Le Drian is visiting with Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayeb. French President Emmanuel Macron is also endeavoring to calm Muslim sensibilities following protests worldwide by tens of thousands of Muslims, as well as “intense boycotting campaigns of French products across the Arab and Muslim world.” Macron, in an interview with Al Jazeera, “lowered his tone and said he understands Muslims’ sentiments over the cartoons.”
This show of sheer capitulation by France’s leaders will have dire consequences for the future of France. The nation is now sending the message to these global bullies that it is “heartily sorry for having offended thee.”
These are the positions of Al-Tayeb and Al-Sisi on the Western cornerstone of free society, the freedom of speech. Al-Tayeb, who is considered by many Sunni Muslims as the highest authority in Sunni Islam, recently said:
I declare that Islam, its teachings and its Prophet are innocent of this wicked terrorist crime….At the same time, I emphasize that insulting religions and attacking their sacred symbols under the banner of freedom of expression is an intellectual double standard and an open invitation to hatred.
Al-Tayeb stated, in other words, that French teacher Samuel Paty “invited” hatred, from which it is easy to conclude that al-Tayeb thinks Paty deserved what he got. Al-Tayeb also justified Muslim violence when Trump moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem, proclaiming: “Because of this decision, the East and the West ‘will drown in seas of blood.’”
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s view is similar. He stated that freedom of expression stops “when it comes to ‘offending the feelings’ of Muslims,” taking a stand that somewhat differs from the one he took in his phony speech in 2015 that drew resounding global applause and widespread news coverage. Back then, he said that “we are in need of a religious revolution” as he stood up for Islamic reform.
France is a globalist country with a globalist leadership that just doesn’t accept that no appeasing of Islamic supremacists will ever work.
Islam — as it is practiced and taught by the most influential global Islamic leaders — is incompatible with democracy. Had Western leaders not surrendered their freedom of speech to begin with and had been diligent about enforcing responsible immigration policies, their countries would not be under such a threat of jihad today.
Macron instead continues to play a double game: posturing to protect France’s freedom of speech while appeasing Islamic leaders who have no respect for France as a free society and never intend to budge from their 1,400-year-old position of advocating violence whenever Muslim feelings are hurt over perceived “blasphemy.”
The game France is playing, however, may fool a naive public into trusting that its leadership is actually doing something to protect national security, when it really isn’t.
“France FM says he has ‘deep respect’ for Islam in effort to ease tensions,” Daily Sabah, November 8, 2020:
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Egypt Sunday hoping to ease tensions following the publishing of provocative cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked ire in the Muslim world.
Le Drian met with President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and will also meet Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, Egypt’s highest Muslim authority.
Le Drian’s highly anticipated meeting with Tayeb, head of Al-Azhar – considered the foremost religious institution for Sunni Muslims – will tackle French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s decision in September to reprint the cartoons.
Last month Tayeb denounced remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron of “Islamist separatism” as “racist” and spreading “hate speech.”
“I have emphasized, and emphasize here the deep respect we have for Islam,” said the French minister during a press conference with Shoukry…
….Following intense boycotting campaigns of French products across the Arab and Muslim world, Macron, in an interview with Al Jazeera, lowered his tone and said he understands Muslims’ sentiments over the cartoons.
Terry Gain says
Claiming to have deep respect for Islam isn’t going to save any country from continuing Islamic terrorism. Read the effing Koran you idiots.
Or read Spencer and Ibrahim and listen to Jay Smith and David wood and perhaps then you’ll have a clue
Or you can come here and read any of mortimer’s knowledgeable posts about Islam. Please excuse the lack of capitalization. This is dictated and not edited.
Murad says
Respect for islam ? Where does that respect come from? What’s it based on?
Is it based on the exceptional skill that islam has displayed in slaughtering non muslims or is it based on your bilateral hermaphroditism spineless servility.?
Where is the respect for yourself?
I wish western rulers would never open their ugly mouth.
