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Macron Tries to Harden His Stance on an “Islam of France” (Part 1)

Mar 3, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

A Turkish writer at Hüuriyet reports here on the speech of French President Macron about “Islamist separatism”:

“Islamist separatism is incompatible with the indivisibility of the republic and the necessary unity of the nation,” French President Emmanuel Macron said n a Feb. 18 speech, explaining his strategy to combat political Islam.

“While one part of Macron’s strategy aims to combat violence in impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods, the rest is directed at nonviolent Islamist groups, which largely operate within the boundaries of the law but are criticized for an interpretation of Islam that pushes members of local Muslim communities to detach themselves from mainstream society.

What the author describes as merely an “interpretation of Islam” that causes “Islamist separatism” is Islam itself. President Macron does not realize that what he continues to call “Islamist separatism” is simply mainstream Islam. It is the Qur’an which commands Muslims not to take Christians or Jews as friends, “for they are friends only with each other.” (5:51) It is the Qur’an which describes Muslims as “the best of peoples” (3:110) and non-Muslims as “the most vile of created beings.” (98:6) Why would the best of peoples wish to become part of a society constructed over the centuries by, and still dominated by the most vile of created beings? Why would Muslims feel that the laws and customs of the “most vile” Infidels are deserving of respect? Muslims may live in France, but they should not become “French” in any way except that of holding a French passport and accepting the many benefits that a generous welfare state lavishes upon them.

“In the republic, we cannot accept that we refuse to shake hands with a woman because she is a woman. In the republic, we cannot accept that someone refuses to be treated or educated by someone because she is a woman,” said Macron.

How does Macron plan to enforce what is not a law but a custom? Though it is unpleasant, when a Muslim refuses to shake hands with a woman, it is not illegal. Will there be a kind of semi-police force, “gardiens des moeurs,” who will roam around, checking out whether Muslim men are shaking hands with women, as Frenchmen do, or violating the custom? And if they are refusing, what can be done about it? However, societal disapproval can take other forms: employers may be less inclined to hire those who refuse to treat women as equals. Students who refuse to treat their female teachers with respect can be disciplined within the school itself. Muslim patients who refuse to be treated by female doctors can be read the riot act: they must take the doctor they are assigned, or go to the back of a very long queue, or even, be told they will not be treated if they continue to refuse treatment from a female doctor. Legislation may be required — stiff fines for those who refuse to shake hands with women, a custom that thus becomes enshrined in law. That law could be based on the argument that those men who refuse to shake hands with women are violating the legal equality of the sexes. Students who do not respect female teachers may be expelled from schools, until they agree to treat male and female teachers equally. Patients who refuse female doctors could also face the prospect of not being seen at all, or being put at the back of the queue for an appointment. There is still the problem of enforcement: there are six million Muslims in France, of which roughly, three million, are men. How could their refusal to shake hands be adequately monitored? How would the classrooms be monitored for signs of Muslim disrespect of female teachers? Does the French state really want to be involved formally in such matters, meting out punishments, or does it want simply to encourage – without punishment – changes of behavior commensurate with the legal equality of the sexes?

Migrant communities are expected not just to respect the law but to respect and adapt to the norms of society, while the “civil and religious leaders” of these communities are expected to encourage their members to act in such a fashion.

