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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Hollande Looks To Obama
According to Yves Daoudal, in his weekly newsletter #157, Socialist candidate François Hollande is following the example of Barack Obama:
François Hollande is a candidate for the French presidency. But for his campaign he wants the best, and the best is American. He went to the United States to get the team that conducted Obama's campaign online: Blue State Digital.
In the Hollande campaign headquarters, these days, they only speak American. There is Matt Ipcar, the man who conceived Obama's campaign site and that of the White House, Joe Rospars, the man who was at the commands of the campaign, Ryan Davis who took care of social networks, Sam Jeffers, strategy director of Blue State, and Steve Jacobs, one of the managers of Blue State, no less.
In 2009, everyone laughed when Ségolène Royal declared that Obama's team had copied her. In fact, Mme Royal's online campaign had been studied in America as an example… of what not to do.
Be that as it may, now it is her ex-partner François Hollande, who is copying (openly, that is) Obama's campaign. The only difference being that Obama had 300 million dollars to spend, and Hollande has two million euros.
Below, a photo that caused a lot of conversation on the web. When he was about to sign a charter from the Abbé Pierre Foundation on the need for better housing, François Hollande was attacked by a woman who surged from behind and emptied a sack of flour on him. She was immediately caught by the candidate's protective service, but the incident caused concern among security police who insist that a candidate on a podium should be safe from such attacks. In its way, it is a beautiful but eerie photograph, with the ghost-like face of the woman appearing in a cloud of sulfuric smoke. The candidate at first continued to sign the document, but then went in the back to clean up. He returned to finish the signing. Photo (and others) from Le Parisien.
Two contributors to Riposte Laïque, the website devoted to the defense of the law on separation of Church and State, a law that has been violated many times in multiple ways by a succession of French leaders, have been tried by a French court on charges of discrimination against a group (ethnic, racial, religious). The final verdict will be delivered on March 23. The two writers risk a suspended sentence of two and three months, and a hefty fine of 150,000 euros.
A reminder that the contributors to this website are, for the most part, leftists, Socialists, feminists and anti-clerics who began to see the light regarding Islam, immigration, and freedom of speech. They perceived also the level of collaboration of the Socialist Party in the gradual dilution of French identity through what has come to be known as "population substitution."They truly seem to have experienced an epiphany.
The legal action against Pierre Cassen and Pascal Hilout is a result of accusations of discrimination by several anti-racist organizations: the LDH (Human Rights League), MRAP (Movement against Racism and for Friendship among Peoples), and LICRA (International League against Racism and Antisemitism). These accusations are based on two articles, one by Pierre Cassen, one by Pascal Hilout, that express deep concern over the Islamization of France. The two articles go back to April and October 2010. The first, entitled "France is in a state of civil war, it's a fact…" reviews just a few of the numerous crimes and acts of urban violence that have plagued France since the massive immigration started and points to the indifference and/or collaboration of the authorities entrusted with the security of the country. The second article, by Pascal Hilout, an Algerian-born Muslim apostate, entitled "Can we defeat the Islamist offensive by democratic means alone?" suggests that democratic processes, while helpful at times, are not enough to stop the spread of Islam, noting the increase of veiled women, the wide-spread necessity to eat halal food since nothing else is available and often French people are even afraid to buy pork. The article also discusses the flaws within the Front National but concludes that the FN is not the enemy, Islam is. Pascal Hilout concludes his article by saying that democracy may have to be violated to some extent in order to save freedom.
A blow-by-blow description of the trial by Caroline Alamachère reveals that the witnesses for the prosecution were poorly prepared, expressed themselves unconvincingly and seemed eager to get it over with, while the accused, Pierre Cassen and Pascal Hilout, presented well-thought-out, honest and persuasive arguments that even at times seemed to please the presiding judge. One of the witnesses for Riposte Laïque was none other than Oscar Freysinger, from Switzerland.
