‘We Can’t Have Turkish Laws on French Soil’: Macron Vows to Fight Foreign Imams Preaching ‘Islamist Separatism’

Macron taking tentative steps to deal with France's

rapidly growing Islamic problem

Paris will clamp down on imams from Muslim countries that arrive in France to push worshipers into violating the law, the country's President Emmanuel Macron said, warning Turkey it can't "feed separatism" on French soil.

Macron promised to "gradually" end the program allowing Muslim countries to send imams and teachers to France in order to teach languages and culture unsupervised by the state. Speaking at the town of Mulhouse near the German border, he said that the influence of foreign imams leads some to "separate themselves from the Republic and therefore not respect its laws." 

The French leader singled out Turkey because, unlike Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, Ankara has not yet reached an agreement on the program with Paris. "Turkey today can make the choice to follow that path with us or not, but I won't let any foreign country feed a cultural, religious or identity-related separatism on our Republic's ground," he said.

We cannot have Turkey's laws on French soil. No way.

There are currently 151 Turkish imams in France, according to the Interior Ministry.

Macron stated that he was "not trying to offend anyone, but will not be complacent" either. In order to fight "Islamist separatism," he asked the French Muslim Council (CFCM) to improve the training of imams so they could "master" French laws.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said that the practice of sending foreign imams to France will end in 2024.

If there is anything left of France in 2024?

Turkish parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop blasted Macron’s words as “a sign of primitive Islamophobia.” In a tweet, the senior lawmaker accused Paris of “disrupting peace in [Africa’s] Sahel and Libya and creating chaos in the Muslim world,” as well as supplying arms to insurgent Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who Ankara considers a “putschist.”

Putschist definition: 1. believing that a government should be removed by force

France participated in the 2011 US-led intervention in Libya, during which its longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi was toppled and killed. The North African country has since been devastated by a protracted civil war. Paris and Ankara clashed recently after Turkey threw its support behind the UN-backed Tripoli-based government against Haftar’s forces that have been closing in on the city.

Macron accused Turkey of undermining ceasefire in Libya. The officials in Tripoli, for their part, alleged that Paris has been supplying Haftar with weapons, after French-made missiles were discovered at a base belonging to the anti-government forces.

So long as the inventory keeps moving - that's all that seems to matter.

Pakistan Takes Bold Step in War on Christianity

Eighty-six Pakistani Islamists handed decades in prison for role in violent rallies over Christian woman’s blasphemy acquittal

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Aside from being one of the worst places in the  world to be a girl, Pakistan is probably the single worst country to be a Christian, possibly excepting Nigeria

Pakistani Islamists hold a poster displaying the portrait of Asia Bibi in Lahore on February 1, 2019

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A Pakistani court has sentenced 86 members of a radical Islamist group to 55-year prison terms each for instigating violent protests against the acquittal of a Christian woman who had been accused of insulting Islam.

The decision was announced on Thursday by the court in Rawalpindi, a city near Islamabad. A leader of the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik party, whose members were among the defendants, said that they would appeal the ruling.

I'm inclined to believe that most Pakistanis are, if not radical, at least at a point where they can be triggered at the drop of a hat into hysteria. This is a courageous move by the judges, I hope, and pray, they will not all be murdered by mad imams who do not want Pakistan to enter the 20th century, let alone the 21st.

The 86 were accused of damaging public property, assault and disrupting public order, as part of their unruly protest against the acquittal of Asia Bibi. The Christian woman was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to death, after allegedly quarreling with Muslim farm workers who refused to drink from the same water container as her due to her religion.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court threw out her conviction in 2018, sparking relief from human rights observers, while enraging conservative elements in the country. Several high-ranking Pakistani officials were assassinated after defending Bibi and calling for her release.

Bibi was kept in protective custody after she was freed in October 2018, in light of numerous death threats and high-price bounties placed on her by radical clerics. She joined the rest of her family in Canada in May 2019.

