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For Three Frenchmen, Three Corrections

Nov 1, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald 23 Comments

In a short piece that appeared at the Times of Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron, the Chief Rabbi of Nice, Daniel Teboul, and the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, all had something to say about the latest Muslim atrocity – the killings of three people in Nice by a Tunisian who had arrived in the country just a few weeks ago and wanted to express his devotion to the Prophet in the best way he knew how. “After 3 killed in Nice church, Macron says France under Islamist terror assault,” Times of Israel, October 29, 2020:

Here is how President Macron responded to this most recent decapitation in France, which took place at the church of Notre-Dame in Nice::

“Quite clearly, it is France that is being attacked,” he said. “If we are attacked, it is because of our values. France will not give up on our values.”

Yes and no.

Yes, France is “being attacked because” of the value it places on free expression. That is why Samuel Paty was killed – for showing an example of that right of free expression in a class on that very subject, by displaying the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Muhammad. The boycott of French goods by Muslim states – Bangladesh, Turkey, Pakistan among others – and by individual Muslims worldwide is meant to punish France for Macron’s spirited defense of freedom of expression. It is meant to bludgeon France into abandoning its own values and instead submitting to Islamic views on blasphemy. Freedom of expression is one of the freedoms held most dear by the Western world’s Infidels, one that Islam fails to honor or respect.

No, France is being attacked for more than these two events – the showing of the Muhammad cartoons by Samuel Paty to his class of middle-school students, and then President Macron’s ringing declaration that freedom of expression would not be sacrificed, that it would continue to be defended. France is being attacked not only because of its values, as Macron says, but because the country is an Infidel land. The French are Infidels; they are the people whom the Qur’an commands Muslims to “fight” and to “kill” and to “smite at the necks of” and to “strike terror in the hearts of.” The Qur’an says nothing about their “values,” because those values do not matter. The Muslims, who know they are the “best of peoples,” (3:110), also know that the French, like all Infidels, are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). That is enough. That is more than enough to put them permanently on Islam’s Enemies List. “They attack us,” Macron might have said, “not for this or that act on our part, but for who we are, and for what we believe, and for what we refuse to believe.” Everyone will understand to whom he is referring.

Macron offered condolences to the country’s Catholics after the killing [of a church warden, and two parishioners, at the church of Notre-Dame in Nice], and urged people of all religions to unite and not “give in to the spirit of division.”

Why return to this interfaith outreach business, urging “people of all religions to unite”? The Muslims don’t, and won’t, “unite” with Unbelievers, except in order to deceive them. Islam is founded on the “spirit of division” that Macron claims can and must be overcome – that division of all mankind between Believers and Unbelievers and, in territory, between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb. Instead of suggesting that there exists a sympathy among people of “all religions” – an entirely specious notion — and a desire to “unite,” Macron should have said something along the lines of “all decent people have to fight against these forces of ideological darkness that are attempting to frighten the world into submission.” “Forces of ideological darkness” points directly at, without naming, the ideology of Islam.

The chief rabbi of Nice said all synagogues in the southern French city would be closed after the attack.

“Terrorism doesn’t differ [differentiate] between religions and all of us feel threatened,” Daniel Teboul told Channel 13 news. “We made a decision to close all schools tomorrow. Synagogues will be closed and kosher shops will be on alert.”

Rabbi Daniel Teboul is wrong. Of course the kind of terrorism that has been responsible for the many attacks in France, including that which killed Samuel Paty and the Catholic worshippers in Nice, does most certainly “differ [differentiate] between religions.” Think of the Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria, who have hijacked buses and demanded that the Muslims among the passengers identify themselves – and recite a Qur’anic prayer as proof – so that they might be spared.

It is Muslims in France and across the globe who have attempted to terrorize non-Muslims. It’s not true, pace Rabbi Teboul, that “all of us feel frightened.” Muslims are not frightened. Why not tell the truth? Could Rabbi Teboul bring himself to say something like this: “Terrorism – Islamic terrorism – threatens many of us, and we Jews, given so many attacks — the killings at the HyperCacher, the murders of Rabbi Sandler and his little boys in Toulouse, of Sara Halimi and Mireille Knoll, of Ilan Halimi, who over three weeks was tortured to death – feel especially threatened. That’s why we decided to shut down our schools and synagogues tomorrow.”

