France is experiencing backlash from across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iran, for standing up for the freedom of speech. And once again, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is discussing the pain Muslims feel when Muhammad is insulted, just as he did when he was first elected in August 2018. This time, Imran Khan absurdly compared the pain Muslims feel over insults to Muhammad to the pain suffered by Jews during the Holocaust.
Complaints were also heard from Muslims in the U.S. Hamas-linked CAIR demanded that France be investigated for “collective punishment” of Muslims for the measures it has taken after the jihad beheading of Samuel Paty.
Amid all this, note that there have been no significant protests against the actual abuse of Uighur Muslims by China. It is also stunning that Muslim victimology continues and even intensifies in the wake of the beheading of a man for offending Islam. The ruthless attack against France that is proceeding now is what any country can expect if it stands up against Islamic supremacism.
“Muslim world condemns Macron, France over treatment of Islam,” Al Jazeera, October 26, 2020:
The backlash over French President Emmanuel Macron’s critique of Islam has intensified after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned his counterpart’s mental health, while Muslims in several countries are demanding a boycott of France.
Marking his second sharp criticism against Macron in two days, Erdogan said on Sunday that the French president had “lost his mind”, prompting France’s foreign minister to recall the country’s ambassador in Ankara.
The French debate on Islam was deepened after the beheading of a teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad – previously published by a satirical magazine – in a class on freedom of expression. Muslims believe that any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous.
On Friday, the cartoons were projected onto government buildings in France. Earlier this month, Macron described Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide and vowed to present a bill in December to strengthen a law that officially separated church and state in France.
Since Friday, social media has been awash with criticism of Macron in countries from west to east, including the UK, Kuwait, Qatar, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
People are pouring out their feelings under the English hashtags #BoycottFrenchProducts and #Islam and #NeverTheProphet in Arabic.
The social media campaign has led to several Arab trade associations to announce their boycotts of French products.
The spat has drawn in world leaders as people in Muslim-majority countries organise street protests.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter: “Muslims are the primary victims of the ‘cult of hatred’ – empowered by colonial regimes & exported by their own clients. Insulting 1.9B Muslims- & their sanctities – for the abhorrent crimes of such extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech. It only fuels extremism.”……
Andrew says
muslims sure know how to play the victim card better than anybody around.
A non French person cuts the head off a French person, in France, and a certain amount of people are now suggesting that its wrong to denounce the guy that did the beheading and claim to be the victim.
I swear sometimes I feel as if I have moved into an alternative universe where the arsonist is blaming the firefighter.
Trying to find a positive out of this awful story i believe that perhaps the French people that were against Marine Le Pen all those years ago can now come and apologize to her just as I did when I realized Enoch Powell was 100% correct in 1968, when I lived in London, aged 20, and I thought he was wrong then but now I see him as a visionary, maybe the French people can see clearer now .
Those who dont know who Enoch Powell was can search You Tube for his “Rivers Of Blood” speech.
revereridesagain says
“I swear sometimes I feel as if I have moved into an alternative universe where the arsonist is blaming the firefighter.”
Well, the rioters, burners, and looters are blaming law enforcement. How far off are we?
If the Muslims would only stop with the hatred, the threats, the censorship, the calls for violence, the riots, the murders, the cutting, the forced marriages, the bombings, the automatic weapons massacres, the beheadings, the hangings, the demands for Sharia, the “honor” killings, the child rapes, the grooming gangs and sex trafficking, the machete attacks, the car attacks, the truck attacks, the commercial airliner attacks, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s unrelenting campaign to undermine our constitutional republic we’d probably get along fine.
Rarely says
Yes we would and if my Baba had wheels she’d be a streetcar.
t. says
It’s not enough a few people here and there talking and commenting about the relentless media attacks, threats and calls trending on social media to boycott french products by the Muslim block against France.
Where is the rest of western countries and all of the non Muslim world, any member of which standing for the same values and principles as France, could have been exactly in its place?
The cause of Islam was and still is triumphant by the use of very primitive and simple instinctual strategies. First, the rule of numbers and second, the hunter pack, seen a lot in the animal world.
This second strategy is what is being played out in front of the whole world right now, mainly, simultaneously different Muslim governments, prominent individuals and groups attacking and threatening France.
The US and UK are silent, don’t want to offend its gulf money making machines. Germany is also silent for similar reasons. Israel just had three new Muslim partners in the region and anyway it feels that it deserves a break from its perpetual war against Islamic threats. India is exhausted from it’s own battle against Islamic jihad while the world watches in silence, …..etc.
If no body will stand by France’ side today, it will probably be his tomorrow.
There should be a strong, united, unequivocal response from the whole non Islamic world in solidarity with France. Why not have trending. boycotting products and business with all those Muslim countries threatening France with it?
This is how it works in the real world. There is power in unity.
Umaid Gupta says
Contrarily be prepared for a media onslaught on France for being intolerant by loopy leftists.
India supports Macrons policies. Always will.
As far as trade goes Gulf nations are India’s biggest export market. India also dealing with poverty. So cannot decouple so easily.