‘You are Islam’s Black Sheep’: 300 Austrian Imams Condemn ISIS Terrorists

Good for them! I believe this to be a true expression of how most Austrian Muslims feel, but not all. In a previous post it was clear that some Austrian Muslims were not as secular minded as the Imams appear to be. Also, some will believe that this is Taqiyah - the practice of denying one's faith in the midst of unbelievers. Taqiyah is outright lying and is authorized by Mohammed. I suspect there may be an element of that but that most of these Imams are genuinely secularized.

The problem comes later when the next generation becomes more fundamentalist than their parents, or when the Salafists from the Gulf States begin to greatly influence Austrian Muslims.

Austria's Imams lift a banner in Vienna, Austria June 14, 2017. © Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters

Islamic clerics in Austria have produced a 9-point declaration, calling ISIS terrorists “black sheep” and urging fellow believers to play a greater role in society, days after Austria introduced a burqa ban and compulsory integration courses.

At least they are recognizing terrorists as Muslim. That's a start. MSM doesn't even do that.

300 imams representing the mainstream Islamic Religious Authority of Austria unveiled a text that “condemns terrorist and extremist acts of violence all over the world,” and “holds that the atrocities of the Islamic State terrorists are contrary to Islam and must be condemned most severely.” 180 imams, or local religious leaders, gathered in Vienna for a signing ceremony, and an additional 120 endorsed the declaration through email.

Would they condemn Mohammed, the first terrorist?

Austria's Imams gather in front of a mosque in Vienna, Austria June 14, 2017. © Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters

The document placed particular attention on reaffirming Austria’s secular values.

“We emphasize the adherence to constitutional principles in the Republic of Austria, including the equality of all citizens before the law, pluralism, democracy and the rule of law,” the declaration says, which insists that “freedom is an indispensable asset for people and that the task of every society is to work for freedom at any time and place.”

According to government statistics, about 22 percent of the country’s 8.7 million population are “of a migrant background.” The exact number of Muslims is harder to calculate – with estimates varying between 5 and 10 percent – though all sources agree that demographic profiles and birthrates mean that they are over-represented among the young.

“Every Muslim man and Muslim woman is to play an active part in the security and peace of the country and its citizens,” the imams say. They also “call upon Muslims to participate actively in various social spheres.”

Amid a resurgence of the nationalist Freedom Party, largely provoked by the influx of over 90,000 migrants into the country since 2015, the discussion of integration, both for settled migrants and asylum-seekers, has dominated the public sphere.

A controversial law was passed by the centrist coalition last month, banning the burqa and niqab – full-face Islamic veils – from October this year, and forcing migrants to attend integration courses in exchange for receiving benefits.

But the declaration says that there is no deeper integration issue presented by Islam, insisting that “terrorism cannot be attributed to a religion, an ethnicity or a culture” and stating that “terrorists misuse our peaceful religion of Islam to reach their political goals.”

Not even Salafism or Wahhabism?

On Wednesday, Austrian security officials said that they knew of only 14 people who traveled to the Middle East to become jihadists in 2016, compared to over 100 at the peak of the Islamic State expansion in 2014. Officials said that their database featured around 300 jihadists, though some of them have been killed, or are still believed to be in Syria or Iraq.

Austria’s imams now further plan to publicize their religion’s peaceful intentions, with plans to send a copy of the declaration to leading politicians, and to form a human chain from a mosque to a Christian church.

Extraordinary Revelations Regarding the Horrific Shooting in Orlando

Worst mass shooting in US history

More than 100 people were shot, half of them are dead, in an attack by a single gunman in a gay bar in Orlando, Florida. It is the worst mass shooting in American history. Amazing information is coming out from all across the country.

Orlando is the US destination city for Disneyworld. It is also the city where singer Christina Grimmie was shot and killed just over 24 hours earlier. Grimmie was a UTube sensation who finished 3rd in the singing competition show 'The Voice'. No motive is yet known for her murder.


Mateen swears allegiance to ISIS

Last night's horror is attributed to a young man named Omar Seddique Mateen, 22. Mateen called police (911) before the attack, swearing allegiance to ISIS, NBC news reported, citing law enforcement sources. The connection is still being investigated.

Mateen was on the FBI's radar having been interviewed by them in 2013 and 2014.

Mateen was an American citizen of Afghani origin who had proper licences to carry weapons.