How many “civil and religious leaders” of the Muslim community will agree to endorse and promote among their followers the customary behavior of the French Infidels as to hand-shaking? Will they be willing to offer counseling that goes against the practices of Muslims, and that contradicts the spirit of the many Qur’anic verses that instruct them not to take non-Muslims as friends, but instead regard them as “the most vile of created beings,” and in more than 100 verses commands them to fight, to kill, to strike at the necks of, to strike terror in the hearts of, Infidels? How will they explain in sermons that now they must, because the French insist, to follow such customs as shaking the hands of women – as if they were equal to me?. Must they really adopt that French, most un-Islamic view, of the sexes? The task of transforming Muslim attitudes will not be easy, for Islam has always promoted a misogynistic view. A man is entitled to up to four wives, which cheapens the perceived worth of the woman. A Muslim husband can divorce a wife merely by repeating the word “talaq” three times, while a wife who wishes to divorce her husband has to meet a series of requirements, including the return of her mahr or bride-price. A Muslim daughter inherits only half what a male inherits. A Muslim woman’s testimony is worth only half that of a man, because – as Muhammad says in a hadith – “it is because of the deficiency of her intelligence.” Given all this, will it be possible to change the attitudes of Muslim male patients toward female doctors, of Muslim students toward female teachers, of Muslim males who are forced to shake the hands of females, and Infidels to boot?

Macron will find it is going to be very difficult to persuade Muslims to violate both the spirit and the letter of Islam.

Macron believes this is not the case in France due to “foreign influence.” That’s why he announced an end to a program that allowed foreign countries to send imams and teachers.

Macron believes this is not the case in France — that is, there is scant respect for, and little willingness by Muslims to adapt to the norms of French society. He attributes this to “foreign influence.” He means foreign imams, trained abroad, who are sent to France to run mosques and preach sermons. His solution is to end the program by which these foreign imams were allowed in. From 2020 on, he has announced that there will be an end to the program that allowed foreign countries to send imams and teachers.

For the past two years, Macron has been talking about an “Islam of France.” He never quite explains how this “Islam of France” is supposed to work. Would there be a different Qur’an, different Hadith, a different Sira for Muslims in France, quite unlike the Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira read in Muslim countries? Of course that is impossible. He has convinced himself that it is “foreign influence” – that is, imams and teachers from abroad who come to France spreading their malign and, implicitly, incorrect interpretations of Islam. They are spreading, in fact, in perfectly straightforward fashion, the Islam of 1.5 billion people, not a strained interpretation of the faith but the faith itself.

Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey send teachers to France to provide foreign-language and culture classes that are not subjected to scrutiny from French authorities. This part of the program, which has reached 80,000 students a year, will end this September.

It is right and proper to end a program which serves to connect Muslims in France to their countries of origin, by offering language study in Arabic and Turkish, for those from the Maghreb and from Turkey and “culture classes” which are inevitably imbued with Islamic doctrine. It is especially important to end them because these teachers are not “subject to scrutiny” by the French authorities, and some may include in their language-and-culture lessons their negative observations on the French and their ways, that can only hinder attempts at integrating the Muslim population.

In addition, France will gradually stop welcoming “detached imams” – who number around 300 (150 of whom are from Turkey) – from these countries.

The program will be replaced with bilateral agreements, which France has concluded with Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia – but not yet Turkey.

Those imams who are not attached to any particular mosque or other Muslim institution, but are described as “detached imams,” are likely, the French believe, to emphasize those aspects of the faith that concern relations – hostile relations – between Muslims and Unbelievers. These “detached imams” without a fixed base in a.particular mosque, who are peripatetic preachers moving about the country, have been found to be particularly hard to monitor because of their constant movement. By banning the teachers of language (Arabic, Turkish) and culture (Arabic, Turkish, both Islam-infused) President Macron may think he is doing something of great value, something that will change the nature of Islam. He flatters himself. Will the teaching of Islam, without these foreign imams, be more accommodating to French laws and customs? Why wouldn’t imams trained in France, spending their entire lives in France, be just as dangerous in their promotion of Muslim“separatism” that arises from the Qur’an itself? They read and believe the same Qur’an. Why should the problems that have arisen, not just in France but throughout Europe, of an unintegrated and hostile Muslim population, either disappear or decrease? So far, there is no evidence that it makes much of a difference where the imams are from. That is not something Macron wishes to hear, for it would eventually lead either to a conclusion of despair or to a conclusion that the only way to “solve the Muslim problem” requires drastic measures that Macron could not at this point bear to contemplate – that is, both an end to further Muslim migrants, and repatriation of Muslims already in France who show no signs of being willing or able to integrate. as many as possible from among those who are already in France. How many European leaders would dare, at this point, to suggest such a solution?

