France: Not all civilisations equal, minister says 0

France: Not all civilisations equal, minister says Via AFP : French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, who also holds the immigration portfolio, caused political uproar by claiming that not all civilisations are equal, with some more advanced than others. “Contrary to what the left’s relativist ideology says, for us all civilisations are not of equal value,” Gueant on Saturday told a conference in the French parliament building, but closed to the media.

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France: Not all civilisations equal, minister says 0

France: Not all civilisations equal, minister says Via AFP : French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, who also holds the immigration portfolio, caused political uproar by claiming that not all civilisations are equal, with some more advanced than others. “Contrary to what the left’s relativist ideology says, for us all civilisations are not of equal value,” Gueant on Saturday told a conference in the French parliament building, but closed to the media.

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France: Three sentenced for Paris bomb plot 0

France: Three sentenced for Paris bomb plot Via AFP : A French court on Thursday sentenced three men to between two and six years in prison for plotting to carry out a car bomb attack on a public building near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Rany Arnaud, Nadir Badache and Adrien Guihal were arrested in December 2008 after they allegedly planned to set off a car bomb outside the offices of a national police investigation body in the centre of Paris

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France: New Report Accuses Police of Discrimination 0

France: New Report Accuses Police of Discrimination Via VoA : Human Rights Watch says police in France are singling out ethnic Arab and African youths for unwarranted and sometimes humiliating identity checks. The rights group says this apparent ethnic profiling is further exacerbating an already tense relationship between authorities and minority youths. A young man who recounted being stopped and questioned by French police thinks it’s because he’s Arab

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France: OIC condemns genocide bill 0

France: OIC condemns genocide bill Via Expatica : The world’s largest Muslim body criticised on Tuesday a bill passed by the French Senate making denial of the Armenian genocide a crime, according to an official statement. (…) “We reject this law and consider it to be inconsistent with historical facts,” said the statement from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation adding that it reflects a “double standard in the treatment of major historical issues.” The OIC further accused the French Senate of passing the bill for “political and electoral” gain and said the law violates the “principles of freedom of expression.” ( source )

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France: Radical group Forsane Alizza disbanded 0

France: Radical group Forsane Alizza disbanded Via KUNA : An extremist Islamist group known as “Knights of Pride (Forsane Alizza)” has been disbanded by order of the Interior Ministry for inciting racial hatred, security sources confirmed Monday. The Muslim group, which has bases in Paris and in the central French city of Limoges, and other cities, denies the accusations

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Netherlands: Prison sentence for horse-meat halal fraud 0

Netherlands: Prison sentence for horse-meat halal fraud Via BN/DeStem (Dutch): A 61 year old from Breda was sentenced to a year in jail (three months suspended) for halal meat fraud. The man and his accomplices sold horse meat from South America as Dutch halal-slaughtered meat. In 2007 and 2008 the man bought horse meat and packed it like beef.

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Paris: Turks demonstrate against genocide bill 0

Paris: Turks demonstrate against genocide bill Via AP : Thousands of Turks from across Europe marched through the French capital Saturday denouncing a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. Turks young and old, waving their country’s red flag, or wrapped in it, marched to the Senate, where the bill will be debated Monday after passage in December in the lower house.

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France: Fearing attacks, Jewish students masquerade as Muslims 0

France: Fearing attacks, Jewish students masquerade as Muslims Via the Jerusalem Post : 2 generations ago, some Jews sought to protect themselves by masquerading as Aryans.

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France: Le Pen slams Qatar for investing in French ‘Muslim’ suburbs 0

France: Le Pen slams Qatar for investing in French ‘Muslim’ suburbs Via AFP : Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Friday lashed out at Qatar for investing in “Muslim” areas of French cities and for taking over Paris Saint-Germain football club. “The massive investments which it has made in suburbs are made because of the very high proportion of Muslims who are in the French suburbs,” she told reporters. “I think this situation could be very dangerous,” she said.

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