The MRAP Report
One of my favorite websites, Le Conservateur, had not posted since December 3. I became concerned, as I'm sure all of his readers did. Yesterday, at last! he posted this very short entry with a link to a report from MRAP:
This report has nothing to do with my decision to take a break, temporary or permanent only time will tell, from my blogging activity, since I only learned about this little moral lesson today.
He then links to a 154-page report in pdf format from MRAP (Movement Against Racism and for Friendship among Peoples), one of several so-called watchdog agencies monitoring "racism" in France. The report contains the findings of an exhaustive investigation undertaken in 2008-2009 that traced, tracked, and identified websites deemed by MRAP as "racist", "anti-Semitic", "racialist", "ethno-differentialist", "extreme-right", extreme-Catholic right, "Nazi", etc... I cannot here list all categories because I have only skimmed the report.
Le Conservateur is cited on page 58 (I believe it actually starts on page 57). I was mildly surprised to find GalliaWatch cited on page 132, not as a racist site but as a site that VISITED a racist site, namely Novopress. The report states that those sites hosted in countries that do not have laws against hate-speech, such as the United States, cannot be pursued by MRAP. This does not prevent MRAP from citing countless Blogspot websites hosted by Google.
Translating such a report is out of the question. French readers can consult it, and it is linked at the MRAP website. There is an introduction to the report that summarizes its aims. Here are excerpts:
More that two thousand URL (including 1000 blogs) were thus rated. A summary analysis of the general tendency was done for almost 1500 of them and a few dozen were analyzed in detail, with quotations.
Since anybody today can express himself on the web, it is necessary to be able to differentiate between the isolated blog of a fanatic, on the one hand, and networks that are formed, on the other; between a site with a limited following, on the one hand, and those that are referenced by dozens of other sites for the purpose of gathering information, on the other.
Note: The above statement requires more clarification. Websites that are frequently referenced theoretically include sites like Le Monde, don't they? If an "extreme Catholic" site references Le Monde scores of times, why is the Catholic site accused, and not Le Monde? I do not remember seeing the MSM cited on MRAP's list, however I must do more careful reading of that report, something I'm reluctant to do short of absolute necessity.
Back to the introduction and some "global" findings:
Sites and blogs that develop overtly racist themes: Anti-Semitic: 44; Islamophobic: 75; Nazi: 25; Negationist: 11; Diverse racist: 23.
Other sites, without being qualified as racist, develop themes exploited by the racists: denunciation of the "dangers of immigration," clash of civilizations, lack of security, etc... :
Extreme Catholic Right: 101; Front National: 106; Identitarian: 264; MPF: 33; Partie de la France: 9; Soral: 14; Other extreme Right sites: 125.
Reminders: MPF refers to the Mouvement pour la France, Philippe de Villier's party. Partie de la France is Carl Lang's party that split away from the Front National. Soral refers to the Leftist philosopher Alain Soral, who for a while was a member and policy-maker at the Front National.
The report notes the following:
The very great interconnection of the sites: the study identified the "hubs" of the web: François Desouche (Identitarian), Le Salon Beige and E-Deo (extreme Catholic Right), Novopress (Identitarian press agency), for example.
Note: To accuse websites such as Le Salon Beige of racism is in itself "racist" against the Catholic religion. In recent years, the main theme at Le Salon Beige has been the pro-life movement, not anti-Islamism. Bernard Antony is also cited numerous times. He is a defender of Catholicism and Christianity. He is not a racist. To read this report one would think that being a traditional Catholic is grounds for prosecution on "racist" grounds, presumably because such sites do not want Islam in France.
Here are more ways of identifying undesirable sites:
The role of auction sites, of sites where videos are shared, of Wiki encyclopedia sites.
Note: Why auction sites? I think it is because some of them may sell items such as Nazi emblems (or possibly a Mohammed cartoon?). I wonder if MRAP would condemn an auction site for selling a photo of Hitler conferring with the grand mufti of Jerusalem?
The persistence of Nazi themes.
