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Mosques |
The Islamification Of France -- The French website 5 Years Later has posted maps that illustrate the advance of Islam in France. I’ve taken the latest one from 2008 showing through shades of green the areas of implantation of the religion of peace and tolerance. The numbers on the map are those of the departments and have nothing to do with numbers of Muslims. The chart at the bottom runs from fewer than 5 to more than 30 mosques, prayer rooms or meeting houses. So we see that, in the southwest, department 33 has more than 30 while department 40 has fewer than 5. |
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3/20/2008 |
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Marion Cotillard |
"9/11 Attacks Made Up," Says French Best Actress Oscar-Winner -- Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks. The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website. "I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends. |
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3/2/2008 |
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Islam |
Islam And Its Taboos -- The discussion, which took place yesterday, is called "Islam and its taboos." It features, according to the France 24 site, "Muslim writer and feminist Irshad Manji, Amel Boubekeur, leader of the Islam and Europe programme, Richard Spencer, director of jihadwatch.org and Abed Ayoub, legal advisor for American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee." |
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2/12/2008 |
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Outrage |
French Editor Back In Court Over Prophet Cartoons -- The editor of a French weekly, acquitted last year on charges of offending Muslims for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in February 2006, appeared before an appeal court on Wednesday. Philippe Val, who edits the satirical Charlie Hebdo weekly, was sued by two Muslim organisations who argued that the cartoons, first printed by a Danish newspaper, drew an offensive link between Islam and terrorism. |
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1/23/2008 |
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Eiffel Tower |
Terror Plot To Blow Up Eiffel Tower Uncovered -- A plot by Islamic terrorists to blow up the Eiffel Tower has been uncovered. A scrambled short-wave radio conversation exposing the planned attack on the world's most visited monument was picked up by Portuguese air traffic controllers and passed on to French spy chiefs. |
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1/11/2008 |
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Youths |
The Explosive Banlieus -- The situation is explosive in both meanings of the word. It seems that from one riot to the next the techniques harden, the methods become more professional and the police and gendarmes will soon have to confront, if they have not already, experts in urban guerilla warfare. |
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12/21/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
French Court Convicts 5 Ex-Gitmo Inmates -- A court convicted five former inmates of Guantanamo on terrorism-related charges on Wednesday, but did not send any of them back to prison in France. All of them were out of prison pending rulings in their cases. The five men were convicted of "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise," a broad charge frequently used in France. All the men insisted during the trial that they were innocent.
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12/19/2007 |
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Nicolas Sarkozy |
"Danger of War" Exists with Iran -- "Everyone agrees on the fact that what the Iranians are doing has no civilian explanation," Sarkozy said, referring to Tehran's uranium enrichment work. "The only debate is about whether they will develop a military capacity in one or five years." |
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12/12/2007 |
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Muammar Gaddafi |
Gaddafi Visiting France: Demands 200 Attractive French Women -- Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is coming to France next week, with his all female bodyguards (picture), and has made clear want he wants: a tent to live in, 200 attractive French women, and some nuclear energy. |
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12/8/2007 |
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Muslim Brotherhood |
The Parisian Intifada and "The Project" -- Paris is burning, yet again. The Muslim immigrant “youths” in the banlieues have taken to the streets to expand a Western front in the global jihad. This time, however, instead of just burning cars and throwing rocks, this week they have taken up arms against French police. As the Associated Press reported on the violence around Paris late Tuesday, noting the escalation beyond the car-burning intifada of November 2005, such that even apologetic Associated Press reporters are forced to describe the present rioters as “urban guerillas." |
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11/29/2007 |
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Youths |
64 Officers Injured in Paris Riots -- French police on Tuesday said its 64 officers were injured in the second night of clashes with youths in and around the flashpoint Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, adding that five of them were in critical condition. The injuries followed rioting in Villiers-le-Bel and the nearby towns of Sarcelles and Garges-les-Gonesses. |
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11/27/2007 |
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Riot |
French Police Deploy 1,000 Officers To Keep Lid on Riots -- The French authorities deployed 1,000 police to a northern Paris suburb Tuesday to prevent a third night of youth riots amid signs that the violence could be spreading. |
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11/27/2007 |
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Riot |
Paris Suburb Riots Called "A Lot Worse" Than in 2005 -- "From what our colleagues on the scene tell us, this is a situation that is a lot worse than what we saw in 2005," Patrice Ribeiro, a police officer and senior union official, told RTL radio Tuesday. He added, "A line was crossed last night, that is to say, they used weapons, they used weapons and fired on the police. This is a real guerrilla war." |
