But will Darmanin do what is necessary to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again? Of course, because that would involve confronting the supremacist and violent aspects of Islamic teaching, aspects that he doesn’t even admit exist.
“France’s interior minister condemns threats against Catholics during procession,” Catholic News Agency, December 12, 2021 (thanks to Tom):
France’s interior minister on Saturday condemned threats made against Catholics taking part in a Marian procession in the western suburbs of Paris.
Gérald Darmanin deplored what he said were “unacceptable acts” during a torchlight procession in Nanterre on Dec. 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
“Freedom of worship must be able to be exercised in all serenity in our country,” he wrote on his Twitter account on Dec. 11, expressing “support for Catholics in France.”
The French daily Le Figaro reported that on Wednesday evening around 30 Catholics were due to depart from the chapel of Saint-Joseph-des-Fontenelles on an annual procession to the parish of Sainte-Marie-des-Fontenelles, around half a mile away along a route approved by the local authorities.
Jean-Marc Sertillange, a permanent deacon at Sainte-Marie-des-Fontenelles, told Le Figaro: “But shortly after 7 p.m., and while we had advanced only a few hundred meters, a band of unknown people on the path verbally attacked us at the time of the first prayer station.”
The newspaper reported that the threats included cries of “Kafirs,” an Arabic term meaning “infidels,” and “Wallah [I swear] on the Koran I will cut your throat.”
“They then threw water on us, then grabbed one of the torches which they then threw in our direction,” Sertillange said.
When the police arrived, the group of around a dozen aggressors, with three reported ringleaders, ran away. The procession resumed, heading directly to the parish without making further stops….
somehistory says
Too bad nothing will back up his words…no actions such as arrests, trials, deportations, etc.
Hardly anything happened after the deadly terror attacks…no deportations, more mozlums allowed inside the country…making the Notre Dame welcoming to the sleaze…, so this harassment is small potatoes in comparison….”Words are cheap.”
gravenimage says
Actually, Somehistory, Darmanin *has* been tougher than most on terrorism, including deportations:
https://www.dw.com/en/france-hopes-deporting-more-alleged-radicals-will-bring-security/a-58153079
Mike says
Too Islam freedom of religion only applies to Islam
Thomas Syseskey says
So as not to offend practitioners of the “religion of peace,” the French Interior Minister did not explicitly say “Muslim” in his condemnation of the attackers. One must imply this from the reported Arabic threats from the Koran, some of which are familiar such as “Kafirs (Infidels)” but one of which is not well-known (if at all) to non-Muslims – namely,
“Wallah [I swear] on the Koran I will cut your throat.”
tim gallagher says
If any country wants to maintain freedom of religion, then that country needs to shut Muslims out. In countries where islam has the power, non-Muslims are treated like crap. Islam and our concept of freedom of religion are complete strangers to one another. If the government of France wants to protect freedom of religion, then they need to stop Muslims getting into the country because Islam will trash any idea of freedom of religion. Muslims are only ever about imposing Islam on everybody.
somehistory says
Yes. Absolutely. When mozlums were coming here, one said they were coming to be the *only* religion. They don’t want any worship except their worship of satan and they practice lies, whining, lies, and terror , and more lies, to make theirs the only religion.
Furthermore, ,\mozlums refuse to acknowledge that there is any religion outside their evil devil worship, so when any of them say anything about “freedom of religion,” they mean only their worship of satan.
tim gallagher says
Well that’s right, somehistory. And even if Muslims, in a western country, while their numbers aren’t big enough to start flexing their muscles, give the appearance of being reasonably tolerant, it is surely bullshit, and once they build up their numbers, then Muslims are always going to try to impose Islam on everyone. Our tolerance and our concepts of freedom of religion are completely alien concepts to the thuggish Muslims. It’s been that way for islam’s 1400 years of existence and will never change.
gregbeetham says
There is freedom of religion in Islam and they even have three choices. What that means in reality is the non Muslim is free to become Muslim, or the non Muslim is free to remain a non Muslim but has to pay the sometimes crippling Jizyah tax and then the third choice is the freedom to choose death.
Some sources claim that the Jizyah tax is no longer in use in Islamic countries so that would reduce the choices to two one would think but even in Pakistan there are oppressed pockets of Christians and Hindus so there must be some kind of third option otherwise they wouldn’t exist, Jews I think are extinct in Pakistan and possibly also in Afghanistan.
tim gallagher says
Yes, I’ve read about those three choices, gregbeetham, mainly from comments here at Jihad Watch. You can either join the barbaric hordes of Muslims, or be treated like second class crap and pay their stinking protection money or be killed. Some choice. My only policy is to keep Muslims out because their entire attitude to the values that are central to our mellow way of life are incompatible. Personally I would never visit, let alone live in, a Muslim country ( I have zero interest in their way of life and no desire to be treated badly as a non-Muslim), and I just wish our countries would pull up the drawbridge and keep incompatible Islam out. It seems to me to be such a futile exercise trying to get along with most Muslims.
Hamish says
Indeed.
Send the Muslims back to where they came from.
Shut down mosques.
Send all Imams back ASAP.
jewdog says
Nice sentiment, but what if there’s a religion that doesn’t believe in freedom of religion?
OLD GUY says
Talks cheap and thats what most politicians are good at. In our WOKE world you can’t tell anyone they are doing something wrong and that they must live by civilized society rules. If you allow people to do what ever they want with no forced prevention and penalties you have chaos. We are now teaching our children to always question authority and that they don’t need to follow the rules in schools and public places. If the rules don’t pertain to each of us, I guess the person with the biggest GUN wins.
gravenimage says
France: Interior minister condemns Muslim attack on Catholic procession, defends freedom of religion
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Good for Gérald Darmanin. But does he understand that it is Islam threatening freedom of religion in France? I doubt it–although he has been called a “hard right” minister for actually opposing Jihad terror.