Marie Laguerre’s Viral Slap

Oct 20, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

The BBC reported Thursday, as Jihad Watch noted in the last hour, that “French President Emmanuel Macron has warned against ‘stigmatising’ Muslims or linking the Islamic religion with the fight against terrorism. ‘We have to stand together with all our fellow citizens,’ Mr Macron said during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday. It came as a French woman said she was taking legal action against far-right politicians who criticised her for wearing an Islamic headscarf in public.”

All this calls to mind the slap of Marie Laguerre, as an instructive case of what happens to women who do not wear an Islamic headscarf in public. A CCTV video in July 2018 went most usefully viral. It shows a French girl, and a young Muslim male who had been following her on a Parisian street, making unwelcome remarks, and when she told him to “shut up” he came up to her and slapped her hard, before calmly walking away. According to the girl, 22-year-old engineering student Marie Laguerre, who posted the video on Facebook, along with more details about the incident, she had been minding her own business when she started to be followed by her unknown assailant, who made obscene and degrading comments and “noises with sexual connotations” to her while she was making her way home in the 19th district of Paris in July.

She said that when told him to “shut up,” he reacted first by throwing an ashtray, which narrowly missed her, and then he came towards her, wordlessly struck her with a hard slap, then walked away. There were plenty of eyewitnesses, and several men got up as if they meant to stop him,  but no one dared to actually attempt it.  Nowadays, we have all learned to be wary of maddened Muslims.

Fariz M. (French courts do not allow the last name of defendants to be given out) was eventually identified by the police, and brought to trial, where he was found guilty of “violence with the use or threat of a weapon” (that ashtray) but not of sexual harassment, after prosecutors said there were insufficient grounds for that charge. He was fined  €2,000 (£1,770) in damages and was sentenced to a further six months suspended sentence. He was also “ordered to undergo psychological care and take a course about gender-related violence.”

French people are said to be outraged by this judgement, which occurred just as the government is considering new legislation on sexual harassment, designed to allow for on-the-spot fines to be levied by the police, obviating the need for any arraignment, defense lawyers, prosecutors, judges, trials — all of which mean long delays and unnecessary state expense. If this proposed law on sexual harassment is passed, the police will be able to take immediate action, interviewing the victim, talking to eyewitnesses, instantly reviewing CCTV tapes to corroborate a complaint and if the accused has been collared, levy a fine then and there.

Why is this case important? Because it offers one small but significant example, with which any girl or woman can identify, and that apparently touched many,  of a widespread phenomenon: the contempt for women, and especially for Infidel women, exhibited by so many Muslim males. This contempt has been expressed in various ways, most far worse than harassing talk, a thrown ashtray, and a slap. There were the 1,400 English girls who were treated as “easy meat” and passed around to be used sexually by the Muslim grooming gangs of Rotherham, in the U.K., a horrific business ignored for so long by the British authorities. There were  the mass sexual assaults by 2,000 Muslim men on 1,200 German girls and women on New Year’s Eve, 2015/2016 in Cologne and other cities. There have been the mass rapes of non-Muslim Yazidi girls in northern Iraq by members of the Islamic state. These things are terrible, but they are different only in degree, and not in kind, from the angry contempt for non-Muslim women shown in this recent video  from Paris.

There are two aspects of Islam that come together in this incident. The first is the sheer misogyny of Islam. Men are, according to the Qur’an and the testimony of Muhammad himself in the hadith, superior to women:

“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34

The same Qur’anic verse explicitly sanctions the beating of disobedient wives, as a last resort if other means — first admonishing them, then sending them to separate beds — fail to obtain obedience. And as we know from the hadith, Muhammad once punched his favorite wife Aisha hard in the chest, behavior which then became permissible for others emulating the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct:

“Muhammad ‘struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Aisha (Sahih Muslim 2127)

The inferiority of women can be found in the fact that a woman’s testimony is worth only half that of a man (2:282), while a daughter inherits only half that of a son (4:11). In the hadith Muhammad explains the reason for a woman’s testimony being valued at half that of a man “because of the deficiency in her intelligence” (Bukhari 3.48.226).

The rules concerning marriage and divorce reinforce the notion of female inferiority. Polygyny — one husband, plural wives — is sanctioned in Islam, and reduces the value of women who are in the position of having to share a man. To obtain a divorce, a Muslim husband need only utter the tripe-talaq; he need not give a reason. A Muslim wife, however, must return the mahr, the sum given to the bride at her marriage, either by her groom or the groom’s father, to her husband, and must provide a good reason for wanting a divorce, for unlike what is permitted the husband who wants a divorce, it is not automatically granted to a wife.

Muslim women have a duty to cover themselves — depending on where they live, the kind of cover will differ. It might be merely a hijab in Turkey or Tajikistan, or a niqab in Saudi Arabia, a niqab, or a chador in Iran, This is necessary because without the cover women are too sexually alluring to men, who cannot be expected to contain their animal lust. If anything untoward should occur, it’s the uncovered woman’s fault.

