Down With HALDE!

This article appeared at Europe 1 Info ten days ago, and was also mentioned at Le Salon Beige:

Philippe de Villiers, head of the MPF (Movement for France) has called for the dissolution of HALDE (High Authority in the fight against Discrimination), denouncing the Authority's recommendation that nationality be removed as a condition for employment.

"I believe this is very serious. This afternoon I wrote to Nicolas Sarkozy demanding the dissolution of HALDE because if we open to foreigners public sector jobs, that are linked to the State's prerogatives, we run the risk of placing the very heart of the State under foreign influence," declared the European deputy.

The article then explains which jobs would be affected:

HALDE recommended the end of nationality as a condition for employment in government as well as in the public and private sectors. According to HALDE, the number of jobs closed to foreigners is estimated at 7 million, or 30% of all jobs.

The jobs involved are mainly in the public sector. Permanent positions that benefit from statutory guarantees are inaccessible to non-EU foreigners - these would be in the three branches of public service: State, hospitals and overseas territories. Foreigners can only apply for jobs that have no entitlements, i.e., those governed by contract or that are temporary. Thus, they are not eligible for permanent employment in the majority of public service fields (utilities, Bank of France, etc...) with the exception of the RATP (Paris public transport), Social Security (national health) and the Post Office.

In the private sector, 17 professions are subject to a strict condition of French nationality (bailiffs, notaries, flight personnel, newspaper publishers, operators of concessions providing public services, etc...); while 35 other jobs are subject to the condition of EU membership (veterinarians, movie house operators, tobacco shop owners, stage managers etc...)

Finally, unless there is a bilateral agreement, the liberal professions such as doctors, lawyers, dentists, midwives, accountants, architects, geometricians, etc... are also subject to the EU-membership requirement, as are bar owners, and heads of companies dealing with surveillance or transportation of cash.

According to Villiers, as quoted by Libertas 2009:

(If HALDE's recommendations were followed), "a policeman, a magistrate, or a soldier could act out of motivations that differ from those of the national interest." In the same statement, the former presidential candidate said he believed that HALDE was "a weapon against French citizens" and that this administrative authority "spies upon both businesses and citizens."

Note: In addition to HALDE, Philippe de Villiers called for the abolition of the High Commission on Diversity and Equal Opportunity, headed by Algerian Yazid Sabeg.

The photo above shows a campaign poster for Libertas, the party formed by the fusion of Philippe de Villiers' MPF and a lesser-known pro-sovereignty party called CPNT. Libertas will figure in the upcoming European elections. I hope to have more on this important event in the coming days.

Writer Renaud Camus, featured in a recent post here, issued communiqué #865 in which he seconds Philippe de Villiers:

(We) approve of and fully support the demands formulated by Philippe de Villiers in a letter to the president, namely, the abolition of HALDE and of the position of commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity.

(We) feel that HALDE is a policing agency, hugely repressive of civil rights, and that it symbolizes to the highest degree the snuffing out of freedom of expression in our country. That it symbolizes as well the aggressively menacing denial through which the realities of daily living and public order are systematically mocked. (We) regard it as one of the most dishonorable mechanisms of official collaboration with the counter-colonization of which France is a victim. It is only thanks to the comical awkwardness of its dictates and recommendations that it escapes in part from the odiousness attached to its existence.

(We) also deem intolerable the existence of a commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity, in charge of instituting through force, against all the traditions of our country, a so-called "diversity" that is nothing more than the meticulous eradication of the specific character of the French nation, a process that is accelerated in the universal undifferentiated village.

Below, a photo of the members of HALDE. In the front row center, looking for all the world like Alfred E. Neuman, the "What, me worry?" kid, sits president Louis Schweitzer, who is also chairman of the Board of Directors of Renault.

Albania Applies for Membership

Le Salon Beige has posted a communiqué from Carl Lang, former official in the Front National, currently head of a splinter group called the "Parti de la France":

While the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha is more than happy to receive the support of France in Albania's bid for admission to the European Union, Carl Lang and the Parti de la France denounce Nicolas Sarkozy's enthusiastic support for Albania's candidacy. Albania presents two particularities that are not very propitious for a harmonious integration into the EU: First, Albania supported the Albanian secessionist movements in the Serbian province of Kosovo, and second, Albania, which is the only Muslim State in Europe, constitutes a bridgehead of Turkish influence in the Balkans and within the European Union. Despite his public denials, Nicolas Sarkozy is thus objectively preparing opinion to accept, eventually, the admission of Turkey to the European Union.

One of LSB's readers points out that allowing Albania into the EU would prove to the world that the EU is not only a "Christian Club", and that geography is a major issue since Albania is undeniably in Europe. Thus, he feels, Turkey could still be rejected on the basis of geography, and the EU could no longer be reproached for being only Christian.

Note: I didn't realize that the EU thought of itself as Christian. Of course it doesn't. That is one reason why the reader's argument would not hold up. Another reason is that "culture" as a determining factor would be ruled out, so if Albania were in, there would be no real reason why Turkey, culturally speaking, should be left out.

As far as I am able to determine, the EU rejects Christianity both as a religion and a culture. The EU is following the stated purpose of the Strasbourg Resolution, which was to allow Arabs into Europe and to respect their religious, cultural and political demands, including their anti-Israel policies. This agreement, which forms the basis of what is called Eurabia, is what propels much of the EU's actions as well as the policies of the individual nations, who are, in fact, subjects of the EU.

So, even if Albania were rejected, Turkey would not be. And even if Turkey were rejected, Eurabia would not be. A total turnaround is needed. And only a radical awakening of public knowledge, awareness, self-esteem, religion, nationalism and patriotism can bring about a restoration.

