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- Soeren Kern: A Month of
Multiculturalism in France: June 2018
- Tiago S. Freitas: Is Portugal
Becoming a Bastion of Neo-Marxism?
by Soeren Kern • July 26, 2018 at
5:00 am
- "Cultural
anti-Judaism from the Maghreb has been imported in the luggage
of some immigrants.... It has often been aggravated by... the
image of the man and the father, at the bottom of the social
ladder... From there, a focus of resentment on 'France' and
'the Jews,' whose success, real or imagined, appeared to some
as an additional 'injustice' and an affront to the ancient
hierarchies." — Georges Bensoussan, Causeur.
- The Christianophobia
Observatory, a Paris-based Roman Catholic non-profit organization
that tracks attacks against Christians, reported 128 incidents
of church vandalism or other anti-Christian attacks in France
during the first five months of 2018.
- "I am opposed
to the institutionalization of an Islam of France. If the
state interferes with religion, then it is an infringement of
the 1905 law on the separation of church and state." —
Bruno Retaillea, Chairman of the Republicans in the Senate,
opposing the creation of a French Islam.
The City
of Paris recently unveiled bulletproof glass walls and metal fences
designed to protect the Eiffel Tower from jihadi attacks. Pictured:
Soldiers patrol at the base of the Eiffel Tower. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty
Images)
June 1. In an interview with the magazine L'Obs,
Marwan Muhammad, one of the leading Muslim activists in France,
vowed to oppose President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reorganize
Islam in France: "Macron can do his own thing, we do ours. He
can name a great imam, he can even to pray behind him if he wants
to. That does not mean that he will receive the approval of the
people."
June 2. In an interview with the newspaper Le
Monde, the chief chaplain of the Muslim faith in the French
armed forces, Abdelkader Arbi, called for the establishment of a
military seminary to train the next generation of Muslim chaplains.
The course of study would be at the undergraduate level and would
be full-time for a period of three years.
by Tiago S. Freitas • July 26,
2018 at 4:00 am
- It is time for the
people of Portugal to take a break from their concern over
soccer scores to wake up to the dangerous attempt -- within
their own parliament -- to turn their lovely sunny country
into a bastion of neo-Marxism.
São Bento
Palace in Lisbon, seat of Portugal's parliament. (Image source:
Sharon Hahn Darlin/Wikimedia Commons)
Since the dramatic October 4, 2015 legislative
election in Portugal, which resulted in the fall of the
newly-formed conservative government after less than two weeks, the
country has been run by a far-left coalition.
On one hand, this is not surprising, given
Portugal's long-standing socialist tradition; like many European
countries, it has managed to balance a free-market economy with
heavy government taxation and powerful labor unions.
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