But if women are inferior in Islam, and dangerously alluring unless covered, Infidel women are even more definitely to be despised. For the Qur’an describes all Infidels as “the most vile of creatures” (98:6), while Muslims are, by contrast, “the best of peoples” (3:110). An Infidel girl, doubly inferior as a female and as a non-Muslim, who walks shamelessly around without any cover, like Marie Laguerre, is simply asking for it, and Farid M. was there to give it to her. How dare she tell him to “shut up”? He knows he did nothing wrong, even if the French Infidels, applying their ludicrous laws, think otherwise and impose a fine.

Because of the  appearance of this video on YouTube, where it went viral, a stronger law making sure that sexual harassment is treated as a crime is now likely to pass. But making it a crime won’t stop it. The problem is large, and growing, on the streets, in the cafes, on buses and subways, with Muslim boys and men harassing non-Muslim girls and women in microaggressions that, unlike here, are seldom caught on tape. They are females, and therefore inferior. They are Infidels, and therefore they are vile and deserve our Muslim contempt. They walk around, without a hijab, wearing lipstick and makeup, in short skirts or pants — for Muslim men, these are come-hither signals, and these women cannot hypocritically pretend they were not asking for it. What else could their dress and attitude possibly mean?

If the new law on sexual harassment is put into effect, it should give some relief to the girls and women who have had to endure this eruption of sexual assault — a verbal one, full of insults and innuendo — that menacingly  suggests an actual physical one might follow. It should cut down on the intolerable behavior of Muslim males toward French girls and women, for it is they who are responsible for this epidemic of sexual harassment in France.

Marie Laguerre was disappointed with the court’s verdict:

Speaking to the French publication Libération before the hearing, the 22-year-old victim described the development [that the state decided not to bring a charge of sexual harassment] as a “harsh blow” symbolically and a “disappointment.”

“My attacker will not be able to understand the misogynistic and sexist nature of what he is accused of,” she said (in French).

“We are missing out on teaching him a lesson to make him aware that it’s no longer possible to treat women like pieces of meat.”…

From her comments, it is unclear whether Marie Laguerre recognizes, even if she does not state explicitly, that the “misogynistic and sexist nature” of her attacker’s behavior arises naturally out of the texts and teachings of Islam. If she does, one can sympathize with her unwillingness to state this directly, given the real threat of harm from those who won’t tolerate such public criticism of their “peaceful, tolerant” faith.

Of the millions of Muslim males in France, how many think it is wrong to approach Infidel females, to follow them along the street, to make remarks to them about sex, in short, to sexually harass them? After  all, these women are both inferior to men, and contemptible (“most vile creatures”), as Infidels. And how many Muslim males, having been told by the French authorities that females are the complete equals of men, and that non-Muslims are fully the equals of Muslims, who deserve to be treated with the same respect, will manage to do so? Which are Muslims in France more likely to follow — what the French Infidels tell them, or what they are taught in the Qur’an and hadith?

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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 10:12 am

    “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them) K.8.60 Muslims know that Allah commands terrorism.

    Virtue-signalling dhimmis don’t know the first thing about jihad.

    • Lion heart says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 10:05 pm

      French police are cowards and so are those men who were at the scene where that Muslim filth slapped that girl ! I promise you if he did that to any Canadian girl while while I had been there , I would have stepped on his face with my hiking shoes and punched him some 20 Punches ! and we Canadian Christians originally from Iraq know the evil of Islam and it’s contagious satanic ideology more than them any other nation in the world since its rise as we have been suffering from it ever since especially after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime. Shame on you Europe ! Shame ! Learn a little bit from Saddam who was crushing his opponents mercilessly although I hate him and he’ll to him but at least he knew how to deal with criminals .

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Oct 21, 2019 at 11:03 am

        I agree, Lion Heart. (Nice nom de guerre, BTW!)

        If there had been any actual MEN present, they would have beaten the living shit out of this Muslim savage — or died trying. It is freaking OUTRAGEOUS that this sort of predatory attack by a misogynistic Muslim can be carried out, with impunity, in a public place in a Western city. European men need to grow a pair, and be prepared to take ACTION, without hesitation, if they see a woman being treated this way by an aggressive Islamist. Judging from the description of this Muslim “man’s” behavior, someone should have intervened before it even got physical. And when he threw the ashtray at the woman, it was definitely ass-stomping time.

        I realize there are still a few courageous men in Europe who would never allow this sort of thing to go unchallenged. But FAR too few of them — as evidenced by one public outrage after another, in which one or more Muslim “men” behave like savage lords of the land, then walk away, heads held high, while meek, mouse-hearted males simply stand by and watch.

        I also realize that carrying most types of weapons is illegal in much of Europe — and that in some countries (such as Britain), the right to defend yourself or others in any way has pretty much been outlawed. But French law still recognizes the right to defend yourself or someone else; so that wouldn’t have been a problem in this case, as long as you didn’t take it too far.

        On the other hand, the British government has gone completely insane, and must be defied on this point, now that it has allowed hordes of aggressive, military-age Muslim “men” to infest the land and prey upon its women, children, & other vulnerable people. If the case described here had taken place in Britain, or some other country with totally batshit laws, the proper response would have been for one or more men (or bad-ass women) to step in, give this asshole a good thrashing, and then walk away, in defiance of the looney, Sharia-compliant, Muzzie-loving government.