The photo below of Sarkozy with Sali Berisha is from Gaelle Mann. In her post she says:

Albania, a former Communist country, eroded by corruption and discredited by the power of criminal mafias, officially filed its candidacy for membership in the European Union in Prague on Tuesday. (...)

In 2006, Albania already became an associate member of the EU. The country joined NATO on April 1, at the same time as Croatia.

Today, Albania's population of 3 million consists, in its majority, of inhabitants who were Islamized during the Ottoman occupation, that ended in 1912.


There is a comprehensive Wikipedia article on Albania that includes this passage about Albanian hero Skanderbeg's struggle against the Turks:

One of the most successful resistance against the invading Ottomans, was led by Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg from 1443 to 1468. Under a red flag bearing Skanderbeg's heraldic emblem, an Albanian force of about 30,000 men held off brutal Ottoman campaigns against their lands for twenty-four years.The leadership of Skanderbeg was invincible, and even Mehmet II, the Conqueror, was beaten by the Albanian prince at Kruja in 1466. Skanderbeg then re-embraced Roman Catholicism and declared a holy war against the Turks. Thrice the Albanians overcame sieges of Krujë. Skanderbeg was unable to receive any help from the new crusade promised by the popes, and he died in 1468 leaving no worthy successor.

Another web page that I came upon by chance was written by Albanian scholar Ismail Bardhi, who appears to be Muslim. He attributes the erosion of morality in Albania to the absence of religion, in particular Islam. His argument is similar to that of religious Europeans bemoaning the immorality of the atheistic modern world, who welcome the presence of Islam in Europe as a form of salvation. But he also shows how Europe did, in fact, bring this on itself, through abandonment of its traditional values:

The Albanian population as a whole has not tasted the flavor of religion for decades. This is primarily because there are no primary, secondary or higher Islamic educational institutions. And the classic Islamic literature simply does not exist. Most of this was destroyed or heavily suppressed during the Albanian Communist era. The people who have been educated have been indoctrinated along the atheist/secularistic lines. And since most of these people had a fairly good education, they have been able to rise to the top of the society. Since they rule the masses, Albanians have seen a moral erosion of the social fabric of their society.

Note: Bardhi says that Albania is 70% Muslim.

Friends For Life

President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife have concluded a super-hyped two-day day visit to Spain that had the eyes of the Spanish press fixated on Carla while effusive praise and flattery flowed like honey between "conservative" Sarkozy and Socialist José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Even the Queen of Spain received a kiss (on both cheeks, European-style) from Carla, instead of a bow, a gesture that caught everyone's eye, though they say it is within the protocol of the Spanish monarchy.

According to Le Figaro:

"Even the left-wing papers surrendered their weapons. An editorial in El Païs quipped: "Madrid had resisted Napoleon. Two hundred years later, it surrendered to his replica."

And to think that just a week before, the European press had been ablaze with reports of Sarkozy insulting Zapatero's intelligence:

Who could have imagined such a turnabout after the intense controversy that shook both sides of the Pyrenees? On Tuesday (April 28) the disobliging remarks attributed to Nicolas Sarkozy on the presumed lack of intelligence of José Luis Rodrigues Zapatero were far away. Very far away. And Ségolène Royal's ears must have been scorched when she heard what transpired in Spain. "President Sarkozy has proven that he is Spain's best friend," proclaimed José Luis Zapatero. "It is a profound, intense, sincere affection that will last forever."

!!!! If they were any closer they would be attached at the neck. More evidence, as if it were needed, that Sarkozy is only comfortable with the enemies of traditional France.

Note: Regarding Ségolène Royal, she seems to have become France's unofficial apologizer. Recently she apologized to Africans for comments made by Sarkozy in Senegal shortly after he took office. However, the comments she apologized for were certainly not the most insulting ones he had made. A few days ago, she apologized for Sarkozy's cracks about Zapatero not being a very intelligent person, and expressed her admiration for Zapatero's reforms and his ability to keep his campaign promises. Considering Zapatero's unctuous greeting to Sarkozy, I'm not entirely certain the Frenchman was wrong. But then, considering Sarkozy's fulsome admiration for Zapatero, the same applies to him.

Questioned about the controversy, Sarkozy swept it away: "Have we turned the page? We hadn't really opened it. That does not mean that I do not regard him as very brilliant. Anyway, he runs faster that I."

The president took a moment to mock the "little ripple made by French politics." In the land of bullfights, he struck the death blow against the French Socialist Party: "I'm sorry that the influence of Spanish socialism does not cross the Pyrenees more often." (...)

Note: Oh, but it DOES cross the Pyrenees. And it lands right in the open arms of Nicolas Sarkozy.

Celebrity watchers can feast their eyes on this slide show featuring the photos of the Spanish Monarchy.



In addition, the two leaders discussed their joint fight against Basque and Islamist terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and illegal immigration. On this last issue Rue89 reports:

The joint declaration of the two countries pledges a fight for the "dismantling of illegal networks and the arrest of undocumented aliens." They will also unite their forces to identify the country of origin of the illegals. Such countries will then be asked to agree to a protocol of repatriation, while France and Spain, if they deem it "fitting", will provide chartered flights back to the homelands.

Note: At this point in time, it is more likely that Spain would seriously ferret out undocumented aliens and send them home than France:

Spain's unemployment rate is now 17.35%, and its immigration policy is a far cry from the one it espoused during better times. More than 10% of the population of Spain is foreign.

France under Sarkozy, on the other hand, has been helping undocumented aliens stay in France, through rapid legalization, and the on-going "selective immigration" policies that bring into the country those with certain job skills - jobs that Frenchmen should be getting. Recently Minister of Immigration Eric Besson, (contrary to what was hoped among the naive), has taken no action to expel the illegals who have settled in Calais as they wait to get into England. Here is the communiqué from Marine Le Pen, dated April 23:

While the people of Calais were hoping the State would resolve, once and for all, the problem of illegal immigration, Monsieur Besson has not announced any break with the policies endorsed for decades by successive governments. On the contrary, the measures proposed will have as a consequence the settling of the illegals in the Calais region.

