Rapper Threatens Christine Tasin

Update: September 28 - The first cartoon below, with the red background, was inadvertently omitted from the original post. Apologies for my oversight. Fortunately, it did not change the basic meaning of the article.

A rapper named Cortex has made death threats against Christine Tasin. The article in Riposte Laïque, written by editorialist Cyrano, is much too long to translate. Here are a few passages, plus some cartoons. It begins with a discussion of a Daily Motion video in which:

(...) this caricature of an Islamized thug, with a hate-filled, severely limited vocabulary says it all. He says he is a Muslim, of the religion of peace and love, but if someone criticizes Islam, that person deserves death! He does not see himself as French, but as a foreigner (he's right about that!). He shows his contempt for emancipated women, for homosexuals, and thumbs his nose repeatedly. He threatens to cut out Christine's tongue with a hatchet.

Note: Daily Motion has since removed the video.

How can this individual, who also threatened Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, still publish videos, when the song "Peuple de France" was banned?

Note: "Peuple de France" was a song composed by a reader of Riposte Laïque. I am not familiar with it, but it sounds like it was a rousing and patriotic anthem, that the staff of RL liked immediately. It has been removed from YouTube, while the sludge written by Cortex is allowed on Daily Motion.

Remarks like those made by Cortex, besides the serious threats to Christine's safety, reveal, in a raw state, a hatred of the values of our country, and notably our "laïque" principles and our freedom of expression. His words are a call to violence. A call to murder. His words are fascist and racist. They are the types of remarks that incite an entire uncultured generation to take up arms against the citizens of our country. (...)

Cortex illustrates better than any long speech the editorial I wrote entitled: "France is in a state of civil war. It's a fact".

Note: The above statement on "laïque" principles is debatable. Cyrano is reducing this struggle to one of "laïcité" versus barbarity, when it is a struggle between civilization and barbarity. France cannot be reduced to one principle. However, we have to accept Riposte Laïque for what it is - the advocate of laïcité, even when laïcité has proven itself to be useless, or worse - harmful.

The cartoon below shows excerpts from rap songs, primarily from a group called "Lunatic". Since I don't know current French slang, here is the best I can do to translate, starting at the top, moving down the right side, and over to the left:



"I'd like to draw my gun on the chalk faces."

Note: "Chalk face" is their term for "white man".

"Start worrying for your wives, your children, your race; we are here, and we're gonna kick you out".

"One day I smile at you; the next day I kill you".

"Vote to take the pigs to the morgue."

"We'll leave with their money, their blood and their clothes."

"I came to eat and to sh.. here. When I see France, her legs spread apart, I screw her without oil."

"F... the judges, only God can judge me."

Cyrano goes on to say that none of the so-called "anti-racisim" associations have a bad word to say about rappers like Cortex. On behalf of Christine he thanks all those who sent words of encouragement, and he insists that videos such as the one cited above will only strengthen the determination of RL to continue the struggle.

The cartoons below depict Cortex. He says:

"I'm not a racist! I respect religions, especially the religion of peace and love...

"So if a white bitch speaks badly about islam, I'll kill her!"





"French" rappers are exceptionally sadistic towards the country they live in. Since I don't follow the world of rap here in America, I am not able to make a comparison. I know that rap here, as in France, also expresses contempt for women and hatred of whites, and that it encourages and delights in violence. Rap is a brutal expression of the most unleashed primitive impulses of barbaric man. It is unimagineable to me that this sort of thing can be written, produced, and played on the airwaves. All over town, we hear this stuff - blaring out of automobiles, sometimes in restaurants, even at the gym. We hear it on buses despite the earphones they wear, since they turn the volume up so loud, we hear it in the subway stations where groups of thuggish-looking individuals "perform" for our edification. It is more than a public nuisance. It is an attack on civilization itself and constitutes a criminal act. Freedom of speech is not for everyone.

Of course, there is decent rap, where the lyrics do not express violent hatred. There is even "classical" rap, some of it very funny. The poem Façade by British poet Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964) were set to music, rap-style, by British composer William Walton in 1926.

The rap we are dealing with in today's ghettos is the expression of hatred for the countries that have taken in immigrants, fed them, housed them, educated them and provided them with medical services. Sometimes it is really better not to help anybody, unless it is your equal.