        Misogynistic Muslim colonizers throughout Europe have declared Open Season on infidel women & girls. It’s time to fight back! Time to let them know they are not still in Algeria or Pakistan or whatever Islamic shit-hole they crawled out of – and that they are NOT free to do as they please in our societies. Not wanted. Not welcome. And damn-sure NOT free to prey upon our women.

  2. Jayell says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 10:54 am

    How curious that Macron is concerned about ‘stigmatising muslims’ or ‘linking islam with terror’ when muslims are clearly stigmatising themselves and linking themselves to terror without any help from.anyone else. Or hasn’t he been following his own news media?

  3. jewdog says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 11:24 am

    Unfortunately, civilized behavior cannot be legislated. It’s far more expedient to exclude people from uncivilized cultures in the first place.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 7:40 pm

      Spot on, Jewdog.

  4. Trick_or_Treat says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 11:34 am

    I know a young lady in her early 20’s, about the very same age as the victim mentioned in this article, who has been fastidiously devoted to the discipline of Tae Kwon Do since age of 11 years. She has a black belt with dan stripes (and now her young daughter is being trained in it as well). You wouldn’t think it just by looking at her in everyday life – except if you saw her in action at training. She would give Chuck Norris a good run for his money around the ring.
    So far in life she’s never encountered any real seriously bad problems that she’s had to deal with, and has never yet had any encounters of the overt muslim male type, but the day that any muslim male might decide that she’s and easy target infidel kaffir, that will probably be the biggest mistake they make in their hapless life.

    • rubiconcrest says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 11:55 am

      While that is good that she can defend herself above her weight I seriously doubt she could defend herself against a man 30 lbs heavier and 6″ taller with a violent past who also knows how to fight. The solution as others have mentioned is not to let beasts enter your country. They will not change and we do not have to accept it. Sadly the men at the outdoor cafe did not take the man down as they should have. This factor as well has to a lot to with why this kind of unprovoked violence continues.

    • James says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 2:21 pm

      The idea that training women in marital arts would make much difference is ridiculous. Look at the cases where trans-females are allowed to compete in women’s sports. They usually win most of the competitions because they have more testosterone, bigger bodies, more muscle and bone, a more aggressive nature and etc. There was some case where a woman with a black belt in karate was matched with a man who had only a green belt. But the man easily won the match. There have been cases where trans-men were allowed to compete as women in marital arts and they broke the woman’s jaw or skull. And add to this that most women and actually most men never become good in marital arts. I once had a few weeks of karate and then lost interest and gave it up. Women should be protected by the law, the police, by immigration policies, deportation of criminals and other measures to maintain peace and protect women. It is only in movies where women can compete with men. I think there was one movie where a woman showed how good she was by taking a beating from a male soldier. Who needs that sort of ridiculous feminism? Men are bigger and stronger, that makes primitive men more able to harass women.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 7:42 pm

      It certainly would not solve everything–but if more women–and men–were either armed or trained in the martial arts, it would give more of these thugs pause.

  5. Angemon says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    All this calls to mind the slap of Marie Laguerre, as an instructive case of what happens to women who do not wear an Islamic headscarf in public

    I suspect that, were that a white Frenchman slapping a muslima for her refusal to take off the veil, the outcome and media coverage would be very different…

  6. somehistory says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    The Frenchmen, esp the one that grabbed the chair as though he would throw it at the creepy moslim, wanted to express their manliness, but the fear of what the police might do, held them back.
    At least, that is the way it appeared.

    No woman should have to put up with this kind of mistreatment. Had it been dark and no other people about, it is probable that the attack would have been much worse for the young woman.

    Scum is what these creatures are. Not superior as they are taught to believe, but scummy dross, fit only for disposal.

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    France’s Latest Headscarf Row and Marie Laguerre’s Viral Slap
    ………………..

    This–and worse–is how Muslims treat unveiled women.

    • somehistory says

      Oct 21, 2019 at 5:49 pm

      Because they think they have the right to do as they please, and it pleases them to hurt people, esp women and little girls and boys.

    • David says

      Oct 29, 2019 at 10:30 am

      GI: and veiled women as well.

  8. Bella says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    The elites don’t give a damn about any of this – they don’t have to live with them and put up with this. There needs to be riots the likes the world has never seen to throw those who’ve allowed this pestilence into our communities.

  9. Giacomo Latta says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 9:50 am

    Macron: ”We have to stand together with all our fellow citizens.”
    Are you talking about your attempts to eradicate ”violent Islam?”
    And how many of your warm and fuzzy imam friends are standing together with you to accomplish that, Knob?”

  10. Linda Rivera says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    Macron: ”We have to stand together with all our fellow citizens.”

    As a Christian and non-Muslim, I stand ONLY with other non Muslims who don’t want to perpetrate great harm against me and slaughter me because I don’t worship Mass Murderer, Warlord Mohammad’s dark, death god.

    • somehistory says

      Oct 21, 2019 at 5:47 pm

      +100

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