Alamachère's account is quite long. Here are just a few excerpts. First the interrogation of Pierre Cassen (photo):
The judge asked him of whom he spoke when he mentioned physical attacks in his article, and became irritated when Pierre answered that he was speaking of criminals of sub-Saharan origin and others. It was not enough for the judge who insisted on knowing precisely who they were. (…) Pierre brought up the pressures from ethnic groups, the halal merchants who were replacing traditional shop owners, the treasurer of the mosque of Roubaix who declared that sharia and the practice of stoning would be followed as soon as there were enough Muslims in France. He then quoted Erdogan who spoke of democracy as a bus you take and get off as soon as you have arrived, he spoke of France being threatened, of his refusal to see his children and grandchildren grow up in a neighborhood they will be minorities, and he said he refused to "sweep the dust under the rug." The judge asked him then if one can be French and Muslim. Pierre responded yes, if you respect the country.
The testimony of Pascal Hilout (photo) is very unusual. He brings up ideas that are rarely mentioned. Here is what Alamachère reports:
On the witness stand Pascal spoke about his childhood in Taza, his enrollment in a Koranic school then in a "modern" school under the French protectorate at the request of his grandmother who had to wear the veil under pressure. He told of his awakening, his arrival in France and his confrontation with Islam that he thought was behind him. He recalled that the first ones to demonstrate against Salman Rushdie were not Iranians but Muslims from Great Britain and he stated that for him Islam is equal to Islamism.
He spoke of his Muslim given name (Pascal Hilout was born "Mohammed"), this tattoo that you keep for your life, which prompted the judge to respond that he had nonetheless changed his first name, to which Pascal replied that he did it out of a desire to assimilate into a country he loved and out of a refusal to be called Mohammed which no longer meant anything to him. Pascal then spoke of his "atavism" and his libido that engenders in him a desire for conquest, of the religion that is present "even to the end of his penis" (the word used in French is "zizi", a term used by children), of the markings by a religion as one brands cattle. Prosecuting attorney Tubiana made gestures of disapproval and asked him tricky questions, but Pascal never fell into any of the traps set for him.
Note: He is saying that he is permanently marked physically and psychically by his early life as a Muslim. That he even has the blood of a conqueror because of his Islamic heritage.
Regarding the witnesses for the prosecution they were, according to this report, pathetic:
Then began the testimony of the prosecutors' witnesses. First, Jean Bauberot, a sociologist specializing in "laïcité" who made the usual parallel between Islamophobia and antisemitism and who said that the Muslim prayers in the street were "small annoyances" that were overblown to create tension. His remarks were confusing, he lacked confidence, and he hesitated.
Note: Bauberot probably had to be careful of what he said, since he was a member of the Stasi commission set up in July 2003 under Jacques Chirac, for the purpose of studying how to reconcile Islam with the 1905 French law on separation of Church and State, called "laïcité", although he abstained from the final vote on the commission's report.
For those interested, English Wikipedia has more on the Stasi Commission.
French readers can consult French Wikipedia for more information on Bauberot.
Then came Christine Delphy, a pro-veil feminist activist, a little grey-haired lady with an innocent face. She claimed that Muslims are necessarily secular when they live in a secular country. OK, let's see. If you put a chihuahua inside a fish tank, he becomes a fish. Obviously!
And so it went for nine hours.
At top, a typical RL cartoon showing the three anti-racist organizations LDH, MRAP, and LICRA shouting "Islamophobia is racism. Death to Riposte Laïque."
She went to a ball in Vienna and look at what happened. The following video was produced by the left-leaning journal L'Express.
Here is the text of the video. The background music is by Tchaikovsky. I'll never know why they didn't choose Wagner.
Marine Le Pen waltzes in Vienna with neonazis.
This Friday evening, Martin Graf took Marine Le Pen waltzing at the traditional ball of these corporations, a reception closed to the press where, every year, holocaust deniers are applauded.
Note: By "corporation" the author seems to mean "neonazi organizations".
Martin Graf is an ideologue, the leader of the toughest wing of the Austrian extreme-right. He is a member of Olympia, a "Burschenschaft", a secret organization banned to Jews and women whose members have as their duty to transmit in society, through covert means, neonazi, pan-germanic, antisemitic and negationist ideas. In the basements of the wealthy neighborhoods of Vienna they practice dueling with swords and they recognize each other by the scar they proudly exhibit on one cheek.
Between 3000 and 5000 demonstrators were gathered in front of the doors of the building to denounce the ball of the neonazis. And Marine Le Pen dined with the head of the neonazi FPO party, Heinz-Christian Strache.
Actor Hubsi Kramar, who was not invited, had arrived at a previous Vienna ball in a limousine, disguised as Adolf Hitler, denouncing this ball that, even today, serves the unity of neonazis in Europe.
