Muslim Brotherhood Report: Is France Finally Waking Up?

Well, at least the masters are pretending to wake up. The people have known for years that they were being invaded and infiltrated by jihadists.

From The European Conservative

By Hélène de Lauzun, PhD

The political class is pretending to discover a phenomenon that has been denounced for decades by the national Right.

Revelations surrounding the government report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of French society continue to cause a stir. Long ignored or underestimated, the phenomenon is finally being assessed by the authorities, but solutions are slow to emerge and are sparking heated debate.

A 73-page report analysing the all-out offensive waged by the Muslim Brotherhood on French society over the past several years was leaked to the press earlier this week, sparking strong reactions and comments from politicians.

As part of a conscious and aggressive strategy aimed at establishing Sharia law in France, the influence of this militant Islamist faction can be seen at all levels. 

Their preferred areas of expansion are education, charities, and preaching, but no sector is spared.

In secondary schools affiliated with their movement, students study texts that advocate the death penalty for apostates and the separation of men and women. 

In large cities, ‘local ecosystems’ are being established, with social control enforcing the wearing of veils, beards, and Islamic clothing, and observance of Ramadan fasting. The aim is to infiltrate local institutions through elections in favour of Islamic lists. Lille, Lyon, and Marseille are particularly affected. 

Sport is the target of a specific campaign. Football, basketball, and combat sports are particularly targeted by separatist activities: collective prayers before matches, prayer rooms set up in changing rooms, and regular reminders of religious commandments are beginning to become the norm in clubs.

For the time being, however, no satisfactory answer has been given to the only question that matters: what now?

Adefence council was convened on Wednesday, May 21st, to address the report’s alarming conclusions and consider how to respond to the revelations contained in the document.

President Macron said he was extremely unhappy with the publication of the report, which should have remained confidential—at least initially. In veiled terms, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau was singled out as responsible for the leak. The president also expressed his dissatisfaction with the solutions and ‘responses’ put forward by his ministers. “This is not acceptable,” “this is not serious,” he thundered in the small circle of ministers summoned to the Élysée Palace.

“Given the importance of the subject and the seriousness of the facts established, he has asked the government to draw up new proposals to be examined at a forthcoming Defence Council meeting in early June,” the Élysée Palace concluded in a brief statement.

In the political sphere, the report has caused a predictable shockwave. The phenomenon of frérisme has long been identified on the Right and denounced by leading intellectual figures, who have for too long felt that they were preaching in the desert. One example is academic Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, who has devoted her research to the entryism of the Muslim Brotherhood and has received death threats as a result.

When asked about the report on national TV channel France 2, Marine Le Pen railed against the blindness of the public authorities. “We have been warning about the entryism of Islamic fundamentalism for fifteen years. For fifteen years, we have been told that it is not true. I have learned nothing new in this report. As for the measures proposed by Bruno Retailleau, they are a joke, and I am not laughing,” she said, clearly very angry—pointing out that, for once, she and the President of the Republic agreed on the inadequacy of the first proposals to respond to this internal threat.

Interior Minister Retailleau indeed presented the Senate with some very vague proposals, such as a “better organisation of the state” with “a real leader in intelligence” and “an administrative prosecutor’s office within the ministry of the interior” to “expedite dissolutions” and “administrative obstacles.” “This is a deadly danger,” Le Pen forcefully reiterated, requiring more than “half-measures.” The leader of the RN deputies referred to a bill, drafted by her party and ready “for years,” to tackle the problem as a whole.

Upon discovering the report, the Left was quick to cry Islamophobia. The leader of the far-left party La France Insoumise believes that “Islamophobia has crossed a threshold.” According to him, convening a defence council around the president on the subject “lends credence to the delusional theories of Retailleau and Le Pen.” He accused Macron of wanting to “destroy the country” with this move. On television, left-wing journalists, petrified, expressed alarm at the “ostracism” of Muslims from the “social contract.” Jean-Michel Apathie, a famous left-wing columnist, called for the dangerous report to be buried.

The responses to the report will undoubtedly be slow in coming. While it represents a decisive step in the awareness of the Islamist danger, the document provides ample evidence that submission to Islamist demands is already accepted, even internalised, along with the cultural shift that makes it possible. Thus, in its understanding of the place of the Muslim faith in French society, the report’s authors echo the view that “the rest of society must accept that Islam is a French religion, very likely one of the foremost, if not the foremost, in terms of religious practice, and deserves consideration in this regard, including with regard to certain customs that it does not share.”

Further on, we read: “A new public discourse will probably be necessary, one that does not confine the Republic to secularism and is capable of offering the seeds of ‘civic friendship.’ Islamists offer a grand narrative, against which ‘the values of the Republic’ are not enough.”

The solution is simple: reconnect with the Christian heritage that made France great and which is still capable today of uplifting the soul of French youth and giving meaning to its future. But that is certainly asking a bit too much.

Pictured: Muslim Brotherhood logo with the Arabic word for 'prepare' in calligraphy below the two crossed swords