Via Guy Milliere of The Gatestone Institute,
- In 1990, the "Gayssot law" was passed, stipulating that "any
discrimination based on ethnicity, nation, race or religion is
prohibited". Since then, it has been used to criminalize any criticism
of Arab and African delinquency, any question on immigration from the
Muslim world, any negative analysis of Islam. Many writers have been
fined and most "politically incorrect" books on those topics have
disappeared from bookshops.
- The French government asked the media to obey the "Gayssot law." It
also asked that history textbooks be rewritten to include chapters on
the crimes committed by the West against Muslims, and on the "essential
contribution" of Islam to humanity. All history textbooks are
"Islamically correct."
- In hospitals, Muslim jihadists are increasingly asking to be treated only by
Muslim doctors, and refusing to let their wives be treated by male
doctors.
February 2, 2017: A "no-go zone" in the eastern suburbs of Paris.
Police on patrol hear screams. They decide to check. While there, a
young man insults them. They decide to arrest him. He hits them. A fight
starts. He
accuses a policeman
of having raped him with a police baton. A police investigation quickly
establishes that the young man was not raped. But it is too late; a
toxic process has begun.
Without waiting for any further evidence, the French Interior Minister says that the police officers have "behaved badly." He adds that "police misconduct must be condemned". French President François Hollande goes to the hospital to give his support to the young man. The
president says
he has conducted himself in a "dignified and responsible manner." The
next day, a demonstration against the police is cobbled together. The
demonstration turns into a riot.
Riots continue
for more than two weeks. They affect more than twenty cities throughout
France. They spread to the heart of Paris. Dozens of cars are torched.
Shops and restaurants are looted. Official buildings and police stations
are attacked.
The police are ordered not to intervene. They do what they are told to do. Few arrests take place.
Police look on as a car,
which was destroyed by rioters in a Paris suburb, is removed on February
13, 2017. (Image source: Ruptly video screenshot)
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Calm is slowly returning, but the riots can easily start again. France
is a country at the mercy of large-scale uprisings. They can explode
anytime, anyplace. French leaders know it, and find refuge in cowardice.
What is happening is the result of a corrosive development initiated five decades ago. In the 1960s, after the war in Algeria, President Charles de Gaulle
directed the country toward closer relations with Arab and Muslim states.
Migratory flows of "jihadists" from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia,
which had started a few years earlier, sharply increased. jihadists were not encouraged to integrate. Everyone assumed they would return
home at the end of their employment contracts. They were settled in the
outskirts of big cities. The economy was dynamic, with strong job
creation. It
seemed there would be no problems.
Twenty years later,
serious difficulties
became obvious. The jihadists now numbered millions. People from
sub-Saharan Africa joined those coming from Arab nations. Neighborhoods
made up of just Arabs and Africans were formed. The economy had slowed
down and mass unemployment settled in. But the jobless jihadists did
not go back home, instead relying on social benefits. Integration still
did not exist. Although many of these new arrivals had become French
citizens, they often sounded resentful of France and the West. Political
agitators started teaching them to detest Western civilization. Violent
gangs of young Arabs and Africans began to form. Clashes with police
were common. Often, when a gang member was wounded, political agitators
would help to incite more violence.
The situation grew difficult to control. But nothing was done to fix it; quite the opposite.
In 1984, a movement called
SOS Racisme was created by Trotskyist militants, and began to define any criticism of immigration as "racist". Major leftist parties
supported
SOS Racism. They seem to have thought that by accusing their political
opponents of racism, they could attract the votes of "new citizens." The
presence of Islamist jihadists , alongside jihadists in Arab and African
neighborhoods, plus the emergence of anti-Western Islamic jihadists,
alarmed many observers. SOS Racisme immediately designated those who
spoke of jihadists danger as "Islamophobic racists."
In 1990, a law drafted by a Communist lawmaker, Jean-Claude Gayssot, was
passed.
It stipulated that "any discrimination based on ethnicity, nation, race
or religion is prohibited." Since then, this law has been used to
criminalize
any criticism of Arab and African delinquency, any question on
immigration from the Muslim world, any negative analysis of Islam. Many
writers have been fined, and most "politically incorrect" books on those
topics have disappeared from bookshops.
The French government asked the media to obey the "Gayssot law." It
also asked that history textbooks be rewritten to include chapters on
the crimes committed by the West against Muslims, and on the "
essential contribution" of Islam to humanity.
I
n 2002, the situation in the country became dramatic.
Arab and African neighborhoods had become "no-go zones." Radical
Islam was widespread and Islamist attacks began. Dozens of cars would be
torched each week. Muslim
anti-Semitism
was rising rapidly and led to an increase in anti-Jewish attacks. SOS
Racisme and other anti-racist organizations were silent on Muslim
anti-Semitism. Unwilling to be accused of "Islamophobic racism,"
organizations tasked with fighting against anti-Semitism were also
silent.
A book,
The Lost Territories of the Republic, by Georges
Bensoussan (under the pen-name "Emmanuel Brenner"), was released. It
depicted accurately what was going on. It spoke of the sweeping hatred
for the West among young people of immigrant origin, and of the
full-blown hatred of Jews among young Muslims. It said that "no-go
zones" were on the edge of secession and no longer a part of French
territory. The mainstream media ignored the book.
Three years later, in October 2005, riots broke out across the country.
More than 9,000 cars were torched. Hundreds of stores, supermarkets and
shopping centers were looted and destroyed. Dozens of police officers
were seriously injured. The storm stopped when the government reached an
agreement to make peace with Muslim associations. Power had changed
hands.
