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by Giulio Meotti
• February 28, 2016 at 5:00 am
- "After a
few moments of fear, I thought that if there are these threats it is
because my fight foiled the plans of the Muslim Brothers by bringing
them to light. I decided not to give up." — Laurence
Marchand-Taillade, National Secretary of the Parti Radical de Gauche
(Radical Party of the Left).
- The author Éric
Zemmour lives under police protection. Two policemen follow him
wherever he goes -- including to court, where Muslim organizations
tried to defame him and his work by accusing him of
"Islamophobia," to silence him.
- In France,
hunting season is still open for critics of Islam.
French politician Laurence Marchand-Taillade (left)
lives under police protection after receiving a death threat from
Islamists. French author Éric Zemmour also lives under police protection.
Two policemen follow him wherever he goes -- including to court, where
Muslim organizations tried to defame him and his work by accusing him of
"Islamophobia," to silence him.
"You are sentenced to death. It's just a matter of time."
This message, in Arabic, was sent by Islamists to Laurence
Marchand-Taillade, National Secretary of the Parti Radical de Gauche
(Radical Party of the Left). She now lives under the protection of the
French police.
Marchand-Taillade forced the Muslim Brotherhood to withdraw, under
pressure from France's Interior Ministry, its invitation of three Islamic
fundamentalists to a conference in Lille. The Islamists in question were
the Syrian Mohamed Rateb al Nabulsi, the Moroccan Abouzaid al Mokrie and
the Saudi Abdullah Salah Sana'an, who deem that the penalty for
homosexuality is death, that the international coalition against the
Islamic State is "infidel," that Jews "destroy the
nations" and that only religious music is permitted.
Laurence Marchand-Taillade published an article in Le Figaro in
which she called for the ban of these Islamists with their
"anti-Semitic and pro-jihadist message."
by Burak Bekdil
• February 28, 2016 at 4:00 am
- In reality,
Turkey's "post-modern Islamist" leaders were just
Islamists gift-wrapped in a nicer package.
- In a span of
only seven months, more than 170 people have lost their lives in
bomb attacks in Turkey. This number excludes more than 300 security
officials killed by Kurdish militants, and more than 1000 Kurdish
militants killed by Turkish security forces.
- Russia is in
the process of encircling Turkey militarily-- in Syria, the Crimea,
Ukraine and Armenia.
- Russia's fight
is not about defeating the Islamic State, but about expanding its
sphere of influence in the eastern Mediterranean, including the
mouth of the Suez Canal. In a way, Russia is challenging NATO
through Syria -- the same way Turkey is challenging the Shiites
through Syria, or Iran is challenging the Sunnis through Syria.
On October 10, 2015, jihadist suicide bombers murdered
more than 100 pro-peace activists in the heart of Ankara, in the worst
single act of terror in Turkish history. Pictured above, one of the bombs
explodes in the background.
Less than a decade ago, many Western statesmen and pundits were
racing ahead to praise Turkey's Islamist leaders as "post-modern,
democratic, reformist, pro-European Union Islamists" who could play
the role model for less democratic Muslim nations in the Middle East. It
was "The Rise and Rise of Turkey," as Patrick Seale put it in
the New York Times in 2009.
In reality, the "post-modern Islamists" were just
Islamists gift-wrapped in a nicer package. Today, Turks are paying a
heavy price for the neo-Ottoman, revisionist, miscalculated strategic
vision of their leaders.
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