But did they listen? Almost certainly not. Will they act upon Darmanin’s recommendations? Almost certainly not.
“In New York, Darmanin is alarmed by a ‘resumption’ in Europe of an ‘Islamist terrorist’ threat,” translated from “À New York, Darmanin s’alarme d’une «reprise» en Europe d’une menace «terroriste islamiste»,” Le Figaro, May 20, 2023:
The Minister of the Interior has asked the US government to strengthen their counterterrorism cooperation before the Paris Olympics in 2024.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, visiting the United States, expressed alarm on Friday at a “resumption” of the “Islamist terrorist” threat in Europe and asked the American government to strengthen their anti-terrorist cooperation, before the Paris Olympics in 2024.
“We have come to remind them that for Europeans and for France, the primary risk is Sunni Islamist terrorism and that anti-terrorist collaboration between intelligence services is absolutely essential,” said Gérald Darmanin in an interview with AFP in New York. And “at a time when the Americans perhaps have a more national view of the disputes – white supremacism, repeated shootings, conspiracy – they must not forget what appears to us in Europe as the first threat: Sunni terrorism,” insisted the French minister.
Gérald Darmanin completed a two-day visit to Washington, New York and the UN, in order to boost police and judicial cooperation between France and the United States, provided for in a 2016 agreement, for the fight against terrorism and serious crime. He spoke with Deputy Justice Minister Lisa Monaco and Homeland Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas, then visited the FBI Federal Police Training Center in Quantico, Virginia (east). In New York, he met with NYPD chief Keechant Sewell to discuss policing and security at major international events, citing the 2024 Olympics in Paris (July 26-11 August 2024), the Rugby World Cup (September 8 to October 28, 2023) and the visit of Pope Francis to Marseille on September 23.
“The risk resumes”
In this context, but without mentioning specific threats, Gérald Darmanin affirmed that “the risk resumes” in terms of “Islamist terrorism” which would once again target France and its European neighbors. He pointed to “an endogenous threat from people without networks but who, becoming radicalized, take action in a few hours, in a few days (…) Someone who takes a knife, enters a bakery and goes to kill folks.” And “there is the exogenous risk, organized people from outside who come to France to carry out a Bataclan-type attack” in Paris on November 13, 2015.Gérald Darmanin thus deplored the “departure of Americans from Afghanistan” and that of France from “the Sahelo-Saharan strip,” “the reconstitution of cells of Daesh (Islamic State group) in the Levant, which make these exogenous threats, in the perspective of the major events that France will organize, are times of significant risk of terrorist attacks.”
tim gallagher says
I’m sure that, if anyone actually looked at the statistics for terrorist attacks all around the world, islamic terrorist attacks, and their death toll, would be far, far ahead of any other type of terrorism committed by any other group of people. I’m sure that the security danger that people wearing burqas, with their identity covered up totally, can pose has been raised here at Jihad watch, but, here in Australia, we have just had a case of two men wearing burqas robbing a jewellery shop and getting away with $120,000 worth of jewellery. Google “burqa wearing thieves rob jewelllery shop in Australia” and the footage is there of the robbery. The burqa surely can be a risk to people in our societies as it can obviously completely cover up a person’s (say, a would be terrorist or a thief’s identity) true identity.
Alexandra Smith says
43,000 deadly attacks since 9/11.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, Alexandra. What a bad joke it is for anyone to say that white supremacists or any other group are anywhere near as dangerous and murderously violent as the followers of islam are. Some of the nonsense that certain people try to feed us is truly beyond belief.
Yaakov Holansky says
Biden, Blinken the Ostrich family, revisionist within our midsts before cameras and the burying thei heads in the sand. Just remember the icon of the Democrats, the backside of a donkey or mule.
John Herlihy says
You’ll find the Islamic terrorist attacks to date here: -https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Did Gérald Darmanin bother to explain to Comrade Joe the difference b/w “islamist” terrorism and “islamic” terrorism, so that Joe could condemn the former w/o condemning the latter, and w/o explaining the difference b/w the two? Or was that gonna be too islamophobic?
Also, I disagree w/ his last point. There is no point in keeping Americans in Afghanistan if we’re not gonna stop muslims from coming to this country. Similarly, when France is flooded w/ muslims, they’re doing themselves no favors by having troops in the Sahel. Even if countries like Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso… fall to Boko Haram or al Qaeda, France is under no legal compulsion to take in muslims who don’t wanna live under those regimes. Let them look for alternatives in Algeria or Morocco or Libya
bill says
Is English very difficult for you or do you think it is ‘cool’ to abbreviate words like between? Even ‘with’ seems a strain for you too. Also ‘gonna’ is not a word it is a sound made by lazy speakers.
James Lincoln says
bill,
Jihad Watch readers are more concerned with the *substance* of a post rather than the use of abbreviations, etc.
somehistory says
“gonna'” is a word. Step down South and you’ll hear it said by many, very industrious, people…speakers, speaking English.
Besides, speaking and writing don’t have to be the same; so “w” for with and b’w for between are acceptable.
If you had ever taken a course in writing fiction, you would find that it is highly regarded to use abbreviations and contractions because people speak that way.
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“There is no point in keeping Americans in Afghanistan if we’re not gonna stop muslims from coming to this country. ”
BINGO!
alexreid says
At long, long last!! The Penny has dropped! Only took 20 odd years!!