Also cites Boston Bombers

Mateen also reportedly name-checked the Chechen brothers, responsible for the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013.

"During a conference call with federal law enforcement officials a short time ago, Massachusetts State Police and other local law enforcement authorities learned that the Orlando nightclub gunman, during his rampage, pledged allegiance to ISIS and referenced the Tsarnaev brothers," state police spokesman David Procopio said in an e-mail seen by Reuters.


ISIS sympathizer or gay hater

His father was quoted as saying that it had nothing to do with religion, but that Mateen had seen two men kissing days before and that motivated him to do the massacre. That would make it a hate crime if it were true, although as a Muslim, he is authorized by Mohammed in the Quran to murder gays.

Just today I saw a report of an Imam speaking at a mosque in Orlando in 2013 (the date is questionable; it may have been more recent), in which he stated rather emphatically, that murdering gays was a good thing to do.

Naturally, President Obama is cautious not to implicate Islam, stating that it was certainly a man filled with hate.

“We’ve reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivation of the killer,” US President Barack Obama told reporters at the White House around 2:00pm Eastern time. “What is clear is that he was a person filled with hatred.”

Surely that describes all jihadists!

Congressman Adam Schiff (D-California) also cited law enforcement sources indicating that Mateen committed the attack on behalf of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

"The fact that this shooting took place during Ramadan and that ISIS leadership in Raqqa has been urging attacks during this time, that the target was an LGBT night club during Pride, and - if accurate - that according to local law enforcement the shooter declared his allegiance to ISIS, indicates an ISIS-inspired act of terrorism," Representative Schiff said in a statement.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility Sunday for a deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., that left 50 dead and 53 injured.

"The attack that targeted a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida and that left more than 100 dead and wounded was carried out by an Islamic State fighter," ISIS said in a statement.

The organization offered no proof for the attacks.

Was Mateen an ISIS sympathizer or just a gay hater. It seems pretty clear, he was both. A good Muslim is automatically a gay hater.


Gay Pride parade in LA could have ended same way

Authorities in Santa Monica found possible explosives as well as a cache of weapons and ammunition Sunday in the car of a man who told them he planned to look for a friend at the L.A. Pride festival in West Hollywood, a law enforcement source said.

Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said on Twitter that the suspect told one of her officers after he was arrested that he wanted “to harm Gay Pride event.” But she did not provide any details, and officials said they are still trying to sort out his motives.


Seabrooks identified him as James Howell of Indiana.


Other Muslim attacks on gays

December 31, 2013 – A fire was started in the stairway of a gay nightclub in Seattle, which was quickly extinguished. After suspect Musab Mohammaed Masmari had told a friend that "homosexuals should be exterminated", an informer from the Muslim community told the FBI Masamari may have also been planning terrorist attacks. The native of Benghazi Libya was arrested on his way to Turkey. On July 13, 2014, Masmari was sentenced to 10 years on federal arson charges.


June 1, 2014 – Ahmed Said, 27, and Dwone Anderson-Young, 23, were killed execution-style shortly after midnight in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle shortly after they left a gay nightclub. Both victims were gay. Suspect Ali Muhammad Brown has confessed to killing Said, Anderson-Young, and two men in Seattle and New Jersey, both of whom weren't gay. Brown had previously been convicted of bank fraud and is believed to be in support of Muslim terrorists in Somalia. He told investigators that he was guided strictly by his faith, and that the killings were "just" because they were in retaliation for actions by the U.S. government in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

While these are horrible crimes, I should point out that they are just two attacks on gays by Muslims and pale in comparison with the number of hate crimes against gays committed by non-Muslims.

What can we take away from this?

While it is still very early to draw any conclusions from this massacre, some things are clear:

1 Muslim radicals hate gays
2 Muslim radicals think they are doing a good thing in murdering gays
3 Muslim radicals are not always obvious until they do something insane
4 Muslim radicals are all insane
5 Muslim radicals have easy, and legal access to extremely deadly weapons in US
6 Muslim Imams in US preach the murdering of gays
7 Being on the FBI watch list doesn't make you less dangerous
8 America will not be a safer place with more Muslims in it

Muslim Prison Chaplains 'Encouraging Murder of Non-Believers'

Review commissioned by Michael Gove 

found extremist pamphlets and CDs 

in more than UK 10 jails in November

Hannah Stubbs

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Muslim prison chaplains have routinely distributed Islamist literature, according to a leaked report.

