France: The mayor of Chalon-sur-SaĂŽne complains about fully-veiled chaperones on school trips
“Secularism is a dam that the Republic has built to protect personal freedom of expression by prohibiting all proselytism within the framework of its institutions”. With these words, the Republican (LR) mayor of Chalon-sur-SaĂŽne, Gilles Platret, made it clear on December the 29th that he wanted to oppose the penetration of Islamism into schools, explains the Journal de SaĂŽne-et-Loire. The right-wing MP explained that he had sent a letter to the academic director of the SaĂŽne-et-Loire departmental education authorities pointing out the presence of a mother veiled from head to toe as an chaperone on a school trip just before the Christmas holidays.
Gilles Platret states: “In fact, just before the school holidays, when I myself noticed that a class from a school in Chalon, coming from a Christmas performance organised by the town council in premises belonging to the town, was attended by several escorts, one of whom was wearing a full-body black veil from head to toe, a clear sign of Salafism, one of the most separatist doctrines of Islamism”. Before calling on the person in charge of education to “prevent such an occurrence from happening again in Chalon-sur-SaĂŽne in the future”.
Citroën is accused of advocating harassment of women and has to withdraw a commercial in Egypt, a country where 98% of women said they had been sexual harassed at some point in their lives
It didn’t take long for internet users to become incensed over an advertisement posted online by CitroĂ«n, as reported by the Huff Post. The ad refers to the C4 model driven by the country’s pop star, Amr Diab. With more than 30 albums released by him, Amr Diab, dubbed the “father of Mediterranean music”, is very popular in Egypt, but he is now at the focus of controversy, as is the French car manufacturer.
In this video, while driving his car, he uses a camera in his rear-view mirror to photograph a female pedestrian walking past his bonnet. He then invites her to get into his car. The problem is that this performance allegedly encourages harassment of women. In any case, the Egyptian-American journalist and women’s rights activist Reem Abdellatif has denounced this. She called the ads “appalling” and said, “Photographing a woman without her consent is disgusting. You are encouraging sexual harassment,” referring to CitroĂ«n.
The commercial is all the more controversial because, according to the Arab Barometer cited by the Huff Post, 90% of women aged 18 to 39 said they had already been harassed. “Who would have thought it would be a good idea to make a commercial admitting sexual harassment in a country where 98% of women said they had been harassed at some point in their lives?” said Reem Abdellatif. For his part, book author Ahmed Tawfiikk still wonders how the film crews did not realise that the message was not “appropriate”.
In view of the extent of the controversy, CitroĂ«n reacted on the night of Wednesday to Thursday December the 30th. The French car manufacturer decided to remove “this version of the commercial” and apologised “sincerely to all offended populations”. CitroĂ«n also regrets “the misinterpretation of this clip”. Amr Diab himself is under fire for remaining silent. However, in July, the penalties for sexual harassment in the country were strengthened.
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Church Leaders Misplace the Blame for Christian Persecution in the Middle East
By Steve Apfel
Christendom is in dire straits. Historian Tom Holland predicts the unthinkable â a Middle East without any Christian communities. Fr. Francesco Patton, a Catholic leader, Custos of the Holy Land and guardian of Christian holy places in Israel, seemed to be predicting the same thing in his article in a recent UK Daily Telegraph article, where he writes âOur presence is precarious and our future at risk.â He adds that the lives of Christians have been made âunbearable by radical local groups with extremist ideologies.â
Jerusalem clerics and patriarchs piled on their own concern about radical groups trying to purge the region of Christianity. When the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, perhaps the leading Protestant figure of all, vented more spleen about Christianityâs survival in the Middle East with a third article inside a week, weâre bound to conclude that something big must be going down.
As head of the Anglican Church, Welby joined the Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hosam Naoum, to write a shared Sunday Times article stamping their imprimatur on a crunch time for Christianity because Christians âhad become the target of frequent and sustained attacks….â
Ha! Jihadists uprooting two millennia of Christianity or so youâd think from reading the news. Think again. The targets of all the angst and outrage were Jews. The damn âZiosâ are doing the uprooting.
