by Giulio Meotti

“Islamic ideologues work in the same way on both shores of the Mediterranean: what they did twenty or thirty years ago in the Maghreb, they do it today in France. If these Islamist ecosystems continue, they will speak for our Muslim companions. In the event of an extreme right reaction or electoral victory, we will be in a civil war scenario”.

This is the scenario outlined on Le Figaro by Bernard Rougier, academic and Arabist author of the new book “Les territoires conquis de l’Islamisme”. This is the scenario on which Emmanuel Macron spoke on Tuesday. He explained that French Muslims have their place in the national community, they are French among the French, but that [their intention is that] there will be laws of Islam on French soil.

Macron said that the republican ideal is not an empty space but a historical reality whose density is urgently needed and everyone must be respected. Macron said it from Mulhouse, in Alsace, where Islamists are working on a space that takes charge of all aspects of life by placing them under Islamist control, a real enclave – financed by Qatar and Turkey.

Macron launched a campaign against political Islam and what he calls “Islamist separatism” in some French cities, announcing measures to strengthen controls over the external financing of mosques, to end the nomination by Algeria, Morocco and Turkey of 300 imams per year in France and ban Turkish and Arabic courses. Imams, Macron said, are often related to Salafism or the Muslim Brotherhood and “preach against the republic”.

The Macron administration has designated 47 French districts for a “republican reconquest”. Macron also went down hard against Turkey. “We cannot have Turkey’s laws on French soil”, warned the head of the Elysée. In response, President of the Turkish parliament Mustafa Sentop chastised his “primitive Islamophobia”.

It is with a letter in the magazine Marianne that 60 French intellectuals turn to Macron. “Mr. President of the Republic, some of us support you, others oppose you. Any concessions will only convince secessionist Islam of our weakness and encourage it to ask for more and more”. The appeal was signed by Muslim authors such as Kamel Bencheikh, Zineb El Rhazoui and Mohamed Louizi; the philosopher Jean-François Braunstein and the essayist Pascal Bruckner; the sociologist Nathalie Heinich and the research director of Cnrs Philippe d’Iribarne; and again the journalist Yves Mamou and the Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal; rounded out with the historian of ideas Pierre-André Taguieff and Pierre Vermeren, professor of History at the Sorbonne.

Doubts remain. Why not decide on banning the Salafist groups and the Muslim Brotherhood? We are talking about imam training. But from whom? And to teach them what? It is not enough to have an intellectual knowledge of Republican rules to adhere to them and give up preaching a separatist Islam.

France is the great “patient” of Europe. It has the largest Islamic community on the Old Continent, one tenth of the total population; almost half of European Jews live in France; and the country has a tradition of freedom and intellectual and cultural secularism absent elsewhere. This has generated the chaos of civilizations that we see every day, unless we are looking in bad faith or blind..

We have the Islamization of entire neighborhoods (at least 150 for the government); daily anti-Semitism with massacres of French Jews, their flight to Israel (60,000 in ten years) and their internal departure, with large departments such as Seine-Saint-Denis now emptied of 80 per cent of their Jews; and then journalists, writers and intellectuals under police escort. And a significant part of the French Left is now lined up for electoral patronage with political Islam in the “neighborhoods”.

France risks a breakdown according to ethnic and religious lines. It is a gradual process of balkanization, at best, or of open conquest in the worst case.

If 20 years ago they had told us what is happening today, we would have laughed. Yet it happened. And it is happening with a 10 percent Islamic population. The Pew Forum, the world’s largest analytical institute, tells us that France will be 20 percent Islamic within a generation. What will happen then? And what will happen when, in two generations, if 30-40 per cent will be Muslims?

In 1970 there were a hundred mosques in France, today there are more than 2,450. “We are at the terminal stage of Catholicism”, said Jerome Fourquet, the most respected French sociologist of the moment. De-Christianization and Islamization go hand in hand.

The hour is serious, as Bernard Rougier said. Two days ago, waiting for Macron in Mulhouse, there was a woman in a niqab, the Islamic outfit from head to toe. It was forbidden by French law. But the Islamism of the conquest was feeling the pulse of France. 

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While the ruling political and media complex in Germany have been highly insolent and increasingly spouting extreme anti-AfD rhetoric about the “rightwing” shooter Tobias Rathjen as being part of a huge right-wing terrorist network of the AfD, it turns out that the shooter’s father is a Greens member and ran for the party in 2011.

