The Gulag That France Has Become

In 'Musings' former incarnation, I often shared Tiberge's posts. I missed her when I started this blog, but you can expect more from her, now that I've rediscovered her.

From GalliaWatch

By Tiberge

Here’s a powerful article from Robert Spencer, posted at Front Page Magazine, that will, more than any other article I’ve read lately, provide you with an accurate up-to-date description of today’s France, a country at war with itself, its heritage, its past, its people.

Note: I’ve been trying to get back to posting, but unexpected household problems needing my attention are still siphoning off my energy. I intend to try to resume as soon as possible. I am sorry for this long delay.

One girl’s crime against politically correct fictions shows how ridiculous they really are.

The Times of London, staid as ever, reported it all with a straight face on Friday: “Police have told a French teenager to go into hiding after she received death threats for insulting Islam.” That’s right, a teenager in France, not in Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia, or Iran. Now insulting Islam forces you to flee for your life right in Emmanuel Macron’s paradise of multiculturalism.

And wait, it gets worse. We’re not told what she said, of course – that would be just too much for delicate modern ears to take – but note that the Times said she insulted “Islam,” not “Muslims.” This distinction is lost on many today, but assuming that the Times still has some residual concern for precision in reporting, we can justifiably assume that the girl criticized a set of ideas and beliefs, not a group of people.

This is a key distinction, for people cannot change certain immutable characteristics (race and, yes, gender), and thus it would be wrong to denigrate them on the basis of those characteristics. But ideas? They should be evaluated on their merits, and free criticism of them by those who do not hold them is a foundation of free inquiry and thus of a free society. Isn’t it?

Well, it has been up until recently. Ordinarily in the West, those who criticize ideas, particularly religious ideas, are celebrated as heroes, courageous “free thinkers,” unshackled by dogma and superstition. But of course that only applies to Christianity and Judaism. Criticizing Islam, well! That’s entirely a different matter, and no laughing matter, infidel!

For insulting Islam, this 16-year-old girl, whom the Times tells us is “named only as Mila,” has been forced into hiding: “The 16-year-old has been advised to stay away from her lycée (sixth-form college) in southeast France after calls on the internet for her to be killed, raped or attacked.”

Even that isn’t the final absurdity and outrage of this disgraceful episode: Mila “is understood to have been told by officials that she should avoid being seen in public until the controversy fades. She is being given psychological support by the local prosecutor’s office. Prosecutors said two separate criminal inquiries were under way, the first to track the authors of threats to kill and rape the teenager, the second to determine whether her comments amounted to the offence of hate speech.”

Let me get this straight. She has been told to stay away from school after calls for her to be raped and killed. She is being given psychological support. That support is being provided by “the local prosecutor’s office,” which at the same time is trying to decide whether or not to charge the girl they are protecting from rape and death threats with “hate speech.”

To be sure, prosecutors are also attempting “to track the authors of threats to kill and rape the teenager,” but that doesn’t get her off the hook. Insulting Islam is serious business in Karachi -- that is, Paris -- these days, and the fact that she might be raped and murdered for expressing a less than rosily favorable view of the Religion of Peace does not give her a license to flout the Sharia -- that is, French law.

What’s that? The prosecutors should be standing up for the freedom of speech, and the right to criticize ideas? In France, in 2020? How quaint. Are you going to suggest next that they show up for their proceedings in horse-drawn carriages? That would please Greta Thunberg, and so it may be coming soon, but it is still a few years down the road (at least ten or twelve). But Islamic blasphemy laws? They are upon us right now. The plight of young Mila shows it. If she had excoriated Christianity, or climate change denial, she would be going to photoshoots for the cover of Time and Newsweek right now. Her error was that she chose the wrong set of ideas to insult. In France today, Sharia blasphemy laws are the wave of the future.

And who knows? If the supporters of the saintly former President who once announced that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” succeed in their quest to destroy President Trump and place an ideological heir of that famously Sharia-adherent President in the White House, this incident could be a glimpse into our future as well. American girls, grab your hijabs! You don’t want to be caught behind the cultural trends, do you?

Robert Spencer administers Jihad Watch, where you will find an embarrassment (literally!) of riches directly or indirectly related to the above article.

Note: Robert Spencer does not add that Mila is a lesbian, and hopes to become a singer. On Instagram she was courted by a Muslim whom she rejected saying,

"I hate religion and the Koran. There is only hatred in it. Islam is shit. That's what I think. I am not a racist, not at all. You cannot be a racist towards a religion. Your religion is shit, your God - I stick my finger up his a..hole. I say what I think, I am totally within my rights and I'm not sorry". Source

But even worse, Mila lashed out at Marine Le Pen, who had defended her, saying:

"On the other hand I spit on the homophobic extreme right that is trying to take my side even though we have nothing in common. They are nothing but a concentration of hatred."

Whose side is Mila on? Who will benefit from this mixed up volley of accusations both from Mila and against Mila. Isn't she doing more harm than good? Does she deserve to be hunted down? No. Should she reconsider the language she uses? Yes. Should she try to understand that Marine Le Pen is not her enemy? Yes, but it is not likely she ever will. Is she a criminal? No. Did she behave foolishly? Yes. Do you sympathize with her? Yes to some extent because she forced the government to expose itself as the arbiter on what one is allowed to say and what is forbidden, and she forced the same government to expose its ferocious pro-Islam bias. Is the government afraid? Yes, but it has the Muslims on its side. Should Mila be afraid? Yes, definitely. Unless this is all a massive publicity stunt.

Mila has recorded a song entitled "Je ne veux pas mourir" (I don't want to die) posted here.

Additional note from Riposte Laïque, not directly connected to Robert Spencer's article: The beating of a young white boy by a gang of twelve young blacks in the city of Étampes was caught on video and posted at François Desouche. The website received threats and pulled it, then YouTube pulled it. However Riposte Laïque managed to post a copy at their Russian channel TVS24. Click the link above and scroll down just a bit to view this brief scene. However remember it may be pulled at any time, and Riposte Laïque posts it at great legal risk. Below, a screen capture from the video:

It is typical of black-on-white violence: one helpless white is pummeled by a gang of blacks. There is no such thing as fair play in situations like this. Nor is this the first time it has happened in France. Back in 2006 during the riots that followed a government attempt to reform hiring practices, whites were openly beaten by gangs of blacks.

Final note: I have also read that a 12-year old boy of Serbian origin was beaten by his classmates in the 18th arrondissement of Paris for wearing a cross. The cross, at first invisible under his shirt, became visible when he leaned forward. He allegedly refused to take it off, they circled round him threw him to the ground and beat him. He had the presence of mind to cover his head with his arms. The identity of his five attackers is not revealed in the article at Boulevard Voltaire. 

Sorry to say it but the above incidents are of minor importance compared to other acts of extreme violence that have riddled France these past five months.