Thank you Hubsi, and shame on Marine Le Pen.
The video switches to Hubsi Kramar, dressed as Hitler, arriving at the Vienna ball.
The last several minutes show a still of Marine Le Pen.
For some basic information on Martin Graf, see Wikipedia.
Below, taken from the Wikipedia article on Heinz-Christian Strache, are some of Strache's campaign slogans:
Wien darf nicht Istanbul werden (Vienna must not become Istanbul). A variation on an FPÖ slogan from the Haider era: Wien darf nicht Chicago werden. Vienna has a significant Turkish minority, the FPÖ is opposed to Turkish EU membership and it refers to the defeat of the Ottoman empire in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, a symbolic historic victory of the West over Islam.
Daham statt Islam ("at home" [i.e., folks who are native to Austria], not Islam)
Deutsch statt "nix verstehen" (German, not "no understand")
Pummerin statt Muezzin (Pummerin, not muezzin). Pummerin is the main bell in St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna, and so a religious Christian symbol in Vienna.
Heimat im Herzen (homeland at heart)
Arbeit statt Zuwanderung (jobs, not immigration)
The Union des Français Juifs (Union of Jewish Frenchmen) has come to the defense of Heinz-Christian Strache. In a communiqué posted at Nations-Presse, Jacques Rosen explains why being associated with Strache is not equivalent to being a neonazi:
(…) Mr. Strache is the leader of the FPO (Freedom Party, an Austrian party now credited in polls with 28% of the votes). In the politically correct press, the FPO is systematically presented as a party of the extreme-right, and in certain leftist publications, Mr. Strache is squarely depicted as a neonazi.
It is time to set the record straight and to persevere in unmasking the liars:
1. We obtained the official program of the FPO. In Chapter 2, page 5, Judaism is explicitly mentioned as being part of the Austrian and European identity.
2. Heinz-Christian Strache went to Israel in December 2010, at the invitation of several politicians, including Ayoub Kara, Likoud vice-minister of the development of the Negev and of Galilee.
3. During this official visit, Mr. Strache also visited the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem.
4. During his return visit to Vienna, Mr. Kara declared: "I am happy to be here by the side of my friend H.C. Strache."
5. Following these visits, Israeli rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander declared: "The members of the right-wing parties who came to Israel and met Mr. Kara, including Mr. Strache, whom Mr. Kara visited in Austria, have declared and have given reasons to believe that they are not antisemitic…"
So who do they think they're kidding?
Since when does the extreme-right recognize Judaism as an integral part of European national identities, and since when do neonazis meditate at Yad Vashem? Do words still have any meaning to those who would try to teach lessons in bien-pensance? They scream antisemitism when it suits them, and they are careful not to look at the real antisemitism in our country - that of radical Islamists.
(…)
Another communiqué from the Union des Français Juifs, dated January 29, two days after the ball, also attempts to clarify the situation and provides some unusual historical facts:
(…) This ball takes place every year in a Viennese palace, the Hofburg, where the seat of the Austrian presidency is also located.
To see in this ball a neonazi gathering is an insult to Viennese students. If SOS Racism and the UEJF (Union of Jewish Students of France, a leftist group) know nothing about fraternities - student associations that exist in the United States and in certain European countries, but not in France - this does not give them the right to defame them.
Note: SOS Racism and the UEJF were among those who denounced Marine Le Pen's presence at the ball, saying it was for "those who still dream of the Third Reich."
These associations are for the most part apolitical, they function democratically, and they are not secret. Theodor Herzl, Heinrich Heine, and even Karl Marx belonged to them.
In response to allegations that the ball was deliberately held on a date that remembered the Holocaust, the author explains that this ball is always given on the last Friday of January. This year it happened to coincide with the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. This, he says, was sheer coincidence, and at any rate the commemoration date in Israel is different.
It happened that Swedish deputy Kent Ekroth and Austrian deputy David Lazar of the FPO, both Jewish, were also present a this ball. "A disgusting ball for those who still dream of the Third Reich." Really?
Below, Marine in Perpignan on Sunday (January 29), where she had a highly successful visit and spoke before an audience of two thousand. She also rendered homage to the "Harkis", Algerians who fought on the side of France during the Algerian War.Despite the Vienna ball, she seems to be on a roll, and gaining momentum.
