Rally at Iranian Embassy, September 19

A communiqué from Résistance Républicaine, the group founded by Christine Tasin of Riposte Laïque, shortly after the June 18 Apéro, has been issued and posted at Bivouac-Id, among other websites:

Come join us at 4 avenue d'Iéna, Paris 16, to say that we do not want France to become an Islamic Republic.

Come defend freedom of expression and laïcité, and to say no to the crime of blasphemy that Islamic countries want to impose on the UN and the entire planet.

And come also to support Christine Tasin who has been the object of death threats.

The rules for the gathering will be the same as those for June 18 and September 4 - no proselytizing, no sign of political partisanship, and only French flags are acceptable.

The tract (above), besides condemning the crime of blasphemy and the murder of men and women in the name of the Koran, indicates another demand being made by Résistance Républicaine that is certain to arouse some discussion, since it implies the reformability of Islam:

Because Sharia must be expurgated of barbaric rules that are incompatible with our laws, our values and with the European Convention on Human Rights.

At the bottom, in small print are the organizations joining in this rally. Included are Bivouac-Id, SITA, Liberty Vox, and Résilience TV, all sources I have used at one time or another. Absent are the Front National and its off-shoots like the MNR, the PDF, the Ligue du Sud, and the Bloc Identitaire.

The "extreme" Right or, if you prefer, the Traditionalist Right or the Nationalist-Sovereigntist-Regionalist Right (it's hard to come up with a satisfactory name) is definitely absent from this one. I don't know for sure why this is so, but it is easy to guess that the left-leaning approach by RR is the cause.