France stop selling your weapons to Jihadi nations.
gravenimage says
I know how you feel, Andrew.
Martin says
OCT 28 2020 – Egypt’s Sisi calls for stopping ‘arrogant’ actions that hurt feelings of 1.5 bln Muslims
El-Sisi also condemned the actions by what he described as a minority of Muslims who use Islam to justify extremism; his comments came during the celebration of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad
[…]“Unfortunately, there are extremists from all religions who seek to enhance the spirit of strife and ignite anger and hatred,” El-Sisi added.
[…]El-Sisi also condemned the actions by what he described as a minority of Muslims who use Islam to justify extremism.
[…]The event was attended by the Minister of Religious Endowments, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the Prime Minister, and a number of religious and state officials.
[…]“I assure everyone that the position of the great prophet, the master of people, Muhammad, peace be upon him, in the hearts of Muslims worldwide cannot be affected by any words or actions.”
President El-Sisi said “offending the prophets and messengers is disparaging to the high religious values that many people believe in.”
El-Sisi said adding that “he expects these actions to stop when it comes to hurting the feelings of more than 1.5 billion [Muslims].”
[…]“In 1.5 billion or more Muslims, how many of them are extremists? One per cent? One per cent equals 15 million…
[…]We also have rights. We have rights that our feelings are not hurt and that our values are not harmed”.
[…]arrogance while practicing the values of freedom is nothing but a form of extremism, when this practice affects others’ rights.”
“The message of Islam that we have received from our noble prophet came as a victory for freedom; the freedom of faith, choice and belief and the freedom of opinion,” the president said.
[…]The president praised the Prophet Muhammad “who established with wisdom and sound instructions great and immortal pillars and foundations for the whole of humanity.”
[…]“Our celebration today of the birthday of the master of people and the prophet of mercy – peace be upon him- invokes all the meanings of mercy in our true religion, and reminds us that the tolerant Sharia of Islam is based on building, not demolishing,
[…]This “requires the continuation of the heavy task and responsibility that religious scholars undertake to correct misconceptions, in order to protect society and the state from the plans of sabotage, and in order for the whole world to realize the tolerance of the great Islamic religion that is based on mercy, tolerance and peaceful coexistence among people … among all people.”
The Prophet’s birthday is a holiday widely celebrated across Egypt and the Islamic world.
The observance of the birthday of the Prophet is commemorated on the 12th of Rabi’ al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar, which falls this year on Thursday, 29 October. The anniversary will be a paid holiday for public and private sector workers.
more :
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/389434/Egypt/Politics-/UPDATE–Egypts-Sisi-calls-for-stopping-arrogant-ac.aspx
revereridesagain says
There is nothing in all that verbiage and butt-kissing of the slaves of Allah that will come anywhere near the effectiveness in creation of mutual religious tolerance than a single sentence in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Talk is cheap when not backed up by conviction.
Wellington says
Succinct and oh so accurate, revereridesagain.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Martin.
Giacomo Latta says
”El-Sisi also condemned the actions by what he described as a minority of Muslims who use Islam to justify extremism”
Great! Now move on, El-Sisi, to the majority of the koran which justifies extremism (aka muslim orthodoxy).
Jaladhi says
‘Muslims are primary victims of cult of hatred’ <
Ha, ha, ha …. you got to be kidding Mr. Zarif! Everyone in the world knows who commits the 'abhorrent crimes" against humanity! Just read your daily newspapers or maybe its not reported in Iran!
Christie Suarez says
Isn’t that the craziest thing you ever heard! Muslims kill, torture and more to people all around the world. Don’t EVER PLAY THE VICTIM, MUSLIMS. You are the PERPETRATORS
Keith O says
Christie, If you want an eye opener, look up the traits of narcissism and compare it to the habits of the Mudslimes.
Then expand that out to 1.5bn people!
Michael Copeland says
‘cult of hatred’?
Is Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif saying that hatred is a bad thing?
“Muslims …must have … enmity and hatred of …kaffirs” – islamqa.com
“Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us” – Osama bin Laden
“You should hate them, disown them and their religion” – Alminbar
“No one loves the kuffaar. We hate kuffaar” – Abu Usama, B’ham
Now there is a place to start.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
mortimer says
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– K. 28:86 says: “Lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.”
Check Burry says
Backlash is better, less painful than throat slash
mortimer says
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter: “Muslims are the primary victims of the ‘cult of hatred’”
Yes, the hatred comes from AL WALAA WAL BARAA. (http://westindanger.com/wb/walaa-baraa.html)
Al Walaa wal Baraa fuels ISLAMIC TERRORISM.
Martin says
Meanwhile, in his speech at the event, Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb called for drafting an international legislation that criminalises acts of hate and discrimination against Muslims worldwide.
[…]El-Tayyeb said cartoons insulting to the prophet “are an explicit act of hostility” against Islam and its prophet.
[…]“But it is most regrettable and extremely painful to see insulting Islam and Muslims becoming a tool for mobilising votes and being used in election markets,” he added.
“I am surprised the fire of strife, hatred, and abuse is ignited in countries that have long been chanting that they are the cradle of culture and incubator of civilisation, enlightenment, science, modernity, and human rights,” El-Tayyeb said.