Now that is odd. The other day a news item landed in my mailbox: âIsraelâs Christian community is growing, 84% satisfied with life here.â
In it, I read that âIsraelâs Christian community grew by 1.4 percent in 2020 and numbers some 182,000….â Of that number â76.7% of Christians in Israel are Arab.â And importantly, â84% of them [are] saying they were satisfied with life in the country….â Arab Christians tend to cluster in Nazareth, Haifa, and Jerusalem; non-Arab Christians are mainly found in greater Tel Aviv.
If that is not good enough, the study found that Arab Christian women are among the most educated in Israel. It also reports that a lower proportion of Christians rely on unemployment benefits compared to other Israelis.
There could hardly be a more ridiculous image to beat that of clerics wringing their hands over nothing. Christians in Israel are doing famously, thank you.
Meanwhile, Gaza and Ramallah are real death traps. Few know that because…well, when did the mainstream media run a story on the torments of Gazaâs few surviving Christian souls or on Bethlehemâs long-time Christian majority, which has shrunk to a minority under threat? By order of Hamas, Christmas decor and crucifixes in Gaza are banned. The owner of Gazaâs only Christian bookstore, Rami Ayyad, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.
The decay of Christianity in Gaza and the West Bank is part of a broader pattern in the region.
Whatâs the matter with men of the cloth? Broken compass? Apparently voicing outrage over Christians thriving under Jewish rule while papering over martyred Christians under Muslim rule, will get these Christians to heaven. Curse Israel and Grace will come to you. Love your Muslim persecutors and hate your Jewish protectors.
Those words are not ornamental or rhetorical. They are the collective sayings of Archbishop Welby, hectoring Israel while downplaying the beheadings and crucifixions by jihadists as non-lethal âsectarian violence.â His flock gets the message: love your murderers and hate your friends. And Welby definitely views Israel as the enemy:
I have no illusions about this. Historically the right response of Christians to persecution and attack isâitâs the hardest thing we can ever say to people. But Jesus tells us to love our enemies. Itâs the hardest thing when youâre being violently attacked. Itâs an indescribable challenge but God gives grace so often for us to love our enemies.
Hold onto the idea of Welby as the consoler for Christians drowning in blood while we revert to people of another faith. When did a Jew last kill a person for being Christian? Has one Christian been converted to Judaism under pain of death? Yet churchmen aim their missiles where?
The Rev. David Kim, head of the World Evangelical Alliance, has also taken aim at the âimpossible people.â Back in 2012, his paper at a Bethlehem conference was not about ISIS. Instead, âHow to Deal with the Impossible People â A Biblical Perspectiveâ was delivered against the backdrop of a banner depicting a church, a cross, and a high wall built by Israel to stop Jewish blood from being spilled by the gallon. Kimâs paper was about how to deal with Jews. Apparently, no one on the platform whispered in Kimâs ear that under the âimpossible peopleâ Christianity has prospered mightily.
So, what is going on?
In my expanded essay on a chapter that Professor Ephraim Karsh commissioned for âWar by other meansâ in Israel Affairs, I attribute this anomaly to a conjunction of a 4th-century doctrine and three 21st century doctrines. Although, actually, the latter three are more blind faith than anythingâwhich does not mean that theyâre treated less reverently than the Gospels. One is Human Rights, the second is Woke âMulticulturalismâ or âInclusivity,â and the thirdâa twisted belief you couldnât invent if you triedârebirths Jesus to make him a Palestinian.
At least we must respect the 4th-century doctrine of St Augustus who postulates that for their murder of Jesus, the Jews were exiled by God to live in sorrow and servitude and to be witness to Christianity as the true religion.
With their hostility to Israel, the likes of the World Council of Churches, the Presbyterians of America, World Vision, the Orthodox Churches, and the iconic late Desmond Tutu, have St. Augustine in mind. Get the hell out of Palestine! When you rejected Jesus we replaced you; we are now the Chosen People. Return to your divinely-ordained fate as witness wanderers.