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11/27/2007 |
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Youths |
Boys' Moped Deaths Ignite Riot in Paris Suburb -- Rioting broke in one of Paris's tinder box suburban housing estates last night after two young boys were killed when their moped collided with a police car. |
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11/26/2007 |
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Youths |
Whom Will France Mourn? A Tale of an Accident and a Murder -- Yesterday evening, three young people died in the suburbs to the north of Paris. Moushin (15) and Larami (16), two immigrant youths, were killed in Villiers-le-Bel when their motorcycle, which is said to have been stolen, collided at high speed with a police vehicle. The two youths, who were not wearing compulsory crash helmets, died on the spot. A few hours later, Anne-Lorraine (23), a young journalist, was stabbed to death on a suburban train near Creil, whilst resisting a man who was trying to rape her. The man had already been convicted for violent sexual assault in 1996. |
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11/26/2007 |
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Youths |
Riots Break Out in Paris Suburbs -- Youths have damaged police stations, shops and cars in two Paris suburbs, following the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike hit a police car. |
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11/26/2007 |
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Leftists |
French Prosecutors Throw Out Rumsfeld Torture Case -- The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday. |
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11/23/2007 |
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Socialists |
Contested French Immigration Bill Passes -- All they've done is pass a bill "that would institute language exams and potential DNA testing for prospective immigrants, making it more difficult for families to join loved ones in France," and the Socialists and Greens are acting as if they committed genocide. The possibility of France being overwhelmed and transformed by immigrants who bring with them a radically different societal model, one that many are determined to impose upon the larger population, is not for them a matter of concern. |
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10/25/2007 |
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TV News |
Video of Boy‘s Death Ordered Released -- A French judge has ordered a television network to release unedited footage of the shooting death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip for renewed investigations into the contentious incident, judicial officials said Friday. The Israeli army initially said the gunfire "apparently" came from Israeli positions. But a military investigation subsequently determined he could have been hit by Palestinian bullets in an exchange of fire. |
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9/22/2007 |
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Iran |
World Should Brace for Possible War over Iran: France -- The world should brace for a possible war over the Iranian nuclear crisis but seeking a solution through talks should take priority, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday. "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war," he said in an interview broadcast on French television and radio. |
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9/16/2007 |
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Michael Douglas |
Clooney, Douglas Bring US President Race, War to Venice and Deauville Film Fests -- With George Clooney stumping for Barack Obama at the Venice Film fest and Michael Douglas singing praise for Hilary Clinton at the Deauville Film Festival, you’d think you were in Washington, or at least Hollywood. Those stars and others brought political agendas to the big European film fests, encouraged by the world press in attendance, many of whom look for the next US President to deal with the war fallout and President Bush-related controversies in their own countries.
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9/1/2007 |
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Jacques Chirac |
Sarkozy "Corrects" Chirac's Errors -- One of the key promises that Nicolas Sarkozy had made during his presidential election campaign last spring was to "correct" foreign policy "mistakes" made by his predecessor Jacques Chirac. Chief among these was Chirac's desperate efforts to prevent the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussain's regime of terror. |
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8/25/2007 |
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Hezbollah |
Hizbullah Not a Terror Group -- Hizbullah is part of Lebanese politics and must not be regarded as a terror organization, said the French Foreign Ministry in a statement Thursday night. |
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7/13/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Al-Qaeda is Threatening France? What a Coincidence -- The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which is supposedly the European branch of al-Qaeda, issued a leaflet threatening the French with a wave of "bloody Jihad attacks" in the heart of Paris for electing Nicolas Sarkozy, the "Zionist Crusader." |
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6/3/2007 |
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Jane Fonda |
Cannes Makes Date with 4 Months, Fonda -- as for Fonda, Cannes festival head Gilles Jacob paid tribute to her status as a film icon and her anti-war activism by bestowing her with a surprise Palm d'Or for lifetime achievement. |
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5/27/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Al-Qaeda group threatens attacks in France |
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5/15/2007 |
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Islamofascism |
Jihadis aspire to "conquer France" |
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4/23/2007 |
