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Far-right protests break out across France as tensions reach boiling point
www.express.co.uk ^ | UPDATED: 15:49, Mon, Nov 16, 2015 | By Selina Sykes

Posted on 11/16/2015 10:01:01 AM PST by Red Badger

CROWDS of extreme right-wing protesters have disturbed a solidarity march in France as news breaks that at least one of the terrorists responsible for the slaughters in Paris was a Syrian refugee.

A peaceful demonstration taking place in the centre of Lille, northern France, was interrupted by right-wingers appearing to belong to the Front National.

The unrest came as Front National leader Marine Le Pen declared French people “are no longer safe” and called for France to take back control of its borders.

Many people have taken to the streets across France today to show their solidarity with Paris despite the French government banning demonstrations from taking place for security reasons.

The protesters, armed with flares and with banners reading: “Throw out Islamists” pushed their way through the peaceful crowd and started chanting “Out the Muslims”.

Protesters hurled Islamophobic chants as police surrounded the tense scenes.

Demonstrators, taking part in the act of solidarity organised by Human Rights League, lashed back at the group of right-wingers, shouting: "Get out Fascists".

Banners of peaceful protesters read: “We are not afraid”, “Pray for Paris” and “Je suis Paris” in homage to the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo in January.

Mourning Parisians have laid flowers and candles at the six locations where the gruesome attacks took place.

Londoners also gathered in Trafalgar Square today in solidarity with the French capital.

Iconic landmarks across the world have lit up in the colours of the French flag as France comes to terms with the country’s worst ever terrorist attack.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; selinasykes
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To: PATRIOT1876

When you’re an “Anti-Fascist” everyone who disagrees with you is a “Fascist.”


41 posted on 11/16/2015 10:57:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: MNnice

* ‘extreme right-wing protesters’

In other words, thinking people who do what is logical. *

The Leftists spend their lives standing on their heads telling everyone else that they are upside down.


42 posted on 11/16/2015 10:57:58 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: 5thGenTexan
The word Islamaphobia is now obsolete. By definition, it refers to an “irrational fear”. The events in Paris show that fear is rational and well deserved.

I prefer "islamonausea," myself.

43 posted on 11/16/2015 10:59:01 AM PST by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: JimSEA
Sadly, I’m afraid that this sort of protest is necessary here. I had thought that nothing Obama could say could further deepen my hatred for Obama. I was wrong, his speech was stunning.

Calling all Freepers...

Anyone find a transcript of that speech? Or a video of it?

I accidentally caught the end of it and immediately changed channel. It was a mistake. That was a classic of either treason or insanity. Perhaps both.

44 posted on 11/16/2015 11:05:16 AM PST by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: dfwgator
Sadly, I’m afraid that this sort of protest is necessary here. I had thought that nothing Obama could say could further deepen my hatred for Obama. I was wrong, his speech was stunning.

And the irony is humorously, that if you asked 100 of those losers what the definition of "fascism" is NOT A SINGLE ONE WOULD SUPPLY THE ACCURATE ANSWER!

45 posted on 11/16/2015 11:13:49 AM PST by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: LS

The muzzie invaders better hope the strong man on the white horse doesn’t appear in Europe, usually when that happens continents and nations are destroyed rather than just cities and buildings.


46 posted on 11/16/2015 11:16:09 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Red Badger

the media,like labels for others; right-wing radicals, never a label for left-wing thugs


47 posted on 11/16/2015 11:19:55 AM PST by B212
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To: Red Badger

On April 9, 1609, King Philip III of Spain decreed the Expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish: Expulsión de los moriscos, Catalan: Expulsió dels moriscos). The Moriscos were the descendants of Spanish Muslim population that converted to Christianity under threat of exile or death from Ferdinand and Isabella in 1502. Fighting wars in the Americas, and feeling threatened by the Turks raiding along the North African coast, it seems the expulsions were a reaction to a perceived internal problem of the stretched Spanish Empire. [1]Between 1609 through 1614, the Crown systematically expelled the Moriscos through a number of expulsion orders in Spain’s various kingdoms, meeting varying levels of success. Although initial estimates of the number expelled such as those of Henri Lapeyre reach 300,000 moriscos (or 4% of the total Spanish population), the extent and severity of the expulsion in much of Spain has been increasingly challenged by modern historians.[2] Nevertheless, the eastern region of Valencia, where ethnic tensions were high, was particularly affected by the expulsion, suffering economic collapse and depopulation of much of its territory. Of those permanently expelled, the majority finally settled in the Maghreb or the Barbary coast.[3] Those who avoided expulsion or who managed to return were gradually absorbed by the dominant culture.[4] The last mass prosecution against Moriscos for crypto-Islamic practices took place in Granada in 1727, with most of those convicted receiving relatively light sentences. By the end of the 18th century, indigenous Islam and morisco identity is considered to have been extinguished in Spain.[5]


48 posted on 11/16/2015 11:23:30 AM PST by B212
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To: publius911
From dictionary.com

[fash-ist] noun
1.a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
2.a member of a fascist movement or party.
3.a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.

49 posted on 11/16/2015 11:31:47 AM PST by PLOM...NOT! (With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Yes, because it's so, well, extreme to want to preserve your culture and your country from Islamic savages and mental and genetic defectives.

Count me in.

50 posted on 11/16/2015 11:50:25 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Chants by people outraged by murder are considered hateful, but the murder of over a hundred people isn’t ...


51 posted on 11/16/2015 12:29:17 PM PST by tbw2
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