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 10:31 am

    OK, mullahs! Ditch those turbans you’re wearing and put on berets! OK, Muslimahs, ditch those burqas and put on the latest French women’s fashions! That’ll make you look French in no time.

    Macron’s ludicrous pipe dream exposes his breathtaking naivety and almost-total ignorance of Islamic teaching and history. Muslims believe that everything in Sharia law is eternal, even though Sharia was created by humans between 100 and 700 years after Mohammed. Sharia was ‘finally’ codified in 1111AD and the ‘doors of exegesis’ were closed to further development of Islamic teaching. Islam is frozen in time!

    Ataturk tried a ‘modernization’ of Islam already in Turkey. He commanded the Turkish mullahs to change their script from Arabic to Latin characters, to read the Koran and prayers only in Turkish, to modernize their dress and hair styles. Mullahs who didn’t comply went to prison. Some disappeared. Macron cannot take such extralegal measures to enforce his will. His pipe dream will come to naught. It is the windy satisfaction of his tongue.

    Mullahs in France will simply ignore him at best. At worst, they will consider Macron a kind of French version of Hitler who created a new German Protestant movement to align and harmonize (Gleichschaltung) German Protestants with Nazi ideology.

    Islam is based on Arabian culture and nothing else. Any mullah who collaborates in such a venture of ‘gallicizing’ Islam will be ridiculed, dismissed as foolish or treated as

    • mortimer says

      Mar 3, 2020 at 10:43 am

      addendum … or treated as a heretical ‘innovator’. Innovation (Arabic: BIDA) is a horrible sin punished by imprisonment or vigilante action. An innovator would be ejected from most mosques. The biggest ‘innovation’ movement in Islam is the Ahmadi Islam movement which posits ‘new revelations’ to supplement the Koran and hadiths. In some Muslim countries they are not allowed to call themselves ‘Muslim’.

      To a devout, believing Muslim, the suggestion of a ‘French Islam’ would be as foolish as ‘French mathematics’ or ‘French chemistry’. Such matters are universal and independent of national culture. Islam is the words of Allah in the Koran and the words of Mohammed in the hadiths and the canonized words of the mullahs in Sharia.

      • Mike Stevens says

        Mar 3, 2020 at 11:57 am

        Quite correct, Mortimer. As that NATO ‘ally’ Erdogan of Turkey put it when criticising Saudi Arabia’s talk of reform (itself hard to believe), “The term ‘moderate Islam’ is being lathered up again. The patent of moderate Islam belongs to the West. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam; Islam is one. The aim of using such terms is to weaken Islam.”

        • Mural says

          Mar 3, 2020 at 12:20 pm

          Great posts, Mortimer.

      • commonsense says

        Mar 3, 2020 at 1:57 pm

        Mortimer. your knowledge of Islam and related history has, time after time, proven most impressive. I disagree with you about the issue of “deprogramming” Muslims by showing them Islam’s falsities and expecting them to abandon their faith with relatively little hesitation, but that’s peripheral. I truly believe you have the erudition and writing facility to start a blog of your own, if you have the time, which you do seem to have, as evinced by your prolific, substantive, and always edifying comments here. Please consider it – and any additional comments you wish to post here at Jihad Watch would still be very welcome, surely. Regards.

      • owensgate says

        Mar 3, 2020 at 3:22 pm

        Macron, and the Citizens of the French Republic, will find out soon that they did not get to have it both ways, an islamic free exercise of islam, and a patriotic “Vive La France” patriotism. They are mutually exclusive.

