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by Yves Mamou • December 22, 2017
at 5:00 am
- In France, all the
circumlocutions for the word "terrorist" appear to
have the same goal: to deny that Islamist terrorism is a
coordinated movement and that Islamist warriors are mainly
French citizens engaged in a war against their own country.
- If you deny that
terrorism is a war, you also logically have to deny that
terrorists are supported, sheltered, transported and financed
by a grey zone of supposedly peaceful French citizens.
- In France today, the
result of the denial of war is the "anti-racism"
movement. Anyone who dares to question Islam or Islamism in
its relation to violence and terrorism risks being hauled into
court and tried as a "racist."
Members of
the French nationalist group Génération Identitaire chant on the
roof of a mosque (then under construction) in Poitiers, France, on
October 20, 2012. (Image source: France 3 video screenshot)
When members of a small French far-right nationalist
group, Génération Identitaire, occupied a mosque under construction
in Poitiers in 2012 and said they were celebrating the anniversary
of the battle of Poitiers (732 AD), in which Charles Martel
defeated the army of the Ummayad Caliphate, thereby routing the
Arab invasion of France, the prosecutor of the Republic of France
launched an immediate investigation for "incitement to racial
hatred." Five of the activists were arrested, indicted, and
this month, sentenced to one-year suspended prison sentences. The
court sentenced four of them to deprivation of their civic rights
(such as the right to vote in elections) for the next five years.
In addition, the Génération Identitaire organization had to pay a
fine of 10,000 euros, and the four activists had to pay a fine of
24,000 euros to the organization "Muslims of France"
("Musulmans de France"), which is the owner of the
mosque and the legal representative in France of the Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood movement. If the fine is not paid, the activists
will go to jail.
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