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French Muslims hold breath as France takes stock
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 23 Mar 2012 | Robert Marquand

Posted on 03/23/2012 12:35:40 AM PDT by Cronos

France's presidential campaign had already tilted anti-foreign, anti-Islam. Muslims worry about what will follow revelation that a Muslim was responsible for Jewish school shootings.

When French media flashed yesterday morning that a young Algerian Muslim holed up in his apartment had confessed to killing seven people, including three Jewish children earlier this week, French Muslims let out a collective cry: Oh no, this is not good.

Well before Mohammed Merah claimed responsibility for the string of killings in southern France that also left three French soldiers dead, Muslims in France were feeling under siege. The country is in the midst of a hard-fought presidential election campaign that careened in an anti-foreign, anti-Islam direction weeks before, highlighted by a concocted panic about “halal” meat – which meets Islamic requirements – that was used as code for French Muslims being vaguely un-French and problematic.

...“I called my wife and told her to prepare our luggage!” says Karim, an Algerian French resident who works at a Paris nongovernmental organization. He was only half-joking, he says. “This just opens the door to all xenophobic and racist themes. The Muslim community was already stigmatized, and now it may be more stigmatized.”

Muslims in France feel they are battling more openly stated negative images of their community. They say that in this year's election campaign, the center-right and far right have competed to use the "Islam card" to woo mainstream voters. Many Muslims feel the French media and elites completely misunderstand them, ..

...Ms. Le Pen, one of the toughest critics of immigration and Islam, who polls at 15 to 20 percent as a presidential candidate, fired a volley yesterday, castigating French officials for laxity

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; islam
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To: Cronos
Europe and the United States should send their Muslims back to their hell hole nations.

Islam is as much as a fascist ideology as it is a "religion." Muslims openly murder. The openly call for violence. The openly display naked treason.

Dispatch a few leaky boats back to Momomambamia. There, they can enjoy 3rd world status in nations where 99.99% of their fellow citizens are also Muslims....because every other belief system is outlawed.

It is high time the West fight back, and stop allowing the naked assault by Islam on its own shores.

21 posted on 03/23/2012 3:35:28 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Cronos; Fred Nerks

French Muslims let out a collective cry: Oh no, this is not good.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The TRUTH about Islam is NEVER good for them. They work to establish their lies, and unfortunately most modern liberal idiots allow it. That is not a problem most conservatives have.

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http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3612

Mohammed Merah, the confessed murderer of three children and a rabbi at a Toulouse Jewish school this week, was not a lone wolf, and on Wednesday the testimonies poured in about his involvement with a Salafi (extreme strand of Sunni Islam) group named Forsane al-Izza (FA).

The “Knights of Pride”- as the group’s name means in English - was founded in France about a year ago and was outlawed at the beginning of 2012. Up until it was outlawed, the group’s main function was to keep French security forces out of neighborhoods with a Muslim majority. The group expressed its opposition to French democracy, striving to create a Islamic Caliphate in its place. Forsane al-Izza’s leader and spokesman, Mohamed Achamlane, is of Algerian descent.

Forsane al-Izza worked against a French law which banned the wearing of hijabs (a veil worn by Muslim women in public), even provocatively calling on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, to wear a hijab herself.

Meanwhile, the group has also posted videos on the Internet showing it was training for a future clash with French authorities. The “Knights” have also organized protest rallies in which they have called supporters “to fight against Sarkozy’s Jewish-Zionist government.”

Arab media has reported that while the group indeed mainly operates in France, it also had branches in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where its members have undergone training in al-Qaida camps.

The group’s website was shut down on Wednesday and the site’s homepage read: “Due to great pressures brought upon us, we have dismantled the Forsane al-Izza movement.”

Prior to the final announcement, their website carried a message saying “There is nothing but Islam. All Muslims must return to the ways of the original Islam, as it was thousands of years ago” – which is the main tenet at the core of Salafism.


22 posted on 03/23/2012 3:35:36 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info.. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Realman30

yup you did. The Moslems are the victims. The little kids were killed just to make islam look bad... /sarc


23 posted on 03/23/2012 3:39:35 AM PDT by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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To: Ronin

“butcher sheep in their bathtubs”.
Use to live in the San Fernando Valley in an apartment building with several moosies from Iran.
And yes, they did butcher sheep in their living room and made a bonfire and cooked it right there.
Real swell fellows that would oogle the ladies in the pool.


24 posted on 03/23/2012 4:08:34 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: Joshua Marcus

ya well until Jesus does do something, how many more innocence will suffer before men with some balls step in and get rid of the problem??


25 posted on 03/23/2012 4:14:05 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Cronos

Every country in the world should be waking up.

The place for Muslims is back where they came from.

They do not wish to belong in ohter countries, they wish to take over those countries.

No country needs people like that.


26 posted on 03/23/2012 4:17:35 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Joe Boucher

“And yes, they did butcher sheep in their living room and made a bonfire and cooked it right there.”

I’ve heard they do this in Jersey City as well.


27 posted on 03/23/2012 4:21:56 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: svxdave

“France is full of people like this and it is only a matter of time before the French People pay heavily for their lack of attention to who comes and goes into their country.”

Until the French want to resume breeding, they’ll have to settle for whoever will populate their country; here in the US we have the same dilemna, and import Latinos and Asians to fill out empty houses/apartments, elementary schools, etc.


28 posted on 03/23/2012 4:23:43 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Cronos

Rabid dogs need killing.


29 posted on 03/23/2012 4:26:21 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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To: Joshua Marcus

Praise the Lord..........
AND pass the ammunition...LOTS OF IT!!!!!!

Make mine 7.62 X 51.


30 posted on 03/23/2012 4:27:01 AM PDT by Flintlock (Photo ID for ALL voting. Let our dead rest in peace!)
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To: Cronos

France needs another Charles Martel aka Charles the Hammer


31 posted on 03/23/2012 4:45:35 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL!!!!!


32 posted on 03/23/2012 4:46:41 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Cronos

Mark Steyn had a brilliant piece on this kind of thing yesterday...and this is stage 4.


33 posted on 03/23/2012 5:07:13 AM PDT by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
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To: Cronos

Poor babies are feeling “stigmatized.” Cry me a river.

Nice to see you posting, Cronos. I haven’t seen you lately and always enjoy your posts.


34 posted on 03/23/2012 5:27:57 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Cronos
What's not to love?


35 posted on 03/23/2012 5:41:40 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kearnyirish2

Also their gubmint would pay them to go to school, pay for the schooling and then pay to clean and repair the mess they left behind.


36 posted on 03/23/2012 6:15:47 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: Cronos

Like I give a big fat hairy smelly Mohammed Obama about their problems.

“They” always have the option of leaving France (quite a great place, really....despite some Frenchmen) and returning to their dens of the past. And the sooner the better.


37 posted on 03/23/2012 6:35:57 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Cronos

I think the muzzies are wearing out their welcome in France - the French know what time it is and they don’t have a muslim president and even if they did they would know what’s up.


38 posted on 03/23/2012 6:41:43 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: SkyPilot

Asses up for islam.


39 posted on 03/23/2012 6:41:52 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Venturer

Mostly, they come from within. I have no animosity towards Arab Christians etc. - the problem is the religion.


40 posted on 03/23/2012 6:59:42 AM PDT by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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