UPDATE FROM FRANCE: NIDRA POLLER
UPDATE AUGUST 10
The media have a way of wrapping up big stories like the slaughter of a priest in a Normandy church as if there is nothing important left to say or to learn ten days after the incident. The item sinks to the lower depths, small details pop up like junk in the surf. The mayor of Montluçon will not deliver an inhumation permit for Abdelamlik Petitjean; he wasn’t born there, the law doesn’t allow him to be buried there. Or is it “require”? Is the mayor taking advantage of an option? In any case, neither Kermiche nor Petitjean is welcome in our cemeteries. Some Danish Muslims offered to perform the rites for Kermiche.
This media practice of tying the knots and putting a story on the shelf gives the impression that the general population concurs. Not so. As for me, I can’t stop writing about it. My readers have a choice; if you’re no longer interested, you can skip it. I can’t.
The mayor of St. Dié des Vosges has publicly announced that he will not allow Abdelmalik Petitjean to be buried in his commune, even though he was born there. He thinks the terrorist should be buried in an unmarked grave in a secret location. This is one more indication of the climate of opinion today in France.
I receive countless messages from friends in other lands, informing me by attached articles that the Hollande government has flatly announced that there will be more attacks and nothing can be done about it. And the population is duly resigned. Others inform me that Europeans have simply not caught on to this Islamic game. They’ll be suckered until they are conquered. Still others are preparing to celebrate the victory of Marine Le Pen, the only politician in the whole of France who knows the score and can do what has to be done.
Polls are showing that security has jumped to first place in the concerns of French voters, ahead of jobs, the economy, and purchasing power.
What else is new?
Several of Adel Kermiche’s ex-cellmates have spoken up. The young man was a flaming radical. Nothing subtle about him. Unfortunately, former Justice Minister Christiane Taubira—famous for her corn rows, gay marriage bill, and talent for quoting great writers in her impassioned speeches—dismantled the prison intel network set up under the Sarkozy administration. Specialized anti-terrorism judges have complained that they were getting zero information from the penitentiaries. Socialist Youth movement president Bernard Lucas, however, stands with Taubira and the dissident fringe of the Left opposed to their party’s dérive sécuritaire, a sort of hardening of the national security arteries.
Recent publicized arrests would seem to indicate a pendulum swing: while hundreds of dangerous security risks roam the land unfettered, a 16 year-old girl has just been detained awaiting trial on terrorism charges. Authorities were tipped off to the passionara’s activity on Telegram, the coded message board favored by jihadis. No arms or explosives were found in the family’s apartment. It is reported that the suspect, who dropped out of school in February, covered herself in niqab on the rare occasions when she went outdoors.
A Mauritanian, released after serving a long jail term for a serious crime has been deported as a security risk. This common sense decision is in fact exceptional
Yannck Loichot, 31 year-old resident of Chartres, has been sentenced to two years in prison on terrorism charges: avid consultation of jihadi websites, particularly decapitations, plus a veiled threat to destroy the Tour Montparnasse, reinforced by a Net search of floor plans of the building, and arms purchase. Loichot, who converted to Islam in 2009, claims he was just curious but the judges were convinced he was about to commit an attack here in France or hit the trail to the caliphate. Reporting that police found sheets of paper in Loichot’s apartment with “lines supposedly from the Koran, such as ‘Decapitate the miscreants,’ the journalist doubling as theologian decrees there’ no such thing in the Koran.
And what if it says “strike the unbelievers in the neck”? http://www.lechorepublicain.fr/eure-et-loir/actualite/2016/08/09/lapprenti-djihadiste-de-chartres-fascine-par-les-theses-de-daech-condamne-a-2-ans-ferme_12029686.html
Heavily armed police and soldiers are patrolling French beaches this summer. The other day on a Normandy beach a man wearing a djellaba stomped around shouting allahu akhbar and threatening to kill everyone. He left his back pack in the sand and pursued the rampage. The police intervened quickly, checked out the backpack, no explosives, and took him to the Granville [close to the D Day beaches] but, according to reports in the local paper, he was not detained. Granville is.
