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France: Macron defends ‘right to blaspheme,’ vows to crack down on ‘Islamic separatism’

Sep 6, 2020 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Macron is entirely correct. Too many countries have grown accustomed to being delicate with Islamic sensibilities and have allowed Islamic special interest groups to terrorize their societies by defaming and demonizing critics of Islam and those who offend the religion, and even moving toward criminalizing such criticism. Canada’s “anti-Islamophobia” Motion M-103 is a shameful example of that.

Macron’s comments follow the republication of Muhammad cartoons by Charlie Hebdo. Meanwhile, France foiled “at least 6” jihad attacks in recent months,  and French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that “radical Islamic terrorism still posed the biggest security threat to France,”  and that fighting “against Islamist terrorism is a high priority of the government.”

In June, French forces killed Abdelmalek Droukdel, a highly influential  leader in the al-Qaeda Maghreb, who called for a “gentler, kinder” al-Qaeda to establish Sharia, not only in North Africa but worldwide.

France has also tried to palm off its Muslim migrant problem on Britain, which is a backhanded way of indicating that it is coming to recognize what a big mistake it made in the first place in implementing globalist open-door policies. What France should be doing is deporting illegal Muslim migrants and unapologetically protecting its borders from the hijra, as does Hungary.

“Macron decries ‘Islamic separatism’, defends right to blaspheme,” Associated Press, September 4, 2020:

French President Emmanuel Macron criticised what he called “Islamic separatism” in his country and those who seek French citizenship without accepting France’s “right to commit blasphemy”.

Macron on Friday defended satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of Prophet Muhammad that helped inspire two French-born men to mount a deadly January 2015 attack on the paper’s newsroom.

The weekly republished the images this week as the trial began of 14 people over the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher supermarket.

Speaking at a ceremony on Friday celebrating France’s democratic history and naturalising new citizens, the French president said: “You don’t choose one part of France. You choose France … The Republic will never allow any separatist adventure.”

Freedom in France, Macron said, includes: “The freedom to believe or not to believe. But this is inseparable from the freedom of expression up to the right to blasphemy.”

Noting the trial that opened on Wednesday, he said, “To be French is to defend the right to make people laugh, to criticise, to mock, to caricature.”

The 2015 attacks killed 17 people and marked the beginning of a wave of violence by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group in Europe.

Macron’s centrist government has promised a law in the coming months against “Islamic separatism” but it is not yet clear exactly what it would police….

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  1. Rethmann says

    Sep 6, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    Tough measures are absolutely necessary

    • Terry Gain says

      Sep 6, 2020 at 2:44 pm

      Tough measures aren’t enough. Macron leaves Moslems with a choice Of obeying French law or obeying Islamic Law. Muslims will do the former only until they can do the latter

    • mortimer says

      Sep 6, 2020 at 3:27 pm

      Sorry, Rthmann, ‘tough’ doesn’t work on Islam. It makes them angrier. Only textual and historical critique has any effect on Muslims. They leave Islam when it is impossible to believe anymore.

      ‘Islamic separatism’ already exists in the minds of French Muslims. Macron is foolishly trying to fight Islam’s ideology with laws.

      Ideology can only be fought be COUNTER-IDEOLOGY. Muslims will not abandon jihad because it is part of Islam.

      Destroy belief in Islam and you instantly cure jihadism.

      • James Lincoln says

        Sep 6, 2020 at 4:08 pm

        mortimer says,

        “Destroy belief in Islam and you instantly cure jihadism.”

        That is a true statement, but how do you destroy belief in islam on a mass scale?

        Hi there any mass scale success stories that I am unaware of?

