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by Giulio Meotti
• August 10, 2016 at 5:00 am
- "Islam is
a French religion and the French language is a language of
Islam." — Tariq Ramadan.
- In 1989, Dalil
Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, justified the
persecution of Salman Rushdie by Ayatollah Khomeini. Last year,
Boubakeur called for the conversion of churches into mosques.
- In Britain,
mainstream Muslim organizations are dispensing "Islamic
justice" through more than 85 sharia courts attached to
mosques.
- Civil war in
France is what the Islamic State is looking for: unleashing a blind
repression so that the Muslim population will show solidarity with
the revolutionary minority. Yet, there is still worse possible
outcome: that nothing happens and we continue as is.
- Real
"moderate Muslims" are silenced or murdered.
Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris,
last year called for the conversion of churches into mosques and asked to
"double" the number of mosques in France. (Image source: TV5
Monde)
Last month, the Wall Street Journal published an interview
with France's director of domestic intelligence, Patrick Calvar.
"The confrontation is inevitable," Mr. Calvar said. There are
an estimated 15,000 Salafists among France's seven million Muslims,
"whose radical-fundamentalist creed dominates many of the
predominantly Muslim housing projects at the edges of cities such as
Paris, Nice or Lyon. Their preachers call for a civil war, with all
Muslims tasked to wipe out the miscreants down the street."
These Salafists openly challenge France's way of life and do not
make a secret of their willingness to overthrow the existing order in
Europe through violent means, terror attacks and physical intimidation.
But paradoxically, if the Islamists' threat to Europe were confined to
the Salafists, it would be easier to defeat it.
by Johanna Markind
• August 10, 2016 at 4:00 am
- The problem is
not that foreign charities directly subsidize jihadi activities, but
that they promote a highly aggressive ideology with a political
agenda, whose followers are more likely to take the next step into
violent action.
- Fighting
terrorism is not just the responsibility of the government, the
prime minister said, but rather all of society needs to get
involved.
A Saudi-funded mosque opened in Nice in July (two
weeks before the Bastille Day attack) after a 14-year struggle.(Image
source: Institut Niçois En-nour)
France is taking steps to de-radicalize its mosques in the hopes of
preventing the radicalization of its Muslim community
Since December, the French government, acting under expanded
emergency powers, has shut down twenty mosques for preaching Salafism, a
strict and highly politicized Sunni interpretation of Islam. Groups such
as ISIS adhere to Salafism. About 120 of France's 2,500 mosques and
prayer halls are considered Salafist.
A little background: the United States' 9/11 Commission found that
Saudi Arabia uses charity and "government funds to spread Wahhabi [a
Saudi form of Salafism] beliefs throughout the world, including in
mosques and schools." The technique of spreading Wahhabi-Salafi
beliefs by funding mosques and, crucially, those who preach in them, has
occurred in places as far-flung as Pakistan, Senegal, and Germany.
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