This nine-minute video, hosted by Christine Tasin, appears at Riposte Laïque. It is a warning about the proposed plan to criminalize on a world-wide basis any criticism of Islam or sharia. The video is in sections, with text or commentary from Christine in French. There is also an English-language segment. Throughout part of the video you will hear in the background the air "Va, Pensiero" from the opera Nabucco by Verdi. This beloved song is sung in the opera by the Hebrew slaves in Babylon as they long for their homeland.
I have put in italics those passages that appear as text in the video, and I have divided my translation into thirteen sections for convenience.Several sections are adaptations or condensations of the original.
1 - Christine Tasin:The European countries have agreed to host, in July, the next meeting of the Istanbul Process, the project to criminalize any criticism of Islam. The place and date are not yet known.But the news is troubling.
2 - (Written text)"The Istanbul Process is directed by the OCI (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), headquartered in Saudi Arabia, an intergovernmental organization created on September 25, 1969 under the name of Organization of the Islamic Conference. It groups together fifty-seven member States and possesses a permanent delegation to the U.N. It changed its name on June 28, 2011 and is the only international organization on a supra-national level that is religious in nature."
3 - Christine Tasin's voice is heard over the Riposte Laïque banner featuring an article by Bernard Dick entitled The OCI Exerts Pressure to Turn Defamation of a Religion into a Crime.
Christine Tasin:The goal of the Istanbul Process is to write into international law a ban of all criticism of Islam and sharia.
The OCI has already had a vote in this direction, referring to the notorious 16/18 resolution of the United Nations Council on Human Rights that calls on all countries to fight against the stigmatization of religions. In order for this resolution to be implemented the Western nations have to follow it. Until now this has not been the case. Yet two important steps have been taken. First Washington hosted in December 2011 a meeting of the Istanbul Process. Agreeing to host this meeting means agreeing to the idea that Islamophobia should be suppressed. It means legitimizing the OCI and its fight against freedom of speech. It means agreeing that blasphemy should again be made a crime
4 - (Written text)"To know more about the OCI, the Istanbul Process and what the U.S.A. and Brussels are devising. A world worse than 1984. The disappearance, pure and simple, of freedom of speech, and religion imposed on everybody. Will they succeed in turning us into silent trembling slaves?"
5 - (Written text by Bernard Dick) "To say that jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings while encouraging violence in order to impose the supremacy of Islam and sharia is liable to become a crime. The complicity of the United States and Western governments on this question is a betrayal of our values and a submission to political Islam, a submission to moneyed Islamic organizations."
6 - (Written text translated from the Arabic by Bernard Dick)"In the course of the months to come, the American capital, Washington, will host a coordinating committee to discuss with the OCI the modalities of application of the 16/18 decision on the defamation of religions, the ban on stereotyped images of religions and their followers, as well as the spread of religious tolerance, which was adopted last March by the Human Rights Council (of the United Nations) with the approval of the Western nations. This resolution had been adopted after long discussions between the OIC and the countries where the phenomenon of Islamophobia is known."
7 - (Written text translated from the Arabic by Bernard Dick)"The same sources say that the next meetings have as their goal to provide a legal basis for the decision of the Council on Human Rights of the United Nations and to allow those States affected by this problem to legislate, and even more: to enact international laws that would prevent inciting to hatred resulting from defamation of religions."
8 - Christine Tasin:We have no illusions about Obama who has defended Islam.
(Written text)"Obama has made Islam a religion of the United States"
(Written text from Obama's Cairo speech, 2009) "In the same way, it is important that Western countries avoid preventing Muslims from practicing their religion as they wish, for example, by dictating what Muslim women must wear. In a word, we cannot disguise hostility toward religion under the cover of liberalism."
(Written text)"Obama: 'The United States Will Never Be At War with Islam'
The American president gave a speech in Cairo in the form of a reconciliation with the Muslim world. He gave his support to the creation of a Palestinian State and asked that Israeli colonization cease."
9 - This part is in English. Republican Congressman Dan Lungren questions Paul N. Stockton, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Defense. Notice that besides arguing about Islam they each have a different pronunciation for al-Qaeda.
10 - Christine Tasin points out the importance of the United States that serves as a model for other countries.
