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by Soeren Kern
• January 17, 2017 at 5:00 am
- "I am not
an Islamophobe. Women have the right to wear headscarves, but I do
not understand why we are embracing this religion [Islam] and those
manners that are incompatible with the freedoms that are ours in the
West." — Pierre Bergé, French fashion mogul.
- French security
officials rejected an Israeli company's offer of terrorist-tracking
software that could have helped them identify the jihadist cell that
carried out the attacks. "French authorities liked it, but the
official came back and said there was a higher-level instruction not
to buy Israeli technology," a well-placed Israeli
counter-terrorism analyst revealed.
- Jacques Hamel,
the priest who had his throat slit by two Muslims in Normandy, had
donated land adjacent to his church to local Muslims to build a
mosque, and they had been given use of the parish hall and other
facilities during Ramadan.
- At least five
of the jihadists who carried out the attacks in Paris and Brussels
financed themselves with social welfare payments: they received more
than €50,000 ($53,000).
- Muslim
employees at Air France have repeatedly attempted to sabotage
aircraft, according to Le Canard Enchaîné. "Concerning
Air France, we have seen several anomalies before the departure of
commercial flights," an intelligence official said.
- "There
will be no integration until we get rid of this atavistic
anti-Semitism that is kept secret. It so happens that an Algerian
sociologist, Smain Laacher, with great courage said that 'it is a
disgrace to maintain this taboo, namely that in Arab families in
France and elsewhere everyone knows that anti-Semitism is spread
with the mother's milk.'" — Georges Bensoussan, sued for
alleged hate speech against Muslims for having made this statement.
- The Mayor of
Beziers, Robert Menard, was charged with incitement to hatred for
tweeting his regret at witnessing "the great replacement"
to describe France's white, Christian population being overtaken by
foreign-born Muslims. "I just described the situation in my
town," he said. "It is not a value judgement, it is a
fact. It is what I can see."
French riot police attempt to control a crowd of
migrants in "The Jungle" squatter camp near Calais, on February
29, 2016, as demolition teams begin dismantling the southern part of the
camp. After being pelted with stones and other objects, police responded
with tear gas and water cannon. (Image source: RT video screenshot)
The Muslim population of France was approximately 6.5 million in
2016, or around 10% of the overall population of 66 million. In real
terms, France has the largest Muslim population in the European Union,
just above Germany.
Although French law prohibits the collection of official statistics
about the race or religion of its citizens, Gatestone Institute's
estimate of France's Muslim population is based on several studies that
attempted to calculate the number of people in France whose origins are
from Muslim-majority countries.
What follows is a chronological review of some of the main stories
about the rise of Islam in France during 2016:
JANUARY 2016
by Shoshana Bryen
• January 17, 2017 at 4:30 am
- After 23 years
and billions of dollars, the Palestinians still lack
"infrastructure for a viable... economy." They cannot
manage "service delivery." And there is no "civil
society" in Palestinian Authority (PA) areas able to express
dissent or disapproval of Mahmoud Abbas's 12-year power grab of a
4-year presidential term. Gaza under Hamas is worse.
- Even the
Europeans and John Kerry acknowledge that the Palestinians have no
capacity for self-government. This is, in part, because there has
been no demand by the donor countries for such things as budgetary
accountability and transparency, or a free press and civil society
in PA areas to demand more and better of its leaders.
- The PA also
pays terrorists and their families with foreign donations. And then
there's the matter of Palestinian corruption and outright stealing.
- The Trump
Administration will have a lot on its plate beginning this week. But
if it really wants to help the cause of Israel's security,
legitimacy and acknowledged permanence in the region, it would do
well to insist that U.S. taxpayer dollars be spent accountably or
not at all, until the Palestinians get their financial, as well as
political, house in order.
The Paris Peace Conference, January 15, 2017. (Image
source: Ruptly video screenshot)
The Paris Peace Conference was not as bad as it could have been. The
British and Russian governments sent low level delegations. Some of the
wording in UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2334 disappeared, and
the assembled agreed to resolve "all permanent status issues on the
basis of United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338
(1973), and also recalled relevant Security Council resolutions."
Resolution 242 is the benchmark for Israel's security requirements and
its right to legitimacy and permanence in the region. And
"recalling" is somewhat different from "planning to
enforce."
Most interesting, however, is a three-part section toward the end.
The mostly-European plus American gathering:
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