Tom Trento, head of the Florida Security Council was recently in Paris to attend an international conference of people opposed to the growing Islamization in Europe. By that, I don't mean that Europe has a large Muslim immigrant population. Rather the concern is that there is a concerted effort to bring shariah law to Europe.
I have posted previous videos of the regular Friday prayers that are conducted on a public street in Paris, a street where people reside and have businesses. While in Paris, Tom made the below video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Btc9qMALg
So what is the issue here? Certainly, Muslims have the right to conduct their Friday prayers. Nobody would argue with that. The question is do they have the right to take over and barricade an entire block-in violation of the ordinances- and then dictate to outsiders that they may not take pictures or make videos?
It is my understanding that these crowds are an overflow from a mosque located on the site. It looks like the Muslim community needs a bigger mosque (maybe Saudi Arabia will build it for them). My question is; where are the Paris political leaders? It seems that instead of finding a solution, they are simply choosing to ignore it.What are they afraid of, that there will be charges of Islamophobia if they shut this activity down? UN condemnation, perhaps? Are they afraid of a riot? Are they afraid of inviting another terrorist attack? My guess is all four.
How do you think Paris officials would react if someone like Billy Graham decided he was going to have a speaking event on the Champs d'Elysee, have his own security control the street, and not even ask permission of the city? How far would that get?
This is a situation where the true moderate Muslim leaders should step in and decry this activity that is intruding on the lives of Paris citizens and, of course, stoking outrage from Frenchmen. It is they who should take the necessary steps to end this problem.
If they won't the city should, but don't hold your breath. After all, we are talking about France here.
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Perhaps.(Peut etre).
Gary Fouse responding to his own post? That doesn't show much confidence.
Tom Trento's "Florida Security Council" worries me as a vigilante threat to peace, security, good order, the rule of law, and domestic tranquillity, more than anything I saw in that video. Hitler started with outfits like FSC.
There was no "clash of civilizations" depicted. While there certainly was an attempt by a mild-mannered Muslim to inform the camera-wielders that they had no right to film the actual prayers, it is more than obvious that they went ahead and filmed anyway, and nothing violent, or even rude, happened to them. They walked around filming the prayers, making sarcastic remarks, and were not interfered with.
Gary has offered a sensible solution. If, as it appears, the Muslims praying on the street are an overflow crowd, then they need a bigger mosque. Inside the mosque, they of course have every right to control the entry of private or news cameras, and what is filmed.
I sympathize with the preference NOT to be filmed at prayer. I also note that the luridly highlighted "Muslim security" armband is about what ANY organization having any kind of outdoor event is EXPECTED to provide, so that it doesn't all fall on the police.
I don't see anything more here than the average block party shutting down an American city street. Where does this hysteria and paranoia come from?
Siarlys,
You would have been a big hit in Vichy France because you would have damned the French resistance. The FSC does not engage in violent actions or law breaking. They have only pointed out what many choose to ignore. They are the ones who would have stood up to the Nazis in germany at least pre-1933.
As for taking their pictures, if you want to get a thousand people to take over a city street what right do you have to tell anyone they can't film it? They are not the police.
Furthermore, your block party does not interfere with the rights of residents and businesses like this does. This is blatant intimidation and telling the French that they are taking over.
The FSC is in a state of armed resistance against the government of the United States? Seriously Gary, if you are going to compare them to the French resistance, that's what you are implying. Or, maybe you are just being melodramatic...
France was occupied by
a) a foreign military power,
b) a particularly vicious, ideologically racist, military power,
all of which lent a certain moral justification to resistance, which could, nonetheless, prove fatal to many of its participants. Today, they are called heroes. At the time, they were referred to by the Vichy government as "terrorists."
If Trento fancies himself a "resistance fighter," this is one more example of a very American disease: people who are not in the least danger of dying, are in fact leading comfortable lives, fully protected by the First Amendments, BUT hanker for a modest form of martyrdom and a bit of adventurous sense of persecution, without actually suffering any pain.
The Greatest Generation acquired that title AFTER the Depression and World War II were all over, because they somehow fought their way through and SURVIVED some very real hazards. At least those who do Civil War re-enactment understand they are engaged in an expensive hobby, not the real thing.
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