(Written text, Obama's speech)"Well-versed in history, I know too the debt that civilization owes to Islam. And all through history, Islam has proved, in words and in deeds, the possibilities of religious tolerance and of racial equality." (Applause) "I know too that Islam has always been a part of American History."
11 - Christine Tasin:We know the litany of oppressive measures, torture and intimidation endured by those in Islamic countries who contravene the Islamic laws: death sentences, stoning, amputation, flagellation are the lot of hundreds of people every day. The United States has no problem with this, the United States is doing all it can to make Islamic law world law. We know the lot of women in Islamic countries and the hell they live in from childhood. What are our elite doing that they are willing to host such a conference? We cannot, we must not allow this to happen. We must protest, we must rise up, we must say to all our representatives, all our deputies that we do not want this. There must be a movement that rises up against this abomination.
12 - The French flag is the backdrop for a pop-style patriotic song:
"People of France, the time has come for you to break the silence and have your voice heard, People of France do not resign yourselves, Resist the enemy of your laws."
13 - Christine Tasin:We have no illusions. The European Commission, like Obama, works secretly to prevent us from criticizing Islam. Proof? The Commission has created a network to sensitize people about the radical reaction following the massacre in Norway. I quote Le Monde, 09/09/2011, regarding the killer Anders Breivik:
"We are afraid (…) that his act becomes, in the future, a source of inspiration for other extremists, because the ideas of groups hostile to Islam have spread considerably since 2001. 'They dispose of a vast potential for recruitment, superior to that of the neo-nazis obsessed with the Jewish question. They benefit from a feeling of skepticism with regard to Muslims that is widespread in our societies,' he explained."
Christine Tasin:We cannot say that we didn't know. It is urgent to get out of the European Union. And it is urgent that the ruling elite change their national and international policies.Vive la République! Vive la France!
There is an English-language article on this topic at the New York Post.
On January 20 Yves Daoudal posted this item at his website:
For the second time in a few weeks, French soldiers have been killed by soldiers of the Afghan army whom they were training…
Sarkozy is angry: "If security conditions are not clearly established, the question of an early withdrawal of the French army arises."
I don't really see what is meant by security conditions for soldiers in a country at war… and you had to be uncommonly naïve not to predict that the Taliban would join the Afghan army in order to take advantage of French military instruction…
Sarkozy's remarks are no doubt a way of admitting that it is not our war, and of announcing the return of French soldiers without admitting defeat...
Yesterday (Saturday) I received an e-mail from Diana West, with a link to an article at her blog announcing the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan. She links also to an article in the Peninsula Clarion describing the angry reaction of Afghan MP Tahira Mujadedi. Here are excerpts:
Mujadedi argued that Afghan forces in Kapisa are not ready to go it alone in fighting the Taliban insurgency, which is especially strong in several of the province's districts. She warned that if NATO forces pull back from Kapisa, it could also destabilize nearby Kabul, the Afghan capital.
"We have had so many attacks, ambushes and also suicide attacks in Kapisa," Mujadedi said. "Unfortunately, our national police and army, while present in Kapisa, are unable to provide good security for people." (…)
"When military forces are present in a war zone, anything can happen," she said. The French troops "are not here for a holiday," she added.
But the killing of the unarmed French troops by a Afghan soldier whom they were training has deepened discontent with the Afghan war in France, where Sarkozy is facing a tough election this year. France has about 3,600 troops in the international force, which is mostly made up of American troops.
When you visit Diana West's blog (linked above), browse through the many articles she has written on Afghanistan. Like Yves Daoudal, she has kept a chronicle of our failures, cover-ups, and losses in this apparently futile war. Diana is a nationally syndicated columnist, and one of the few true conservative writers to break through the barriers erected by liberal journalism and reach a public normally deprived of enlightened viewpoints.
The photo below shows Hamid Karzai at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris on January 27. According to the military website FNCV:
Karzai and Nicolas Sarkozy signed a bilateral agreement of friendship and cooperation that details the civil and military aid from France to Afghanistan. The meeting between the two heads of State, scheduled long ago, took place in a special atmosphere, after the deaths of four French soldiers (…)
According to the initial withdrawal plan, six hundred French soldiers were to return home in 2012. But, in fact, one thousand will return. Beginning in March, the security of Kapisa Valley - for the moment in the hands of the French - will be the responsibility of the Afghan army. And that was not in the initial plan. For now, President Sarkozy insists it has nothing to do with the deaths of four French soldiers on January 20.