David M says
Maybe Darmanin figured it out when Muslims killed 130 people in Paris in 2015, including 90 at Bataclan theatre. That one night alone killed more people than so called “white supremacy” ever has in Europe. Joe Biden hasn’t done the math on that one, or maybe he just doesn’t want to.
Fitna says
Unfortunately Biden is on the Muslims side and I’ll bet that he takes a lot of money from rich Arabs to keep his mouth shut about Islam and do anything meaningful to oppose it…like probably most of the Dem party and some in the GOP as well.
And if there are politicians that champion Muslims without getting paid, then they’re just useful idiots, aiding the fascists that will one day enslave and kill them.
We in the West fail to learn from history…we have so many examples of what Muslims do to your country when they become a sizable population. Just ask the Indians and Iranians or any other nation that used to be majority non-Muslim at one time.
At least the French are starting to figure it out, perhaps some other European countries as well. If you let your guard down and invite barbarians into your land, your people will suffer and bleed for it.
Darmanin is right, the best thing that could happen right now is for the West to unite against Islam. Share intel on terrorist cells to stop future attacks. Though they really should learn to connect the dots and realize Islam is the terrorist making factory and if you want to end Muslim terrorism, then you have to end Islam, it’s today’s Nazism.
Fitna says
I’ll add I don’t care what label the elites use, be it “Islamists” or “Islamism” or “radicals” so long as THEY know what they’re talking about…and recognize that Muslims (in general) are the problem.
In fact I think it’d be smart to use subversive language to deceive our enemies, so they don’t know that the state is going after them…so long as they do something about it.
What every western person needs to ask is that can we allow this backwards, barbaric death cult to take over our nations?
Well if you don’t want to live with daily call to prayers 5 times a day, jihad attacks, honor killings, abolishment of our way of life, etc., then the answer is obvious. Once people get that there are only two choices for the future, Islam/Barbarism or Freedom/Democracy, then they will act in their own best interest.
It is good to see that there are some strong politicians willing to oppose Islam but ofc we need all of them to join in the fight for the survival of the West. They also need to ramp up deportations and I don’t mean a few handful here and there, but thousands, perhaps millions will need to go…if you do it quietly it’s even better.
Clifford Fodor says
French minister tells Biden regime that ‘Islamist terrorism,’ not ‘white supremacism,’ biggest threat in Europe
So who still listens to Joe Biden anymore?
David M says
He just claimed his son Beau died in Iraq.
https://spectator.org/joe-biden-keeps-lying-that-his-son-died-in-iraq/
somehistory says
If I gambled (other than driving on city streets, and eating while alone), I’d bet it won’t make one bean’s worth of difference.
As someone said above, Tim, if I recall correctly, if they looked at the stats, they’d be able to see which group of people commit the terrorism.
Some years ago, after the 9/11 and when the police state at the airports began, they’d allow mozlums in full attire to board while holding back some little old White woman in a wheel chair in order to search her beyond decency.
They don’t want to recognize who commits the terror, because they have a *use* for the real terrorists and an elimination scheme for those who want law and order and Constittutionality.
Burnaby Lad says
frenchie is right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkV8af3wQr0
Aum says
Is anyone listening and acting upon this insight?
abu taleb says
No, it is not Islamist terrorism that is the biggest threat in Europe, USA or the world. It is Islam religion tht is the biggest threat. Even to Islam followers, Islam s the biggest threat because Islam allows pedophilia, rape, torture, genocide etc all in the name of Islam.
Even non terrorism Islamic activities like hajj pilgrimage or poligamy is lowering the ethic and moral standard of muslims. Ever wonder why muslims people are poorer than the Christian people, for example?
Michael Copeland says
“People without networks”. No. The network is the mosque.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/02/mosques-learning-curve-needed/
somehistory says
Yes. No mozlum acts alone…they all work for the same goals, from the same book of instructions…an evil book of unholy filth. And devout mozlums support terror in one way or another…encouraging, funding, praising, ordering, etc.
Several years ago, a survey was taken of mozlum barracks in the U.S. and nearly 100% had literature on terrorism…as a positive encouragement.
Kesselman says
Muslims believe the Quran is the literal word of Allah, therefore sacrosanct in perfection, Eternal immutable, and 100% mandatory in compliance for all humans on Earth. Nobody is allowed to selectively adhere to some directives while dismissing others. Thus Islam is the main problem for adherers as well for civilized man.
—Islam is Nazism with a god!
Here’s a small sampling of directives from the one and only Quran, which Muslims believe was verbally revealed by Allah to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel, gradually for approximately 23 years, beginning in AD 609, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death:
“Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.” 2:191
“Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.” 3:28
“Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.” 3:85
“Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam.” 5:33
“Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Quran.” 8:12
“Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.” 8:60
“The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.” 8:65
“When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them.” 9:5
OLD GUY says
The biggest threat to America seems to be the Democratic Party.
Eva says
I just can’t believe that SOMEBODY finally said it.
Okay, so he may not have come right out and said that ‘islam and it’s adherents are the biggest threat to the world’, which is the absolute truth, and what most of us here would have liked, but at least he connected ‘Islam’ and ‘terrorism’ in his words, and therefore in the minds of those listening.
It’s a start.
James Lincoln says
So Gérald Darmanin met with Homeland Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas, visited the FBI Federal Police Training Center in Quantico, and met with NYPD chief Keechant Sewell.
If he wanted to learn more about anti-jihad “policy and procedures”, he met with the wrong people.
Michael Copeland says
“Tear up Texas!”