  2. Frank Anderson says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 10:49 am

    Mortimer, this is why I sincerely appreciate your presence. You know details many of us do not. I wish it were easier to get past the “brick wall” of religion and on to the avenue of real resistance. Islam may be a religion, depending on nothing more than definitions; It may also be a cult. But it certainly qualifies and has from the beginning under US law as an illegal conspiracy. I wish you well.

    • Lavéritétriomphera says

      Mar 4, 2020 at 6:14 am

      Bonjour Frank,

      Of course Islam is a cult and many people believe it is a very ancient one (Baal’s cult), and that is why it is venerable and above the laws, I have often heard we need to respect the elders and of course Islam …. As far I am concerned I do not care about the elders, I just focus on the traces they left. Therefore I throw out the Qur’anic and bible verses that I cannot support. I do the same thing with the ancient (and new) spiritual teachings.
      I believe there can be a real resistance against the Islamic totalitarian regime provided we can afford to think freely. Keep in mind the prisoner.
      As always I appreciate your comments.
      Amitiés

      • Frank Anderson says

        Mar 4, 2020 at 7:47 am

        Hello, Kevin!
        Who cares if islam is a religion or a cult? I DO NOT! Only those who do not want to do anything except wander around in circles of inaction. I have seen many times, in many settings that the fear of making decisions and having to take action based on decisions is overwhelming to people who are taught to be mindless followers instead of thinkers. Most of the prospective clients I interviewed and counseled regarding bankruptcy suffered from this denial until there was no escape left.

        ENDLESS Playing with definitions gets the only result possible, death and slavery. THEY KNOW what they are about. “We” sit around with our mouths open and our minds shut waiting to be slaughtered. The problem is that with those who will be enslaved and slaughtered also goes the future. Much as the decisions made today in the US to spend more money than is collected in taxes burdens the future generations with debt, the decision to surrender to islam surrenders future generations, such as may be alive, to tyranny and slavery, and more likely, death.

        This, to me, is the essence of the brilliant Catholic teaching about lighting ONE candle instead of cursing the darkness. Notice how many comments here curse the darkness and how few ponder effective action. I hope this can change.

        Peace and best wishes to you always.

        • Lavéritétriomphera says

          Mar 5, 2020 at 10:56 am

          Hello Frank,

          I agree with you: there is not much difference between a cult and a religion. For me, a cult is the worship of someone or something, religion is a cult linked with a philosophy.
          Islam is a cult, and I leave in your hands to decide wether or not Islam is also a philosophy.
          If it is, it is not a life philosophy, but a nihilistic philosophy linked with a cult. To my mind, Islam is certainly not a religion of peace.
          
          “Religion prevents the poor people from killing the rich” Napoleon Bonaparte said.
          I believe Islam has been created by a privileged group who needed to maintain his advantages and power.

          “Evolution of thought and ideas in the Islamic world depends on the European attitude toward Islam” Ayaan Hirsi Ali said (if I remember correctly).
          Political opposition, especially Marine Le Pen, urges Macron to take firm actions against political Islam, but up to now he opted for baby steps with regard to a “reformed” Islam or in other words an Islam of France. However much he does, it seems the official opposition is still unsatisfied.
          It seems French and probably the western peoples including USA fully understood the ennemies want a civilization and religious war and its incalculable consequences.
          Many of us believe Ayaan Hirsi Ali is right, and that the richness and vitality of the the western thought will be sufficient to counter the influence of political Islam.
          However, in France, we all think as the government keeps telling us, that we must help the unit in the police force that has the responsibilities of hunting down all terrorism perpetrators and those who support them.
          I think Donald Trump is right, he does not mince his words, but there is an ocean between the Muslim world and USA. And for us Europeans it is out of question to say, as Arnaud Amalric during the sack of Béziers in 1209, might have said “Kill them all, God will know His own ”.
          I appreciate your continuing candour and openness.
          Peace upon you and USA,
          Amitiés

        • Frank Anderson says

          Mar 5, 2020 at 12:02 pm

          Kevin, I always wish you well, success, security and peace.
          I do not think any of us continuing to go around in circles big or small about what word we should use to describe islam makes sense. Islam wants by its own published terms (that are deliberately scrambled to confuse non-muslims) to conquer, loot,, kill or enslave the world. (“Blessed are they who go around in big circles for they shall be known as big wheels!:)

          If islam is a religion, does it have the legal shield of religions to pursue its deadly goals that have been proven for 1400 years by the killing of between 250 and 1000 million people?

