Posted on 04/25/2006 1:31:57 AM PDT by rmlew
IN PARIS
A FAR-right French politician launched his 2007 presidential campaign yesterday by declaring Islam incompatible with France's secular values.
Philippe de Villiers, head of the anti-immigrant Movement for France (MPF) party, also charged that Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport was endangered by Islamist radicals, who he claimed had infiltrated the ground staff.
Mr Villiers has stirred up controversy in recent weeks with increasingly tough statements about Muslims, which critics call racist and officials describe as exaggerated. France's five million Muslims make up the largest such minority in Europe.
"I am the only politician who tells the French the truth about the Islamisation of France," he said in a Europe 1 radio interview, kicking off his campaign for the election next year.
On Thursday, he plans to publish a book entitled The Mosques of Roissy detailing his charges about radicals at the airport. His main rival on the far-right, the National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, has also stepped up his preparations for the 2007 vote.
The daily Le Parisien, in an extensive report on Sunday on Mr Villiers' charges about Islamist radicals at the airport, quoted officials saying that the problem was minimal and suspicious workers were kept under surveillance.
The interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the justice minister, Dominique Perben, toured the airport on Thursday and said only 122 of about 83,000 ground staff were being watched.
"There aren't 122, there are hundreds," said Mr Villiers, quoting what he said were secret police reports, which he used as the basis for his book. He challenged Mr Sarkozy to publish them.
According to a survey to be published by Le Parisien today, Mr Villiers trails the veteran far-right leader Mr Le Pen, with 4 per cent support against his rival's 14 per cent.
Mr Villiers said Islam was incompatible with the country's democratic system because he said it demanded loyalty to the ummah (world Muslim community) over individual states, wanted to impose sharia Islamic law and promoted jihad, or holy war. "I think there are moderate Muslims, they are even the large majority, but I do not believe there is a moderate Islam," he said.
Saying France had to fight what he called Islamisation, he said Paris should stop mosque construction, impose a citizen's charter demanding the strict separation of religion and state, freedom to change religions and demand respect for the equality of men and women. It should also ban all Islamist organisations suspected of links to terrorism and expel any persons threatening the security of the French population.
Asked for a comment on Mr Villiers's book, the head of the French Muslim Council, Dalil Boubakeur, told the weekly Le Point: "I don't share his vision of French Islam at all."
This article: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=611732006
From AFP: FURORE OVER CLAIMS THAT PARIS AIRPORT INFILTRATED BY ISLAMIC MILITANTS
Ping
Sorry, M. Villiers - too little, too late.
French Ping
Good grief! Surely they should just sack these people.
Hope they didn't miss the afternoon prayer call. Risky business there in France...
It's France. You can't sack anyone.
de Villiers/Sarkozy 2008!
"I think there are moderate Muslims, they are even the large majority, but I do not believe there is a moderate Islam,"
Worth saying again.
Said another way:
The only good Muslim, is a bad Muslim.
Death rattle.
Ping for later
I thought the boogey man of the left is anything that smacks of Judeo-Christianity?
Europe seems bound for another bout with Facism; only the most radical will be heard. Anyone else just gets drowned in mush.
True enough, but will all those with "politically correct ears".....even hear him, let alone actually listen.
"As we have seen the Euro's have an inclination towards fascism. I felt this would start about a year ago, but I don't know whether they have been scholastically neutered."
I was talking to a guy from Sri Lanka the other day about the possibility of a Hillary/Condi election and I asked him if Sri Lanka had women presidents and he said yes. I wondered if it was because they are less patriarchical and he said no, that women here had much more freedom. He explained it as when there is oppression here (he had one hand pretending to press down), it rises there (with the other hand rising). I think in Europe speech and thought is opporessed and the result might be another Facist explosion.
Talk is cheap. Europe needs another Charles "The Hammer" Martel.
It is no where too little to late, at this moment in time the Muslim population is only about 9% of the total population.
Its one thing to give in when you have run out of ammo and there is a bayonet at your throat.
LOL but you want to throw in the towel before they have even created a viable bridgehead where you still control all the heavy guns and outnumber the other side.
Don't be to smug so does America.
I have seen comments on this very web side where freepers have wanted a more authoritarian government to deal with present problems real or perceived.
But that's exactly what I'm saying. America has outlets for this that are being oppressed in Europe, even if willfully by Europeans. It seems to me a much more intolerant society.
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