        • Michael Chernick says

          Sep 7, 2020 at 2:05 am

          Gotta start somewhere. The tide is changing: Myanmar and China with the Uyghurs. Each attempt is different but the lessons from the feedback of each determined country will become increasingly available to the naive who will eventually wake up or convert to Islam. Not sure which way Canada will go with Barack Trudeau.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 6, 2020 at 8:19 pm

        Mortimer, your claim that getting tough on Muslims has never worked is mistaken. Muslims were driven back at Poitiers, and at Lepanto, and at the Gates of Vienna. The were driven out of Spain, and Portugal, and southern France, and southern Italy, and Sicily, and Greece, and the Balkans.

        The idea that the only thing that has worked against Jihad is convincing Muslims to leave Islam does not hold water–in fact, there is no case in the history of the world where Infidels have convinced all Muslims to leave Islam and be nice.

      • Jhon San says

        Sep 7, 2020 at 8:49 am

        Counter ideology will need a Chinese style brain wash camp detention.

  2. Ray Jarman says

    Sep 6, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    Maybe Macron’s visit to Lebanon, where he has witnessed first hand the results of Islamic rule and destruction, has opened his eyes. The Italian government in the 1950s used to offer paid vacations to the USSR for those who were advocating for Leninism/Stalinism in order for them to witness first hand the results of their advocacy. I think that if western leaders were to visit the destroyed villages in Nigeria where Christians were slaughtered by Muslim subhuman slugs or maybe a few Pakistani villages where Christians are relegated to far less than human conditions might cause them to ponder the results of the Muslim plight in their own nations. Western leaders (I use the word very loosely) should be mandated to read the unholy Qur’an in its entirety in order to assume their elected office and then obligated to read their own constitutions in order to become more perspicacious in an effort to act in the best interests of the people whom they serve.

    • Ismail Ali says

      Sep 6, 2020 at 1:55 pm

      Macron is a traveller on the wrong path .He has a Christian agenda that failed on arrival …and your so called Christian village in Nigeria is nonexistent. We don’t have any such village. It is a mere figment of your racist imagination. Rubbish

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Sep 6, 2020 at 2:12 pm

        You said the magic word “racist.” You had to say it, didn’t you? You just had to say it. Your brain is incapable of thinking in any other terms. It’s become so predicable and cliche that it’s laughable. Call me one too, please, oh please. Maybe you can throw in the f-word too. Ha.

        • Savvy Kafir says

          Sep 6, 2020 at 2:18 pm

          Yep. As soon as one of these idiots mentions the word “racist”, we know we’re dealing with a clueless, PC Friend Of Islam or a taqiyya-spouting Muslim dirtbag. Saves us the trouble of seriously considering anything they say.

        • FYI says

          Sep 6, 2020 at 2:27 pm

          @CES

          On the Abu Hamzu article posted here on JW{‘jihad preacher Abu Hamza suing US authorities..sept 5 2020} mr ali’s comment posted at 3:20 AM sept 6 says..

          ‘see your monkey face’ and ‘white ape’

          Doesn’t that sound like a ‘racist imagination’?
          We know trolls tend to come here and project a lot.

          muslims don’t get the concept of Irony.

        • Bonni Aarons says

          Sep 7, 2020 at 4:01 pm

          Look at who you are talking to. Muslims are expert at deception and turning all their horrific actions on non-muslims. Accusing a non-muslim of being “Racist” is one of their easy )most effective) weapons they use to back off non-muslims. Muslims can then move forward with their sick plan to control thr world. Little do muslims know that should they achieve this mission……muslims will then turn on each other. Muslims are programmed killers and the will jidge each muslim for not being a good enough muslim and thus severely punished. Muslims best bet is to to get out of the muslim brotherhood at all costs.

      • James Lincoln says

        Sep 6, 2020 at 4:10 pm

        Ismail Ali,

        What race is Christianity?

        What race is islam?

        • Gage Cadotte says

          Sep 6, 2020 at 6:36 pm

          There IS no race. They are both a faith, and faith is not specific to race.

