As I pondered recently, is the French government finally taking the tiniest counter-measures against the spread of radical Islam and immigrant violence? And is it too late, anyway? Deporting one jihadist cleric is a start, but la République française has a long way to go, yet.
As Mark Steyn once remarked, seeing a burqa-clad Muslim woman passing a gay condom booth in Francophone Canadian city of Montreal, in 10 year’s time either only the Muslim woman or the condom booth would be left. Given that Montreal was also the site of an early Muslim mass shooting, the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre (naturally, the Canadian media insist on calling the killer ‘Marc Lépine’, rather than his birth name, Gamil Gharbi), it’s no bet that the Muslim will be standing long after Montreal’s gay scene is driven forcibly underground again.
Back in the home of langue française, Muslims are already well on the way to banishing homosexuality from public life again. A wave of gay bashing is sweeping France and neighbouring countries as gangs of Muslims catfish gay men on apps like Grindr and greet them with mob-bashings instead of the gay hookup they thought they were meeting for.
The Muslim mobs are coming for the feminists, too.
Last week, an Islamist mob forced the mayor of Noisy-le-Sec, a Parisian suburb run by the communists, to cancel a screening of Barbie, the Hollywood blockbuster starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. They liked neither the feminist nor the homosexual elements in the film and threatened the mayor that there would be trouble if the open-air screening went ahead.
The mayor succumbed to the threats, provoking an angry backlash among France’s political class. Aurore Bergé, the minister for gender equality, said it was more than just a thuggish threat from a group of young men: it was an attempt by Islamists to ‘infiltrate’ society and impose their values at the expense of the Republic’s.
Well, yes. She’s only just noticed? So much for ‘Allah loves equality’.
Bruno Retailleau, the interior minister, also used the word ‘infiltrate’ and said the objective of the Islamists is ‘to tip the whole of French society under sharia law’. In the face of such dedicated fanaticism, said Retailleau, ‘the slightest retreat…is unacceptable’.
France. Retreat.
Some jokes just write themselves.
Just like their Francophone compatriotes in Canada, the appeasers and white flag wavers are blaming, not the violent Muslims, but anyone who actually notices Muslim violence and has the gall (no pun intended) to say something about it.
The mayor of Noisy-le-Sec has promised to show the film – which was requested by residents of his district – at a later date; but rather than admit he was wrong to cave in to the Islamists, Mayor Olivier Sarrabeyrouse has tried to blame the furore on his political adversaries. At a press conference he declared:
“While I continue to condemn in the strongest terms the acts that I have described as obscurantism and fundamentalism, I condemn even more strongly the political exploitation and speculation, the racist and Islamophobic hatred that has been pouring out of the right and the far right.”
Sarrabeyrouse also pointed a finger at journalists, suggesting there were more important matters in the world than Islamists curtailing freedom of expression.
And they’ll kill you if you try and say otherwise. Just ask the staff of Charlie Hebdo.
Mayor Sarrabeyrouse will have a hard time trying to convince France that his critics are ‘Islamophobic’; the threats made against Barbie are just the latest in a series of ugly incidents this summer. In June, a pop-up store opened in Lyon selling Islamic clothing. Stating that it catered to ‘modest Muslim women’, the shop refused entry to any customer whose head was uncovered […]
At the end of July, a 28-year-old woman was beaten up at a station south of Paris by a man who called her a ‘dirty whore’ for wearing a short skirt. The man’s wife, who was wearing a North African djellaba, joined in the attack.
Then there are the French women beaten by Muslim mobs for wearing bikinis on the beach or the Nice waitress attacked for serving alcohol during Ramadan. And not even Muslims are safe from Muslim violence.
Last year in Montpellier a 13-year-old Muslim girl was beaten unconscious outside her school gates in Montpellier by a fellow pupil who felt she dressed too liberally.
Yet, for all this, the French government was first out the gate to reward the most brutal Muslim extremists of all, Hamas, for their mediaeval violence.
Appropriately, the French have a word for that: clientélisme. Like the Albanese government in Australia, the French left have alienated the white working class so thoroughly that they have to pander to Muslims in a desperate bid to cling to power.
In June this year the official magazine for all France’s elected mayors published a warning ahead of next May’s municipal elections. Headlined ‘Muslim Brotherhood: the risk of “clientelist deals” in municipal elections’, the article relayed the key findings of a recent government report about the Muslim Brotherhood in France. The secretive Islamist organisation had embarked on a new strategy, warned the report, which they described as ‘municipal Islamism’. The Brotherhood would stand some of its members in next year’s elections while also organising ‘“clientelist transactions” aimed at satisfying certain specific segments of the Muslim electorate’.
Australian Labor, whose remaining base of rusted-on support is concentrated in Muslim Western Sydney, are way ahead of them.
Which begs the question: if it’s too late for France, what does it say about Australia?