          If islam is a cult, which as you describe follows a ‘venerated example” is it free to commit mass murder as Jim Jones did? Paraphrasing Mark Gabriel in The Unfinished Battle (page 52), “If islam is such a great deal why were 4 million Egyptians killed bringing it to Egypt?”

          If it is a political ideology is it shielded by the rights of free speech and association to not just advocate but actively commit the destruction of the society which affords those rights?

          If it is, as I maintain after almost 40 years of being a licensed attorney and almost 20 years of directly related research and litigation, a criminal conspiracy to overthrow all governments arising from human law in favor of its own fabricated rules, why is it being allowed, even encouraged to continue?

          The debate over label is a total waste of time, intellect and opportunity. The debate is an excuse for refusing to act. How has islam continued its violence and oppression for 1400 years? Because too many people are afraid to face decisions, “Convert, Submit to Humiliation and Slavery, Die” or FIGHT. There are no places left to run, as the Jews experienced before WWII with Hitler.

          Words and negotiations MEAN NOTHING to an enemy who lives only to lie and die. Words are a waste. Indecisive people are like many of my clients who poured their money down financial sinkholes imagining the hole would be filled before they ran out of money. I did much the same in my several great errors, which I hope helped clients see and correct theirs.

          Saying there is a problem (“God I hate islam”) is merely cursing the darkness. If is a first step that should have been taken 1400 years ago and not needing daily repeating today. Acting is needed, because we can see that “those who submit” are acting daily to assure their success and our conquest..

          What can “I” do today to change the outcome?

          Best wishes to you. Frank

        • Lavéritétriomphera says

          Mar 6, 2020 at 8:56 am

          Bonjour Frank,
          
          As a lawyer you know the power of language, for that reason I defined Islam as a nihilistic ideology based on the lie that Quran is the word of God, a book of justice and so on.
          How did the Muslims come up with that?
          Greeks ridiculed the eastern people because they prostrated themselves before their gods and kings as they always do. The Greeks, who created democracy and condemned tyranny, called this attitude of submission “the dog lying down (direct translation)”. The Muslims don’t have the cultural roots such as ours, they did not experienced the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, they do not really believe in democracy even if they also endured totalitarianism.
          And I know you will probably agree with me when I say it takes time to change ways of thinking. Therefore it is easy to understand why nowadays Muslims more readily accept an absolute power and do not dare denounce lies and misinformation. They’re not free, but in a bondage that cannot be broken.
          For example in this video no one stands up and denounces the fraud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPO1Pnp-z_Q&feature=youtu.be.
          This type of orator would be ridiculed in the Western World.
          I have no doubt that Macron and western politicians taken as a whole, know the reality of the political and radical Islam, we need to remember that Daladier did not entertain any illusions about Hitler.
          Macron is very well informed, but it seems the political opposition criticize him for sitting on the fence.
          For better days,
          Amitiés

        • Frank Anderson says

          Mar 6, 2020 at 2:40 pm

          Kevin, Always best wishes to you.
          Because islam prohibits on pain of death any effort to change, reform or moderate its teachings, a person “who submits” cannot change.
          I am aware that Edouard Daladier knew Neville Chamberlain was full of ???? in dealing with Hitler. The problem we should all have, and learn from, is that when someone is grossly delusional, he should not be followed. To miss a chance to stop Hitler before he took Czechoslovakia, obtaining massive amounts of weapons that contributed in a major way to the conquest of France, is a disgrace that should be a vivid lesson for future decisions. I regret that France, Czechoslovakia and Poland, whose combined military strength in 1938 could have crushed the German army and prevented WWII failed to see their common interest. In fact, German military leaders had a plot ready to remove Hitler IF there had not been the gutless surrender at Munich.
          We can learn and do better if we remember. Frank

