This stoning, which seems to have taken place in or near Marseilles, could be an event comparable to the murder of Theo van Gogh: another herald of the willingness of Muslims in Europe to take it upon themselves to enforce Sharia provisions. A friend in Marseilles has sent in this article from a French-language journal, […]
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Just a Petit Bleu to Occupied France
One cannot say enough bad things about Dominique de Villepin. The formula I have attempted to suggest repeatedly is “preening poseur.” The diplomat-poet, who will read you his verses, whether you asked to hear them or not. There was a telling picture of him a year or so ago, going backstage after what’s-her-name, the actress […]
Dhimmi France rejects Muslim group probe
So this group may indeed be anti-Semitic and linked to Hamas, but Dominique de Villepin doesn’t seem to care. From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: PARIS (Reuters) – France has rejected a U.S.-based Jewish group’s call for legal action against one of the country’s largest Muslim organisations that it says is anti-Semitic and is linked […]
Iraqi PM cautions France against appeasing insurgents ahead of Europe visit
Allawi to France: don’t rush to play the dhimmi. From AFP, with thanks to Ali Dashti: BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq’s Prime Minister Iyad Allawi warned France against appeasing insurgents in order to secure the release of two of its nationals held hostage in the country as he prepared to travel to Brussels. “France is bogged […]
Arafat is greeted with a VIP welcome in France
The ailing jihadist seems to be a hero in France. From the Times Online, : YASSIR ARAFAT was being treated for serious blood disease in a military hospital near Paris last night after a flight that began with emotional farewells to the Palestinian leader as he ended nearly three years of confinement in his West […]
France and Germany offer strong support to Turkey’s EU bid
It’s Chirac’s “strongest wish.” Takes some of the heat off of that headscarf controversy, eh, Jacques? From EUObserver.com, with thanks to Ali Dashti: The leaders of France and Germany have offered strong statements of support to Turkey”s bid to join the EU. At a joint Franco-German summit meeting yesterday in Berlin – to which Turkish […]
France Minister Seeks Funding for Mosques
First Spain, and now France. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: PARIS (AP) — France’s finance minister, a presidential hopeful, says mosques need state funding and it’s time for a century-old law banning financing for religious groups to be modernized, according to excerpts of a new book hitting the shelves on Thursday. Nicolas […]
IslamOnline: “Tariq Ramadan Under Vile Press Campaign in France”
From IslamOnline, with thanks to Usashopper: PARIS, October 19 (IslamOnline.net) – Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan is at the center of a vile campaign by rightist French magazines and newspapers, which accuse him of spearheading what they called the political Islam drive in Europe. Seeking to blemish his reputation after he had been catapulted into […]
France: ‘Muslims, neo-Nazis not to blame for French anti-Semitism’
To check the veracity of this report, let’s look into the Jihad Watch archives: 1. “A dozen books about the Dreyfus case and related legal issues were stamped on their edge with the words “Against the Jewish Mafia and Jewish Racism” followed by the addresses of a Holocaust-denying Web site and an Islamic propaganda Web […]
Syria ‘holding hostages’ to punish France
From The Independent, with thanks to Ali Dashti: The French government believes that two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq may have been taken to Syria with the connivance of authorities in Damascus. French officials would not comment officially yesterday but suspicions were confirmed by a senior politician and reported by the newspaper, Le Figaro, […]