Yes, criminals in prisons have deep respect for those who are worse than themselvdes.
Lavéritétriomphera says
He speaks for himself! Le Drian and the French government as a whole according to the law on freedom of expression, must admit, as Macron said, that they didn’t have the opportunity to oppose the republication of the Muhammad cartoons by Charlie Hebdo.
mortimer says
The freedom of speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended cannot coexist.
Lavéritétriomphera says
+1
The government asserted time and again that blasphemy law doesn’t exist in France.
JamesC. says
The only “respect” that the Muzz respect, is conversion to Islam of the filthy kaffirs. The Muzz are exceedingly offended by the continuing existence of non-Muslim creeds and cultures. They don’t want diplomatic speechifying – they want the spread of Islam, until “all religion is for allah”.
mortimer says
Respect is earned. Le Drian is merely using diplomatic courtesy. Islam has killed one kafir every 20 minutes since Mohammed began his raids. Is that ‘respect’? No, it is genocide.
In fact, Islam has infinitesimal respect for the dirty kufaar and even the few positive comments about Christian love in the Koran is abrogated by the verses that demand hatred, hostility and plunder.
How has Islam earned our respect?
Mount Zion says
Macrom is endeavoring to calm muslim sensibilities while nobody cares anymore about those who lost their lifes for a fu….. cartoon . The French teacher died invane . I feel for his family and I regret the loss of our liberties in western countries at the hands of uncivilized and barbaric people who kill by beheading or stabbing or vehicular jihad or by blowing themselves up in a crowd of unbelievers while all dignitaries of western countries claim that that is not the true face of islam going even so far to emphasize the deep respect they hold for Islam. Sorry Macron , I understand that the boycott was going to hurt the country but sometimes you have to be willing to stand up to bullies and take some cut backs in order not to loose what is good and noble like our liberties in western countries .I had big hopes that the incident with the the teacher would bring about changes , I was wrong, I was completely wrong .Of course Macron tried , but trying is not good enough.
James Lincoln says
Mount Zion says,
“The French teacher died in vane…”
Very tragically true – as the French leaders “walk back” there original statements…
mortimer says
True words by MtZ : “I regret the loss of our liberties in western countries at the hands of uncivilized and barbaric people who kill by beheading or stabbing or vehicular jihad or by blowing themselves up in a crowd of unbelievers while all dignitaries of western countries claim that that is not the true face of islam going even so far to emphasize the deep respect they hold for Islam.”
In fact, terrorism is the ‘true face’ : ‘TURHIBUNNA’ (terrorize them) Koran 8.60
Francis Weber says
Gutless whimp!
TimothyS says
Has anyone else dealt with an aggressive animal in the wild, including a human? That kind of approach can literally get you killed. It’s a misreading of human nature and an idiotic tactic.
I don’t see how it would work any better in diplomacy when negotiating with the sort of Muslims might kill someone over a cartoon.
Carol says
Koranimals will most certainly sexually enslave all pure-blooded (read: blue-eyed, fair-haired, pink-or porcelain white-skinned, pointy-nosed, and thin-lipped) European females, and loot all property and monies, especially the gold and precious stones of Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches, of European Kuffar within a decade as per Koran 9:5, 9:29 and 47:4, as well as the genocidal prescriptively violent Ahadeeth that have relayed by El-Imam El-Nawawy, since Koranimals believe “there’s no victor but Allah,” for which the Arabic translation is engraved all over the walls of Granada, Spain in accord with Koran 12:21.
gravenimage says
Carol, Muslims do not just enslave white women,. but *all* Infidel women. Look what happened to Yezidi girls in the Islamic State, and Nigerian girls at the hands of Boko Haram.
Carol says
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3219288/I-want-blue-eyed-Yazidi-teen-describes-IS-slave-market.html
Ever heard of Maria El-Qibtiyya, Sirin El-Qibtiyya, Subh El-Qurtubiyya, or/and Roxelana, Suleiman El-Qanoony’s favorite Christian sex slave, among the tens of billions of European Christian female sex slaves captured by Mohammedan slavers, including the Barbary pirates from Europe’s coastal towns and cities all the way up to Baltimore, Ireland and Iceland? (rhetorical).