        • Lavéritétriomphera says

          Mar 8, 2020 at 6:33 am

          Bonjour Franck,
          
          Without realizing it, we can change in personality and temperament and it can be rapid. It is an essential law of nature because we cannot survive without adaptation.
          All ideologies, systems, societies that condemn changement, become obsolete and collapse. The French aristocracy contrary to the English nobility, has not kept up with changes in the society and they paid the price for it.
          Changes affect our lives and beliefs wether we like it or not and some Muslims are apostate without knowing it, and we all know that time does its work.
          We cannot rewrite history, but like the jihadists who want war Hitler did not hide his real intentions, and once again a lesson can be learned from wars and especially WW2: thoughtlessness will not save us from heading straight for disaster.
          I remember my mother quoting her father who said when WW2 broke out: “War again!”.
          And these same persons said in 1918: “Plus jamais cela – Never again!”.
          For better days,
          Peace upon you and USA.
          Amitiés

        • Frank Anderson says

          Mar 8, 2020 at 11:20 am

          Hello, Kevin.
          We agree that as a general rule change and adaptation are necessary for many people. I look in the mirror, both physically and psychologically and realize how much I have changed in nearly 70 years. I can do many things today that I could not imagine years and decades ago. The most obvious benefit of changing is that we are able to correct errors and deficiencies that would otherwise condemn us to one sort or another of a prison.

          Who holds on to the past with such intensity that whole countries and milliards/billions of people have suffered and died in misery? (I don’t know if the milliard is used in France in place of the US billion? It was used in pre-WWII Germany.)

          We are not likely to do a lot to get change where change is prohibited on penalty of death. Especially when we are considered sub-human and worthy only of slavery and killing. From what I have read and done, that is called in negotiations an impasse, meaning that efforts to bring, encourage, and certainly to force change are futile wastes of time. I infuriated a judge in a case where there was nothing to negotiate. After 3 emergency hearings in 2 weeks, she agreed.

          In military high school there was a brief discussion of the theory of the “dialectic”: A thesis confronting an anti-thesis produces a synthesis. When the thesis cannot be changed, if a synthesis is required, the anti-thesis is the only place where change can occur. We are living in a conflict of one side supporting life and liberty, while the other supports death and slavery. Where is there any room to negotiate?

          I believe I have already written about the Doubter’s Meditation that I received the first day of my visits. The wisdom of the whole prayer is inspiring and overwhelming to me: “A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.”

          There are some problems for which there is no solution in our hands. This is probably one reason to hope for guidance from other sources.
          I wish you well. Frank

        • Lavéritétriomphera says

          Mar 9, 2020 at 10:54 am

          Bonsoir Franck,
          
          Milliard is used in France.
          It seems that the “Mediterranean” Islam may have been better than the religions that existed in the Nabatean kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia. Since then times have changed. Remember heresy was punishable by death in the Christian world http://wikipedia.nd.ax/wiki/Marguerite_Porete and the enlightenment philosophies came in response to obscurantism, in France the absolutism of Royal power and the Catholic Church were challenged and the revolution broke out.
          In the 20th century Nazism has been defeated, and despite all speculation Soviet communism collapsed. Time will tell, but I believe the Islamic totalitarianism is the next on the list to disintegrate.
          However I agree with you the present situation in Europe is serious. The sultan, who never masked his intentions, is playing a dangerous game and the tsar will never accept a Turkish hegemony. I am afraid France and Germany have backed the wrong horse, because we have forgotten that England an Russia have always been opposed to a hegemonic policy in Europe. England has turned her back to EU which is going through dark days.
          I hope we will learn the lesson.
          For better days
          Peace upon you and USA
          Amitiés

        • Frank Anderson says

          Mar 9, 2020 at 11:48 pm

          Greetings Kevin,

          Thank you for helping me understand that milliards are still in use. I need to know that when I think of US billions, other people see US trillions because of that difference. Several documentary programs discuss German inflation without helping viewers know the difference. (5000 milliard marks for a bread and sausage). I can imagine the challenges of international accounting when the meaning of billion varies from country to country by a factor of 1000.

