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| French Muslims fear surge in attacks by far-right militants |
| 2013-08-13 |
[Al Ahram] Mohammedan leaders in the French city of Lyon said on Monday they feared a surge in attacks on mosques in the style of one averted last week in which a soldier was tossed in the slammerMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on suspicion of planning a shooting during an Islamic feast holiday. Anti-Mohammedan incidents have risen steadily in recent years in La Belle France, home to Europe's largest Islamic minority, according to the Committee against Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in La Belle France (CCIF), which blames anti-Mohammedan rhetoric by far-right politicians. A far-right activist said such violence had been provoked by government efforts to suppress "nationalist movements" that provided a legitimate outlet for discontent. Kamel Kabtane, rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, called on local Mohammedans to gather for a show of solidarity at the suburban Minguettes Mosque, which police said the soldier arrested on Saturday planned to shoot at on the Mohammedan Eid al-Fitr holiday. The 23-year-old, from an air force base near Lyon, was placed under formal investigation on Monday, accused of "possessing category 4 ammunitions in relation to a terrorist undertaking". Described by the interior ministry as holding extreme right-wing views, he was also accused of lobbing a Molotov cocktail at a mosque near Bordeaux last year. "There is a clear will today to hurt the Mohammedan community," Kabtane said, adding that two minor acts had been carried out against mosques in southeastern La Belle France over the weekend. "These are no longer isolated acts. It feels like there is a whole organization being put in place," he said. RISING ANTI-MUSLIM VIOLENCE French media say such incidents have increased by 50 percent in the first half of 2013. The presence of far-right bully boyz at anti-gay marriage protests highlighted half a dozen shadowy bad boy groups the government has since shut down. Alexandre Gabriac, the young founder of a now banned far-right group called the Revolutionary Youths, blamed the rise in anti-Mohammedan attacks on the clampdown and said the government should take some responsibility. "Dissolving nationalist movements drives people to carry out isolated, reckless acts," he said. "Our groups enabled the anger that is rising to be channelled and transformed into a political foundation. These isolated acts will be more and more frequent." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 "Muslim Leaders Fear Backlash in Wake of Tomorrow's Terrorist Attack" LOL.... kinda like the Pre-fire Sale. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-08-13 17:29 |
| #8 anti-Mohammedan rhetoric by far-right politicians There go them Teabaggers again. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-08-13 17:23 |
| #7 how is anti-Jew violence doing in France these days? I've mostly given up posting those stories, Rambler. They make me sad. And anyway, most attacks still aren't reported because that's just the way things are in the Old World, as far as I can tell. Many French Jews (where many is an undefined number) have moved to England -- though that may be as much for tax purposes -- and some have moved to Israel and elsewhere, or sent their children away to school, or whatever. Perhaps someone else can look into it, Look, when we lived in Germany in the first half of the '90s it was unquestioned that the Jewish day school in Frankfurt needed a police guard provided by the city. And when we visited in 2010 my grandmother's home village had one Jewess, and she was a convert, while the leader of the Jewish community in my mother's home town spoke of his being the last generation despite the influx of Russian Jews over the previous two decades, for which a beautiful little Jewish community center/school/synagogue had been built. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-08-13 15:39 |
| #6 "Muslim Leaders Fear Backlash in Wake of Tomorrow's Terrorist Attack" |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-08-13 14:35 |
| #5 Not to change the subject exactly, but how is anti-Jew violence doing in France these days? Mostof the time, if you look at the numbers rather than just the headlines, there a lot more attacks on Jews than there are on Muslims. (I don't count thinking nasty thoughts about Muslims as attacks.) |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-08-13 14:04 |
| #4 I notice they aren't handwringing about "why do they hate us?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-08-13 12:49 |
| #3 I think a truckload of thoroughly rotten pig intestines dumped on a mosque doorstep would be a good idea, Mince them first. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-08-13 10:16 |
| #2 "There is a clear will today to hurt the Mohammedan community," Makes you want to go right out and rub something despicable on a Mooselimb doesn't it? Nothing like a dump truck full of slaughterhouse pig parts driven by the front steps and dumped on the Mosque front door curb. No loss of life, easy to do. Just takes a minute.
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| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-08-13 07:37 |
| #1 These is, of course despicable, and I would like an opportunity to condemn such attacks in strongest terms possible---lots of opportunity! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-08-13 01:53 |