Carol says
Moreover, El-Sissi, the soft-spoken dictator of Egyptstan, has been milking the West for hundreds of billions of dollars and euros in foreign aid and debt relief directed towards Egyptian Mohammedans since 2013 A.D. and he’s jailed 3 million Egyptian non-Koranimals for 25 years on grounds of ‘insulting’ Islam on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, Viber, Telegram, Signal, Tiktok, and Snapchat.
Carol says
Fuck all Koranimals, especially El-Sissy; he’s directly responsible for the cold-blooded murder of 3 million Egyptian male non-Koranimals whom he sent to their deaths in the worst prisons of the world, because they had ‘insulted’ Islam on social media.
And fuck all sheikhs and imams, all the more.
Michael Copeland says
The People’s Republic of China has a deep respect for Islam.
Wellington says
Pathetic.
Mason Stewart says
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/11/kurz-and-macron-meet-discuss-fight-against-political-islam/
Don’t believe Macrons lies! He continues to import Jihadists!
and his statements from the past.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/04/17/macron-europe-migration-destiny-africa/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/258857/article/ekathimerini/news/group-of-unaccompanied-refugee-minors-flies-to-france
GreekEmpress says
I’ve had a gut full of “calming Muslim sensibilities”.
gravenimage says
Agreed, GreekEmpress.
somehistory says
This is pure bologna. baloney. It’s not possible to respect such filthy evil.
moslims don’t “respect islam.” moslims ***fear*** islam because they know they can’t leave it and stay alive, they can’t criticize it and live, they can’t be free to make choices and continue living. They kill on command. Those who lust for the killing, don’t “respect” islam….they just enjoy the murdering, lying, raping, extortion aspects of their belief…it allows all kinds of evil actions and praises them, in some cases like with the p.a. a.k.a. plo, it pays them, too.
Anyone who says they “respect” islam is just plain afraid and it’s no “phobia” to fear what moslims have done to others and promise to do to you.
This idiot coward is holding up his white flag. Unlike an enemy that “respects” such surrender, moslims won’t show him any respect. They laugh at such fools.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
One should have about as much respect for islam as for, say, Nazi-ism…
somehistory says
when I was young…not so many years ago…one of my teachers, a very sweet lady, was talking to the home-room class about showing respect. One of the things she said was that respect means we can look at that person and see something we would like to see in ourselves. We wouldn’t have to like him/her especially, but would just like something we observed about them that was a good thing. Of course, respect is often paired with a liking of the other person.
Then, if respect that person,, it will affect how we treat him/her.
And, she said a person “commands” respect; they don’t “demand” it.
I haven’t seen…and know I will never see…anything in islam I wish to see in myself, nothing to like, nothing to make me wish to get close. It truly disgusts me. Give me some “deep woods islam off.”
I met, some years ago, and came to know a nazi woman who had been a guard in a concentration camp. Supposedly she had become a Christian, but I saw nothing to like about her. She seemed to want to brag about her part in the evil. Much like moslims enjoy bragging.
gravenimage says
France’s Foreign Minister in Egypt: ‘I have emphasized, and emphasize here the deep respect we have for Islam’
…………………
What a moron. What exactly does he respect about this vicious creed?
JamesC. says
“……and how greatly we despise the superstitious and murderous claptrap we have inherited from Christianity. We fully applaud the peaceful and restrained efforts of our Muslim sisters and brothers to make France their own. and we will not tolerate for one moment the brutal thuggery of the extreme right wing terrorists who, if give the chance, would certainly murder them all.“
I don’t think my invented speech is that far from how these ridiculous Izlammo-panderers think.