For Sarkozy it will be a "gradual" withdrawal that will also mean the end of combat missions for French troops in 2013. The troops will then be moved into positions as trainers for the army and the Afghan police.
Yves Daoudal has also chronicled the casualties and military decisions in Afghanistan. Like many Frenchmen he feels that it is not France's war. In March 2009, he quoted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Afghanistan:
"We are not going to win this war merely by staying there. Quite frankly, we will never succeed in defeating the insurrection. In my opinion, Afghanistan has always had in its history an insurrection of one form or another. So what we need in Afghanistan is a government that is capable of managing this insurrection."
It is interesting to compare what Harper said with what Tahira Mujadedi (see above) claims - essentially, that the current Afghan government cannot manage the insurrection.
According to Wikipedia there have been 2,765 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as of December 20, 2011. Regarding France:
A total of 82 French soldiers have died thus far. 61 soldiers have been killed in action, of the others: seven have died in vehicle accidents, four were killed by an Afghan soldier who turned and fired their rifle on French soldiers during training, one in a helicopter crash, two committed suicide, two have drowned, one was killed by a lightning strike, two died from a non-hostile gunshot wound, one died in an accidental explosion, and one died of unknown causes.
The largest number of soldiers killed was when French troops were ambushed in the area of Sirobi, some 50 km (31 mi) east of Kabul, in August 2008. Ten French troops were killed and a further 21 wounded in the attack - the heaviest loss of troops France has suffered since deploying to Afghanistan in 2001.
Finally, despite the general opposition to the presence of the French on Afghan soil, there are those who want the troops to finish their mission. At Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), Pierre Servent explains why France is wrong to leave. Here is just the beginning of his editorial, written just before Sarkozy's decision was announced:
If France were to withdraw her forces early from Afghanistan, as the president indicated on Friday, it would be an error. First, that would amount to giving the Taliban a considerable political and psychological advantage. Next, it would penalize the passing of the baton between French soldiers and Afghan soldiers, police and gendarmes. Finally, it would set a bad example, vis-à-vis the coalition of 47 nations of which we are a part, to all those who are also tempted by a premature withdrawal. France has in fact discovered the extent to which infiltration, one of the modus operandi of Taliban extremists, can be deadly. (…)
Japanese restaurants in France are offering halal food. Miyako is a franchise that serves Paris and the surrounding area. Novopress reports:
Here is a major discovery thanks to the Japanese restaurant Miyako in the department of Val-de-Marne: the publicity flyer for this establishment indicates that the menus prepared for sale contain halal meat. We didn't realize until now that in Japanese culture, the gastronomical codes required the use of meat from animals bled while alive and turned in the direction of Mecca. In this case we are close to merchandise fraud. The problem here is a lack of respect for the customer, a frontal attack on his knowledge and his intelligence. When a person who likes sushi goes into a Japanese restaurant, it is, in the majority of cases, with the intention of eating traditional meals from the land of the rising sun, and not halal meals that refer to an Islamic culture. This case also reminds us that certain luxury products with a French brand name, and proudly touted as French brands, are in truth made in China.
With globalism, anything is possible.
The cultural side, i.e., the human side, is tossed away in order to focus only on the mercantile aspect, the search for maximum profits, the Grail of globalism. If that's the case, how can we be surprised that merchants encourage cultural mixtures. You can sell the same product to two people of mixed blood. However, it takes more brains and effort to sell to an African and to a Frenchman. So cultural mixing is also an economic strategy.
Note: People of mixed blood are less demanding, than people of pure blood. This seems to be the gist of the above paragraph. Big companies have an easier and cheaper job selling to the "métissés", the mixed races, who don't know or care what they are, than to a Frenchman, for example, who is very demanding.
I assume it leads to the conclusion that a Japanese restaurant that sells halal meals will make more money because it has a larger, more indifferent clientele than a Japanese restaurant that prepares authentic Japanese food for connoisseurs.
Novopress concludes:
Just a reminder that when you eat halal food, you the consumer are paying a "tax" to the mosques and to Muslim associations that verify the halal food as conforming to Islamic law. This money contributes mathematically to the Islamization of France.