Up until an accident, Rathjen is said to have been a talented young footballer who trained under Jürgen Klopp in the Eintracht Frankfurt youth team. He allegedy left a confused anti-immigrant “manifesto”, but as is the case with every “lone shooter’s manifesto” this individual was strangely killed before he could elaborate on his mentally disturbed theories.

A source who wished to remain anonymous has told FWM that Rathjen and his mother may have been assassinated even before the actual shooting took place, in order to shift the blame and plant evidence on Rathjen.

Meanwhile in Thuringia, the CDU, SPD, the Greens and the renamed SED (previously Die Linke), has agreed on a red-red-green minority government under Bodo Ramelow. Ramelow is to be elected Prime Minister on March 4, and new elections are planned for April 25, 2021. The minority parties have agreed on a “Stability Pact” to keep the AfD out.

This shooting has certainly helped the CDU melt with the left and far-left in the German state. Without the shooting, Merkel’s CDU party would have had to face a deluge of criticism. The timing of the horrendous deed could thus not have been better for the chancellor.

Since the rampage in Hanau, an overwhelming campaign has been launched which is unparalleled in hysteria, wickedness and destructive pleasure in degrading and defaming German opposition party, the AfD. The AfD happens to be the largest opposition party against the GroKo and the left-green mainstream, and those critical minds in independent media who oppose it.

The smear campaign is driven by the media and representatives of all established parties, starting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who openly abuse their high political offices in ignoring their pledges of impartiality.

Thus every barrier and inhibition in the “fight against the right” has been removed to subsequently justify the building of “firewalls” against the competitor, the AfD. The related failure of mainstream parties leading to the Thuringian government crisis and the resignation of the CDU chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, are counted as major setbacks for the Merkel administration.

Hollywood classics such as “Shining”, “Psycho” and “Halloween”, and Ingmar Bergman’s notion of a “snake egg” as well as the plots of all Bond films, seemed to have played a much larger role in the 43-year-old shooter’s imagination. But nobody is blaming Hollywood yet.

Incidentally, those who now hysterically, falsely and shamelessly instrumentalize the Hanau bloody deed for the “fight against the right” are quick to offer medical explanations when immigrants are implicated in bloody deeds.

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And Democrats will go on giving Rep. Omar a pass.

After the latest Daily Mail story (which is doing the journalism that US papers won’t do when it comes to Omar) in which a Somali community member went on the record discussing Omar’s alleged immigration fraud and marriage to her brother, the House member threw a tantrum on Twitter.

Her choice of tantrum included retweeting the above link with her endorsement.

The unhinged site, Humans4humanrights, is a British blog written in bad English with deranged headlines. This headline, “Enemy collaboration: Character Assassination of Ilhan Omar – tabloid brainwashing saga continues” foreshadows a crazy rant that blames the Brother marriage story on “Pro-Israel Zionist / Far-right fraternization”.

That is to say, Rep. Omar is back to blaming everything on the Jews.

“The latest tabloid slander by the Daily Mail and The Sun stink of brazen collusion, referring to articles by the New York Post, whose owners the Murdoch family, conveniently own The Sun, and self-proclaimed “investigative journalist”, Pro-Israel touting David Steinberg, who’s been out to destroy Ilhan Omar since 2018,” the site retweeted by Rep. Omar claims.

David Steinberg has indeed been in the forefront of exposing Omar’s misconduct. 

But it’s telling that Omar and the blog post she liked, immediately zooms in on this as a Jewish matter.

The post below that though contains undiluted crazy Jew-hatred as it claims, “Antisemitism” is the weapon of choice for Psychological Warfare to silence all of us who demand a #FreePalestine!”

There’s an enthusiastic defense of Jeremy Corbyn and a denial that anti-Semitism even exists.

“In clarification, the coined term “antisemitism” is nonsensical,” the blog retweeted by Rep. Omar insists. “Jews have no copyright, no patent or any legal claim to the word “antisemitism”. The majority of Jewish people today are not of Semite descent. They are mainly of Eastern European ancestry. Clearly, that makes the term “antisemitism” a synonym for “Islamophobia”.”

If you missed that, the blog is pushing khazarizm, while denying the existence of the Jewish people.

This is similar to the hateful belief system that motivated the black nationalist attacks on a Jewish market and prayer gathering in recent months.

And that is what Rep. Omar chose to retweet to divert attention from the allegations about her misconduct.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/02/rep-omar-retweets-anti-semitic-brit-site-blaming-daniel-greenfield/

The right-wing extremist who killed ten people and wounded six in attacks on two late-night cafés in Hanau near Frankfurt played football for a youth team trained by Jürgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager, it has been claimed.

