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by Soeren Kern
• February 23, 2017 at 5:00 am
- "I am not
ashamed of what I am. I am a Muslim, that is to say, submissive to
Allah who created me and who by his grace has harmoniously shaped
me." — Salah Abdeslam, a Belgium-born French national of
Moroccan descent and the main suspect in the November 13, 2015
attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
- The Grand
Mosque of Paris announced that it was withdrawing from the
Foundation for Islam of France, a new, government-sponsored
foundation charged with "contributing to the emergence of an
Islam of France that is fully anchored in the French Republic."
In a statement, the mosque, which represents 250 of the 2,500 of the
mosques and Muslim associations in France, said that it denounced
"any form of interference in the management of Muslim
worship."
- "An
Algerian sociologist, Smaïn Laacher, with great courage, just said
in a documentary aired on Channel 3: 'It is a shame to deny this
taboo, namely that in the Arab families in France, and everyone
knows it but nobody wants to say it, anti-Semitism is sucked with
mother's milk.'" —Georges Bensoussan, a highly regarded Jewish historian
of Moroccan descent, who is being prosecuted for talking about
anti-Semitism among French Arabs.
- "When
parents shout at their children, when they want to reprimand them,
they call them Jews. Yes. All Arab families know this. It is
monumental hypocrisy not to see that this anti-Semitism begins as a
domestic one." — Smaïn Laacher, a French-Algerian sociologist,
in a documentary called, "Teachers in the Lost Territories of
the Republic."
- "Islamophobia
is a weapon of intimidation and an invention to forbid debate."
— Pascal Bruckner.
- Three months
after French authorities demolished the "Jungle" migrant
camp, migrants are returning to Calais at the rate of around 30 a
day. Most of them are unaccompanied minors hoping to smuggle their
way across the English Channel to Britain.
A van burns during a recent riot in a Paris suburb.
Car burnings, commonplace in France, are often attributed to rival Muslim
gangs that compete with each other for the media spotlight. An estimated
40,000 cars are torched in France every year. (Image source: RT video
screenshot)
January 1. The Interior Ministry announced the most anticipated
statistic of the year: a total of 945 cars and trucks were torched across
France on New Year's Eve, a 17.5% increase from the 804 vehicles burned
during the annual ritual on the same holiday in 2015. Car burnings,
commonplace in France, are often attributed to rival Muslim gangs that
compete with each other for the media spotlight over which can cause the
most destruction. An estimated 40,000 cars are torched in France every
year.
January 2. Approximately 3.7 million crimes were reported in France
in 2016, a 4% increase over 2015, according to Le Figaro.
Seine-Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb which has one of the highest
concentrations of Muslims in France, ranks as the most dangerous part of
the country, with 18.2 attacks per 1,000 inhabitants. It is followed by
Paris, with 15.7 attacks per 1,000 inhabitants and Bouches-du-Rhône with
11.5 attacks per 1,000 inhabitants.
by Tamar Sternthal
• February 23, 2017 at 4:00 am
- Participation
by journalists in political events, especially those which they are
covering, is a serious violation of Agence France-Presse's
commitment to "rigorous neutrality" and its pledge that it
"is independent of the French government and all other economic
or political interests."
- The
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) press release is based
on a falsehood: that AFP, relying on "misinformation
from Israeli extremist websites," unfairly sanctioned its
reporter Nasser Abu Baker, and includes a call to action to hundreds
of thousands of journalists. It is evident that there is no truth
behind the International Federation of Journalists' lofty
"respect for truth."
- Nor is there
any justice at the IFJ, which pretends to fight for freedom of press
and against discrimination, but which provides cover and comfort to
Abu Baker, and which, based on that falsehood, actively
discriminates against Israeli journalists, denies them their freedom
of press, and endangers their lives in the West Bank by sending the
message to Palestinian officials and journalists that the Israeli
reporters are not welcome there.
- That Abu Bakr
was a delegate to the Fatah Congress and also ran in the elections
was first covered in the Palestinian media. There is nothing
inaccurate about that.
- The IFJ covered
up the fact that its own executive committee member ran for
political office, and attacked AFP for supposedly persecuting him
with no basis.
- It is evident
that there is no truth behind the International Federation of
Journalists' lofty "respect for truth."
Nasser Abu Baker
"The journalist shall be aware of the danger of discrimination
being furthered by the media, and shall do the utmost to avoid
facilitating such discrimination based on, among other things, race, sex,
sexual orientation, language, religion, political or other opinions, and
national or social origins," declares the Declaration of Principles
of the International Federation of Journalists, the world's largest
organization of journalists that represents 600,000 journalists in 140
countries.
One might imagine, then, that this organization that defends press
freedom, truth and equality, would vigorously counter a boycott by the
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate of Israeli journalists, especially in a
discriminatory campaign that endangers Israelis covering the West Bank by
sending the message to Palestinian officials and journalists that the
Israeli reporters are not welcome there.
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