France

A mosque in the northern French region of Oise has been closed because of an imam’s radical sermons, said to have “defended jihad”.

The mosque in the town of Beauvais will remain shut for six months, local authorities say.

Oise’s prefect said sermons there called jihadist fighters “heroes” and incited hatred and violence.

France has been carrying out checks on Islamic places of worship suspected of having links to extremism.

Dozens of French academics have warned that freedom of expression is at risk after a German professor was suspended over a row with politics students.

Klaus Kinzler has been locked in dispute for months over accusations of Islamophobia at Sciences Po Grenoble.

In a case that has provoked allegations of left-wing cancel culture, the political studies institute has suspended him for “defamatory remarks”.

The institute is now set to lose local funding because of the row.

The father of the man who made the suicide vests used in the Paris attacks had no answers.

Driss Laachraoui told the court that he had watched, powerless, as his son lost interest in school and embarked on the tragic road that would lead from a local mosque to the Syrian war zone. Najim Laachraoui blew himself up in the suicide attack at Brussels airport in 2016.

The case of the Clain family was even more mysterious.

Only two of the three witnesses called on Thursday actually gave evidence. Both were associates of the Abdeslam brothers at their café in Brussels. Both spoke by videolink from the federal police building in the Belgian capital. Neither had much to say.

The first witness, identified as Rafik E. H., admitted that he had been a friend and business associate of Brahim Abdeslam.

“Brahim was a friend. We ran the café Les Béguines together. I knew the brother to say hello to, and the others, but I didn’t hang out with them. They were locals.

PARIS — France’s interior minister said on Tuesday he had launched a procedure to close a mosque for up to six months because of the radical nature of its imam’s preaching.

Gerald Darmanin told the Cnews TV channel he had “triggered” the process of shutting the mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Paris, because of “unacceptable” preaching.

This could never happen in Canada where Islam is miraculously pacified by our magic tree sap or it may have something to do with the fact authorities do not monitor mosques here. Hard to say.

… At the same time that Zemmour was in Armenia news emerged in France of an incident last Wednesday in Nanterre, just west of Paris. According to Le Figaro 30 Catholic worshippers were surrounded by a mob as they took part in a torchlight procession to celebrate the Immaculate Conception. Insults were hurled, the Catholics were reportedly told ‘this is Allah’s territory’ and there were threats to ‘slit your throats in the name of the Koran’.

Zemmour responded to the news with a tweet which warned that ‘Christians from the East to the West are in grave danger.’ There was also a declaration from the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in which he expressed his outrage, and with good reason. The most recent government figures revealed that in 2019 there were 1,052 incidents in France classified as anti-Christian, compared to 657 anti-Semitic and 154 anti-Muslim incidents.

You don’t read much about what is really happening in France in our media. Funny that.

“On the Koran I will cut your throat!” Here is the land of Allah! “: A Catholic procession attacked in Nanterre, the priest threatened with death, the faithful treated as” kouffars “

On the evening of Wednesday, December 8, around thirty faithful from the parish of Fontenelles, in Nanterre, were attacked by ten people during a torchlight procession organized in honor of the Virgin Mary, celebrated by all Catholics on the feast of the Immaculate Conception – and especially at Fontenelles, whose parish church is dedicated to her. During this heated altercation, insults and threats were uttered against the clergy and parishioners present, so that the organizers had to give up the stations planned along the route to regain the point of arrival more quickly. of the procession.

Update – a proper translation can be found here.

Importing Islam was such a great idea!

Note – Google Translate.

Zemmour does not want yesterday’s Algeria to be the France of tomorrow where Jews are kidnapped and tortured by the decolonized.

“With Eric Zemmour, France would have its first president of Algerian origin. He has the genealogy, the history but also the tics: Zemmour is of Homeric, Mediterranean, Arab, Jewish and French audacity. Zemmour is the French unconscious, the great occult substitute, the paradoxical decolonial reparation, the memory returned in disguise. The theatrical representation of the martyr.” So writes the Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud in Le Point.

In the analysis of the cyclone Eric Zemmour, the right-wing independent essayist candidate in the next presidential elections of 2022, no one has dwelled on what is perhaps the most important aspect of his history. He is called “fascist” and “racist”, forgetting that Zemmour’s is the story of an Algerian Jew.

French security services have prevented a planned stabbing spree in public places during the Christmas season. Two suspected Islamic State sympathizers, who hoped to knife holiday shoppers and die as martyrs, have been arrested.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed the arrest of two individuals on Wednesday by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), with a link to a report by the daily Le Parisien.

“The terrorist threat remains at a high level in France, we are not lowering our guard,” Darmanin said.