Police believe that Tobias Rathjen, 43, shot dead staff and customers in two shisha cafés before killing his 72-year-old mother and then taking his own life after having published an extremist manifesto online.

He had been a keen footballer and coached by Klopp at Eintracht Frankfurt, the Bundesliga club, Bild newspaper reported.

“A knee injury abruptly ended Tobias’s sporting career. That was a severe blow to him,” a friend of the killer told the paper.

A spokeswoman for the club said that Klopp had been a youth trainer,

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hanau-gunman-tobias-rathjen-played-football-for-a-youth-team-trained-by-juergen-klopp-xxnz7w9jv

A Belgian pensioner died on Thursday after being beaten into a coma by an Afghan asylum seeker three weeks ago.

Jos Haex, aged 73, died in a hospital bed after family members gave the order for the physicians to take him off of life-support after he was declared brain dead. The 73-year-old pensioner had spent three weeks in a coma before the decision was made to end his life, SCEPTR reports.

Three weeks ago, Haex was discovered lying unconscious on the ground after he went out for a stroll in the forest in Peer, Belgium. His attacker, the Afghan asylum seeker, was apprehended by police not far from where the 73-year-old man had been lying after haven been beaten to a pulp. Apparently just days before the brutal attack, the Afghan man had been released from a psychiatric hospital, despite having a severe psychiatric past.

After being discovered lying unconscious, the 73-year-old victim from Peer was rushed to the hospital, where he later fell into a coma and his life began slipping away.

“It has only gone downhill in recent weeks,” Haex’s son Patrick told Het Laatste Nieuws.

“My sister stayed with him every day and constantly watched. This morning he died around 7.30 am. We had already given up hope for a long time, but it is hard to believe that the time has come.”

The mourning family is dumbfounded by the fact that a man with such a severe psychiatric past could roam the streets of Peer freely and without any government oversight.

“If that man actually has psychiatric problems, why could he walk around freely? Are all asylum seekers screened for that? I think that is hardly possible in practice, but our dad has now fallen victim to it, ” Haex’s son Patrick said.

The Afghan murderer is set to appear in court on Friday. The asylum seeker’s personal attorney says that his client appears to be quite uninterested and apathetic about the entire situation.

voiceofeurope.com/2020/02/belgium-73-year-old-pensioner-dies-after-being-beaten-into-a-coma-by-afghan-migrant/

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has plummeted to record-low popularity ratings ahead of a regional election this weekend, amid growing speculation that she could be ousted within weeks. Angela Merkel could be toppled within weeks, after her CDU party sunk to record-low popularity levels. The poll rating came out ahead of a regional election this weekend in Hamburg. The all-time low poll performance suggests that the leadership crisis in Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrat Union is taking its toll on the party. 

CNBC’s Annette Weisbach explained: “This is a record low popularity for the CDU and Angela Merkel. It could pose a severe problem for the party itself.

“Traditionally Hamburg is a stronghold of the SPD but falling to record lows is not positive for Merkel.

“The question is whether Merkel has to resign early to make room for someone new.

“But the SPD won’t stick to a grand coalition without Merkel on board.”

The crisis looks set to help her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners and the Greens in the Sunday vote, where the CDU had fallen to just 12 percent support.

Campaigning in Germany’s second-biggest city was suspended after a far-right shooting on Wednesday night that left 11 people dead in the western town of Hanau.

Experts believe that Mrs Merkel’s CDU may face a backlash from voters over the chaos that has engulfed the party.

Mrs Merkel’s planned successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer plunged the CDU into disarray by deciding to stand down two weeks ago. 

This decision has sparked a leadership contest for the new CDU chairman. 

An increasing number of German politicians believe that Mrs Merkel should step aside so that the next chairman “won’t constantly be in her shadow” according to CNBC. 

However, there is no parliamentary majority for a replacement and many are concerned over instability.

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On the sidelines of his speech on Islamist “separatism” in Mulhouse, the president was photographed right next to a woman in violation of the law of 2010.

The contrast is striking. Traveling to Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) to discuss the theme of Islamist “separatism” – Macron’s way of defining ethnic communities – the French leader was photographed in a situation totally out of sync with the substance of his speech.

Indeed, while he was questioned by the press in the middle of a crowd in the middle of the street, the President of the Republic did not seem to notice that a Muslim woman, with her face entirely veiled, stood right next to him, in flagrant violation of the law of 2010 on the wearing of a religious Islamic veil.

