Really? Where has a single state denied Muslims the right to employment, or confiscated their property, or done anything comparable to what National Socialist Germany did to the Jews before World War II? Also, if this were true, why are Muslims trying so hard to get into Europe, rather than streaming out of it? Erdogan’s […]
‘Boycott French products’ trending in eight Arab countries over Macron’s comments on Islam
Here again we see that even the slightest pushback against the advancing jihad is immediately characterized in all too many quarters of the Muslim world as a gratuitous attack on a wholly innocent Islam, a manifestation of “Islamophobia” and “hate” that all decent people must reject. “‘Boycott French products’ launched over Macron’s Islam comments,” Al […]
Erdogan: ‘What is the problem of Macron with Muslims and Islam? Macron needs treatment on a mental level’
This is quite similar to charging opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others with “Islamophobia,” which implies that opposition to such evils are afflicted with a pathology, a psychological disorder. The logic of that leads to pseudo-therapeutic torture in reeducation camps, but we aren’t quite there yet. In any case, these […]
France: Muslim who beheaded teacher over Muhammad cartoon told jihad contact in Syria he had ‘avenged the Prophet’
Abdullakh Anzorov moved to France when he was six. He is unlikely to have brought with him the idea that murder is an appropriate response to a cartoon of Muhammad. He was almost certainly taught that in France. Who taught him this? Have his parents been investigated? Has his mosque been investigated? Why not? “French […]
In France, Macron Claims That ‘Fear is About to Change Sides’
Will the murder of Samuel Paty at long last lead France to do what it must to meet the Islamic threat within? Or will there be rhetorical resolution, a laying of flowers, marches of solidarity in major cities, a series of well-publicized roundups and then, again, a relaxing of resolve and of raids, as happened […]
International Union for Muslim Scholars: ‘we are in fear for societies that make other people’s religions targets’
Al-Qaradaghi said, “the future is for the religion of Islam and we are in fear for the future of societies that make other people’s religions and sanctities legitimate targets.” The future is for the religion of Islam? Leonard Cohen said it best: “You aren’t going to like what comes after America.” “We are in fear […]
Trotskyites: French ‘ruling elite’ is ‘whipping up an atmosphere of anti-Muslim hysteria’ in wake of jihad beheading
The Leftist/Islamic alliance becomes more obvious, and more open about its goals, by the day. “Macron promotes anti-Muslim ‘free speech’ hypocrisy after terrorist killing,” by Will Morrow, World Socialist Web Site, October 18, 2020: Within less than 48 hours of the terrorist attack and murder of a teacher near Paris on Friday afternoon, the entire […]
Muslim Beheads Man on French Street, and Here We Go Again
Once again we get the same mind-numbing denial and willful ignorance we always see after jihad attacks. My latest in FrontPage: It happened again on Friday: a Muslim migrant from Chechnya, screaming “Allahu akbar,” beheaded a schoolteacher, Samuel Paty, on a street in a Paris suburb for the crime of showing cartoons of Muhammad to […]
France: After Muslim migrant beheads man for Muhammad cartoons, Macron vows ‘They will not divide us’
Macron said: “This battle is ours and it is existential. They will not pass. Obscurantism and the violence that goes with it will not win. They will not divide us. That’s what they seek and we must stand together.” “They will not divide us” is a statement that is designed to reassure Muslims in France. […]
France: Muslim community tells Macron ‘stop stigmatizing us’
At the beginning of October, Macron prompted a widespread backlash from Muslims by unveiling his “plan to defend secularism.” The reaction of many Muslims to Macron’s statement that “Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today” ironically proves Macron’s point. Macron’s only mistake is his failure to note that Islam […]
France: Macron’s plan to fight ‘Islamist separatism’ is more Arabic in schools, $11 million to Islamic foundation
The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And here we go again: Macron’s plan to fight ‘Islamist separatism’ amounts essentially to making France more Islamic, with more Arabic in schools and […]
Turkey: “The claim by Macron that ‘Islam is in crisis’ is dangerous and provocative, encouraging Islamophobia”
Much of the controversy centers upon Macron’s announcement that France will move to ban homeschooling in 2021, in order “to stifle religious instruction of children.” By all indications, the religion that France seeks to protect children from is Islam. Any measure intended to stymie Islamization will inevitably be denounced as “Islamophobic.” But according to independent […]
Al-Azhar condemns Macron’s plan for fighting ‘Islamic separatism’ as an ‘explicit call for racism and hate’
Racism? Really? What race is “Islamist separatism” again? I keep forgetting. Anyway, we have seen this many, many times before. Any counterterror initiative, no matter how mild, no matter how carefully worded, no matter how many “moderate” profiteers it puts front and center, will be condemned as “racist” and “hateful.” The effect of this is […]
Macron demands Erdogan explain presence of jihadis in Azerbaijan, doesn’t explain presence of jihadis in France
Macron’s concern over Azerbaijan is reasonable, but he should pay closer attention to developments at home. To be sure, he has recently promised to do so, but words are cheap. “France’s Macron demands Turkey explain ‘jihadists’ in Azerbaijan,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, October 2, 2020 (thanks to Henry): French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday […]
France: Macron announces plans to fight ‘Islamist separatism,’ Muslim leaders claim victim status
This same scenario plays out all over the West, including in the United States: counterterror measures, and efforts to preserve Western society and culture against the spread of oppressive Sharia measures, are met with charges of “repression of Muslims,” anti-Muslim “hate,” “Islamophobia,” “racism” and the like. Faced with such charges, most Western authorities, and most […]
France’s Macron Furious with Lebanese Politicians, Especially Hezbollah
French President Emmanuel Macron has been to Lebanon twice since the August 4 blast in Beirut. During his last visit, he read the Lebanese politicians the riot act, saying that they had to institute reforms before they could expect any aid from abroad. On September 28, he raged on television against the Lebanese political elite, […]
Macron to Hezbollah Politician: ‘Everyone Knows You Have an Iranian Agenda. Are You Lebanese, Yes or No?’
On his second visit to Lebanon after the Beirut blast, between August 31 and September 2, French President Macron has demanded that the Lebanese institute reforms of the political system. Otherwise, he has warned, the aid that was pledged to Lebanon in a 2018 Donor’s Conference in Paris — $10.2 billion in loans and $860 […]
France: Macron defends ‘right to blaspheme,’ vows to crack down on ‘Islamic separatism’
Macron is entirely correct. Too many countries have grown accustomed to being delicate with Islamic sensibilities and have allowed Islamic special interest groups to terrorize their societies by defaming and demonizing critics of Islam and those who offend the religion, and even moving toward criminalizing such criticism. Canada’s “anti-Islamophobia” Motion M-103 is a shameful example […]
Macron, Back in Beirut, Gives Lebanese Leaders a Warning on the Need to Reform (Part 2)
Macron, in Beirut at the end of August, engaged in some symbolic acts before getting down to the business of lecturing his hosts on the need for meaningful reform. Earlier, Macron planted a cedar sapling at a forest reserve in the mountains northeast of Beirut. The Elysée palace said this was to show Macron’s “confidence […]
Macron, Back in Beirut, Gives Lebanese Leaders a Warning on the Need to Reform (Part 1)
The French President, who has been the foreign leader most involved in pushing for reforms of the Lebanese political system, is back in Beirut to pressure the Lebanese leadership to make haste with those “reforms,” which may help bring the country back from the brink of economic ruin. His visit is described here. French President […]