The banning of today’s Pegida rally and other ‘open-air
gatherings’ in Dresden has been well publicised following a ‘concrete threat’ against the group, specifically its most prominent member, Lutz Bachmann.
Pegida, on the other hand, has claimed that it took the decision to scrap the
rally following an order from Islamic State to assassinate Bachmann. The ban,
imposed by Dresden police, will last for 24 hours, but thereafter it is unclear
what will happen regarding further protests. Clearly, the safety of leading
Pegida members and their supporters is paramount, but it is chilling that these
death threats have led to the cancellation of a peaceful and perfectly
legitimate demonstration. Nothing could more clearly validate Pegida’s case
that Islamisation is a real and growing danger for Germany and other European
societies, than this death threat.
The official reaction to the Islamist attacks in France has possessed
a clear agenda: to exonerate Islam, and to reinforce Islam’s place in France in
the name of a non-existent ‘unity’. Correspondingly, Minister of Justice Christianne
Taubira has announced a strengthening of so-called ‘anti-racist laws’ in
connection with the right to criticise immigration and Islam, seeking to
criminalise the non-existent phenomenon of ‘Islamophobia’. Riposte Laïque and
Résistance Républicaine are correct in drawing the conclusion that the French state
is likely to make them illegal, along with other kindred groups in the
identitarian movement such as Bloc Identitaire, on the grounds that they incite
‘hatred’ and ‘division’ amongst the French people. If indeed, this does happen,
Islam would effectively have been provided with immunity from criticism in
France; an Islamic blasphemy law would have been enforced.
Additional evidence that the violent Islamist fifth column
is successfully manipulating European politicians to further embed and
privilege Islam within our societies comes from France, where another banning
order was implemented in Paris yesterday. The ban related to an
anti-Islamisation rally – 'Islamists out of France’ – which had been planned well
in advance of the Islamist terror attacks in Paris earlier this month. The two
organising groups - Riposte Laïque and Résistance Républicaine – have for a
number of years been campaigning and warning against the Islamisation of
France, but have hitherto not managed to mobilise mass support for their cause
in their demonstrations. The latest rally has been banned upon the grounds that it would incited ‘hatred’ and ‘division’. The organisers correctly advised
their supporters not to turn up, understanding that the authorities would use
this as a pretext for manufacturing potentially violent confrontation and
arrests.
Melanie Dittmer of Pegida, along with anti-Islamisation
activists from Belgium (Pierre Flip), Italy (Armando Manocchia) and Switzerland
(Jean-Luc Addor), had also been invited to the cancelled Paris rally. In its
place, they, together with the organisers, held a press conference which provided
an overview of resistance to Islamisation in their various countries. Elsewhere
in France, sister rallies took place in Montpellier, Bordeaux and Lyon. It was
noted that Pegida had now also established itself in Belgium, Spain, Italy and
Switzerland.
Anti-Islamisation Protesters in Montpellier
Whilst the ‘Islamists out of France’ rally against a growing fifth column was banned, a ‘Muslim-leftist
protest’ was permitted to take place in Paris yesterday at the time scheduled
for the former. It was accompanied by cries of “Allahu-akbar” (see video
below).
We therefore see that despite the recent apparent mass demonstration
in favour of freedom of speech and expression in Paris and across France, the
Hollande administration does not genuinely believe in the concept of free
speech should it involve criticism of Islamisation and other negative impacts
of mass immigration on French society. It is also worth noting that although
Marine Le Pen has recently been criticised by another leading Front National
figure for going soft on Islam, she was excluded from the recent officially-sanctioned
‘Je suis Charlie’ march in Paris. What we are witnessing therefore, is an
uncanny parallel to the political scenario outlined in Michel Houellebecq’s
most recent novel ‘Soumission’ which was published on the very day of the Charlie
Hebdo murders. In this, French political parties of Left and Right make common
ground in 2017 to prevent the Front National from winning the presidential
election, and thereafter an Islamist becomes leader of the Socialist Party and
wins the presidential election of 2022, implementing Shariah in France.
Houellebecq himself has admitted that the timescale employed in the novel has
been somewhat accelerated, although he has emphasised that its scenario could
well play out over the longer term. That said, the anti-Front National
coalition in the 2017 elections appears to be a certainty, and the actions of a
handful of violent Islamist fanatics has seemingly helped to cement Islam’s official
place in France, rather than generating a wave of revulsion against the source
of Islamism – Islamic doctrine – amongst the French political class.
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