Amid upheaval across the Muslim world over France’s Muhammad cartoons and defense of the freedom of expression, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, has come out in support of French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments about Muslim integration.
Despite Gargash’s good intentions, however, the widespread backlash against Macron, with tens of thousands of Muslims calling for “the death of France,” should be a wake-up call to Western globalists, as well as to all people who value freedom. The reaction indicates that those Muslims who accept Sharia’s tenets on blasphemy have no interest in integration. Those who think this way have no place in Western societies; at the same time, some who immigrate to the West expect to be welcomed with open arms while harboring an intention to work toward the imposition of Sharia blasphemy laws in their new home. Accordingly, it is only prudent to beware of the hijrah.
“UAE minister backs Emmanuel Macron’s remarks on Muslims,” Al-Jazeera, November 2, 2020:
A prominent United Arab Emirates minister has called on Muslims to accept the stance of French President Emmanuel Macron on his claims about the need for “integration” in Western societies.
“[Muslims] have to listen carefully to what Macron said in his speech. He doesn’t want to isolate Muslims in the West, and he is totally right,” Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs, said in an interview on Monday with the German daily Die Welt.
He said Muslims “need to be integrated in a better way” in Western nations.
“The French state has the right to search for ways to achieve this in parallel with combating extremism and societal closure,” he added.
Gargash rejected accusations against the French president that he seeks to exclude Muslims living in France.
‘Freedom to draw’
The Emirati minister’s statements come amid ongoing protests in the Arab and Muslim world against Macron’s remarks on Islam, in which he accused Muslims of “separatism” and defended publishing the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.Following intense boycott campaigns of French products across the Arab and Muslim world, Macron lowered his tone and said he understood the feelings of Muslims over the cartoons.
“I understand the sentiments being expressed and I respect them,” the French president said in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera on Saturday….
gravenimage says
UAE minister defies global Islamic fury and backs Macron’s remarks on Muslims needing to integrate in West
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Well, *this* is a surprise.
But considering that the UAE imposes Shari’ah law, this is not actually an endorsement of civilized values from Anwar Gargash.
john smith says
Correct GI, It’s not an actual endorsement of civilised values, but to say such things could put his own position in jeopardy. I was well impressed with him, and thought he was extremely brave, just wish there were more like him in the islamic world.
P.S. Over here in the UK we spell civilized, in a civilised way.
gravenimage says
P.S. Over here in the UK we spell civilized, in a civilised way.
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John, my mother was English, and tried to keep us from barbarous American spelling…obviously it did not always work. 🙂
john smith says
Very funny GI, I had a good laugh at that one, barbarous American spelling.
gravenimage says
🙂
Walter Sieruk says
The jihadist or jihadists attacks in Western nations be the Muslim terrorists in the city of London ,or Manchester Brussels , Paris, Nice, Berlin ,Madrid. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason.
They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might. Either by the police or the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.
rooare says
At least the rabbit won’t turn on you like a rabid beast.
jack reynolds says
My thoughts exactly. If people do not show a high degree of willingness to defend themselves, then they will be met with continued aggression. That ‘turn the other cheek’ strategy is old and worn out. We are well into ‘An eye for an eye’ cycle and we need to be very proactive about that.
john smith says
Spot on Walter
Tony Said says
The jihadists are simply following what is written in the Koran. That is their religion, and they believe in it. And they are also following the example of their prophet, who was first and foremost a war lord and a connoisseur of women, with the power he had, taken from is preaching that Allah wills this and Allah wills that, to possess any of the beautiful women he purloined from the Sheiks he killed in the name of Allah. Can there be anything more ridiculous than believing that Mohammad could be a model of behavior for any man! Just compare the life of Jesus with that of Mo. They are about as opposite as two individuals could be.
There is only one Satan, just as there is only one God. But Satan is called the “god of this world ” because he is singular in his malice and power. Muslims are monotheistic only in this sense that they worship one who is “great”. But how great, and in what does his greatness consist? Ah, there’s the rub! If Muslims in sharia Muslim countries were allowed to possess and read an unexpurgated edition of the New Testament, they would be converted to Christ on the spot, so obvious would it be that Christ is Who He said he was and Mohammad just a man of his time with a good provision of ambition, greed, lust and dishonesty added for good measure and backed up by his much older wife’s money. “Two things I have learned to love: Prayer and Women.” – Mohammad in the Hadith; That says it all.
rooare says
Muslims will not assimilate to any host nation, they believe they’re divinely commanded to subjugate the entire world under the brutal sharia by any and all means.