      • Gage Cadotte says

        Sep 6, 2020 at 6:38 pm

        Calling out against Islamic beliefs cannot be considered racism; muslims are not a race. They are a faith; an idea, and ideas exist to be challenged.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 6, 2020 at 8:24 pm

        Note that Ismail Ali has *no* problem with his vicious coreligionists mass murdering non-violent cartoonists for daring to point out the Islam is violent–but then, why would he?

        And his fellow Muslims are waging a genocide against Christians in Nigeria–this has been reported by all sides. The idea that it is made up is ludicrous.

        Then. how is it “racist” to note that African Muslims are slaughtering African Christians of the same ethnicity? Of course, this is absurd.

      • Michael Chernick says

        Sep 7, 2020 at 2:15 am

        Ismail Ali

        Right path or wrong path, irrelevant. It is his path, a thinking man’s path to decide for himself. Real Christian agenda is slow to anger, like the Buddhists in Myanmar. Beware the wrath of a patient man. God Bless you

      • Lavéritétriomphera says

        Sep 7, 2020 at 2:54 am

        @Ismael Ali,

        Macron is traveling on the wrong path (?). Our president is not above the French law. Blasphemy crime doesn’t exist in France.

      • Dawne says

        Sep 7, 2020 at 11:19 am

        Islam is not a race, it is a religion. So it is not possible to be “racist” against Islam.

        As for your disbelief in the killings of Christians in Nigeria by Muslims, to quote from human rights organisation Intersociety: “since June 2015, up to 12,000 Christians have been killed [in Nigeria] with 350 deaths in the first two months of 2020. Nigeria is ranked number twelve on the persecution charity Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of countries where Christians are the most in danger for practising their faith.” And it is worth pointing out that the countries ranked from one to eleven are all Muslim countries.

        These killings are not random “murders”; Muslim groups in Nigeria are conducting an organised GENOCIDE of Christians there. So much for your “religion of peace”.

        Ismail – let the scales fall from your eyes. Look at the evidence of what the Islamic religion actually is. Don’t dismiss the rest of the world who consistently see Muslim groups in their countries as a “threat”. Why is there this commonality in the US, in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Myanmar, India, China, Australia? Countries which very often have little else in common.

        Why is it do you think that here in the UK many Jewish, Hindu & Buddhist immigrants have settled peacefully and productively, while Muslim immigrants have failed to settle and be gainfully employed, and where a significant minority in the Muslim community hate the country which has welcomed them, and foment acts of terror and violence? What difference is there other than the religion of Islam which teaches you to hate and despise all others, and to accord no value to human life outside of Islam.

  3. Savvy Kafir says

    Sep 6, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    It’s gotten to the point (for years now) where it’s shocking to see a politician in Western Europe show some basic common sense regarding Islam & Muslims.

    Let’s hope this is a sign of things to come!

  4. Avery says

    Sep 6, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    Too bad it’s way too late for France

    “Islam is the second religion, the second community in France. Those who don’t like us just have to leave France.”

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/09/05/rhone-en-direct-une-manifestation-a-lyon-contre-le-racisme-et-lislamophobie/

    Michel Gurfinkiel on the Reverse Colonization of France

    https://www.meforum.org/61415/gurfinkiel-on-the-reverse-colonization-of-france

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 6, 2020 at 8:26 pm

      Telling us to surrender here is not useful.

  5. Boycott Turkey says

    Sep 6, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    Macron seems to be the only EU leader with a spine at the moment when it comes to Charlie Hebdo and he seems to be Backing Greece against Turkey

  6. gravenimage says

    Sep 6, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    France: Macron defends ‘right to blaspheme,’ vows to crack down on ‘Islamic separatism’
    …………………..

    Good for Macron! I hope he is serious in defending France’s freedom of speech.

    • Lavéritétriomphera says

      Sep 7, 2020 at 7:24 am

      Bonjour gravenimage,

      Macron is a patriot, no one can take that away from him.
      Amitiés

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 8, 2020 at 11:11 pm

        I hope you are right. This does look hopeful.

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