The residents entertained the legitimate expectation that Nicolas Sarkozy would take energetic steps to expel the illegals. But nothing of the sort has happened, since the State has decided to grant financial means to them for food, lodging and medical care in France, despite their irregular situation.

The decisions announced today are therefore an open invitation to more illegal immigration, that the people of Calais are already finding unbearable.

Marine Le Pen reminds Nicolas Sarkozy that he was elected, not to welcome new illegals, but to arrange for their departure.

Her communiqué closes with an appeal to the French to vote against UMP party candidates on June 7 in the European elections.

Remember When...

This short refreshing cultural post from François Desouche is based on an entry from Wikipedia:

"Black hussar" was the nickname given to teachers during The Third Republic. It was Charles Péguy who popularized the term in his work L'Argent in 1913:

"Our masters were handsome like svelte black hussars, cinched in, serious and a little shaky from their precocious and sudden omnipotence."

The nickname came, first of all, from the austere black dress of teachers educated in the Normal Schools created by the Guizot Law in 1833 for men, then the Bert Law in 1879 for women in each department. All ornamentation and superfluous items were banned. But in addition, and this is perhaps the most important thing: from these Normal Schools came teachers who, if they were all dressed in the same color, had received a veritable mission (the term is not too strong): instruct the French population.

Through this mission, as much as through the status as State functionary, the black hussars, petit bourgeois, represented a certain moral and intellectual authority. (...) Charles Péguy continues his description with a wonderment that reflects this privileged reputation:

"(...) this Normal School seemed to be an inexhaustible regiment. It was like an immense government depot of youth and civic virtue. The government of the Republic had the task of providing us with so many serious-minded persons."

It was this advantageous resemblance of teachers to a regiment that impelled Charles Péguy to call them hussars, a reference to the frightening Hungarian hussars and their efficiency and dedication.

The nickname took on several variations, among them "hussars of severity" and "hussars of the Republic."

It was the photo that first caught my eye - what a group of tough determined little school boys they are with their crossed arms and fierce gaze. They appear tougher than the master himself who almost looks gentle next to them. And the truth is, contrary to popular thought, that each one of these little guys turned out an individual, different from the others, unique, despite the rigorous discipline. Current pedagogical nonsense, of course is the opposite - that if you discipline children you will destroy their uniqueness and their creativity. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Charles Péguy was a writer, essayist, and poet killed at the Battle of the Marne during WWI. There is precious little about him at English Wikipedia, but there are a few quotes. This one is my favorite:

"It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive."

And this one gives food for thought:

"How maddening, says God, it will be when there are no longer any Frenchmen.

Beheading in Lyons

It has happened in England, Canada, and the United States. It was bound to happen in France. An innocent Frenchman was found decapitated in Lyons. This report is from Le Progres, via François Desouche:

A victim atrociously mutilated on the 12th floor. A suspect who lived on the 5th floor. The entire affair is concentrated on #5 of a large complex of residences, 65, rue de Saint-Cyr in Lyons. On Saturday afternoon (April 25), Raymond Arveuf, 62, was found decapitated (note: the head was missing) in his apartment on the top floor of the building by his brother who was concerned that he had not been present at the usual family dinner on Saturday. The night before he had been watching a soccer match with friends in a bar in Valse.

The police inquiry was quickly oriented to a lower floor. Traces of blood were followed, leading police to feel that the victim's head had been thrown into the trash and carried off the next day by waste removal services. Moreover, the inter-regional judicial police ran into Youcef Djellouli, 29, a neighbor on the 5th floor, whose speech was confused. Taken into custody, this oldest member of a family of four children did not delay in admitting to the murder. The young man spoke, in substance, of a sudden desire to kill. According to his initial statements, it was indeed he who had been heard at 2:30 a.m., he who struck, slit the throat of and decapitated the bachelor who apparently had lived a quiet life. The presumed weapon, a kitchen knife, was found in his home. The reason for his actions were still not understood.

Several local residents described the young man as disturbed, thin, with a ungainly walk, and changeable behavior. A mental weakness had suddenly exploded, without anyone being certain if some quarrel with the victim had pulled him in this direction.

"A judicial investigation is to begin on Monday, and experts will examine the man's personality to better understand," confided a judicial source.

Two testimonies lent strong credibility to the suspicion that the murderer lived on the scene. A neighbor was awakened by the screams of the victim and heard the aggressor take the elevator. "I didn't see anybody go out of the building, so I assumed he was still here," he confided. (...) Another resident said he heard the entry door open violently, before the crime. Then a thud that could have been the broken mirror in the lobby of #5. The mirror in which the killer saw his own image during his murderous rage. He broke it with a bottle. Yesterday, a child's drawing was pasted onto the cracks: a colorful butterfly that seemed to be trying to erase the somber events in the apartment complex.


There is a comment at Le Progres from someone who knew Raymond Arveuf (left). It appears he was near retirement, was very well-liked, very friendly, and completely innocent.


The sketch at the top refers to "Living Together", the touchy-feely propaganda slogan aimed at convincing Frenchmen that they must learn to live with aliens, criminals, and invaders bent on conquering their territory - or else.

Turkish Bash

Nicolas Sarkozy has been proclaiming loud and clear his opposition to Turkey in the EU, to prove no doubt that he is no lackey of America's. He has been proclaiming it so loudly that we know he doth protest too much, and that the axe (or is it the scimitar?) will fall soon enough.