          The punishment for heresy remains death in the right places. I committed heresy when I refused to assist in a fraud of a corporate client by its managers and directors. Even though their attempts at killing my body were not successful, their efforts at killing my professional career were highly successful. You are probably familiar with the term “civil death”, or banishment from the “kingdom” without family or friends, who would suffer similar punishment for aiding your exile. It is amazing what corrupt people can do. They rise to power by destroying resistance and promoting more corrupt people.

          I suggest the defeat of Nazism in WWII is showing itself to be temporary. Looking at the solid connection between WWII Nazis and muslims to this day, the same racist, totalitarian goals continue.

          I agree the outlook is grim; and demands that people like us who understand history and trends do what we can to get more people to see for themselves both what has happened and that bad things can happen again if allowed. I continue to suggest following the teaching, “It is better to light ONE candle than to curse the darkness.” Each candle we light helps and starts others to light more along with us.

          Long Live France. Long Live the US. Long Live Freedom everywhere.
          Frank

        • Lavéritétriomphera says

          Mar 10, 2020 at 11:48 am

          Bonsoir Franck,
          
          I suggest the defeat of Nazism in WWII is showing itself to be temporary. Looking at the solid connection between WWII Nazis and muslims to this day, the same racist, totalitarian goals continue.
          Very true, but it is to easy to claim that we (including so called Muslims) are fooled by the Baal Moloch servants. One has only to glance at the Quran and the Hadiths to recognize that jihadists comply with sharia.
          Like Erdogan, the Muslim brotherhood shows his flag in a frank and straightforward way. No one can say he did not know and I agree with Eric Zemmour when he said, if my memory serves me correctly, that nowadays the political correctness is the best way socially acceptable.
          As far I am concerned, I do not see difference between political correctness and complicity, my opinion.
          I won’t be available during a couple of days.
          Hospitality is one of the most remarkable traits of the American society. Therefore I appreciate your open-mindedness and friendship greatly.
          Amitiés

        • Frank Anderson says

          Mar 10, 2020 at 2:03 pm

          Hello Kevin,

          I must agree that “political correctness” is the same thing as complicity and collaboration, and probably treason, in betrayal of duties owed to society. Suppressing clear, simple truth through intimidation of varying levels of threats and actions is no different today than it was 100 years ago. Just think, that is how long it has been since the revolution in Russia and the attempted revolution in Germany that led to the rise of the Nazis.

          I think it was Thomas Jefferson, who I believe served as Ambassador to France along the way, that added to the quote, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free” “but first it will make you miserable.” Happy, contented, satisfied people do not see reason or need to change. That is why they prefer to believe the politically correct lies-no action is needed. I am still connecting that inaction to Viktor Frankl’s “delusion of reprieve” on their imagining that maybe they can be gone by the time change is forced. But what about their children?

          Remember the Presbyterian teaching I admire, “All children are the responsibility of all adults; mother and father have such rights as there are but all of us have duties.” And the Jewish story about the grandson asking his grandfather why he was planting walnut trees when it takes 70 years for them to produce walnuts? Because your grandchildren will enjoy the walnuts! There is wisdom all around us from many sources. The challenge is to hear it, distinguish it from error and deception and put it to work in our lives.