Secular anti-Zionists nurse a theology not so far from Augustinian. For them, too, the Jews are meant to be powerless wanderers. Hence Israelâs rise from Holocaust ashes troubles the secularists. Their problem, however, isnât doctrinal but perceptual. Anti-Zionists cannot come to terms with a military Jew stronger than his persecutors. The stereotype of the Jew of oldâthat bearded bookish stateless wandererâcould never have evolved into a mean machine. Go back to your inherent character!
Clerics harboring the ancient hostility towards a modern dynamic Israel feel compelled to punish the un-chosen people. God never meant you to make the desert bloom and build a mini-Manhattan and win Nobel Prizes by the ton and boast a high-tech economy and have a currency stronger than the Euro.
Anti-Israel clerical pores leak not envy but errorâthe faith-losing error of dogma. Hence the dogmatic anger towards Israel their protector: the spoilage of the plot, the shattering of the icon.
“Racist”, “Islamophobic”, “discriminatory”: the former president of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) attacks the surveillance of Muslim places of worship
Although the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) has been disbanded since 2020, its former spokesperson and executive director, Marwan Muhammad, continues to spread ambiguous statements on social networks. Most recently, on Wednesday December 29, he spoke about the fight against jihadism and the surveillance of Muslim places of worship. According to him, there is a simple way to “evaluate the Islamophobia of the French government”, namely to publish the data on the controls carried out at places of worship. And he does not hesitate to become ironic, accusing the government of targeting only mosques.
“Either this data shows that the government controls all places of worship [âŠ] in a balanced way, without deliberately and justifiably focusing on a particular religion”, which he thinks would be a very good thing, as “we would then all be reassured”, he scoffs. Or “political opportunists misuse public funds for racist profiling and discriminatory treatment of Muslims”, as he calls it, and calls this “Islamophobia”. He therefore demands that the data be published by the government “unless there is something to hide”.
At the same time, he denounces the government’s use of “state resources for purposes of surveillance, record keeping, intimidation and discriminatory treatment of Muslims”. A thread that did not leave some internet users cold. One of them asked him if he knew any “Christian or Jewish jihadists”. Another replied that there were no ” such bloody crimes in the name of Christianity and Judaism” in France.
In July, as a guest on Turkish television, Marwan Muhammad told numerous lies about the situation of Muslims in France. He claimed that the French government had “sent the police everywhere to monitor the Muslim communities in France” to see “if they were sacrificing sheep and celebrating Eid”. He added that in France “the mere fact that you practise your religion is a source of stigmatisation”.
Distinguished scientist and inventor of mRNA removed from Twitter
On Wednesday Twitter banned the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, Dr Robert W Malone, the most influential American voice against forced vaccination, citing “missing context”.
The ban came just hours after the AP published a âfact checkâ in which it falsely claimed that vaccines work against the Omicron variant, even as evidence of dramatic vaccine failure from all over the world keeps piling up.
âOmicron blows right through the vaccines and through the triple jabbed,â Malone told Fox News in an interview recently. âOmicron is very, very infectious and the data are already in that both the double and triple vaccination is not protecting you from Omicron.â It is not clear what âcontextâ could possibly be missing from Maloneâs statements.
The non-entity responsible for the ban is not a scientist, incidentally. âIn Galileoâs day fact checkers were called the Inquisition,â a Twitter user noted dryly.
Malone had over a half million highly educated followers. âThat means I must have been on the mark, so to speak. Over the target. It also means we lost a critical component in our fight to stop these vaccines being mandated for children and to stop the corruption in our governments, as well as the medical-industrial complex and pharmaceutical industries,â he responded on his Substack page.
Letâs debate the booster
For the former head of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), the fight against jihadism is Islamophobic because it does not target churches and synagogues
In that case, it would be very positive and we would all be reassured (lol).
This is called Islamophobia.
This government is using the resources of the state to monitor, register, intimidate and discriminate against Muslims.
Make the data public.