Imagine the embarrassment of French authorities when they discover that this kind of preaching is not “extremist,” but standard, mainstream Islam. But by then it is likely to be far too late.
“The Salafist mosque of Obernai in the sights of Beauvau,” translated from “La mosquée salafiste d’Obernai dans le viseur de Beauvau,” by Christophe Cornevin and Jean Chichizola, Le Figaro, September 28, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
The Ministry of the Interior is not letting up the pressure on the radical Islam front. According to our information, Gérald Darmanin requested that the mosque in Obernai (Bas-Rhin) will be closed. “This place of worship constitutes a place that facilitates the spread of a radical ideology, in particular through the statements of its imam, who shows an obvious hostility towards French society, spreads provocative statements hostile to republican values and encourages the faithful in this radical view,” assures Place Beauvau, which has targeted the imam. This fundamentalist cleric, who joined this mosque in 2017, is apparently known to have been practising radical proselytising in the Bas-Rhin département for about twelve years.
“Since his arrival, he has set about spreading a Salafist Islam that holds a retrograde view of Islam, is hostile to the West, multiplies provocative statements towards French society whose values he rejects, and thus encourages identitarian withdrawal and separatism,” the same source says.
Discrimination against Jews, homosexuals and women
The Salafist legitimises polygamy and calls for discrimination against Jews, homosexuals and women, towards whom he also justifies the violence committed by their husbands, especially in the case of adultery,” according to the Ministry of the Interior. The cleric is also accused of “also legitimizing the use of violence against cartoonists and taking pleasure in the attacks on them; he makes conspiratorial comments about them and declares that they are orchestrated by the Islamophobic French state.”
According to Place Beauvau, these “statements and actions are all the more serious because the imam has a strong influence among young people who have been converted and radicalized under his influence, with some leaving France to study in Koranic schools in Egypt or Yemen.” Finally, the Interior Ministry analysts regretted that “all these statements and actions have never been the subject of any condemnation or repression by the chairman or vice-chairman of the association that manages this place of worship, or by its other members, so it must be assumed that they approve of them.”
Fitna says
“Since his arrival, he has set about spreading a Salafist Islam that holds a retrograde view of Islam, is hostile to the West.”
Where’s this more enlightened version of Islam they keep telling us exists? All we’ve ever seen is the same message of hate against infidels, women, gays, other religions and so forth.
You’d think the French would’ve clued in by now given the deluge of violence and terrorism they endured from Muslims for the past couple of decades.
Denial of reality and the truth about a dangerous enemy at war against you and your nation is just as evil as the behavior of your enemy.
We’ve seen a similar response in the UK where Muslim rape gangs operated with impunity for decades and still do, while the authorities allowed it to happen, blamed the victims and denied it was even going on.
Nobody wants to call a spade a spade because they don’t want to be targeted by the fine gentlemen from the religion of rape, terror, decapitation and suicide bombing.
But refusing to confront this death cult today will only make it worse as their population grows exponentially in the West until we end up in civil war or it’s too late (as Robert mentioned) to fight back. Now is the best time to oppose Islam because we greatly outnumber them.
Raja says
Fitna,
I seldom miss your comments as they are invariably counter-jihad in essence. I would not call islam a death cult but a murderous one. Fighting islam is essential as it has been in war for 1400 years with infidels and from within the ummah for sundry excuses. The advantage of majoritarianism is hardly of any use as in the West people seem to have lost will to live. Even if they see an enemy I don’t know if they can be aroused enough to stand erect or fight one. The world is witnessing many forms of cowardice that are useful tools for islam and Left.
The biggest strength of democracies is they can at least talk about islam. The devil does not like any form of exposure because when he is exposed he cannot continue his destructive agenda with impunity. Violent jihad is most active in Africa and Islamic nations. For nations like US they have CAIR et al. They know to repack their offensive according to ground realities. In India Islamists are itching for some war and genocide but the media is very vocal about jihad and their mechanization has not borne any fruit. Freedom of speech is hated by islam as it is fascist to the core. islam remains antithetical to democracy and most other forms of govt.