The difficulties of the struggle against negationist sites.
Note: I'm not sure what that refers to.
"Traditional" anti-Semitic sites, heirs to pre-war publishers, hosted by Anne Kling, Hervé Ryssen, Boris Le Lay, as well as the anti-Semitic drift of the site "Les Ogres", connected to Dieudonné, that use as a pretext the defense of the rights of Palestinians...
Note: The above is carefully twisted language. While MRAP cites Anne Kling directly, it only cites Les Ogres and its founder Dieudonné obliquely - notice the "drifts" and the "connected to" as if Dieudonné really is not responsible.
The report accuses Dieudonné of being an extreme right-winger (!) and part of the Front National, with a pretense of helping the Palestinians, a highly debatable (and not worth debating now) claim. The machinations and provocations of the attention-seeking Dieudonné, and the ambiguities of the Front National are topics unto themselves. Dieudonné is at bottom a friend of MRAP, but since he has made anti-Semitic comments he must be included on MRAP's list. Anne Kling is not a friend of MRAP, so her anti-Semitism can be attacked directly. MRAP has to deal as deftly as it can with the fact that it is expected to fight anti-Semitism, all the while being a protector of Muslims in France. Using left-wing Jews as pro-Muslim agents is an excellent way to "amalgamate" two entirely different issues; just as using Muslims as pro-Jewish agents can show that Muslims are friends of Jews. (Note: this happened recently when an "imam" claimed he was attacked by Muslims because he was a friend of Jews.)
The twists and turns of the language used by the report, its fallacies, its "amalgamations", i.e., what we call "guilt by association" are staggering.
The report lists websites entering into those sites called "hubs", as well as websites referenced by the hubs.
The report cites the readers' comments at François Desouche as being "condemnable", noting however that the site itself is "prudent". Would MRAP take to court an FDS reader? Or FDS itself?
Note: I post this with an appeal to be cautious about this report. I do not know if it can be taken seriously, if the French government will take measures against the accused websites, or even if it is worth reading carefully. I leave that up to you for now. I will return to the topic only if I feel it is necessary or helpful.
Here again is a link to the French-language pdf report.
For a very brief English-language introduction to MRAP itself here is a link to Wikipedia.
Below the photo shows the celebration on May 22, 1949, when MRAP was inaugurated. Back then, in the wake of the war, it was primarily an organization that monitored anti-Semitism. It has evolved into a pro-immigration agency that protects Muslims, although many left-wing Jews are still members, often attorneys serving the Muslim cause. Tunisian-born Gisèle Halimi for example, a radical left-wing feminist who befriended and defended Jean-Paul Sartre, collaborated with Simone de Beauvoir, presided over a commission on American war crimes in Viet-Nam, among her other accomplishments. The current leadership of MRAP is in the hands of a "college of presidents": Bernadette Hétier, Mouloud Aounit, and Renée le Mignot.
With its focus on one-way racism, affirmative action and forced métissage, MRAP today is an agency of intellectual terrorism, and quite useful to the State in the implementation of its anti-French policies. MRAP has, on occasion (and I assume only to save face) condemned anti-white racism. I know of no French conservative website or writer that has anything positive to say about MRAP. The KGB-style investigations, the ambiguous language, the stated goals vs the real goals, the fear instilled in innocent people at the prospect of being dragged into court by MRAP, place it on an equal footing with the worst thought-police inquisitions of the past.
Below, The poster from last year for a MRAP convention in Paris. The theme of the meeting was: For a world of solidarity, without racism: migrants and refugees in the world.
Update: March 6, 2010 - This post has been slightly modified. A few sentences were reworded to make them clearer. Nothing fundamental was changed.
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Anti-White Racism, Intellectual Terrorism, Internet, MRAP, Racism
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The sweep of such a document is simply appalling. Who do these people think that they are to judge the actions of free people in other countries? Such incredible arrogance!!
The report contains the findings of an exhaustive investigation undertaken in 2008-2009 that traced, tracked, and identified websites deemed by MRAP as "racist", "anti-Semitic", "racialist", "ethno-differentialist", "extreme-right", extreme-Catholic right, "Nazi", etc...
