Posted on 11/24/2016 12:30:57 PM PST by SJackson
Francois Fillon, a leading contender in the upcoming French presidential election, suggested Jews do not respect French law.
Fillon, a former prime minister who this week won the first round of the presidential primary in France’s center-right Republicans party, made the assertion during an interview Wednesday with Europe1 radio, in which he cited Jews as proof that Muslims may become better integrated.
“I think that sectarianism is increasing today within the Muslim community and that the sectarianists are taking that community hostage,” said Fillon.
“We need to combat this sectarianism and we need to do it as we have in the past,” Fillon continued. “We fought against a form of Catholic sectarianism or like we fought the desire of Jews to live in a community that does not respect the laws of the French Republic.”
Fillon did not elaborate on when he believed French Jews did not wish to respect the law.
Fillon, who knocked out former President Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of voting on Monday, will face off against another former prime minister, Alain Juppe, in the second round of primaries next week. The first round of the general election is scheduled for April, 2017.
CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jews, addressed Fillon’s comments indirectly on the group’s Twitter account.
“The law of the land is the law – a Talmudic saying which requires Jews since antiquity to respect the laws of the land where they live,” the group tweeted shortly after the airing of the interview.
The winner of the second round of the Republicans primary is widely believed to be in a favorable position to win the French presidency. The Republicans is the new name of the center-right UMP party of former presidents Sarkozy and Jaques Chirac.
Polls predict that President Francois Hollande, a Socialist, will receive 18 percent of the vote — seven to eight percent less than Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party.
This statement will make Le Pen look even better, despite her father.
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How's fighting Muslim sectarianism going for France?
Do French politicians always go off the rails when they have a chance to win an election?
The French state is an extremely secular state and after the French revolution there was reluctance by religious communities, of course also the Jewish, to be placed under state regulations.
Napoleon also desired for the Jews to completely assimilate, while many Jews wanted to retain their distinctiveness and costums.
A rabbinical gremium had to assure Napoleon that the Jewish community would be in conformity with French laws in order to get equal rights.
Fillon is referring to this... I detect no antisemitism here. Who is going to deny that many religious Jews were and are vehemently rejecting assimilation? See for example the attitude of many Haredi Jews towards the Israeli state.
Coming soon to a theater near you...Goodbye Paris, Hello Paristan.
Who knows, odd comment given that he's referencing actions almost two centuries ago. And what about Catholics. France is a predominately Catholic country, how was it difficult to assimilate Catholics. Probably close to 100% of the country then. Up in the 80 percentiles now.
Maybe Culturally Catholic, at best.
Le Pen Says as French President She Would Ban All Religious Symbols, Including Kippot
Le Pen is seeking to broaden an existing law, called the headscarf ban, that does not allow conspicuous displays of religious symbols in public schools to include all public areas.She called the ban a struggle against radical Islam, but added that Jewish and Christian symbols would have to be included in the ban in the name of equality and the “national interest.”
I understand his reference to Catholics to be in the same vein as I explained above.
There was historically a great (and often bloody) conflict between religious Catholics (often also Bourbon royalists) and the secular/anti-clerical French Republic.
See the Vendee rebellion.
Gremium!
When a person makes a general claim, but refuses to cite specific examples to back up their claim, that suggests that their general claim is false.
Yes , I also took it that he was putting himself on the wrong side of the Vendee persecution.
Le Pen is looking good.
There’s a German 1% outlaw biker gang called Gremium, too.
Maybe the fear was that the French law would go Sharia? But they didn’t want to actually say so.
Can start with napalm and TNT.
To settle the problem with the Moslem jihadis France should expel the Jews?
And they call Le Pen and anti-Semite?
Haha. I am reading German history books currently and had this (Latin) word on my mind.
The proper English word would be committee, commission or panel.
Claiming that the Jews will not follow a country's laws or form a 5th column with the country's enemies is as old as the exodus from Egypt.
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.
I certainly hope that France regards this loser with the extreme scorn which he deserves.
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