Hat tip Rèsistance Rèpublicaine
The US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim Brotherhood front group, is taking issue with French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to rein in Islamist violence. More specifically, CAIR is protesting the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (Collectif Contre Islamophobie en France-CCIF). In fact, they are offering office space to the French organization in their Washington hqs. To be accurate, the CCIF announced that they were self-dissolving in the face of the government's threat to shut it down. Here is their own statement to that effect in both French and English. Below is CAIR's offer to provide office space to CCIF.
At the same time, CAIR is tweeting out a message that Macron is taking France into a "very dark turn". CAIR, quoting an op-ed in the Washington Post by someone named Karen Attiah, whoever she is. I would link the article, but it is only accessible to Washington Post subscribers.
https://twitter.com/CAIRNational/status/1335606416476815363
Of course, lost in the background of all this, if mentioned at all, is the sheer bloodshed that has swept over France in recent years in the form of terror attacks, murders, beheadings and assaults upon Christian churches and French Jews by Islamists in France including the most recent beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty and the attack on a church in Nice. It is clear that CAIR could care less about French lives. It should also be noted that like CAIR, the CCIF has been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt.
In fact, France has been going down a very dark road for years now with too many bloody Islamist attacks to list here. The list is so long and so horrific, it would make even Robespierre blush.
Finally, I am cross-posting a current article by the French blog, Rèsistance Rèpublicaine, concerning the CCIF. (Translation by Fousesquawk.) The article reports an interview by the French news outlet, Figaro Vox, with French attorney Richard Malka. Mr Malka is a lawyer representing Isabelle Kersimon, a French journalist who had been dragged into court by CCIF for criticizing the organization and stating that they had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Mr Malka also represents Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine that had published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad and was the victim of a terrorist attack in 2015, in which 12 people lost their lives.
* Note that Rèsistance Rèpublicaine occasionally interjects "editor notes" during the interview to comment on Mr Malko's statements.
The CCIF loses its case: It is well-linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and its stats are bogus!
- 26 June 2019
The tribunal recognizes these "two pans attached to the tail" of CCIF, and yet, the same CCIF is still allowed into the courts to make complaints against patriots and try to manipulate the judges.....Look for the error.
-Christine Tasin
Richard Malka: "The statistics of the CCIF on Islamophobia are not trustworthy!"
-Figarovox/Entretien-
In a judgment rendered 18 June, the tribunal rules that the remarks of Isabelle Kursimon about the CCIF were not defamatory. In 2015, the journalist had denounced the CCIF (statistical) numbers of Islamophobic acts. Her lawyer, Richard Malka, responds to FigaroVox.
Richard Malka is a lawyer in the Paris bar. He represents, notably, Charlie Hebdo magazine.
FigaroVox: -The tribunal ruled that your client, Isabelle Kersimon, had made no defamatory remarks in regard to CCIF.
So it is not prohibited to affirm that this group (CCIF) is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Richard Malka
-That point, in effect, has been judged not defamatory, and (is) relevant to freedom of opinion and analysis.
As it happens, the closeness of the CCIF with the Muslim Brotherhood, and in particular with Tariq Ramadan and Hani Ramadan, grandsons of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna, seemed to me indisputable.
Isabelle Kersimon made reference to it, and the tribunal ruled that it had nothing to reproach her for.
Indeed, the CCIF representatives were embarrassed when these questions were raised during the hearing.
But in the end, the Muslim Brotherhood is not banned in France.
The CCIF may participate in a large number of discussions in common with them and maintain a friendship and intellectual complicity.
-Editor note: A little short in my opinion. The Muslim Brotherhood " is an organization of fascist inspiration connected to foreign nations. The laws of the Republic are widely sufficient to ban and expel people who complain about it.
You simply have to assume it.
The remarks made by the journalist were made during a broadcast where she criticized the CCIF for having published "bogus" statistics on Islamophobia.
It is from these numbers, the CCIF constructs a discussion of permanent victimization.
In effect, the CCIF published its own numbers on Islamophobia in 2015, and these seemed clearly exaggerated compared to those of the Interior Ministry, but also compared to those of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith), which, moreover, questioned the trustworthiness of the CCIF.
What Isabelle Kersimon criticized about the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, which since 2012, no longer publishes the list of cases it considers as being Islamophobic, is their making a "catch all", in which they tabulated the expulsions of imams who called for jihad, prosecutions against imams who called for the rape of women who wear skirts, or those making anti-Semitic remarks.....
It is ubiquitous!
The demonstration by Isabelle Kersiom was remarkably done, with the judge finding nothing wrong with it, which means that the statistics of the CCIF are not trustworthy-to use a euphemism.
That is very important to say because it is beginning with these numbers that CCIF builds its discourse of permanent victimization, which then leads to a feeling of humiliation and violence.
It is there that the decision of the tribunal is extremely interesting.
One cannot trust the CCIF.
And if one wants to know with precision the number of racist acts (a term I prefer to "Islamophobes"), it is better to consult the numbers from Beauveau or the CFCM, which, moreover, are quite close (to each other).
-You have also been the lawyer for Charlie (Hebdo). How do you explain the large number of lawsuits against newspapers or journalists brought by representatives of the Muslim community?
-I frequently see the offensives because I regularly defend journalists, intellectuals or writers, sometimes, Muslims, by the way.
The judicial offensive, fortunately, doesn't come from authorities of Islam (with the regrettable exception of the lawsuit against the caricatures published by Charlie (Hebdo), rather from community associations who try to muzzle freedom of expression.
-Editor note: A totally inoperative distinction. That is all "white hat and hat white". They are the expressions of the Muslim colonization of our land. This colonization must cease!
-They simply want to prevent a critical discourse against them from being expressed.
The criticism of Islam remains a complicated fight, while, on the other hand, one can say everything about the Christian religion.
-Is Islam still a taboo subject today?
-It is, in any case, a difficult subject.
I believe that everything should be able to be said about Islam, and that includes the most vehement critiques in regards to all religions.
That's what part of the left doesn't understand: Criticizing religions is to defend people against fanaticism.
But it is, in effect, very complicated because accusations of Islamophobia rain down, and certain media are very sensitive to this argument.
Criticism of Islam remains a complicated fight, while one can say everything about the Christian religion. There exists within Islam an institution of guilt, and I am fighting that at the side of Muslims themselves.
-Editor note: I would be curious to know these Muslims at Malka's side ready to fight the fanaticism of their sect!
-The word "Islamophobia" continues to bother you....
-Yes, and practically speaking, we have lost the fight since the word is now in our everyday language.
I continue, in spite of everything, to think that one has the right to have fear of Islam and of any religion in general.
-NDLR: "Of religions"? For my part, I only know of one that is populating our prisons and carries out attacks on our soil.
-For me, there are forms of racism, which are exercised against people, sometimes by reason of their religion, but there should not be a crime when one criticizes a religion, in which case, blasphemy would be prohibited.
Criticism against religions must be totally allowed, without disrespecting people.
The argument of pain inflicted on believers should not be taken into account to justify banning this or that criticism.
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Fousesquawk comment: I don't normally come to the defense of Macron, and I view his latest efforts as too little and possibly too late. Nonetheless, when it comes to saving innocent French lives from radical Islamist forces, I will support whatever he does even if it is not sufficient. French authorities are of the opinion that the CCIF is engaged in subversive activities that have contributed to the carnage in France. It is none of CAIR's business what Macron does to protect French lives. That CAIR would offer space to this bunch in Washington strikes me as a hostile act against an American ally. Of course, with Joe Biden coming into office, don't expect any punitive action to be taken against CAIR.
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