No analyst of Sarkozy's motives can miss the sham that emanates from the bogus promises made by this greatest of all charlatans, least of all bloggers such as Joachim Véliocas and Yves Daoudal, both of whom call our attention to a great Franco-Turkish celebration now in the works. The following is from Daoudal's monthly newsletter that I received in pdf format. I cannot provide a permalink, but it may still be posted here temporarily:

From July 2009 until March 2010, The Festival of Turkey in France ("La Saison de la Turquie") will take place: "over 400 cultural, economic and social events."

This all-out gigantic exhibition, organized by Cultures-France, the agency delegated by the combined ministries of foreign affairs and culture, will unfold just about everywhere in France. The agenda of festivities appears in a beautiful 32-page booklet that became available a few weeks ago. But... we are hearing absolutely nothing about it. Strange, isn't it?

The operation is being guided by Henri de Castries, chairman of the board of directors of AXA, for France, and by former ambassador Necati Utkan, for Turkey.

Note: AXA is a global insurance company.

But someone let it be known to Henri de Castries that he had to wait before advertising the event. This is the only explanation possible for the silence. Wait for what?

Wait until the European elections are over. For until then our citizens must hear only that Nicolas Sarkozy is fiercely opposed to Turkey's admission to the European Union: you can vote for the UMP party with confidence knowing your deputies are resolute on this issue.

The Festival of Turkey, being a massive and frenzied propaganda effort for Turkey's admission, it would be wrong to create a bad impression...

Such is the endless double game of Sarkozy who never loses an opportunity to remind us of his opposition to Turkish membership. Yet since he took office, the one who had promised to put an end to negotiations has done nothing to even slow them down.

Moreover, this Festival of Turkey is a pure operation of Turkish propaganda. Its purpose is to show to what extent Turkey is a modern country, an impressive center of cultural ferment, on the cutting edge of technical advances. In a word, European.

It "aims to reflect the diversity of its culture, with emphasis on the desire for change and openness of a Turkey that is a mosaic, and to stress the contributions of Turkey to European culture," we are told. Now in this diversity and in this mosaic, we search in vain for Christian Turkey.

They hunt down (Holocaust) deniers, it seems. Yet here is an obvious denial that no one finds shocking.

For example, when speaking of relations between Turkey and France, one question that comes to mind is that of the Armenians who fled Turkey at the time of the genocide and settled in our country. There is nothing about it. The French of Armenian origin do not exist.

Another example: this year is being celebrated as a Pauline year (even in Syria). But there is no mention of Saint Paul, even though the essential part of his apostolate took place in Turkey, and the letters he wrote there are one of the main foundations of the Christian religion, hence of European culture.

Another example: Cappadocia is overflowing with Christian architectural and pictorial wonders that could be presented as "a bridge between the East and the West," according to the hackneyed expression. No way - there isn't a word about this topic.

On the other hand, the festival begins with an openly Muslim show, "Ottoman" music is omnipresent, and the Aïd holiday that signals the end of Ramadan will be celebrated on September 19 at the Châtelet Theater and down avenue Victoria in Paris, all decorated in the colors of Turkey.

End of fanfare.

The photo below is not directly related to the post. It shows the exquisite Armenian Cathedral in the Mother See of Echmiadzin, Armenia. Echmiadzin is the spiritual center for all Armenians throughout the world. This past April 24 was the date set set aside to commemorate the genocide of Armenians in 1915. The Earl of Cromer, writing at his blog The Lambeth Walk, took some time to remember.



The photo comes from Galen Frysinger, a website replete with great photos from around the world, taken by a man who has obviously seen everything!

Monsieur Hulot Sans Pipe

Many of you must remember Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot and Mon Oncle. If so, you know he cannot be seen without his pipe. Until the do-gooders came along, that is. Now his pipe has been beeped out of the image. Read Charles Henry's article at Covenant Zone - and check out some other articles on the home page while you're there.

Counter-Colonization

That French prisons are over-crowded is not news. Regularly the French media and politicians hold discussions on the problem. Though I have not followed these stories closely I see that recently (April 16), there was a meeting in the city of Quimper on the theme of "Prisons: a shameful thing for the French Republic". The objective of the meeting, not surprisingly, was to verify that the "dignity of the detainees was respected." The quote comes from the blog of Jean-Jacques Urvoas, a Socialist deputy from Finistère, who attended the meeting:

However, French writer, social critic and immigration restrictionist Renaud Camus (photo) has this to say in his latest statement, listed as #862, on the long web page devoted to his communiqués:

(We) condemn once again all these so-called "national meditation" and collective self-flagellation sessions on the conditions in French prisons, disastrous and inadmissible though the situation may be. These meditations, sessions, debates and media broadcasts - is it shocking blindness or unspeakable hypocrisy? - all pretend to avoid the dazzlingly obvious truth about the prison situation, namely, that the population and over-population in the prisons consist, in the main, of individuals from the counter-colonization of our country, and are only the reflection of the exceptionally high rate of harm, delinquency and criminality that prevails in these groups. Institutionalized denial is given an impressively free rein on issues such as this. The prison situation happens to be intolerable, that is true, but it is only one awkward expression of the many jolts our people must endure when confronted with the often insidious, but frequently violent, conquest of its territory.

Note: He used the term "counter-colonization", a term I am seeing more and more. Many Frenchmen are no longer calling it "immigration", a word that, in itself, connotes neither a good thing or a bad. "Counter-colonization", however, reminds us that colonizers are not limited to white Europeans. One could also say "reverse colonization" or "revanchism". Here is Camus again in Communiqué #857:

(We) declare once again our bitter indignation at all of these so-called debates supposedly devoted to immigration, the official name of counter-colonization, and during which only persons whose opinions are more or less the same are allowed to speak. Invariably in denial, they can express, without being answered and with no risk of contradiction, the most flagrant defiance of reality - a reality that is nonetheless clearly and painfully observable. On the other hand, voices apt to express the daily experiences endured by our people, exposed to the pure and simple substitution of its identity and its culture by several alien populations whose salient trait is rarely benign, are systematically excluded.

