Arabic: France’s New Second Language
by Hélène de Lauzun, European Conservative, November 24, 2023:
A newly released study shows, for the first time in French history, that the second most widely spoken language in the country is dialectal Arabic, with an estimated population of between three and four million speakers. The resulting population ratio in favour of people mainly of North African origin is fraught with consequences.France has had the distinction of having enshrined French as its official language in its constitution since 1992. Alongside French, there are some 72 regional languages and so-called ‘non-territorial’ languages. These include dialectal Arabic, which, according to Le Figaro, is ahead of the Creole languages spoken in the French overseas territories, Berber, Alsatian, Occitan, and Breton. French, regional languages, and non-territorial languages make up together what are known as the ‘languages of France.’
English is not mentioned here, curiously.
Today, dialectal Arabic is spoken by more people than all the other regional languages combined. However, its linguistic contours are blurred and difficult to define, as it is the result of a variety of influences, depending in particular on its origins, mainly the various countries of North Africa that were formerly French possessions—Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. In France, there is also dialectal Arabic of Lebanese, Egyptian, or Syrian origin, but this is in a minority. Depending on their country of origin, speakers of this dialectal Arabic do not necessarily understand each other, as there are so many variants. There can be as many differences between a speaker from the Arabian Peninsula and a Moroccan speaker as there are between Portuguese and Romanian, both of which are Romance languages, explains linguist Jean Sellier….
Annalena Baerbock is cute as can be, but, like my little puppy, there is nothing between the ears.
Allahu Akbar Baerbock: Germany takes in
25 Afghan Sharia judges
translated from “Allahu Akbar Baerbock: Deutschland nimmt 25 afghanische Scharia-Richter auf,”
by Bettina Sauer, Journalisten Watch, November 30, 2023:
There is no end to the Islam-devotee madness: Through the so-called “Resettlement Program for Afghans at Risk,” Annalena Baerbock has promised at least 25 Sharia judges acceptance into Germany. Hundreds of other applicants have massive doubts about their identity.
Journalist Birgit Kelle is not the only one demanding: This government must go!
In 2022, the Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of the Interior agreed to take 44,000 Afghans into Germany. In March 2023, the resettlement program for the allegedly endangered Afghans was suspended because there were massive “indications of possible attempts at abuse in the ongoing admission procedures from Afghanistan.”
According to information from the Pakistani embassy, among the Afghan visa applicants that Baerbock brings into the country are Islamists, illiterates, fraudsters and terrorists. Many applicants would hardly be able to cope with the German value system, and many educational backgrounds would also be questionable because qualifications from Koranic schools cannot be compared with university diplomas from Europe. At that time, the Federal Ministry of the Interior even explicitly warned the Foreign Office about the total green catastrophe Baerbock would bring people to Germany.
However, as portals such as Nius and Cicero Online reported, Annalena Baerbock personally opposed this. @cicero’s online research into the federal government’s Afghan resettlement is nothing less than a massive scandal and in times when this country has not yet been taken hostage by left-green henchmen, this was a reason for resignation. Once again in plain language: The Green Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her authority gave a promise of admission to so-called Islamists, sabotaged security checks and brought thousands upon thousands of Muslims into the country who were dangerous to the citizens of this country.
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Paris knife attacker shows 'failure' of psychiatric care,
France interior minister says
There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalised Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested, France's interior minister said Monday.
Issued on: 04/12/2023 - 13:35, 3 min
By: NEWS WIRES
The attack close to the Eiffel Tower has increased concerns in France over the risk of Islamist attacks, particularly with the French capital now barely half a year away from hosting the 2024 summer Olympic Games.
The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental troubles.
2nd generation Muslim migrants are known in the UK to be more religiously zealous than their parents.
"There was clearly a failure, not from the point of view of his monitoring by the intelligence services, but a psychiatric failure," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told BFM TV, adding that the attacker had an "acute mental illness".
"Doctors said on several occasions that he was doing better, was more normal and could be free," he said.
These doctors are obviously not familiar with the effects of Islam. As Dr. Wafa Sultan explains - all radicalized Muslims are mentally ill. Until Minister Darmanin grasps that concept, he will never figure out Islam and France will continue to approach the edge of the cliff.
'Exploiting weaknesses'
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a French national born in 1997, killed a 23-year-old German-Filipino man with two blows from a hammer and four stab wounds from a knife on Saturday evening close to the Eiffel Tower.
Questioned in custody, he "fully accepts and takes responsibility for his actions" and "everything suggests that he acted alone", a source close to the investigation, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
He claimed to have acted in "response to the persecution of Muslims around the world" while appearing "very cold and clinical", the source added.
The investigation is being handled by French anti-terror prosecutors who have opened a probe into a suspected "terrorist" plot.
France's top anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said Sunday that the man's mother had reported concerns about him as recently as October, but that there was insufficient proof at the time to take legal action.
He had already been arrested in 2016 for planning an attack, eventually serving four years in prison, and had been under close watch following his release.
Darmanin said the attacker's mother had warned police that her son was no longer taking his medication and that intelligence services had suggested he should be hospitalised. But she did not want that and then reported he was doing better.
He said regional authorities currently did not have the power to issue an administrative order for such an individual to undergo psychiatric treatment, and "this has to change".
Rajabpour-Miyandoab had been radicalised through contacts on the Internet rather than meeting people at a mosque, Darmanin said, adding that the attacker had also been in touch with perpetrators of similar past attacks.
These contacts included a radicalised Islamist from Russia's northern Caucasus region and future killer of teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded outside his school near Paris in 2020.
"Terrorism is changing and exploiting the weaknesses of our system," Darmanin said.
Four people -- the attacker and three other people from his family and close circle -- were still in custody on Monday morning, a source close to anti-terrorism prosecutors told AFP.
'No plan B'
The attack late Saturday came as France is at its highest alert level against the background of the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, and following the killing of a teacher in a school by a radicalised Islamist in October.
Shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest"), Rajabpour-Miyandoab fled over the Bir Hakeim bridge across the river Seine after a taxi driver intervened.
Meeting a police patrol on the other side, he claimed to be wearing an explosive belt before running again, striking two passers-by -- a 66-year-old British citizen and a 60-year-old French person -- with a hammer.
He was finally stopped with two shots from a stun gun and taken into custody.
Ricard said Rajabpour-Miyandoab had posted a video on social media where he swore allegiance to the Islamic State group and expressed his support for jihadists.
The attack has amplified security concerns over the Olympics, due to begin with an unprecedented opening ceremony on the Seine, which experts see as a potential vulnerable target for an attack.
But Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said there was no plan to scrap the idea, while indicating that the river ceremony could be adapted.
"There is no plan B, we have a plan A within which we have several alternatives," she told France Inter radio.
(AFP)
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