The assailant was shot and wounded by police, Nice’s Mayor Christian Estrosi said.

“He kept repeating ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Greatest) even while under medication” as he was brought to the hospital, Estrosi told journalists.

How many times must we endure the dreamy misinformation that when a Muslim killer keeps shouting “Allahu akbar” during or after his atrocity, those two words mean “God is greatest”? Mayor Estrosi thinks that’s what those words mean. The BBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and every other media outlet in the Western world all agree that “Allahu akbar” means “God is great” or “God is greatest.” They will never tell you otherwise. But you and I know better, and we also know how useful it would be if the correct meaning were supplied – “My God is greater [than your god]” — so that everyone could understand it’s not a mere observation — “God is greatest” — but rather, it’s a supremacist war cry of Muslims. How salutary and bracing to have that grim truth be repeatedly told.

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  1. mortimer says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 10:15 am

    Macron: ‘spirit of division’?
    Response: Muslims divide the world already into Muslim and dirty KUFAAR.

    Chief Rabbi: “Terrorism doesn’t differ”
    Response: in fact, jihadists often ask their victims ‘qualifying questions’ to allow Muslims to avoid being ‘punished’ (by assassination).

    Mayor of Nice: “Allah is greatest”.
    Response: sad that a mayor does not ‘GET IT’. The word ‘akbar’ is comparative … ‘greater’. Why does the mayor not have a better understanding of Islam? Sad.

    They are all three underinformed, unread, unstudied and wrong in the matter of Islam’s compulsory teaching of jihad.

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Nov 1, 2020 at 10:17 am

      Of the three, Macron (at long last) appears to be the best informed. He has a glimmering of understanding that jihadism and Islamism are IDEOLOGIES.

      Our motto: ‘It’s the ideology, stupid.’

      Reply
      • t. says

        Nov 1, 2020 at 11:49 am

        “Muslims are not frightened”

        A solid article, Hugh.

        Reply
      • Ray Jarman says

        Nov 1, 2020 at 1:18 pm

        +1 Mortimer,

        Maybe Macron is beginning to realize the damage that he and Merkel have done to Europe by inviting these savages that have no intention to become assimilated within the societies that welcomed them. I also very afraid for the US if Biden, who is surrounded by these creatures from Hell, wins on Tuesday, we could (will) face many more of these atrocities. He has stated that he will remove all bans on a Muslim invasion.

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        • terry sullivan says

          Nov 2, 2020 at 1:18 pm

          islam does not integrate–unbelievers have to convert to islam or die

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Nov 3, 2020 at 9:15 am

      Please note that the mayor of Nice uses the term ”Islamofasciste” in his criticism of the event. That doesn’t leave me with the impression that the mayor does not ”GET IT.”

      Reply
  2. mortimer says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 10:23 am

    Does Islam feel ‘solidarity’ or does it share common ‘values’ with the kufaar? No …

    Kafirs are Deaf, Dumb and Blind
    Koran 2:6 – As for the Disbelievers, whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not.

    Koran 2:171 – The likeness of those who disbelieve is as the likeness of one who shouts to that which hears nothing, save a call and a cry; deaf, dumb, blind — they do not understand.

    Kafirs are EVIL
    Koran 2:10 – In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they lie.

    Koran 2:254 – O ye who believe! spend of that wherewith We have provided you ere a day come when there will be no trafficking, nor friendship, nor intercession. The disbelievers, they are the wrong-doers.

    Koran 5:45 – And We prescribed for them therein: The life for the life, and the eye for the eye, and the nose for the nose, and the ear for the ear, and the tooth for the tooth, and for wounds retaliation. But whoso forgoeth it (in the way of charity) it shall be expiation for him. Whoso judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed: such are wrong-doers.

    Koran 62:5 – The similitude of those who were charged with the (obligations of the) Mosaic Law, but who subsequently failed in those (obligations), is that of a donkey which carries huge tomes (but understands them not). Evil is the similitude of people who falsify the Signs of God: and God guides not people who do wrong.

    Reply
  3. Yogi says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 10:25 am

    They sick in the heads big time, they should never ever put feet in. Western countries soil ever , it’s no integration in Islam to Western values!!, just destruction and dead that’s all, This stupid politicians( Merkel, Macron , Rutte , Sanchez , and on and on ) bring this trash to Us , and now We and our children have to pay huge price , heartbreaking..

