Mayor Robert Ménard said: “We take this very seriously. I don’t want there to be the slightest problem, for example, for our bus drivers.”
That’s perfectly reasonable, but bowing to the threat of jihad violence could create more than slight problems in France’s future.
“French town pulls garbage advert depicting Khamenei after Tehran’s outcry,” Iran International, January 9, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A French mayor has cancelled an advertising campaign on sorting garbage which lampooned Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, citing safety concerns after Iran decried it as an insult.
The campaign on the back of municipal buses features Khamenei alongside North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin under the slogan “Don’t forget to sort your waste”.
Far-right Mayor Robert Ménard of the southern French city of Béziers had spearheaded the initiative but announced the removal of the adverts on Thursday.
Describing the move as a precautionary measure, Ménard told AFP: “We take this very seriously. I don’t want there to be the slightest problem, for example, for our bus drivers.”
“We’ve run lots of campaigns, but they never achieve anything. Nobody even notices them. This one, at least, everyone noticed,” he added.
Majid Nili, an aide to Iran’s Foreign Minister, announced Thursday that the Iranian Embassy in Paris has lodged an official complaint against the campaign, which he described as an insult to the Islamic Republic, hate speech and disrespect for Iran’s cultural values.
Nili further said that the embassy had demanded what he called an appropriate response from the French government, calling for measures to prevent provocations in the future….
Tony says
Muslims desire to impose Islamic Law, Sharia, on Non-Muslims to help gain ultimate Muslim power and control over speech and thought as taught in Islam’s Quran. Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 8:12; 9:29,111; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. The FRUIT of Islam is continual WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Christians and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 69:30-32; 3:151.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam promotes a terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in a terrorist war against Non-Muslims and hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
Billy says
The virtue-signaling, deceitful Leftists easily cave in to Muslim demands by voluntarily giving up our freedoms and rights.
JimJFox says
Far right Mayor is a lefty?
gravenimage says
Caving to Islam is not just a problem on the Left–although they do tend to be even worse than the Right overall. In this case it seems like a wash…
Lavéritétriomphera says
Bonjour
This advertisement is malicious.
I don’t think it’s the best way to help the Iranian people.
We can disagree, but it’s important to respect your opponent and observe courtesy.
I agree with Robert Ménard.
À bientôt
charles hodges says
AWESOME, can’t be said any BETTER
gravenimage says
How is France kowtowing to these Islamic threats “awesome”?
charles hodges says
The Picture is awesome, as well as the message it implies
JimJFox says
disrespect for Iran’s cultural values
Oh, no! Public hangings for gays, death for not wearing your niqab properly… How dare we disrespect these noble values.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
Fear of what a ghoul will do, has caused a lot of heartache and misery for those who depend on one to be *fearless*….Causing fear such as this, is in itself, terrorism.
The mayor may have gotten personal death threats, but he mentions the safety of the bus drivers. If the bus drivers are at risk, so are the passengers. And we know just how much mozlum terrorists lust to blow up buses, and shoot the people onboard.
The ads were removed, but not the real threats. As long as islam is, so too terrorism.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t agree that Kim and Putin belong in the same category as Khamenei, even if they are his allies
gravenimage says
They are just about as bad in oppressing their own people–but the former are less likely to attack French bus drivers…
Sorge says
Communist China declared Islam to be a Mental Illness.
Tthey were demolishing mosques across the country.
Did you see any uprising among Moslems and outcries from Islamic countries anywhere?
No? Did you ask “Why not?”
Because China would just ignore their reactions.
Whereas in the West: people are afraid, because the Moslems are always ready to kill and the West will just answer with flowers, candles and “our thoughts are with the victims” bit. Moslems kill with or without provocation and they can get away with it.
gravenimage says
Grimly so.
Brenrod says
It’s because China does not let Muslims immigrate there as opposed to EU.
Sorge says
But Islam is practiced among certain minorities in China long before the world of today!
I am saying that even these historical elements are being supressed today, maybe exactly because of this development in the Westen World. So it is more a kind of preventive measurment.
Anna Yelena says
They can dish it out but they can’t take it. Europe needs to really think about a mass deportation. These people do not come in peace, they are invaders to change the countries that are smart enough not to ever believe in their warped ideologies. In God we Trust.
James Lincoln says
Anna Yelena says,
“Europe needs to really think about a mass deportation.”
Not just think about it – but do it.
They can take their cue from the Trump / Homan team.
gravenimage says
France: Town pulls advertisement after Iran said it was an insult to the Islamic Republic
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So French towns are now enforcing Shari’ah law?
More:
Mayor Robert Ménard said: “We take this very seriously. I don’t want there to be the slightest problem, for example, for our bus drivers.”
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Now why would Ménard suppose there might be a problem for bus drivers over a satirical ad? Clearly this means that Muslims would attack or murder bus drives for poking fun at Islamic leaders.
Probably not as worried about any Russians or Koreans who might live in town–but Muslims are a different matter.
abu taleb says
If Putin or Kim Jong Eun complains, I don’t think the town will pull the ad. So France is most afraid of Islam, not Russia or North Korea. What a bunch of coward the west becomes.
Sorge says
Moslems form a killing squad and the West power that is is afraid of their own skin – ruling elites, law “enforcement” units, “justice” systems.
But somewhere along the line, we have to give them Moslems an answer they would understand: like Israel with Hamas in Gaza. There would be collateral damage of course, and civilian blood spilled. But what about us? Haven’t we be spilling civilian blood in Germany, France, England Spain etc since 1915? And now on a daily basis? Are these acceptable and becoming daily norms? This should be the new normalcy? . But there is hardly any deliberate blood-spilling of Moslems in these countries. So what does that mean? Take it and take it againa? Answer with more flowers and candles?
The solution will involve blood-spilling on all sides, I am afraid. When Europeans are ready to say: “Enough is enough!”
but first they have to wake up and be courageous to see beyond their four walls.
Sorge says
Sorry, I mean 2015, specifically Sept 2015 when Merkel implemented “open borders”.
Naja says
Sorge is 100% correct.
Stop with the “blah blah blah”. It’s time to act.
Fight fire with fire. Fight terror with terror.
Brenrod says
Bingo!