Note: You can see that his prose is both terse and dense, not easy to translate. I know very little about Renaud Camus. The English-language Wikipedia article is woefully inadequate. He is an openly gay writer, who nonetheless espouses many traditional positions on social and cultural issues. Once accused of anti-Semitism, he has proven himself to be an unapologetic friend of Israel in its fight against Hamas and against the misrepresentations in the press of the actions of the IDF.

In the above translations I have used the editorial "we" at the beginning. In his text he uses "The Party of In-nocence", a term that requires explanation. He took the word "innocence" and divided it into "in" (meaning "non") and "nocence" (referring to "noxiousness" or "noxious ideas"). His "party", (which plays no political role), is therefore opposed to noxious ideas. How's that for an original way of expressing one's opposition to the harmful ideas that burden the Western world at this moment in history?

Islam in England

This two-minute video of the Brent Mosque in England is one of a series of videos illustrating the conversion of churches into mosques. The series is posted at the BNP website, and at François Desouche.

The following was taken from the BNP post:

Britain is paying the price for decades of Tory and Labour-backed mass Third World immigration. Nowhere is this better illustrated than with the conversion of Christian churches — some of them hundreds of years old — into mosques the length and breadth of this country.

Islam in Russia

My previous post on the new book by Elena Chudinova elicited this comment from the same reader who sent the letter to Robert Spencer that forms the basis for the post. In the post, the question of the Islamization of Russia came up. The comment seemed worth printing separately:

"I asked Elena Chudinova at the meeting to explain to us to the story behind the huge Saudi-sized mosque that you can see in Grozny via Google Earth. She explained that it was financed by the Russian Federal Government and that the wars in Chechnya have done nothing to hamper Islam there, just install a puppet regime. It's really no different from the U.S. experience in Iraq.

Elena Chudinova added that Islamic pressure on Russian authorities bend towards Islam in aspects such as rewriting school textbooks, suggesting that Russia is also on the path of dhimmitude albeit 20 years behind France.

She mentioned a frightening statistic - that Russia had planned 4 million muslim immigrants for 2008 but because of the financial crisis, this quota was never filled. I have not found another source for this but Elena Chudinova has always been reliable in her facts. (If you read the book the book you will see all the fascinating footnotes she provide)"

Below from Reuters is a scene of the opening of the mosque with former Russian President Putin and Chechen President Kadyrov. The inauguration of this mosque was reported on world-wide, as a Google search will prove.

Censored Interview

The publication of a book called La Mosquée Notre-Dame de Paris (The Mosque of Notre-Dame) has aroused great interest and enthusiasm among those Frenchmen realistic enough to realize that if Islam is allowed to spread unchecked, their country, as they know it, will cease to exist. The book, originally published in Russia, came out in French translation on April 15. On April 18, a discussion of the book with the author and several noted personalities took place in Paris (above is the poster announcing the event).

However, a radio interview with the French publisher of the book, Jean Robin, and Islamologist Anne-Marie Delcambre, was another story. Scheduled to speak on Radio Notre-Dame, a Catholic station, things did not go as planned.

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from a reader who has been keeping up with the event, in which he passed on to me this e-mail that he sent to Robert Spencer. I have made a few editorial changes. First he gives an account of the April 18 discussion that he attended, then moves on to the radio interview:

Dear Mr Spencer,

A few years ago on this site you had an article on the book, The Mosque of Notre Dame by Elena Chudinova.

We have some rather important news concerning this book. A professional translation into French which was refused by every major publisher, and initially provided free as a downloadable pdf, has now been published by Tatamis in France.

On Saturday the 18th of April, the author, along with Islamologist Anne-Marie Delcambre, Father Samuel (a Catholic priest in a very lively Belgian parish), Abbé Pages (who evangelizes to Muslims via the Internet) and the publisher Jean Robin held a conference to introduce the book to the French public.

This conference was attended by around 200 people and seemed very much appreciated by all who attended.

First to speak was Elena Chudinova who spoke about the Islamisation of Russia. Russia appears to be in the early stages of dhimmitude and the author is fairly certain that her bestselling novel would not be published today. Total sales in Russia of The Mosque of Notre-Dame are in the region of 100,000 copies.

Note: This is surprising. I thought Russia was resisting Islam.

The novel is set in Paris in 2048 after a wahabbite Islamic coup and we follow the adventures of a resistance fighter (whom the author loosely based on the character of Orianna Fallaci) who is involved with helping a group of pre-Vatican 2 Catholics retake Notre-Dame for one final mass.

In this world, the Vatican has been razed to the ground, the United States no longer exists as a nation and the remaining 300,000 Serbs live a life of exile in Russia. I won't give away any more details about the contents of the novel but it is an incredibly well imagined scenario of the near future.

Elena Chudinova sees the renewal of Christianity as central to containing Islam and the novel contains plenty of footnotes covering the rapid dhimmitude of the Catholic church since the Vatican 2 council.

On Saturday afternoon, after the author finished speaking, Father Samuel, a big man with a long white orthodox beard, (he had spent 35 years as a priest in Turkey, Syria and Jordan and knows how Islam treats non-Muslims) got up to speak. He started with a sign of the cross and asked us to sing the Regina Caeli. I guess I wasn't the only one expecting a secular meeting with a discussion on how Islam should have no public space. This however was going to be something quite different. I am Catholic but we have no Tridentine mass easily accessible and I am unfamiliar with the words and melody of the traditional rite. There were many in the audience however who knew the words very well and it was sung with great deal of enthusiasm.

