Far-Right French Hysteria

Resistance Republicaine and Riposte Laique organized a public demonstration on March 9 in Paris. Included was Bloc Identitaire and others who share French conservative views that immigration has turned out not to benefit the French culture of brotherhood and liberty and equality, nor reflect the secular values of the state. Those who emigrated from countries suffocated by Islam have proven not to fit in as seamlessly into the culture as perhaps anticipated.

The protestors gather at a square in southern Paris   Photo Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum

Despite which, there is no public attitude, evidently, unwelcoming of continued immigration to France of Muslims from North Africa the Middle East and Turkey representing now almost 10% of the population. France, in its innocence, has a big heart. France, in its innocence, prefers not to recognize the most basic tenet of Islam is to impose upon the faithful the fulfillment of the promise to the faith of proselytizing by all conceivable means.

Peacefully, if at all possible, forcibly, if not otherwise possible. On the other hand, massive numbers can eventually turn a minority into a majority and conquest of numbers becomes a target for the future. There are often enough comments made by Muslim clerics in Europe that the goal is to transform whichever European country they reside in, into a Muslim state, with Sharia law.

This is a occupation-flood, a migration unlike any previous, by people wedded to a religion unlike all others. The Ummah is compelled by the very nature of the religion to impose their most fundamental values through Sharia, on their host. Incrementally, by sheer force of numbers and through the use of the host's own laws, to recognize the right of religious freedom; to practise that religion in freedom.

By guile and through wiles, success arrives. And violence partners it to aid in achieving the goal. Outside of mainstream Sunni and Shia Islam, considered by them to be heretic sects, only the Ismaili and Amadiya Muslims know how to practise peaceful coexistence with those of other religions, other cultures, sharing their basic values and offering respect.

So the roughly 600 participants of right-wing persuasion, abhorring their left-wing government, was out in meagre force, surrounded by heavily armed gendarmes to ensure no violence would accrue to the marchers from those not quite sharing their sentiments. The marchers sang the national anthem, La Marseillaise, and handed out flyers: "People of France, don't fear. Say that you have enough!"

Slogans were shouted by Pierre Cassen, of Riposte Laique from a moving truck, and repeated by the marchers:

• "Enough, enough of immigration. No, no to being replaced [by Muslims]";
• "Sharia will not succeed";
• "They don't like the French, they prefer immigrants. Go, go, this [French] government";
• "We have enough of [President Francois] Hollande";
• "No to changing of people and civilization, no";
• "Enough of Islam".

These are people who are fed up with the pro-immigration, pro-Islamic pressure in France. Knowing that by making a public stand against the popular inclination to continuing immigration they are effectively the outsiders in their own country. They have reason to fear violence. Hence the presence of police, alert and prepared to act, should the need arise. It did not, on this occasion.

Gendarmes surrounded the demonstrators   Photo: Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum

The Catholic Church in France which allied itself with Muslims to aid in their common anti-same-sex-marriage campaign, chose not to be involved in this protest march. The Front National, a political party whose major platform is an anti-immigrant policy, has chosen to maintain a distance from the marchers, seeking to screen itself from charges of anti-immigration as it prepares to invite greater numbers to vote for them in local elections.

The marching coalition has further distinguished itself by its condemnation of anti-Semitism. The growing incidence of anti-Semitism just incidentally connected to the growing presence of Muslims in Europe.

France has been beset with its growing tide of immigrants from Muslim countries within banlieues where French police fear to tread, to face violent hostility from the residents who have been ghettoized there. No-go zones in Paris suburbs. Where eruptions of mass torching of cars take place to remind France of the dissatisfaction of immigrants who are marginalized, unemployed, living in angry poverty.

And who blame the Jews for all their ills.