Readers' comments indicate that this is not new, and that many "Japanese" restaurants actually have Chinese owners.
While this article is about halal, the same idea of mixing cultures could be said about McDonald's. Frenchmen who eat at McDonald's are less demanding than Frenchmen who refuse to eat there in favor of their authentically French brasserie. Of course, halal is more ominous - the French are soon not going to be able to avoid halal foods. You can at least refuse to go to McDonald's. And I believe McDonald's serves halal food as well - two reasons for not going there.
In short, mixing races on a massive scale results in a dumbing-down of the population and a boon to the international corporations.
As a musical interlude here is Tom Paxton's great song Outward Bound, sung here in French by Nana Mouskouri.
The English version, also sung by Nana Mouskouri, is here.
Below, a translation of the French lyrics, which are very similar to the original English:
Outward bound, on an imaginary ship, Outward bound, you the captain, I the sailor Alone in the world, we left all our friends on the shores This morning when we departed.
Outward bound, on a voyage without ports of call Outward bound, with our dreams for our ocean We will watch the green prairies disappear Slowly, far from us, far from time.
And farewell, adieu, so long, vaya con dios May Heaven give us what we are searching for Just yesterday, the wine was sweeter than honey God, those times, those times were good.
Outward bound on an imaginary ship Walking on an old dusty road Every moment that we have to live Will be made into a legend for our children
And farewell, adieu, so long, vaya con dios May Heaven give us what we are searching for Just yesterday, the wine was sweeter than honey God, those times, those times were good.
France welcomes Croatia to the European Union. From Le Figaro:
France is happy today over the referendum vote on the admission of Croatia to the European Union, and regards this as an example to follow for the other countries of the Balkans (…)
The Croats approved by more than 66% of the votes the admission of their country to the European Union. But participation (43.58%) was very low in this referendum deemed "crucial" by the authorities of this young republic, twenty years after its independence from the former Yugoslavia.
In a joint communiqué, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé and European Affairs Minister Jean Leonetti declared:
"Yesterday, the Croats approved by referendum the admission of their country to the European Union. The results indicate that they made this choice unambiguously. We are particularly happy that they have decided to make their State the 28th member of the Union, marking thus their confidence in the European project."
The French Senate (above) voted into law a bill that makes denial of the genocide of the Armenians by the Turks a crime. The result has been a flood of commentary, recriminations, congratulations, and questions over the consequences of this new law.
I repeat for the hundredth time that I sympathize fully with the cause of the Armenians, and with their current concerns over the presence of Turks in Europe. But I do not support this law. It means that while many people on a daily basis, in the ghettos and in the Turkish neighborhoods will shout anything they please with impunity about the Armenian genocide, if one white European happens to say something against the Armenians and gets caught he risks a jail sentence or a fine. Such laws are not enforceable. The Gayssot law, which forbids denial of the Holocaust of WWII has not been enforceable for this reason and it has increased the animosity towards the Jews about whom, it would appear, one cannot say anything negative, especially with regard to the Holocaust.
These laws do not bring back the dead, nor do they honor the dead in any way. They are a political expedient in response to demands from the "oppressed" minority or they bolster the image of the government in the eyes of the world. Sarkozy's government is tough, it pulls no punches, it will put you in jail if you deny the genocide. But if you are a North African immigrant, and you decide to burn a few cars, rape a few girls or throw rocks at the police you will receive a slap on the wrist and maybe even some money to go back home to Algeria where you can deposit the money and then return to France through the open-door policy currently in use.
Here is a slightly condensed report from France-Soir, which summarizes the basic information. There may be an attempt to repeal this law through the Constitutional Council:
The outraged reactions grew steadily in number in Turkey on Tuesday after the voting the night before by the French Senate on a bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian genocide under the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, Paris appealed to Ankara to remain calm.
The weekly speech by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the deputies of his party was expected to give more details on what type of sanctions against France were being considered.
After the Turkish Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin, denounced "the total lack of respect for Turkey", the Foreign Minister "strongly condemned" on Monday night an "irresponsible act" on the part of France.
On Tuesday, Labor Minister Faruk Celik called Nicolas Sarkozy, who supported the bill, as an assassin of History:
"Sarkozy will go down in History as the man who massacred History"
The Turkish press was unanimous in denouncing blow dealt by France to freedom of opinion:
"Shame on you, France" was the headline of the popular daily Vatan. "France, where the ideal of freedom was born, has dealt the unkindest blow to freedom of expression. By passing the law on denial of the genocide, she has renounced her past."