          Travel in comfort and return safely. Frank

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 10:54 am

    “Us versus them”

    Tariq Ramadan

    • Frank Anderson says

      Mar 4, 2020 at 7:56 am

      M.C., you may or may not appreciate this; and I sincerely apologize if you don’t: You have just illustrated the second of three profound teachings that drew me to study Judaism for over 20 years. “Wisdom is all around us, not depending on source or conveyance, Whenever wisdom is in human hands there is some measure of error, deception or both. The challenge is to hear the wisdom, distinguish it from error and deception and put it to work in our lives.” There are things that can be learned from many sources. For what my comment may be worth?

  4. Mike Stevens says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 11:52 am

    Everything leads back decades to the first fantasies of multiculturalism, where all cultures were to be considered equal, and none had the right to criticise another. We would live happily together and our white, Christian societies would be “enriched” by bringing in millions from the Third World. To any thinking mind, that was absurd, but almost every country from the US through Europe to Australia fell for it and forced policies of multiculturalism and ‘diversity’ on its people.

    The unforgiveable thing is that even when it became obvious decades ago that certain cultures were not integrating or contributing, and were increasing levels of crime and unrest, the policies continued – because by then political correctness had joined the mix, along withe racism industry, so the two problematic cultures, black and Muslim, became protected species no one dared criticise.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Mar 3, 2020 at 2:50 pm

      All of those elements you cite are deliberate policies of the Frankfurt School of social underminers, the Saul Alinsky “Community Organisers”. Enforced by job-loss for those whose opinions differ, they certainly have been successful.

  5. jca reid says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 11:58 am

    Macron is now fighting for his Political Life¬ Trying to win the People over after he’s thrown them under the buses & if not there, into the canals. He’s ignored them & their concerns, living the High Life while his Country burned. The sooner the People drag him out of Office, even lynch him, the better!

  6. Wellington says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 12:03 pm

    Macron very likely would have been superb at rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.

  7. No Muzzies Here says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 1:25 pm

    Macron has an unsolvable problem on his hands. 9 million individuals who pledge devotion to a throwback system that is incompatible with the French Constitution.

    A Muslim France will be as much of a hellhole as Turkey is now.

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 3, 2020 at 3:49 pm

      No Muzzies Here says,

      “A Muslim France will be as much of a hellhole as Turkey is now.”

      Correct, and the future demographics – as I’ve pointed out numerous times – do not look good…

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 1:31 pm

    The President of France now has a strategy to combat “political Islam.”

    With that statement he very much should be made known that the term used by many in the West in current times is “political Islam” That term is, in reality redundant. This is because Islam is in essence, a religious /political Sharia law based system.

    As so well explained in brief way, by the Muslim tyrant who and ruled Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini when he stated that “All Islam is politics.” [1]

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq , page 332.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 3, 2020 at 1:47 pm

    Islam produced Sharia law . Therefore Sharia law is part of Islam . Sharia law is religious /political law.

    This means the Sharia law and Islam fit together and cannot really be separated .So Islamic being separated from political law, Sharia law is not possible Therefore any strategy of the French President to oppose or “combat political Islam” is total unworkable ,doomed to fail because such a strategy is full of ignorance about the political nature of Islam .

    With this made clear a further note about Sharia law may be fitting

    Which is the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed 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.

  10. jca reid says

    Mar 4, 2020 at 9:00 am

    He & his ilk have got to go! NO Macron volte face Policy/ies. He & his crowd have deliberately done this to France & Europe. They don’t care. NEVER have done. Just trying now to try & con the voters to re-elect him so his “project” can carry on. The entire lot of them should be dropped off into the Seine or, the Bay of Biscay with concrete boots on!

  11. Palladini says

    Mar 4, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    Islam is not here to integrate, unlike every other religions who have come to North America, who all got along with each other, muslims do want to integrate, they are here to Dominate us
    Islam is NOT a religion, maybe a cult at most, but more of a Political system then a Religion
    Since the start of islam, 270 million People have died by at hands of muslims worldwide, it is not a religion of peace.
    To back up my facts watch this video and see for yourself – https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

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