This is *not* “respect for Islam” – this is weak-kneed cowardice and self-hatred in the (non-)performance of his duty to defend his country and culture. Respect for a culture cannot come from those who are too gutless to love, honour and defend their own country and culture. This castration and sterilisation and unmanning of the ruling elites is IMHO largely the fault of the EU, as well as being a result of the rise of the technocratic class.
Catholic and Christian self-hatred are major cultural problems. They produce a tendency to abject self-castigatory grovelling before those who are untroubled by any such self-doubt. The spineless cowardice of the Catholic hierarchy and of the post-V2 Popes before Islam is of exactly this kind. Spineless bishops had not the courage, zeal and love of souls to rebuke McCarrick to his face, and to stop his rise in the hierarchy – and the same lack of courage and zeal and love of souls explains Papal prostration before Mohammedanism. The Vatican’s self-eviscerating grovelling to the Orthodox is cowardice and demoralisation masquerading as respect for others. It is a revolting spectacle ?
I suspect this self-hatred has something to do with the aftermath of WW2. I think European Christianity was traumatised by it, and especially by realising what the Jews had suffered in the Shoah, since the Shoah showed what long-lasting Christian contempt for the Jews could lead to. The occurrence of two World Wars in just over 30 years can’t exactly have helped. And within Catholicism, there have been the remarkably traumatic effects of V2 and all its works. The dismantling, in a few years, as undesirable and bad, of so much that was previously revered, honoured, loved, and trusted, was and is a grave shock, to put it mildly. A form of religion that is so firmly wedded to authority and certainty, cannot soon or easily recover when that authority is exercised to up-end that religion.
Andrew says
Let me make this very clear, I have zero respect for the teachings within islam as they are directly opposite of everything I believe, how can anybody have respect for a founder of that faith who slaughtered many that just didnt want to follow, or believe in him, where is the respect there, however I noticed this French Diplomat did not seek any kind of respect for France from this muslim considering so many muslims are in France and very few, if any, French people are in Egypt but somehow we Europeans are not supposed to say anything whatsoever about the islamic teachings while muslims can scream and shout that we are all kuffar and they should be allowed to block the streets of Paris, with their backsides in the air, while the guy behind sniffs it, but we Europeans are using words against the ideology whereas they are cutting off our heads…
muslims have zero respect for France, or ANY Western Nation, but they demand we respect them, but why should we when they speak so ill of us all the time, while they attack us, take our money etc and give nothing in return.
Thats NOT a two way street.
Clifford Fodor says
France’s Foreign Minister in Egypt: ‘I have emphasized, and emphasize here the deep respect we have for Islam’
raspberries
Giacomo Latta says
Now shuffle sideways to the nearest border with a non-Islamic state then run. You should be safe now, Le Drian.
vcragain says
I really do not believe that any non-Muslim is a FAN of Islam, most people regard this faith as a big nuisance to the rest of humanity because of the threats it harbors within it’s writings ! To try & say ‘we all respect Islam’ is a bit silly….basically it is a problem because we simply cannot tell who is likely to rise up & kill any one of the rest of us ….so how can we trust any of them. Whenever there is a killing spree of some kind, there are apologists all over telling us it’s not ‘real Islam’ – yet we do not see any effort to root out the murderous streak anywhere ! So caring humans who are non-Muslims have to juggle the problem of dealing with a threat that the cult itself appears to have zero desire to root out ! There is only ONE religious group on this planet with such an issue….we are not threatened by Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Yazidis nor any one of the multitude of other strange belief systems on this planet – just the followers of the vicious mind of the ‘prophet’ !!!
OLD GUY says
He looks scared. And should be, he lives in an area of the world where saying the wrong thing about Islam can cost you your HEAD.
gary fouse says
Be honest. It is not respect. It is fear. At some point, the West must stand up and confront the Islamic world or simply surrender our freedoms. Islamic immigration to the West must be halted. The criminals, Islamists, and anybody who so much as spits on the sidewalk should be sent back. They can’t kill us if they are not here, and I for one, have no intention of going there.