[…]El-Tayyeb urged Muslims in Western countries to “abide by peaceful, legal and rational ways to resist hate speech and obtain their legal rights, following the example of the noble prophet.”
[…]protects them from being drawn into the provocations of the far-right movements and racism, as well as political Islamist groups.
During the event, El-Tayyeb announced launching an international platform to inform people about the “prophet of mercy and the messenger of humanity” in many languages.
He also announced an international competition on the manners of Prophet Muhammad and his contributions on the path of love and peace.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/389434/Egypt/Politics-/UPDATE–Egypts-Sisi-calls-for-stopping-arrogant-ac.aspx
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Al-Azhar Grand Imam calls for int’l legislation to protect Muslims against acts of hate, discrimination
El-Tayyeb said cartoons insulting to the prophet ‘are an explicit act of hostility’ against Islam and its prophet
Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb called for drafting an international legislation that criminalises acts of hate and discrimination against Muslims worldwide.
[…]El-Tayyeb said cartoons insulting to the prophet “are an explicit act of hostility” against Islam and its prophet.
[…]Al-Azhar has also condemned the French president’s charges that Islam encourages “separatism and isolationinsm.”“Cartoons insulting our great prophet, which are promoted by some newspapers, magazines and even some policies, are absurd. They are a break from all moral restrictions, international customs, and general law.”
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/389462/Egypt/Politics-/AlAzhar-Grand-Imam-calls-for-intl-legislation-to-p.aspx
Michael Copeland says
Of course he does not say anything about acts of hate and discrimination BY Muslims worldwide.
Tony Naim says
What happened in France gives a historical glimpse on how Islam grew to have so many adherents.
Apparently Decapitation is a practical tools more efficient, less time consuming than preaching!
If this call from the Muslim world is not reason enough for all western nations to stand together in a united effort to put an end, once and for all, to this bloody masquerade (literally), preposterous savagery found only among animals,
I do not know what is ?
This is a statement made by 1.5 billion people justifying an atrocity perpetrated against free speech. A means to impose their view of the world on the majority inhabitants of this planet who do not subscribe to Islam.
Is this the future we are confined to ?
seabird says
I wonder if the US would defend free speech to the level that France under Macron has? I doubt it.
And how did we get to a point where western governments have mostly capitulated to Islam leaving cartoonists, writers and individuals in the forefront to fight (and mock) against its suffocating, joyless oppression?
Martin says
JERUSALEM – Sheikh Ali Abu Ahmad : all the “infidels who have acted with insolence against Muslims” to get ready for holy war.
[…]the only solution is the reestablishment of the caliphate.
He added that the caliph would lead the Muslim armies to crush Paris completely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsSRfzUPyvQ
gravenimage says
Thanks for that ugly link, Martin.
Mason Stewart says
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/french-ambassador-after-islamist-beheading-france-muslim-country
France is a Muslim country, says French ambassador to Sweden
john smith says
Every western country should do the same as France, and project the cartoons onto their government buildings.
We should stand with France and show support, as every western country suffered by the hands of muslims.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, John!
gravenimage says
Yes–cringing dhimmitude in action.
Quazgaa says
Muslims b!tching about colonialism?
That’s rich.
gravenimage says
Muslim world condemns Macron over cartoons, Iran’s Zarif says ‘Muslims are primary victims of cult of hatred’
……………….
Ah, right–not as though that beheaded teacher was a victim of hatred…sarc/off
somehistory says
People were created to feel love for others and with the need to be loved by others.
islam is full of hate. The filthy manual they read every day, commands hatred for all who are not like them. There is no love; moslims are taught to regard their fellow humans as fodder for satan’s grist mill of murder victims.
Where there is islam, there is intense hatred. Hatred eats away at a human, the same way acid eats metal. Bur moslims willingly allow this “cult of hatred” to make them its victims.
It’s the unwilling victims of this cult of hatred that are most important in this war. The ones who are being slaughtered, raped, deprived of their God-given rights as humans; not the willing victims who feel the hatred for other humans and feel it so deeply,, they murder, even their own family members and strangers who have done them no injury.
Christopher Watson says
By 2040 France will have 100% electric cars and other vehicles. They will still import some oil to produce electrical power but no-where near the present amount. How long will it be before Germany, Britain and the other European powers follow suite. It still imports 10.2 million tons from the ME, although it imports more from Russia at 14.3 million tons. The years of fabulous wealth may be coming to an end for some ME countries. Lets hope western nations start to question why we are importing so many so-called refugees.
James Lincoln says
Christopher Watson,
Once the demand for Middle Eastern oil dries up, these countries as well as other OPEC countries will be hurting big time…
DEEPTHROAT says
Iran, Turkey and Pakistan are rogue states. All other countries , of course outside the Muslim world should boycott any and all of the activities of these countries
OLD GUY says
Cult hatred describes the muslim/islamic teachings in their mosques and the Quran. Islam teaches it’s followers to use violence, murder and rape as a tool to convert non-believers to Islam.
Islam is not a victim it is the perpetrator of hate and violence around the world.