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France herds Muslim faithful off streets after prayer ban
Japan Today ^ | 09/17/11

Posted on 09/16/2011 7:50:01 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

France herds Muslim faithful off streets after prayer ban

World Sep. 17, 2011 - 07:15AM JST ( 13 )

PARIS —

A ban on praying in French streets came into effect on Friday, with thousands of the nation’s Muslim faithful being moved to temporary alternative spaces for their day of prayer.

From Paris to Marseille, Friday’s midday prayers will be led from disused barracks or other temporary buildings, after the question of Islam’s visibility became a political issue under right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy.

France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, this year banned the face-covering burqa and earlier this week Interior Minister Claude Gueant warned that “from September 16 there will be no more prayers in the street.”

“If anyone happens to be recalcitrant we will put an end to it,” Gueant said, suggesting police could be brought in.

“Prayers in the street are unacceptable, a direct attack on the principle of secularism,” Gueant told AFP last month, citing the government’s defense of the republic’s secular values as reason for the new policies.

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If you haven’t seen “The Third Jihad” yet you should stop what you’re doing and watch it - now.

http://www.thethirdjihad.com/10-year-911/


21 posted on 09/16/2011 8:54:06 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I like your posts. However, I don’t consider that they’ve been given immigration into Western countries without a purpose. I don’t buy the maxim that we’ll democratize them. Anyone could see this wasn’t possible. They were brought in as a ruse, a threat. They’ll serve a purpose, and have, and then be removed. They are just a stupid pawn in the Great Game. Nothing more.


22 posted on 09/16/2011 8:55:30 PM PDT by TwoSwords (Has anyone seen my suspension of disbelief pills?)
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To: TwoSwords

I agree that they are a tool and nothing more, no question. The problem is that the left did so thinking they could easily ‘solve’ that issue as needed. What they really accomplished is unleashing human bombs, figuratively and literally in the population and they can’t control what will happen.

When we begin to solve the problem, they will still try using them as the intended propaganda ‘target of Islamophobic bigots’, which IMO is the intent in bring them in to begin with. What they will get in return is dead Americans at Muslim hands and war on the homefront for their trouble.

They will both lose. But the cost will be horrific.

But the problems will be solved regardless. Problems that should never have been.


23 posted on 09/16/2011 9:11:59 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: TigerLikesRooster
'Herds'

An excellent choice of verb !

(to be followed by 'fumigates' ?!)

24 posted on 09/16/2011 9:15:50 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Google Images “Muslims praying in street New York City”


25 posted on 09/16/2011 9:16:07 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: TwoSwords
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men

Winston Churchill   1899

26 posted on 09/16/2011 9:20:42 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Norm Lenhart

I don’t believe the “left” brought them in. They were brought in to sow confusion at a minimum cost. 9-11 was their greatest accomplishment. What have they really done since then. Random, small accomplishments. They aren’t a real threat. Just a real justification for a overwatch on the rest of us. Also, a unifying force against a boogeyman.


27 posted on 09/16/2011 9:30:18 PM PDT by TwoSwords (Has anyone seen my suspension of disbelief pills?)
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To: tomkat
"(to be followed by 'fumigates' ?!)"

Odd you should use the term "fumigate." Zyclon B was originally a convenient way to exterminate insects and other pests in a sealed house. It was a blue crystalline powder, rather like pea gravel, in a sealed canister.

These would be dumped onto a rubber sheet in the room, and would sublimate into a bluish vapor, with the speed a function of the temperature of the room. The warmer the air, the faster. It was heavier than air, so when used, the people would tend to create a pyramid in one corner of the room, with the strongest at the peak.

Occasionally, there would be a survivor at the bottom of the pile, that would be thrown into the ovens with the rest.

Raises a point. If you read history, what facts do you edit out?

Something that should be considered when there is a Final Solution of the Islamic Problem.

It is also a bit of information that the gang bangers might consider, the next time they have a flash mob wilding...

28 posted on 09/16/2011 9:40:23 PM PDT by jonascord (Politicians should be pelted with human manure, weekly, to remind them of their worth to society.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; afraidfortherepublic; mojo114; seenenuf; LucyT; Miss Didi; Think free or die; ...

Chapeau! TigerLikesRooster

One small step for man ...

Don't they have laws on the books about disturbing the peace, blocking traffic, etc?



29 posted on 09/16/2011 9:45:13 PM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: tomkat

The only reason the muzzie countries are a power is oil and their claims to Israel, the latter making them a cause celebre. They are militarily incompetent. They buy all their weaponry from other countries. They fell behind long ago and w/o oil would be Africa, at best.
They are being used, but just don’t know it. They are only a threat in how our leaders make them. They’ve created the Patriot Act. It was never about muzzies. It’s a long-term action on everyone else. They’ve served their purpose as the neighborhood dog whom no one likes.