Do they track extreme leftist organisations as well? I wouldn't count on it, since in the minds of these people revolutionary agitation against the bourgeoisine doesn't constitute a threat to "Friendship among Peoples". It's always "no enemies on the Left".
Using left-wing Jews as pro-Muslim agents is an excellent way to "amalgamate" two entirely different issues...
Left-wing Jews very often are pro-Muslim agents despite obvious signs of Islamic antisemitism everywhere in Europe, because as leftists they nevertheless prefer Muslims to white Christians. Of course that can only fuel white antisemitism in the end.
DrD is absolutely right : this is pure arrogance, the usual attitude of those who cling to an ideology ; that reminds me of Sartre saying that Camus was "un chien" because he criticized USSR and the French Communist party! Well, Sartre is slowly but definitely sinking into oblivion, and Camus will remain in literature !
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BEWARE OF ISLAM
The Judicial Police officer and the Interpol are investigating a denunciation by a 36 year old businesswoman from Paredes (Portugal), who says she has been threatened with death, sequestrated, during three days, in Dubai, and forced to give away the quota of the business that she had in this country.
After having spent moments of terror in Dubai, at the hands of the Lebanese businessman who is accused of having sequestrated her, the businesswoman says, even in Portugal, she and her family have been receiving death threats, by fax.
Everything began nearly six years ago, when the businesswoman, owner of a factory of furniture, in Paredes (Portugal), participated, in Dubai, in several international markets of furnishings. In the first visit the businesswoman established a commercial agreement with a distributor of Pakistani furnishings, but when she noticed that he was copying the original pieces in Sharjah (one of seven Arab emirates), and didn’t comply with the established agreement, decided to stablish a branch of her business in Dubai, in 1997.
As in that country any foreigner who wants to stablish a business must do it with a local partner, with the majority quota in the commercial society, the businesswoman contacted a “sponsor” that became owner of 51 % of the society.
A year later, an Albanian friend introduced her to the 30 year old Lebanese businessman, and his 29 years old sister. When a good relation was established, the businesswoman sold 24 % of the business to the Lebanese, for 75 thousand euros, and an year term was stablished to pay it. The objective was to implement the business of furnishings in the Arabic Peninsula, and that Paredes’s factory would produce the furnishings for Dubai. Last year, the Lebanese visited Paredes’s factory and, some time later, it was his sister who went to see the industry. “They were at my home, I always treated them well and we reached a height in which there was already complete confidence. They were visiting the factory at their own will”, said the businesswoman who, besides opening the doors of her house, visited the house of the parents of the Lebaneses in Beirut (Lebanon). But the business began to run badly …
The first orders for the Dubai, a value of 150 thousand euros, were not paid. Without the money of the sold quota and, meantime, written up on behalf of the foreigner; and without the money of the product, the businesswoman decided to set foot on the way and “flew” alone, in the beginning of this month, for Dubai, showing by surprise in the offices.
She says that she noticed quickly the theft of money and falsification of documents. The Lebanese was irritated and warned her that she was not going to receive any money. “He threatened me with death and said to shut up, because I would have to pass gratuitously my part of the business to his name and would keep on supplying him with products, otherwise my family was going to be killed”, she explained, and was forced, on the next day, to go to a notary and to pass her quota to him.
“He showed to me in his computer videos and photos of my factory, of my house, of my children, of my husband. He knew completely what was going on in the factory and at home, I even suspect they entered in the computer system”, said the businesswoman. “I went trough bad moments and was afraid that they were killing me. I couldn’t even believe I was back to Paredes (Portugal). We already changed the computer system of the factory, put it under vigilance and I walk in panic because I fear for my family”, she says. “My luck, in the Dubai, was that I had left the passport in the offices of a few Swiss lawyers. When I noticed the situation I tried to ask for help, but I was always warned that their word was worth more than mine”
http://jn.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Policia/Interior.aspx?content_id=1396375
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