Same group as in Italy. “France Detains Nine in Anti-Terror Sweep,” from AP, : PARIS – French police on Monday detained nine people suspected of ties to a fundamentalist Algerian militant group possibly planning to attack France, officials said…. French television station LCI said the group, known by its French initials GSPC, was suspected of […]
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France expels 13,000 illegal immigrants
Maybe the Islamization of France is not a grim inevitability. From the Morocco Times, with thanks to Kemaste: France Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, said that “13,000 undocumented immigrants have been expelled in eight months,” and he is now committed to sending 10,000 more illegal foreigners home before the end of 2005, reported the Moroccan daily […]
France: Headscarf ban is judged success as hostility fades
After a year, the headscarf ban is judged a success in curbing jihadist sentiments. This article doesn’t explain how officials arrived at this conclusion. Certainly everyone looks more French inside the schools, and that is a powerful visual impression, but has it been accompanied by an abandonment of jihadist teaching in the mosques? From the […]
Fitzgerald: Why we need reconciliation with France
Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald explains why it’s time to patch it up with France: France’s policies were never quite as intolerable as depicted. Chirac is a crook, DdeV a preener, a poseur, and a poetaster. Nicholas Sarkozy, the unbeatable future president, has his embarrassments with a wayward wife, but when it comes to Islam, he […]
France Increases Anti-Terror Role
Is the extended French flirtation with dhimmitude over? It is too early to say that. But this is a positive development. From AP, : Aug. 29, 2005 – As the going gets tougher for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region, one ally has stepped up despite a recent straining of ties: […]
Extremists threaten Algerians in France
It is probably just a matter of time before we see high profile kidnappings in Europe as are described as being planned here. From UPI, . An Algerian terrorist group is calling on fellow extremists to track and strike government and civilian compatriots in France. In an Internet message, the Salafist Group for Preaching and […]
France: cemetery jihad?
“Police consider Muslim link to cemetery attack,” from the Telegraph, with thanks to Eschwapp: The headstones of 42 British soldiers who fell in combat in the First World War have been desecrated in what police in northern France believe may have been the work of Islamist attackers. Police and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission initially […]
France ejects 12 Islamic ‘preachers of hate’
A welcome bit of French anti-dhimmitude. And there is no legitimate reason why the British can’t do this too — except perhaps suicidal impulses. From The Telegraph, with thanks to Nicolei: The gulf between British and French treatment of preachers of hatred and violence was thrown sharply into focus yesterday when France announced the summary […]
Priest: Help from France key in covert operations
Dana Priest explains how Paris”s shadowy “˜Alliance Base” aids U.S. in terror fight in the Washington Post via MSNBC: PARIS – When Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam, boarded an Air France flight from Riyadh on June 3, 2003, he knew only that the Saudi government had put him under house arrest for an […]
FrontPage symposium on France: It’s getting hot in here
Mohamed Ibn Guadi, Soner Cagaptay, Laurent Murawiec and Reza Bayegan participated in a symposium at FrontPage hosted by FrontPage’s Jamie Glazov. The subject: “Muslims in France: A Ticking Time Bomb?” At one point, after Cagaptay and Bayegan endeavored to identify that time bomb as the backlash against Muslims, not Sharia sentiments and violence from Muslims […]