by Guy Millière
January 1, 2015
France is a country where so-called “anti-racist” organizations, heavily subsidized by the government, fight for the most part only a single “racism”: “Islamophobia.”
It is now a country where the only people allowed to speak freely of Islam to large audiences are those who describe it as a religion of peace and unlimited love.
People prosecuted and fined for uttering critical remarks on Islam, such as Christine Tasin, say out loud what thousands think without daring to speak.
Polls show that French citizens in ever-increasing numbers are concerned about the rising proportion of unintegrated Muslims in the country, the endless expansion of no-go zones, the increasing number of Islamic converts, and the “replacement” of the French people.
“Mental patients,” screaming “Allahu Akbar,” are storming France.
France is now a country where critical remarks on Islam are systematically banned from mainstream media and where any negative sentence about the Muslim religion leads to fines, payment of damages, and censorship.
And it is a country where so-called “anti-racist” organizations, heavily subsidized by the government, fight for the most part only a single “racism”: “Islamophobia.”
Words such as “Islamism” or “radical Islam” have disappeared from the vocabulary of journalists and politicians, and are replaced by fuzzy words: “radicalism” and “extremism”.
The only people apparently allowed to speak freely of Islam to large audiences are those who describe it as a religion of peace and unlimited love.
Take, for example the recent case of Christine Tasin, a founder of Riposte Laïque [Secular Response].
She went to Belfort on October 15, 2013, to make a video news report on a temporary slaughterhouse installed for the Muslim feast day of Eid El Adha, which commemorates Ibrahim’s obedience to Allah in offering to sacrifice his only son. Upon her arrival at the slaughterhouse, the manager asked her to leave. He also called her an “Islamophobic racist.” She answered that she is, actually, Islamophobic, but not racist; and added that “Islam is rubbish.” The verbal exchange was filmed. Muslim associations filed complaints against her.
 Christine Tasin engages in a verbal exchange on October 15, 2013, which led to here being charged with the crime of making “statements likely to provoke rejection of Muslims.” |
On August 9, 2014, a court declared Tasin guilty of making “statements likely to provoke rejection of Muslims,” and she was sentenced to a heavy fine of 3,000 euros ($3,700).
Tasin responded by saying that the court had acted as if it were an “Islamic court” and that it was showing “submission to Sharia.” She appealed the judgment. The appeal judgment, delivered on December 18, constituted a repudiation of the first judgment; all charges against Christine Tasin were dropped.
The same day, a case against Marine Le Pen, president of the populist National Front party, concerning statements she made in 2010 about the “occupation” of the street by illegal Muslim prayers, was also dropped.
Some might think that these two decisions are encouraging signs, showing that the French justice is not completely muzzled and that some judges still maintain an independent spirit.
A broader look, however, calls for caution. In the previous months, many French who publicly criticized Islam and its consequences were severely condemned by France’s justice system:
On June 5, Pierre Cassen and Pascal Hillout, two other members of Riposte Laïque, weresentenced to an extremely heavy fine of 21,200 euros ($26,000) for having written that “street prayers, veils and mosques” were “symbols of occupation and conquest.”
On April 10, author Renaud Camus was fined 4,000 euros ($5,000) for having said in 2010 that Muslim culture was slowly “replacing” French culture.
Three years earlier, in February 2011, writer and political journalist Eric Zemmour wassentenced to a fine of 1,000 euros ($1,250) and a payment of 10,000 euros ($12,500) to various associations and leagues. He had said during a talk show that “the majority of drug dealers in France are black and Arab Muslims.” The judges considered this was an “incitement to racial discrimination.”
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