France tries to gain control over the training of imams. A most interesting experiment. Do they have the will to follow it through and make it work, by ensuring that the jihad ideology is not taught and that imposition of Sharia is not encouraged? “Muslim finance law agreed,” from French-News.com, with thanks to dwntmpo: After […]
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Five Misunderstanders of Islam held in France for recruiting Iraq fighters
“Five held in France for recruiting Iraq fighters,” from AFP, : PARIS, April 28 (AFP) – Five suspected Islamic militants have been detained in France by intelligence agents who believe they were part of an operation to send volunteers to fight against the US army in Iraq, officials said Thursday. The four suspects arrested Sunday […]
Report: Saudis may turn from U.S. to France
France may be an ever better dhimmi than President Handholder. From the World Tribune, with thanks to Looney Tunes: The Saudi kingdom could augment or replace strategic ties with London and Washington by increasing relations with France, the Washington Institute said in a report. The institute cited a French report of a defense memorandum of […]
The unreported race riot in France
“Mugged by la Réalité: The unreported race riot in France”: Olivier Guitta writing in the Weekly Standard (thanks to Ted Robertson): Fredric Encel, Professor of international relations at the prestigious Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris and a man not known for crying wolf, recently stated that France is becoming a new Lebanon. The implication, far-fetched […]
The Death of France’s “Multiculturalism”
The great Nidra Poller, writing in Frontpage (thanks to EPG): October 2000, Place de la République in Paris: the first of what would become an endless series of ambiguous pro-Palestinian demonstrations welcomed the snake of anti-Semitism into its heart. “Death to the Jews” rang out loud and clear that day as policemen stood by, journalists […]
France: 10 years for US ’embassy plot leader’
From CNN, and RB: PARIS: A French court on Tuesday handed the maximum 10-year sentence to the alleged organizer of a plot to send a suicide bomber into the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Five other defendants in the closely watched case were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one year to nine years imprisonment. Djamel […]
France: LePen’s “racial hatred” conviction upheld
It is unfortunate that the only people saying things like this are Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose name is already so closely associated with racism and anti-Semitism. It further obfuscates the fact that Europe is facing an ideological threat, and that the only reason to object to Muslim population growth in Europe is not because Muslims […]
France rebuffs Israeli calls to blacklist Hizbullah
Eurabia update. From TerraNet, : France has rebuffed Israeli calls for the European Union to blacklist Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah, claiming it would be “impossible to enforce.” The French government, which last year banned Hizbullah related Al-Manar television station from airing in France, insisted Hizbullah’s dual political and military structure “complicated” any moves to proscribe […]
3 Gitmo Detainees to Be Returned to France
How can we be sure? From AP, : PARIS “” The United States has agreed to hand over to France the last three French detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, judicial officials said Tuesday. The agreement was finalized just as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to arrive in Paris for […]
France: new jihad recruiting ground
“French Fighters Captured with Iraqi Terrorists,” from Newsmax.com, : U.S. forces are holding three French nationals who were captured in Iraq fighting alongside insurgents loyal to terrorist kingpin Abu Musab al Zarqawi – a development that could complicate attempts to thaw relations between France and America…. “Two of them have admitted they came to make […]