    Reply
  4. Mount Zion says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 10:30 am

    Indeed there is this false idea that after all attacks by muslim supremacist all religions should stand united including moderate muslims .The ideology of Islam though demands to fight the unbelievers till the whole world be for Allah and we have plenty of evidence that muslims troughout the whole world are working towards this goal so please whenever we plead to stand united let’s leave out the religion of peace and let’s not be inclusive towards them and let’s be racist and islamiphobic and intolerant so we don’t ever have to listen ever again that we are racist , biggot islamophobes .Wonder why I feel like that only towards the beautyful religion of peace? It’s because no other religion in the west kills and beheads for the honour of a man who killed and beheaded and ordered the murder of his opponents and had child brides and and and……
    .

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Nov 2, 2020 at 9:22 pm

      Grimly true.

      Reply
  5. Seth says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 11:11 am

    ‘Freedom of expression is one of the freedoms held most dear by the Western world’s Infidels, one that Islam fails to honor or respect.’

    It’s deeper than that. The true believers simply cannot and will never be able to understand it, after years upon years of mental and moral deformation. Islam’s most pathetic victims are Muslims themselves.

    Reply
  6. BegrensEuropa! says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 12:11 pm

    I agree that urging “people of all religions to unite” is a silly form of outreach to islam (=submission) that is better avoided. It is indeed much better to urge all reasonable and sensible people to unite.

    Reply
  7. Andrew says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    There is no radical islam, there is no moderate islam, there is only islam… Erdogan of Turkey.
    A moderate muslim will hold the feet of the infidel while the radical muslim cuts off his head.
    The ONLY way for the West to deal with these savages from this Fascist Religious Cult is to do what Angola did, and what China is now doing, there is no other way except mass deportation,
    As a second generation young man in Germany whose parents came from Turkey in the 1960s or 70s, and they will tell you, I am muslim, I am Turkish, and I am born in Germany, now take note of the order, and these are young men born in Germany and yet Turks have not integrated since the 1960s-70s and so they are not going to integrate today no matter how the EU tries.

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    • Mount Zion says

      Nov 2, 2020 at 5:27 am

      Agree a 100% Thumbs up for your comment ;”A moderate muslim will hold the feet of the infidel while……” it’s so true , some may not engage in killings but they engage in other forms of jihad which paves the way for a takeover in a near future like engaging in demographical jihad by breading lot’s of children so that in 50 years time the muslim population will be a majority .Look at France , the average french family has 1.8 children while muslim families in France have an average of 8 children .

      Reply
    • terry sullivan says

      Nov 2, 2020 at 1:20 pm

      mass killing is the alternative–it happened before

      Reply
  8. ajj says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    Does this imply that a moderate muslim is a lukewarm muslim?

    Reply
    • katherine says

      Nov 1, 2020 at 7:43 pm

      Lukewarm, uninformed and uncommitted – they are not `woke` by current parlance.

      Just beware : they are `sleepers`.

      Reply
  9. Michael Avery says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    If France valued freedom of speech they wouldn’t outlaw all demographic and crime statistics based on race or religion. Who commits most crime gets their identity protected by the state in a way that isn’t true in any other European country. It is effectively impossible for the average Frenchman to see the correlation between Islam/immigration and crime in France except for high profile attacks like in Nice where it’s obvious from the fact he shouted “ALLAHU AKBAR” and even then media were reporting that he shouted “God is greatest” rather than the actual Arabic word

    Reply
  10. Crusades Were Right says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    I have a strong suspicion that those who urge “people of all religions to unite” are generally atheists from Christian backgrounds who presume that ALL religions are basically Christianity, only tweaked around a bit at the edges.

    Reply
    • jimjfox says

      Nov 2, 2020 at 9:17 am

      Another hater of the unbeliever- just like a devout muslim!
      Who also ‘presumes’ far too much.

      Reply
  11. Marigold says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    The biggest problem existing in the Western world today is the excess of nauseatingly weak leaders both political and religious.

    Reply
    • Rufolino says

      Nov 2, 2020 at 5:42 am

      Do you perceive Trump to be “nauseatingly weak” ? I don’t.
      I perceive him to be a real leader, not weak, (if unpolished).

      Reply
    • terry sullivan says

      Nov 2, 2020 at 1:19 pm

      yep–france uk germany but not hungary or usa

      Reply

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