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by Guy Millière
• August 21, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The path of
Adel Kermiche, born in France to immigrant parents from Algeria, and
one of the two men who murdered the elderly priest Father Jacques
Hamel, looks like the path followed by many young French Muslims:
school failure, delinquency, shift towards a growing hatred of
France and the West, return to Islam, transition to radical Islam.
- The French
education system does not teach young people to love France and the
West. It teaches them instead that colonialism plundered many poor
countries, that colonized people had to fight to free themselves,
and that the fight is not over. It teaches them to hate France.
- All political
parties, including the National Front, talk about the need to
establish an "Islam of France". They never explain how, in
the internet age, the "Islam of France" could be different
from Islam as it is everywhere else.
- Many French
Jews fleeing the country recalled an Islamic phrase in Arabic:
"First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people." In
other words, first Muslims attack Jews; then when the Jews are gone,
they attack Christians. It is what we have been seeing throughout
the Middle East.
Father Jacques Hamel was murdered on July 26, in the
church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, by Islamic jihadists.
The slaughter of French priest Father Jacques Hamel on July 26 in
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray was significant. The church where Father Jacques
Hamel was saying mass was nearly empty. Five people were present; three
nuns and two faithful. Most of the time, French churches are empty.
Christianity in France is dying out. Jacques Hamel was almost 86
years old; despite his age, he did not want to retire. He knew it would
be difficult to find someone to replace him. Priests of European descent
are now rare in France, as in many European countries. The priest
officially in charge of the parish of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Auguste
Moanda-Phuati, is Congolese.
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