The pro-Jewish/Israeli anti-Islamic stance of Father Samuel is well known and can be searched elsewhere on the Internet so I won't go into any details but his talk was very well received. His main anger is directed at the Catholic hierarchy that continues to dialogue with Muslims and never support the Pope. Photos of Elena Chudinova, Father Samuel, Anne-Marie Delcambre can be found at Liberty Vox.

In one of the photos you can see Louis Chagnon, the history teacher who lost his post a few years ago because he happened to mention that Mohammed was a brigand.

Afterwards, I spoke to the author and asked if she had any plans for this book to be published in English. She said that she would love this but there are no plans as yet. This book is quite different from the books of Fallaci and Robert Spencer. For a start it's a novel set in the future and secondly it has a very (Catholic) religious theme. You will learn as much about Catholic tradition as you will about Islam. The main protagonist is a resistance fighter who claims to be agnostic but ends up fighting for the same cause as the Catholic traditionalists.

Today (Tuesday April 21), Anne-Marie Delcambre and Jean Robin of Tatamis books were due to appear on Radio Notre-Dame to speak about the novel. They got up at 5:00 a.m. for the early morning interview, only to find out that they had been scheduled out at the last moment. Radio Notre-Dame, like other official Catholic news sources in France such as KTO-TV and La Croix newspaper are obsessed with multi-faith dialogue and third world activism. It was actually quite surprising that Mme Delcambre, well known for her truthful words on Islam, would have been invited to Radio Notre-Dame anyway. The denial of the interview was filmed and can be seen at Daily Motion.

To read the novel in Russian the link is here.

The French version is no longer downloadable but I can email it to you if you want to read it. If you know someone interested in translating and publishing it in English, that would of course be a wonderful step forward. The book can be purchased in French from Amazon.
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Note: For a special website devoted to the book, with all 3 videos (in French) of Anne-Marie Delcambre being rejected by Radio Notre-Dame, click here.

Thanks to Yves Daoudal, some of her remarks are in print. This is infinitely easier for me to translate, than listening to a video:

I am convinced that it will be by means of the Islamic-Christian dialogue that Islam will enter through the great door. Because THEY do not yield on anything, but Catholicism will yield on everything.

What is serious is that those on the side of laïcité as well as those on the side of Catholicism do not realize all of the dangers. They imagine that Islam is some sort of vague Christianity...

They (Muslims) practice dissimulation. They do not say things that would shock Westerners. They do not say that for them Catholicism is an abomination, that the cross is an abomination, the Trinity an abomination, communion, celibacy, monasticism, all of that is an abomination. Laïcité also. (...) There is a lie of omission.

Currently there is a climate of intellectual terrorism and people no longer dare to talk. It's not only here, it's everywhere. They are afraid for their jobs, they are afraid for their radio broadcasts: we are already halfway dhimmified, halfway subjugated.

Final note: French readers may be interested in the comments following Daoudal's post. They are not complimentary to either the website Bivouac-Id (where much of the above information is posted) or to Anne-Marie Delcambre. They accuse Bivouac-Id of being "Zionist" and spreading wrong information about Delcambre who, they say, is not Catholic, but agnostic.

More on this topic is sure to come.

Below is a photo of (from left) Elena Chudinova, a translator, Father Samuel, and Anne-Marie Delcambre, from the Liberty Vox site linked above.


Update: April 23 - I have made a few more editorial changes, and have removed the name "Ubu" that was given as Father Samuel's last name. In fact, his last name is Ozdemir, as he was born in Turkey. "Ubu" comes from the name of a satirical journal he writes for. Please read more about Father Samuel at The Brussels Journal.

Couple Killed

Here's one of so many stories we hear about on a daily basis: a person known to be violent is free to move about in society. The authorities do nothing until a calamity occurs. And even then, they do very little... The simplistic tone of the article is typical, in it's wearisome objectivity, of the way crime is reported in the press.

The northern city of Denain was holding its 106th carnival. Three kilometers away, at Douchy-les-Mines, a 62-year-old man named Ahmed Assous murdered a young French couple. Because their car was improperly parked. The regional paper La Voix du Nord reports:

While the Lithuanian majorettes and Flemish drumkorps were parading in the neighboring city of Denain, a crime without precedent took place in Douchy-les-Mines, in the former miners' village ("coron") of La Fabrique.

The cause of the murder was "a simple neighborhood quarrel", according to Jean-Michel Bérard, prefect of the region. (...)

But the fact remains that a sixty-year-old man suddenly killed a man and a woman, both in their early twenties, who had come to visit their family in La Fabrique. The young couple was taking advantage of Easter Monday to introduce their 10-day-old baby to an uncle and an aunt.

They had arrived around 4:30 p.m. A half-hour later they came out, without the baby, to better park their Peugeot that they had left in front of a neighbor's house. That's when they saw they had a flat tire. They called on Ahmed Assous, 62, who, by way of a response, took out his 30-30 caliber carbine rifle, a veritable war weapon. According to several sources not officially confirmed, the former municipal employee of the city of Denain also shot in the direction of a young man, 17, the couple's nephew, who was not hit. But signs of a bullet impact were found on the front door of a vehicle parked nearby.

Note: The article does not say why they went to Assous - was it to ask for help, or to question him about the flat tire? Nor does it say if they knew him.

A subsequent article, also from la Voix du Nord, indicates that Ahmed Assous was a truck driver, not a municipal employee.

When the Denain police and firemen from Douchy-les-Mines arrived a few minutes later, they saw two bodies, motionless and soaked in blood, but they could not intervene since the killer, assumed to be dangerous, still had his weapon.

The man, "who had a reputation for violence", according to the prefect, retreated into his house.

The article concludes with a description of the crime scene, the closing off of traffic, and finally the surrender of the killer, who put up little resistance.

The family was described as "stunned" ("hébété") by the killings.