Michael Copeland says
They believe that because that is what they are instructed. No disagreement is tolerated.
jack reynolds says
Islam cannot survive where absolute Freedom of Expression exists, and Democracy cannot survive without true unfettered Freedom of Expression. It is Democracy’s last line of defense and its greatest protection.
Muslims understand that and they will never give-up on trying to weaken our freedoms. If one small crack is ever accepted, they will widen it until all our freedoms disappear.
All their complaints and threats concerning respect for their prophet have one objective and that is to create that first small crack. Never allow it. Fight to the death to protect your Freedoms and Democracy.
Dude says
Probably he’s just afraid we’ll smarten up and keep the thug society out of civilized countries, thereby destroying their World Domination scheme.
tim gallagher says
I don’t see how Islam can ever integrate with our western countries and our way of life. islam is totally different and totally incompatible in its attitude to almost every aspect of human life (eg Islam’s paedophilia, marrying off young girls, Islam’s calls for Muslims to hate and to kill non-believers, Islam’s homophobic attitudes, and on and on. What this man is proposing is a fantasy. Islam cannot and will not ever get along with any non-Muslim society. Muslims need to leave Islam behind and join the civilised, non-Muslim members of the human race. If they don’t do so then they should not be allowed into any non-Muslim country.
nicholas tesdorf says
Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs is showing the only way forward for all Muslims everywhere,
Westman says
The message of some Islamists: “We have 1.5 Billion Muslims and we will destroy France over one ctizen’s posting of a cartoon that ridicules the prophet!”
No, you won’t. Islamists like to say, “remember Khaybar!” The West says, remember the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and ISIS.
Yogi says
Muslims don’t need integrate in Europe Muslim have to leave Europe ASASP, I’m saying over and over again, they will not integrate, they don’t have intentions to integrate, that’s why the best thing is to deport them ..
Mafya says
Personally I love the UAE. It is a modern, moderate Muslim country. They also one of the biggest opponents of the erdogan’s bloody and evil regime and they recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2019 and they are supporting Armenia against Azerbaijan/Turkey agrassion. I wish more Muslims were like Mr. Gargash and UAE authorities.
gravenimage says
Mafya, this is a Shari’ah state.
“UAE: Non-Muslim fired, faces prison for insulting Islam on social media”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/uae-non-muslim-fired-faces-prison-for-insulting-islam-on-social-media
“Qatar complicit in jihad attack in Somalia, has given millions to Georgetown and other universities”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/07/qatar-complicit-in-jihad-attack-in-somalia-has-given-millions-to-georgetown-and-other-universities
“UK: Bereaved British teen stripped of £500,000 inheritance after Dubai sharia court told she’s Christian”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/uk-bereaved-british-teen-stripped-of-500000-inheritance-after-dubai-sharia-court-told-shes-christian
I’m glad they aren’t threatening Israel right now, but it’s still a pretty nasty place.
Mafya says
That’s awful, Gravenimage, thanks for the information. I try to be hopeful and hope they will abandon the Sharia in the future. Because it is interesting that they are the only Islamic country that backs Mr. Macron against the threat of terrorism. There is a huge French-stoning in these days and glad they are not one of the stoners. But without abandoning the inhumane Sharia as you wrote it is still a nasty place.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mafya. The UAE is not as bad as some stretches of Dar-al-Islam, but this is damning with faint praise.
SJ says
That’s really surprising. Let’s see if he suddenly disappears in the coming days. 😀
Eleanor says
Anyone notice the subtlety of speech here? “He said Muslims “need to be integrated in a better way” in Western nations”. This statement sends the message that Western nations need to find a way to integrate Muslims in a better way, not Muslims themselves needing to integrate in a better way.
gravenimage says
Good point. Eleanor. It is still the fault of the ‘filthy Infidels’.
Fred van de Bunt says
A soft-spoken gentleman, and a role model for elites everywhere:
“In October 2014, Human Rights Watch estimated that there were 146,000 female migrant domestic workers in the UAE whose work visa was sponsored by employers in the UAE. In an interview with 99 female domestic workers, HRW listed abuses claimed by their interviewees: most had their passports confiscated by their employers; in many cases, wages were not fully paid, overtime (up to 21 hours per day) was required, or food, living conditions or medical treatment was insufficient. 24 had been physically or sexually abused.”
The infidel whores are treated like infidel whores, conforming the law, that is the sharia law, so everybody correctly follows the law. Any problem with that?
Fred van de Bunt says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_workers_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates#Incident_of_domestic_workers_abuse
gravenimage says
Yes–abuse of domestic workers, especially non-Muslims, is rife in the Gulf States.