"President Sarkozy turned his back on freedom and on Turkey, in exchange for a few votes", proclaimed the popular paper Posta.
The widely read paper Hürriyet ran as its headline "He massacred democracy", next to a photo of the French president.
Two papers usually in opposition to each other, the very secular Cumhuriyet and the conservative Islamic Zaman joined voices on Tuesday to denounce "French justice" and an "historic shame" respectively.
These reactions prompted Foreign Minister Alain Juppé to appeal to Turkey for "calm".
"I would like to appeal to our Turkish friends to remain calm and I extend my hand to this "great country, this great economic and political power", declared the minister on the Canal Plus television channel.
The Senate ratified on Monday night a bill already passed through the National Assembly on December 22 that punishes the denial of all genocides recognized by France, including that of the Armenians in 1915, with one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.
Turkey refuses the term of genocide, all the while recognizing that massacres were committed and that some 500,000 Armenians perished in Anatolia between 1915 and 1917. The Armenians speak of 1,500,000 dead.
Turkey accused the French president of trying to win over the voters of Armenian origin before the election scheduled for this Spring.
After the vote in the National Assembly, Mr. Erdogan had reacted very angrily, freezing political and military cooperation with France, its ally in NATO, and denouncing a "genocide" committed by the French colonists in Algeria. (…)
New sanctions against France may not be announced until after the promulgation of the law, if indeed it is ratified by the French Constitutional Council, according to the widely distributed daily HaberTürk, quoting sources from within the AKP Party after a meeting Monday night. These sources indicate that Mr. Erdogan has declared his intention not to visit France again, if the law is ratified, so long as Mr. Sarkozy is in power.
Note: In France a law passed by both houses has to be "promulgated" or ratified by the President of the French Republic within two weeks. Only then can it be executed. However, if there is a question about the law, the Constitutional Council must rule on its constitutionality before the President "promulgates" it. If the Council gives the OK, Sarkozy will ratify the law and from that point on it must be executed.
While some say he did this to win Armenian voters, it is more likely he did it to win other voters as well - all those who believe such laws are a sign of the high moral principles of France and her leader. And this may be a substantial chunk of the population.
It will be very interesting to see what Turkey does, and how France tries to soothe the outraged "great" nation.
Here are some recent statistics on crime, as reported by Novopress:
The figures on crime in 2011, presented by Claude Guéant on January 17, reveal an ever increasing assault on the safety of the French people. While the Interior Minister dared to boast about a ridiculous drop of 0.34% in crime overall, other figures were much more instructive.
Thus, the rate of burglaries of primary residences rose by 17.1% compared to 2010. Other significant data include violence against people, notably voluntary homicides, that rose more than 10%. Note too that violent acts against people have increased more than 22% in the last ten years.
These figures are certainly a low estimate since many French people, disappointed and discouraged by the absence of a concerted policy against crime and immigration, have given up filing complaints. Furthermore, certain types of misdeeds are not included in the State's calculations, such as bank card fraud.
The French, who are in great need of some recreation, are holding their bellies following the remarks made by Sarkozy's former Defense Minister Hervé Morin, 50. Morin is a presidential candidate for the Nouveau Centre (New Center) Party and has so far amassed about 0% of the voters' pledges. He will probably drop below that now, unless the French rally to his cause out of gratitude. Here is the article from Le Parisien (but it's all over the web):
The centrist candidate Hervé Morin, 50, got carried away Sunday during a visit to Nice when he said in a speech that he had seen the allies land in Normandy… 67 years ago. "Those of you who have white hair, you saw the landing in Provence not far from here," addressing himself to the older members of his audience. "I saw the landing of the allies in Normandy. We have lived through ordeals much more difficult than those we are living through today," added the chairman of the Nouveau Centre, credited with 0 to 1% in the polls.
Note: As I post, the 35-second video of his historical slip is not working. Try instead the version at Le Salon Beige.
Don't forget Al Gore invented the Internet, Latin is spoken in Latin America (I'm not sure Dan Quayle actually said that), Rick Perry could not remember which government agency he would abolish, and Nicolas Sarkozy saw the Berlin Wall come down.
