Posted on 9/29/2006, 1:42:28 PM by Republicain
Yesterday the Belgian authorities decided to give police protection to people working in the Brussels prisons of Vorst and Sint-Gillis. The decision was taken after two jailers, on their way to work, were attacked on a Brussels tram. Immigrant youths called them “assassins” and threatened them with knives. All the prison employees are now escorted by the police on their way to the car park or to the nearby train station.
According to the youths the jailers “murdered” Fayçal Chabaan, a 25-year old Moroccan criminal, who was an inmate in Vorst Prison. Chabaan, died last Sunday after having been given a sedative. Sunday was the first day of the Islamic holy month of ramadan when Muslims are only allowed to eat after sunset. Moroccan youths claim Chabaan was holding his ramadan fast and had complained about the food of the evening meal. The situation in the Brussels prisons is tense, with many Muslim inmates blaming the prison authorities for Chabaan’s death.
Yesterday evening a dustbin was set alight by immigrant youths in Brussels Marollen neighbourhood, but according to the police the situation was calm and no arrests were made. Representatives of Moroccan organisations met with Brussels politicians and complained about the lack of subsidies for youth projects.
Meanwhile in France, a philosophy teacher is under police protection after receiving death threats over an op-ed article [French text here] which he wrote in a national newspaper. In the article, which was published in the conservative daily Le Figaro of September 19th, Robert Redeker accused Islam of “exalting violence.” Mr Redeker has not attended classes at his school near Toulouse since the article was published. Pierre Rousselin, the editor in chief of Le Figaro, apologized on Al-jazeera for the publication of the article. A number of Islamic countries, including Egypt, banned Le Figaro following the publication of Redeker’s piece. Mr Rousselin said the publication of the op-ed was a mistake. He said the article did not express the paper’s opinion. The article is no longer available on the Figaro website.
Mr Redeker has written a letter to his friend, the philosopher André Glucksmann, describing his ordeal [French text here]:
“I am now in a catastrophic personal situation. Several death threats have been sent to me, and I have been sentenced to death by organizations of the al-Qaeda movement. [...] On the websites condemning me to death there is a map showing how to get to my house to kill me, they have my photo, the places where I work, the telephone numbers, and the death fatwa. [...] There is no safe place for me, I have to beg, two evenings here, two evenings there. [...] I am under the constant protection of the police. I must cancel all scheduled conferences. And the authorities urge me to keep moving. [...] All costs are at my own expense, including those of rents a month or two ahead, the costs of moving twice, legal expenses, etc.
It's quite sad. I exercised my constitutional rights, and I am punished for it, even in the territory of the Republic. This affair is also an attack against national sovereignty – foreign rules, decided by criminally minded fanatics, punish me for having exercised a constitutional right, and I am subjected, even in France, to great injury.”
What should the free world do in the face of Islamist intimidation?
There's a petition to defend Mister Redeker freedom of speech here (in french) :
Un professeur menacé après avoir publié une tribune sur l'islam
Europe needs to work on assimilation. In this, the U.S. is a much older country than European ones.
Immigrant youths? Thats the problem, calling them something other than what they really are..
Too bad those coming have no interest in assimilation.
Europe and the US need to close their borders to the lowlifes that want to bring them down.
Nope, assimilation is not the answer. Take a life-threatening host IN? I do not believe so. Sarkozy has the right answer -- deport the sand maggots. Threaten them with a stronger force. France cannot protect its own citizens? Terrible.
immigrants can eventually be their countrymen.
Why?
You can expect a lowlife to continue to be a lowlife.
The problem today is not the those immigrats coming in even want to be a countryman, they are simply excaping the evil they and their parents and grandparents created and live by.
I see no value in importing evil - In this new "international world" why should you move anywhere, we are all suppose to be the same so instead of going somewhere - fix the evil your ancestors created and make it better where you are at.
Ah, the new European experience. Needing police protection to work and move about in your own country.
Can't offend the guests, you know.
Festering Europa should have called Turbanex before the infestation got out of hand..
Professor write Op-Ed "Islam Exalts Violence" result is death threats.
The best way to defend Mr. Redecker would be to reprint his article in every newspaper around the world and let the Islamists go nuts for a while, then arrest all the rioters.
Before this is over, I see another mass exodus from old Europe to the new world. They simply have lost the will to fight.
Immigrants of the past and the present largely have not changed in ideals. However, travel could have a big effect: the immigrants have the ability to easily return to their country of origin, in a trip lasting around a day at most (if by plane). A large part of the bad assimilation is actually the fault of those already in the country. Some simply support a salad bowl/cultural mosaic/multiculturalism model. Citizens do not pressure immigrants to take up English, wear American clothes, but instead pander to their cultures of origin. And some merely consider it a lost cause.
The difference is they WANTED TO BE AMERICANS.
Todays folks only want to rape the benefits and move evil in.
Immigrants in the past wanted to be American as much as immigrants today (you can have the opinion that it was a high proportion of them or a small one, depending on your view, but their willingness to become American was and is around the same).
France: Writer of 'anti-Islam' article gets death threats
AFP via Expatica | 09/28/2006
Posted on 09/28/2006 3:10:43 PM EDT by Republicain
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