“Dirty Jews, they should all be burned to a crisp, blown up. I’m not afraid. You don’t know me. My brother was a terrorist!” Salahedinne Naouar was sentenced to one year in prison for “violently insulting” a female guard at the Villeneuve les Maguelone prison. Salahedinne’s illustrious brother did blow himself up in a tanker truck full of explosives in front of the Griba Synagogue in Djerba in 2002. Several members of the family served prison sentences for complicity in the attack that killed 19 people, most of them German tourists. Arrested last April for breaking & entering, the fearless terrorist threatened to make bombs, go back to Tunisia and join the jihad. Called before a disciplinary commission in June, he defended the November 13th jihad attacks.
http://www.midilibre.fr/2016/08/04/l-inquietant-profil-du-frere-d-un-kamikaze-tunisien,1375617.php
If you are wondering why this man is still living in France, you share the opinion of something like 80% of the population.
And here’s another touching fraternal story: Mourad Hamyd, 20 years-old, is the brother-in-law Chérif Kouachi, one of the Charlie Hebdo killers who was married to Hamyd’s sister. There was uproar in the usual quarters at that time, when the young man, finishing his last year at the lycée like any French kid, was held for questioning. He was suspected of being the third man on that team. How? What? How dare they manhandle this perfectly innocent boy, vouched for by his classmates of all origins? Just because he’s Muslim! His math and philosophy professors testified to his presence in their classrooms when the Charlie Hebdo staff was executed. Hamyd was released, no charges, no suspicion of wrongdoing, excuse us but, you understand, we can’t leave any avenue unexplored. At the time he condemned the “horrible crime” and said he had very distant relations with his infamous brother-in-law.
That was in January 2015. Now we learn that, based on ample evidence including an aborted attempt to reach Syria in 2014, Hamyd was already flagged as a security risk at that time. Shortly after finishing his first year at the university, did he backpack off to some cheap destination like any French kid? No, he skipped town a few weeks ago, heading for the caliphate, but got bounced back from Turkey to his entry point, Bulgaria, where he is being held while waiting for the arrest warrant to be processed so he can be set back to France where he will be charged and undoubtedly imprisoned.
Let’s conclude the round up with a touching father and son story. The Daily Mail reports that Ali Soboly, the perpetrator of fast food jihad at a McDonald’s in Munich, went on an arms training visit to Iran shortly before the massacre. Not having access to German media I cannot track down, verify, or discount this claim.
It’s never-ending, what can I say? This one didn’t shout on a beach or in a prison… Magomed Guekhaiev, a French wrestler featured on the Fight Night in Montreux [otherwise famous for its jazz festival] Switzerland, reportedly grabbed the microphone from the MC, dedicated his victory to Mohamed [Merah] and Salah [Abdeslam],gave a resounding allahu akhbar x 3 and, according to Arab-speaking spectators, sang the praises of jihad.
What’s the point of all of the above? I know about it because it is being reported, not hidden. It is so widespread, so blatant, so offensive, so dangerous that it cannot be ignored. The days of reckoning are nigh.
Two comments on the open letter from moderate Muslims [see Update August 1]
From the singular author and film maker Jean-Pierre Lledo, born in Algeria and now a citizen of Israel:
“In one of my books on the Arab world I explained this ‘compensatory posture.’ When an Arab-Muslim intellectual has the courage to deviate from the prevailing unanimity and dares to take a swipe at nationalism or even at Islam, which is already very rare, he lets his community know that he is still one of them. He compensates by taking a shot at the Jews or Israel or in this case, by forgetting them.”
Former Charlie Hebdo editor Philipe Val gives credit to the authors of the manifesto for acknowledging the lethal danger of Islamic radicalization. But he challenges the authors to repair the unacceptable exclusion of Jews and antisemitism from their summary of the terrorist acts they claim to condemn. Further, he includes Charlie Hebdo among the deliberately forgotten: the generic “cartoonists” is used in place of the title of the magazine that is so often offensive to Muslims. If the slight is not publicly repaired, writes Val, the appeal will be invalidated.
It’s never-ending, what can I say? This one didn’t shout on a beach or in a prison… Magomed Guekhaiev, a French wrestler featured on the Fight Night in Montreux [otherwise famous for its jazz festival] Switzerland, reportedly grabbed the microphone from the MC, dedicated his victory to Mohamed [Merah] and Salah [Abdeslam],gave a resounding allahu akhbar x 3 and, according to Arab-speaking spectators, sang the praises of jihad. The organizer made light of the gesture: “It’s the same as a Catholic athlete crossing himself.”
And now, I will sincerely try to conclude this report here.
A 21 year-old from Toulouse has been detained for questioning on suspicion of collaboration with Kermiche and Petitjean in the assassination of Father Jacques Hamel. The suspect was in close telephone contact with the killers and made a trip to St Etienne du Rouvray one or two days before the slaughter in the church.
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