The second article, linked above, describes Ahmed Assous as a man who did not like anyone to park in front of his house, which he regarded as his territory. In 1996 he had struck a neighbor on the head for leaning on a parked car in front of his house. Neighbors also knew about the death threats he made to his wife who recently divorced him. After the divorce, he sank into pathological aggressiveness, consumed alcohol regularly, and shot his rifle in the garden.

Below are scenes of the arrest.

UOIF Convention

On the weekend of April 11-12 the UOIF (Union of Islamic Organizations of France) held its annual convention in Le Bourget, just north of Paris and welcomed as special guests, comedian Dieudonné and Marxist "philosopher" Alain Soral, a man who has said that Robespierre and Stalin were the two greatest men in history. Together these two celebrities are running on an "anti-Zionist" ticket in the upcoming European election.

A Daily Motion video posted at Islamisation shows the arrival of Dieudonné, his casual conversations with people milling about, and scenes of Soral also in casual conversation. The video is too difficult to translate because so many people are talking simultaneously, but Dieudonné stresses several times that for the first time, Europeans will have the choice of voting for an "anti-Zionist" party.

Joachim Véliocas, author of the article goes on:

This meeting would be a bit of a joke if the UOIF were not the premier Muslim association of France, and the premier builder of great mosques in France. Besides the plans for monumental mosques in Bordeaux, Poitiers, Nantes and Mulhouse, Hakim Nazir, vice-president of the UOIF recently announced the 24 other mosques were being projected throughout all of France.

Not only does the UMP (Sarkozy's party) let it happen, but the members of the governing party make land grants to the UOIF, in the form of emphytheutic leases (symbolic rent, with the lease being transformed into a mortgage after several decades), as in Bordeaux, or they finance directly projects such as the mosque in Mulhouse that received 235,000 euros donated by Mayor Bockel, of the Modern Left Party, a splinter group affiliated with the UMP; or the mosque in Woippy, run by UMP deputy-mayor François Grosdidier.

Besides Dieudonné and Alain Soral, a prominent historian, Marcel Gauchet, was expected to attend but cancelled at the last minute, claiming illness. Joachim Véliocas, who had announced the presence of Gauchet at the meeting, believes his revelations may have induced Gauchet to cancel. He had wondered:

What is the author of The Disenchantment of the World doing side by side with UOIF fundamentalists on Saturday April 11? (...) The man who claims that Islamic fundamentalists are a minority in France must be unaware of the fact that the UOIF is the premier network of Islamic associations in France, and that its historic leaders, with whom he will be associating, are far from being moderate.

Note: A very quick look at the biography of Gauchet reveals a man who flirted with Marxism, who welcomed May '68, but who found the aftermath unbearable, and eventually broke with Marxism. Nonetheless he remained close to "center-left" movements. Born a Catholic, he was an assiduous student and energetic seeker of the truth about the purpose of religion in our lives. According to Wikipedia:

In his book The Disenchantment of the World, he explains that Christianity is "the religion of exiting from religion", that is, a religion that contains potentially within itself the dynamics of secularization. This secularization (or "disenchantment") does not mean the end of private and personal beliefs, but that henceforth religion no longer structures society, it is no longer the principle of organization or legitimacy.

Those interested can read an English-language review of the book here.

Véliocas goes on:

But the presence of this philosopher among the Islamists will not surprise his readers. In an interview he granted to Le Point in 2003 he was asked:

- Does Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to collaborate with the ensemble of the Islamic agencies in France, including the UOIF, its radical branch, seem convincing to you?

- His calculation vis-à-vis of Islam is not absurd. And it continues the doctrine of the Ministry of the Interior, since it goes back to the days of Pierre Joxe. Why not seek an alliance with the moral authority of the imams, and play the card of religion against crime, when we know - let's forget political correctness - that the hotbeds of crime are mainly in the projects where young North Africans live? (...)

Note: Pierre Joxe was the Socialist Interior Minister under Mitterand.

Véliocas:

Marcel Gauchet, after blundering with Communism, is today very close to the Socialists, and ends his career in a surprising way... naïveté remains his unifying thread. (...)

At any rate, he did not attend, and they had to settle for Dieudonné and Soral. Among the other guests were Muslim leaders such as Tareq Oubrou, the imam of Bordeaux, and Issam Al Bashir, former minister of Islamic Affairs of Sudan, whose president is wanted for religious cleansing and genocide.

The photo below of the two celebrity guests is from the blog of Yann Redeker, a nationalist blogger of the "identitaire" movement, and an advocate of the Front National.

You Sang, Now Dance!

Le Conservateur, who follows American politics closely, has a post dated April 16, in which he asks his Catholic readers to sign the petition against the appearance of Barack Obama at the commencement ceremonies on May 17, at Notre-Dame University:

(...) How can a well-known partisan of pro-choice be honored and receive an honorary degree from a Catholic university? Will the president show the same respect here as he did at the Jesuit University of Georgetown, where the symbolic initials IHS were covered up during his press conference, at the request of the White House?

However, if these thoughts are a far cry from your everyday worries, it's understandable... What can one say about Obama? What struck me most during his visit to Europe was his arrogance. A smiling arrogance, that left no place for dialogue when he explained his agenda to NATO or demanded Turkey's admission to the EU. (...) Obama has no intention of offering European countries anything but a facade of respect, while he displays a frank and new desire to talk with America's enemies, from Iran to Russia, not to mention North Korea and the moderate Nazis of Afghanistan. The traditional allies have only to keep their mouths shut when the "hyperpresident" speaks. After all, Europe elected Obama by a crushing majority. Well, now, you can dance!

Those interested in signing the petition to Notre-Dame, click here.



