Signs of Creeping Islamization in France

Every few weeks, the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti provides a kind of tour d’horizon of creeping Islamization in Europe, using an accumulation of small but telling details to tell his alarming story. His latest dispatch from the front can be found here: “French capitulation to Islam:Liberté, égalité, soumission,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, May 12, 2026:

The French République is submitting itself, neighborhood after neighborhood, bistro after bistro, with the same elegance with which it once guillotined its kings.

The Enlightenment has been digested in a single Ramadan and the nation that invented the rights of man and secularism is turning itself halal without even the modesty of an explicit conversion. It is a creeping surrender, bureaucratic, commercial, smelling of fear and terminal goodism.

Even fast-food chains are adapting to sharia: locals in Lyon with rooms to pray to Allah.

All that was missing was the République en djellaba turning itself into a catering service for Islamization.

In Submission, Michel Houellebecq has a character say: “Old Bat Ye’or is not wrong with her phantom of the Eurabia conspiracy.”

“Eurabia is not a conspiracy!” Bat Ye’or boldly replied this week in the Journal du dimanche:

“Eurabia is not a conspiracy. The Euro-Arab fusion policy became official with the Barcelona Pact (1995). The denial of public and established facts does not prove a conspiracy, but an equally established concealment. At the time, I perceived in Europe social behaviors that evoked those of dhimmitude, but I did not yet see the pathways or networks that were implanting in the heart of twentieth-century European societies social schemes dating back to the Muslim Middle Ages and conforming to sharia.

“Still active today in most Muslim countries, these dynamics derive from jihad, a set of theological and legal directives dictating relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. We are living through a transitional period: that of the passage from a European country of Judeo-Christian culture to an Islamo-Christian state, a stage toward its Islamization.”

In Vienna, Islam is now the majority religion in public schools. They tried twice to conquer Vienna (and Europe) militarily; now they are entering step by step.

Anyone entering certain suburbs and town centers today has the impression of having landed in another civilization, except that nobody had the courage to declare the change of sovereignty.

In Lyon, now 30 percent Islamic, Alexandre Dallery announced that his bakery no longer sells pork-based products. No more salami, ham, lard, or bacon. On Facebook, Dallery spoke of “various pressures over several months to make everything halal. To calm things down, we no longer sell ham. Otherwise they burn everything down.”…

Dallery, with Muslims threatening arson terrorizing him, in order to prevent such an outcome has “voluntarily” stopped selling all pork products in his boulangerie.

In Ardèche, cinemas refuse to screen the film “Persepolis” so as not to upset Muslim students….

The movie is about a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution. The regime of the mullahs are shown, properly, as fanatic Islamofascists. This was an important movie, but the move theatre in Ardèche would not screen it, as the owners feared violence from local Muslims. Had they been made of sterner stuff, they would have called for police security at the theatre, declared publicly that, after all, those Muslim students who object to the film could simply avoid seeing the movie themselves, and that they had no right to deprive others of seeing such an important film.

In the historic center of Bordeaux, an Afghan stabbed two people, killing one and seriously wounding the other. He had reproached them for “boire un coup,” drinking alcohol, on the day of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration marking the end of Ramadan….

It’s unclear if the people stabbed were Muslims, and he was enforcing in homicidal fashion Islamic rules for Believers, which in Western societies is impermissible, or whether those he stabbed were non-Muslims, which would be an even greater infraction, using deadly force (and killing one person) to enforce a rule that applies only to Muslims.

A principal is threatened with death for asking a student to remove her veil in class….

French law prohibits “conspicuous” religious clothing, including hijabs, in public schools. But after enraged Muslims murdered teachers Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, what teachers or principals would not find Muslim threats terrifying and modify their behavior accordingly — including enforcing that anti-hijab rule?

Giulio Meotti claims that “the presidential elections of 2027 will be the last opportunity to stop French suicide (and perhaps it may already be too late).”

Such defeatism is premature. The National Rally, with the articulate and charismatic Jordan Bardella as its new head (now that Marine Le Pen has been prevented from running for office for five years), now leads all the other parties, and if Bardella wins in 2027 and becomes prime minister, among his first acts will be to call a total halt to Muslim migrants, and to start enforcing deportation orders that a lax government has failed to enforce. Bardella will also greatly increase the numbers of deportations, applying it to all migrants who are convicted of crimes, and also to those migrants who refuse to work for their benefits, in menial jobs offered by the government.