A review which started in September, commissioned by Justice Secretary Michael Gove, found extremist pamphlets and CDs in more than 10 jails in November.

The material included homophobic and misogynistic sentiments and encouraged the murder of apostates - Muslims who leave or reject the religion, according to the Times.

The report on what was found has not yet been cleared for publication.

It is said to have concluded that many Muslim prison chaplains were under-equipped for counter-radicalisation work, "sometimes because they lacked the capability but often because they didn't have the will".

Prisoners at more than one jail were encouraged by chaplains to fund-raise for Islamic charities that had links to terrorism, according to the report, which warned that lax controls and senior level failings had allowed the problems to occur.

The Times reported that jails in England and Wales held 12,328 Muslim inmates at the start of 2016.

Convicted terrorists numbered 131 and a further 1,000 were deemed vulnerable to radicalisation.

Muslims make up 4.8% of the population but 14.5% of prisoners. Almost exactly 3 times the rate of non-Muslim Brits.

About 100 Muslim chaplains are employed full time in jails on salaries of up to £40,000 (about $45,000USD or $57,000CAD). 

Pretty nice. Getting paid well by the British government to radicalize Muslims. Surely, that will make them better citizens.

Denmark May Strip Radical Imams of Citizenship

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Denmark might soon be able to strip radicalized imams of citizenship. The proposal is expected to be supported by a majority in parliament.

The initiative comes from the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, and has received backing from the ruling Liberal Party, the opposition Social Democrats and the Conservative party.

"The Constitution says that one must practice his faith as long as it is not contrary to morals or disturbing to the public order,” Martin Henriksen, Danish People's Party's spokesman told the Berlingske newspaper on Monday.

“When imams endorse or recommend stoning or when an imam tells a woman subjected to violence by her husband, that that’s okay, then it [may be considered] subversive speech that disturbs the public order. Some of these imams are Danish citizens, and we think we should deprive them of their citizenship," he said.

The proposal was made in particular to withdraw citizenship from Abu Bilal, a leading imam at the Grimhoj mosque in the city of Aarhus. A recent documentary, ‘Mosques behind the Veil,’ revealed that the imam advocated the stoning of adulterous women and the killing of apostates.

It drives me crazy that western countries seem to take forever to get rid of radical Imams. I'm glad Denmark is finally getting around to it.

Danish Prime Minister Lokke Rasmussen urged MPs to come up with measures to counter the growth of radical Islam after the documentary exposed the activities of such radical mosques.

The Danish People’s Party is set to make two new proposals in the upcoming set of negotiations with the Danish PM. The party is to present a draft resolution on stripping Abu Bilal of his Danish citizenship and then to review the Constitution’s clause on religious freedom.

Rasmussen said that he will be willing to “push the limits” of the interpretation of the Danish Constitution when reviewing the proposals, the Local reported.

"We are open to all solutions that can stop the radicalized imams," said Trine Bramsen, the Social Democrats' spokesman, according to the Berlingske newspaper.

Marcus Knuth, the Liberal Party’s immigration spokesman, said the proposal was “a really good idea.”

“I personally think it sounds like a really good idea… You are not just talking about twisted old imams. These are the mosques that have shaped many Syrian fighters, and they can be a threat to national security,” he said.

The president of Grimhoj Mosque, however, called the measure a very drastic step, saying it would only encourage radicalization.

"We will not solve the problem that way, but risk creating more radicalization. I do not understand the thinking. Denmark is the best country I live in and I have no interest in destroying it," Oussama El-Saadi said.

In January, the Danish government passed measures that allowed the confiscation of valuables from refugees. The new laws also delayed refugees’ reunification with family members for three years. Integration Minister Inger Stojberg said the goal of the new legislation was for Denmark to become “significantly less attractive for asylum-seekers.” The move was greeted by severe criticism from human rights groups.