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Marion
Le Pen: 'Either We Kill Islamism or It Will Kill Us'
by Raheem Kassam
• Jul 26, 2016
Cross-posted from Breitbart
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Originally published under the title "Marion Le Pen:
Christians Must Stand Up to Islam; Young Patriots Should Join the
Military Like Me."
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French
MP Marion Le Pen, the niece of France's Front National leader Marine Le
Pen, has been a relentless critic of Islamism.
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Marion Maréchal Le Pen, the 26-year-old niece of France's Front
National leader Marine Le Pen has urged her fellow countrymen to join the
military in a series of tweets following the
beheading of a priest in Normandy this morning.
Reacting to the incident, Ms. Le Pen took to her Twitter account to
double down on her message from just a few days before, and just after
the attacks in Nice.
She said
on Sunday: "Either we kill Islamism or it will kill us again and
again. You are with us and against Islamism, or you are against us and
for Islamism... Those who choose the status quo become complicit with our
enemies."
Her comments today herald yet another ramping up of her party's action
against Islamism and the threat faced by ordinary French people.
She said: "Faced with the threat that weighs on the France, I
decided to join the military reserve. I invite all the young patriots to
do the same," followed by: "In the West as in the East,
Christians must stand up to resist Islam!"
She added: "They kill our children, murdering our policemen and
slaughter our priests. Wake up!"
Marine Le Pen's approval
ratings rose after the Nice attacks, though the media chose instead
to focus on how the current President who faces an election next year,
Francois Hollande, remained popular.
Marion Le Pen, who is a deputy (or Member of Parliament) in the
Vaucluse region, has become an increasingly important figure in her party
and in French politics lately.
In an interview with the Telegraph, she said radical
Islam is implacably opposed to the French secular way of life, stating:
"We have a heritage of faith linked to secularity, and I would
always defend that. It's quite opposite to the radical Islamic faith,
which seeks to impose itself more and more on public life."
'Free movement of goods and people
is a way of feeding terrorism,' says Le Pen.
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She continued: "The attacks that took place in France at the
Bataclan [in Paris last November] were carried out by terrorists who
infiltrated their way into the flood of immigrants arriving from Greece.
"Free movement of goods and people is a way of feeding terrorism.
France's migration policy has contributed to the explosion of radical
Islam here and to the genesis of those terrorists who are born in
France."
A devout Catholic, she defends comments made some time ago in which
she said that "Islam should not have the same public space as
Catholicism. "We have traditions, cultural influences that are
Christian. France is not an Islamic country, and Islam should not have
the same place in public life."
But she draws a distinction between the secular world of French
politics and personal religion, insisting: "I make a big distinction
between my political combat and my faith. I never mix the two."
This morning an elderly priest was murdered in a hostage situation in
a church south of Rouen, Normandy, northern France by Islamist attackers.
France's Le Figaro reported the eye-witness account of a nun who managed
to escape the Normandy church this morning while it was under attack by
Islamist killers in order to raise an alarm.
The paper states that one of the "executioners" gave
"an Arabic sermon from the altar," and that deceased Father
Jacques Hamel was forced to kneel before the men went for his throat with
a knife.
Raheem Kassam is a
Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the Middle East Forum and editor-in-chief of
Breitbart London.
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