30 posted on 09/16/2011 9:47:45 PM PDT by TwoSwords (Has anyone seen my suspension of disbelief pills?)
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To: TwoSwords

Oops...I should have been more specific.

IMO FWIW ETC...When I say ‘left’ I’m more referring to the globalist left than the Dems (though I believe the Dems ‘are’ largely responsible). Here’s why.

The Globalist Left needed a scapegoat that they can get behind and one they could fully exploit to destroy American culture, belief systems and identity from within.

Islam/Muslims fit the bill because the Secular nature of the G/Left allowed them to pit Islam against their biggest obstacle - Christianity. Witness just as a small example how Islamic issues are taught in school while Christian issues have become verboten...things like that - incremental and everpresent.

Also, go back to Desert Storm. I will forever believe that ‘Refugee’ and ‘persecuted’ Muslims imported into America were the ‘bargaining chip’ that Bush 1 had to accept in order to get the ‘coalition’ support he wanted. Same for Bush 2. Clinton was no stranger to bringing them in in quantity either.

So it’s been going on for some time (at the ‘mass’ level) and that ‘mass’ keeps increasing. Also, the UK left now admits doing exactly that - importing Muzzies to alter social/political structure.

For the damage they can inflict, no, not in the ‘wholesale’ sense I agree, but a thousand determined and spread out jihadis will devastate our morale and lives once they cut loose, short term...until we strike back and end them. Just the threat today causes people to shut their businesses down and turn their worlds upside down. When a couple schools get bombed or malls machine-gunned, it will have a tremendous effect.

But you are very correct in the boogeyman aspect as well for the reasons I just mentioned and others, such as the TSA crap etc. No argument there at all.


31 posted on 09/16/2011 9:53:01 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Cincinna; supremedoctrine
Warning to Muslims who believe that the public space can be invaded without consequences. Ligue de Défense Française (LDF) ^ | November 20, 2010

Posted on Monday, 22 November 2010 8:59:01 AM by La Lydia

SOURCE

comment #13 MUSLIMS PRAY IN THE STREET IN NEW YOK CITY:

MORE IMAGES on this FR thread.

32 posted on 09/16/2011 10:07:46 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Your post was spot on to what I think. But I think the real fight is Catholic/Protestant. It is a fight that hasn’t been resolved. It may be more bloodier than anything we’ve ever seen.


33 posted on 09/16/2011 10:18:14 PM PDT by TwoSwords (Has anyone seen my suspension of disbelief pills?)
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To: Fred Nerks

Unfortunately few realize these public displays have nothing to do with praying.....it’s a mass ‘political statement’ that “we” are here and in numbers. It’s stealth jihad at it’s finest...masked as a religion and practice of.


34 posted on 09/16/2011 10:23:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: TigerLikesRooster

"Round up the usual suspects".

35 posted on 09/16/2011 10:27:29 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Fred Nerks

Random thought:

Can’t wait until a like number of Christian French do the same (copy the Muslim ‘street prayers’). Then if they aren’t treated equally to the Muslims, take France to “World Court”, demand ‘equality’ on human rights grounds and watch the fur fly ;) I’d love to see the EDL do the same in the UK and I REALLY want to see it happen here.

Alinsky - Hold them to their own impossible standards - works for us too. And scream bloody murder about it.

Until non muslims push back using the same ‘tricks’ the muslims/Left use, nothing will happen until the grand jihad begins. But if we force them off their timetable by forcing the issue in the courts and the VOTING BOOTH before they are ready, we ‘might’ avoid the mess to come. As long as it effects ‘certain areas’ then only ‘certain areas’ will complain. But if it occurs on a broad scale, the pols and courts either HAVE to deal with it or face an electorate that will vote them out.

A dream perhaps, but a nice one.


36 posted on 09/16/2011 10:42:26 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kennard
>"The best solution is to distinguish between a religion and a cult, but no civil society has done that. "

Then why don't we allow the Jivaro to practice their "religion"?

It's just as valid to them as ours is to us, and they have so much in common with the mudSlimes.

37 posted on 09/17/2011 1:40:35 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: TwoSwords

About your Nom de Guerre, would that be Shiaa and Sunni?


38 posted on 09/17/2011 1:48:52 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good for France. They have the mosques.


39 posted on 09/17/2011 2:55:54 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: TwoSwords

I thought, with the ecumenical movement with the talks that have been going on for the past 40-50 years that have resolved the issues between Catholics and Protestants.


40 posted on 09/17/2011 3:01:07 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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