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mailing:
by Soeren Kern
• March 21, 2017 at 5:00 am
- "If the Macron
bubble doesn't pop, this may portend the realignment, not just
of French politics, but Western politics in general, away from
the left-right division that has defined Western politics since
the French Revolution, towards a division between the people and
the elites." — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, French political
analyst.
- "This divide is
no longer between the left and the right, but between patriots
and globalists." — Marine Le Pen, French presidential
candidate.
In the current French presidential election campaign,
Marin Le Pen (right) is the anti-establishment change candidate and
Emmanuel Macron (left) is the pro-establishment status quo candidate.
(Image source: LCI video screenshot)
The
presidential election in France officially got underway on March 18,
when the Constitutional Council announced that a total of eleven
candidates will be facing off for the country's top political job.
The election
is being closely followed in France and elsewhere as an indicator of
popular discontent with traditional parties and the European Union,
as well as with multiculturalism and continued mass migration from
the Muslim world.
The first
round of voting will be held on April 23. If no single candidate wins
an absolute majority, the top two winners in the first round will
compete in a run-off on May 7.
If the
election were held today, independent "progressive"
candidate Emmanuel Macron, who has never held elected office, would
become the next president of France, according to several opinion
polls.
by A. Z. Mohamed
• March 21, 2017 at 4:00 am
- It is not the
president who is spreading the idea that "Islam is an
inherently hostile ideology," that "Muslims are
enemies of Christians and Jews" and that "Muslims have
always had a comprehensive, actionable, and jihadist plan to
take over" -- but rather the Quran itself.
- In other words:
- Islam does not
recognize Judaism or Christianity as religions.
- Muslims are enemies
of, and must fight, Jews and Christians.
- Muslims will never be
satisfied until all people submit to the beliefs of Islam and
the laws of sharia.
Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has called for the
demolition of churches in the Arabian Peninsula, in accordance with
Islamic law (Image source: PressTV video screenshot)
US President
Donald Trump repeatedly rebukes the media for "dishonest"
coverage and "fake news."
Despite its
fury over the accusations, however, the press continues to prove him
right -- albeit inadvertently.
Take a recent
New York Times piece as an example. In their article, titled
"Trump Pushes Dark View of Islam to Center of U.S.
Policy-Making" (Feb. 1), authors Scott Shane, Matthew Rosenberg,
and Eric Lipton cite a questionable source -- Prof. Asma Afsaruddin
of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana
University -- to prove their point that the president is promoting a
"master narrative that pits the Muslim world against the
West." This, they claim, appeals to Trump supporters, "who
know nothing of Muslims or Islam beyond news reports of terrorist
attacks."
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