It is a disastrous image for a head of state who nevertheless came to Mulhouse in order to reaffirm his will to fight political Islam. Worse still, the President of the Republic was being particularly lax by not acting against an legal offense.

Since 2010, legislation adopted under the mandate of Nicolas Sarkozy prohibits the concealment of a face in public spaces. “No one may, in public space, wear an outfit intended to conceal their face,” Article 1 notes. It is an offense punishable by a second class fine, which may be replaced or supplemented by a citizenship course.

This photo obviously quickly ignited social networks, and triggered the anger of many Internet users. Amine El-Khatmi, president of the Republican Spring, estimated that this image “will overshadow everything else”.

The essayist Céline Pina believes that an “executive determined to fight against Islamism is an executive who refuses this kind of provocation”. Pina added: “Otherwise there remains the weakness of words in the face of the shock of photos.”

For the LR deputy Guillaume Larrivé, this is “a sad summary, in pictures, of the resignation of the State in the face of Islamist conquest”.

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By Andrea Widburg

On Thursday, news broke that, at President Trump’s request, Richard Grenell, who is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, will become the acting Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”), with eventual confirmation in that position. This is great news because Grenell is intelligent, proactive, effective, and extremely pro-American. Leftists, however, are horrified not just because it shows that Trump is not a homophobe, but because a gay man openly sides with Trump’s constitutionally correct belief that he, not the Deep State, controls American foreign policy and national security goals.

In September 2017, Trump nominated Grenell to serve as his ambassador to Germany. Grenell was confirmed in April 2017, with Mike Pence swearing him in. One can only image Buttigieg’s horror that Pence simultaneously managed to retain his principled support for heterosexual marriage, while nevertheless working with, respecting, and treating with dignity those who do not conform to his views.

During his tenure in Germany, Grenell was rock solid in his support for the Trump administration. He gave German companies notice to cease doing business in Iran which was perceived as an insult, rather than taken as a friendly warning to get out before Trump reinstated the sanctions that have been decimating the Mullahs’ economy.

Grenell sent more shockwaves through the internationalist political class when he stated, “I absolutely want to empower other conservatives throughout Europe, other leaders.” The German establishment, which is doing its best to wipe out liberty-based conservativism from Europe, was outraged. Grenell further angered the German establishment when he called out its fake news, which routinely denigrates America and Americans.

One of the best things Grenell did was to insist that Merkel accept Jakiw Palij back into Germany. Palij had served as a Nazi guard in a labor camp and, when he was identified, Germany refused to take him back. Grenell changed that:

President Donald Trump, who grew up in the New York borough of Queens, where Palij has lived for nearly seven decades, instructed Richard Grenell, his ambassador to Germany, to make resolving the case a priority.

“I felt very strongly that the German government had a moral obligation and they accepted that,” Grenell said at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin on Tuesday.

Anyone who can make the Germans stop talking about their moral high ground and actually behave morally is a very good man.

Grenell also worked closely with Trump to pressure nations that make homosexuality illegal to reverse that policy. It’s no wonder that the left hates Grenell, for he reveals that the Democrat power structure doesn’t care about any particular victim group. It cares only about the political power it can obtain by manipulating groups it designates as victims. Nothing shows this fraud more than when someone says (a) I’m not a victim and (b) Trump is more helpful to the truly downtrodden.

With Grenell’s appointment to a domestic position as DNI, the left’s sweaty anxiety is escalating. New York Magazine’s Intelligencer calls his appointment downright “scary”.

And why is Grenell scary? Because he supports Trump’s belief that he has a constitutional right to run the government, a right that’s not vested in the permanent Democrat Deep State, that’s why.

Of course, that’s not how Heather Hurlburt sees it. National Intelligence is bigger than the president and the Constitution. It can only be handled safely by a left-leaning Deep State (emphasis added to highlight the most laughable language):

The president has made it clear, again and again, that he seeks to remake the national security infrastructure so that it does his bidding and promotes his ends. He does not recognize the idea —sacred to national security professionals — of a higher national interest to which even a president must subordinate her or himself. 

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Apparently the many Republican senators who created the director of National Intelligence position in order to have a senior, impartial leader enabling U.S. intelligence agencies to speak with one, non-politicized voice, also think it is fine to have a president who openly and repeatedly turns the tools of intelligence, law enforcement, and national security to his personal ends.

How dare President Trump appoint a conservative gay man to help him exercise his constitutional responsibility to run America’s foreign policy and national security?! Not only is this an insult to the permanent Deep State, it reminds everyone that Trump is no homophobe.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/trump_appoints_richard_grenell_acting_director_of_national_intelligence.html