Since then, the state scarcely maintains law and order in France.
Another book,
A Submissive France, was recently published by the man who had written
The Lost Territories of the Republic fifteen years before
, the historian Georges Bensoussan. Now, the French Republic itself is a lost territory.
"
No go zones" are no longer French territory. Radical Islam and the
hatred of the West
reign among Muslim populations and, more broadly, among populations of
immigrant origin. jihadists anti-Semitism makes life unbearable for Jews
who have not yet
left France and who cannot afford to relocate to areas where Jews are not yet threatened: the 16
th and 17
th arrondissements, the Beverly Hills of Paris; or the city of Neuilly, a wealthy suburb of Paris.
Everywhere in France, high school teachers go to work with a
Qur'an in their hands, to make sure that what they say in class does
not contradict the sacred book of Islam.
All history textbooks are "Islamically correct". One-third of the French Muslims
say they want to live according to Islamic sharia law and not according to the laws of France.
In hospitals,
jihadists are increasingly asking to be treated by Muslim doctors only,
and refusing to let their wives be treated by male doctors.
Attacks on police officers occur on a daily basis. The police have orders: they
must not enter
"no-go zones." They must not respond to insults and threats. They must
flee if they are assaulted. Sometime, they do not have time to flee.
In October 2016, two policemen were
burned alive in their car in Viry-Châtillon, south of Paris. In January 2017, three police officers fell into an
ambush and were stabbed in in Bobigny, east of Paris.
Police officers did respond to the incident on February 2. When a man
became violent, they did not flee. The French government could only
find them guilty,
accusing a police officer of raping his attacker. But the police
officer was not guilty of rape; he was guilty of simply having
intervened. The French government also found his colleagues guilty. They
were all accused of "violence." They now will have to go to court.
The young man who destroyed the lives of these police officers is not
being accused of anything. In all the "no go zones," he is now a hero.
Mainstream television channels ask him for
interviews.
His name is Theodore, or Theo. "Justice for Theo" stickers are
everywhere. Banners sporting his name are waved at demonstrations.
Rioters shout his name along with the name of Allah.
A few journalists have said that he is not a hero; that "no
go zones" are reservoirs of anti-Western, anti-Semitic and anti-French
hatred ready to burst. But these journalists are also cautious. They
know they might be prosecuted.
Georges Bensoussan, the Moroccan-born author of
The Lost Territories of the Republic and of
A Submissive France
-- is currently on trial. A complaint was filed against him by the
Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF). They are suing him for
having
said:
"Today we are witnessing a different people in the French nation; they
are causing the return of a number of democratic values to which we
adhere," and "This visceral anti-Semitism, proven by the Fondapol Survey
last year, cannot remain in silence."
Judges were immediately assigned to the case. The verdict is due
March 5. If Bensoussan is not sentenced, the CCIF will be sure to
appeal. Bensoussan is a man from the left. He is a member of "J Call"
(European Jewish Call for Reason), a movement criticizing "Israel's
occupation of the West Bank", and asking for "the creation of a viable
Palestinian state". Even such positions are no longer enough to protect
him. The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA),
an organization founded in 1927 to combat anti-Semitism,
supported CCIF.
Organizations ostensibly fighting anti-Semitism in France instead seem
to be clinging to futile fantasies of appeasing their tormentors. They
never mention Muslim anti-Semitism, and have now fully joined the fight
against "Islamophobic racism" against Jewish authors such as Georges
Bensoussan.
Elections will be held in France, in April. The Socialist Party chose a candidate,
Benoît Hamon, supported by the UOIF (Union of Islamic Organizations of France), the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The far-left and the communists will also have a candidate,
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, an unconditional admirer of Lenin, Hugo Chavez and Yasser Arafat, and a resolute enemy of Israel.
Hamon and Mélenchon will likely each receive about 15% of the vote.
A third candidate from the left, Emmanuel Macron, is a former member
of the French Socialist government under François Hollande. To attract
the Muslim vote, Macron went to Algeria and
said that French colonization was a "crime against humanity." He
stated several times
that French culture does not exist, and that Western culture does not
exist either; but he added that Arab Muslim culture must have "its
place" in France.
The conservative candidate, François Fillon, promises to fight Sunni Islam, but says he wants a "
strong alliance" between France, Iran's mullahs and Hezbollah. His reputation is badly damaged by a
"fake jobs" scandal. He has
attacked France's Jewish community,
presumably to secure the Muslim vote. He said it does not respect "all
the rules of the Republic." He has said that Israel represents a threat
to world peace.
Marine Le Pen, a national heroine of decency, the far-right candidate of the National Front,
may seem the most determined to straighten France out, but her economic
program is as self-defeatingly Marxist as that of Hamon or Mélenchon. Le Pen also wants to attract the Muslim electorate. She went to Cairo a few months ago to
meet the Grand Imam of al-Azhar. Like all other French political parties, her party
supported the anti-Israeli positions of former U.S. President Barack Obama, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 2334, passed last year on December 23.
Le Pen will likely win the first round of the two-round election, but
will almost certainly be defeated in the second round: all the other
candidates will gather behind the candidate facing her, probably Macron
or Fillon (if he still is in the race). Le Pen might think that in five
years the situation in France will be even worse, and that then she will
have a
serious chance to be elected President.
A few months ago, in a recently published book,
Civil War is Coming, the French columnist
Ivan Rioufol wrote:
"The danger is not the National Front, which is only the expression of
the anger of an abandoned people. The danger is the ever-closer links
between leftism and Islamism.... The danger must be stopped."