Le Conservateur's last line may be based on a fable by La Fontaine, via Aesop, this one The Grasshopper and the Ant:

The Grasshopper having sung
All the summer long,
Found herself lacking food
When the North Wind began its song.
Not a single little piece
Of fly or grub did she have to eat.

She went complaining of hunger
To the Ant's home, her neighbour,
Begging there for a loan
Of some grain to keep herself alive
Til the next season did arrive,
"I shall pay you," she said
"Before next August, on my word as an animal.
I'll pay both interest and principal."

The Ant was not so inclined:
this not being one of her faults.
"What did you do all summer?
Said she to the grasshopper.

"Night and day I sang,
I hope that does not displease you."

"You sang? I will not look askance.
But now my neighbour it's time to dance."

Questions: What actually do Europeans want? They wanted (I thought) a socialist, multiculturalist hero dedicated to eradicating the memory of the evil imperialist right-wing American empire represented in their fogged up minds by George Bush. That is what they got. What did they expect Obama to do for Europe that socialist multiculturalist pro-Turkey European leaders have not already done? Obama is one of them, EXCEPT he doesn't care about them, since he has no cultural ties to Europe at all. He represents the New America, dominated by black ghetto culture, slow Islamization, destructive socialism, affirmative action, cold-blooded bioethics, etc... But isn't that a portrait too of the New Europe? So why would they (like the grasshopper), find themselves in need? Because they expect protection from the U.S. in case of a major war? But every time we lift a rifle in defense of America, they scream. And Obama is not about to reopen Guantanamo or engage in a war to preserve the America he claims to represent (despite his token war in Afghanistan). Did Europeans secretly hope Obama would pacify Islam, protect Europe from the consequences of immigration, prevent Turkey 's admission to the EU, or attack the concept of métissage as a good for society? If they did, they certainly have kept their hopes to themselves. So, I don't get it...

The Europeans that Le Conservateur is speaking of wanted MAGIC. They wanted all their miseries to vanish when the racially correct, socially correct, ideologically correct Obama took office. Talk about grand illusions... But did we not have the same illusions? So we do not have the ant's foresight either.

The contemporary illustration (above left) of the La Fontaine fable is by American Willy Aractingi (1930-2003)

Facing the Truth About Islam

Two items of interest from Scandinavia support the belief that Islam is not compatible with Western cultures. Europe News, a Danish website that posts English-language articles, has an extended interview with a young Danish psychologist, Nicolai Sennels, who recently published a book entitled Among Criminal Muslims: a psychologist's experience from Copenhagen. Here are several excerpts:

My encounter with the Muslim culture has been a meeting with an exceedingly strong and very proud culture. This is certainly something that can ensure an ancient culture’s survival through changing times – Islam and the Muslim culture are excellent examples of this. A strong and proud culture unfortunately also makes the culture’s members almost unable to adapt to other values. In Germany, only 12% of their 3.5 million Muslims see themselves as more German than Muslim; in France and Denmark, only 14% of the Muslim populations respectively see themselves more as French or Danish than Muslim. Research among Muslims living in Denmark also shows that 50% of the 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants are against free speech and 11% would like to see the Danish constitution exchanged with the sharia law (more numbers from this research can be found in the printed issue of the newspaper). These high percentages are of course frightening, but especially disturbing is the fact that there are no differences of opinion on this topic among Muslims who are born and raised in Muslim countries and the opinion of their children who are born and raised in Danish society. When it comes to identity among Muslims, nationality does not count at all in comparison with culture and religion. The consequence is a powerful and growing opposition to Western culture and values in Muslim ghettoes throughout Copenhagen and other major European cities. (...)

People hope that most Muslims are modern and accept Western values. My experience is different, and this has been proven by the statistics in Europe that I just quoted. In February 2008, we had some deadly serious riots by young Muslims in Denmark. (...)

Unfortunately many politicians see poverty as the main cause of integration problems. I think this is a horrible and one-dimensional view of poor people and of people in general. The idea that people’s behavior is decided by the amount of money they have on their bank accounts every month is an exceedingly limited view. (...)

The psychological explanation is actually simple. The Muslim and the Western cultures are fundamentally very different. This means Muslims need to undergo very big changes in their identity and values to be able to accept the values of Western societies. Changing basic structures in one’s personality is a very demanding psychological and emotional process. Apparently very few Muslims feel motivated to do so. (...)

Firstly, we should immediately stop all immigration of people from Muslim countries to Europe until we have proven that integration of Muslims is possible.

Secondly, we should help Muslims who don’t want to or are not able to integrate in our Western societies to build a new and meaningful life in a society they understand and that understands them. This means to assist them in starting a new life in a Muslim country. We actually have the economic means to do this.(...)

Read the whole interview with this lucid and courageous young man.


Another post from Bivouac-Id, using a Norwegian paper as its source, reports that Norwegian police have just published new statistics on rape in Norway over the past three years:

The 41 rapes reported were ALL committed by "non-Western" immigrants, mostly Kurds and Somalis. Hanne Kristin Rohde, of the Oslo police, declares that the "guilty are foreign men, relatively young. They are often asylum seekers and come from countries at war or countries that have totally different view of women from that of Norway." These rapes are accompanied by great violence.

(...) The Norwegian paper VG published the story of a 40-year-old Egyptian who could be expelled from Norway. Having acquired refugee status because of his homosexuality in 1995, he became, in the same year, the concubine of a male Norwegian. He obtained Norwegian nationality seven years later; shortly afterwards, he ended his relationship with the Norwegian. During the same period, he had three children with two different Norwegian women. The police believe he committed 8 rapes in the past 9 years. One of the victims committed suicide after the assault. He also had sexual relations with a girl under 16. The Immigration Bureau has just withdrawn his nationality because it had been granted on a false basis. None of which is preventing the "bleeding-hearts" to mobilize in an effort to prevent his expulsion from a country to which he never should have been admitted...