Muslims Force Closure of Cinema During Eid

 H/T  Cheradenine Zakalwe

Several groups of “jeunes” disrupted the operation of the Jaude cinema on Friday afternoon in the centre of Clermont-Ferrand. They even caused the closure of the establishment for the evening following attacks on the employees.
Between 4.30 pm and 6 pm, the cinema management was forced to intervene in four of the seven screens in the complex. “Adolescents of 13 to 14 years of age were behaving badly. They were speaking loudly, using their phones, even spitting on members of the audience”, says one of the cinema managers.

A showing of the film “Taken 2” even had to be cancelled and reimbursed “after these ‘jeunes’ were stirred up”. The police were warned and turned up on site. Despite that, the pressure continued to mount. There were several groups of ‘jeunes’, who didn’t necessarily know one another. “Among those we had to order out of the theatres and those to whom we denied entry, there was a small gathering in front of the cinema doors.”

Around 6 pm, one of the managers went out, “I wanted to ask them to calm down”. As far as calm is concerned, “he was insulted, threatened, thrown to the ground and kicked many times. He was injured on the face and body. A second employee who came to help him was hurt on the knee and wrist. One of the doors was also broken,” said a member of the management team who took the decision to close the doors around 7.30 pm after having cancelled the 7 pm showing of James Bond. The economic loss was significant: “We were expecting between 1000 and 1500 viewers”.


…The management of the Jaude cinema denounces what it called identical problems “occurring repeatedly for several years now during the two days of Eid, a festival that should be oriented towards prayer, solidarity and joy”. The management of the Jaude cinema deny that they are making inappropriate generalisations: “Don’t misunderstand, we are not speaking about a Muslim problem but the lack of ability in our society to manage this malaise in the urban estates which is overflowing more and more from the suburbs.”

Source: La Montagne

bishops worried by Islam

PARIS - A drive to rekindle Roman Catholicism's missionary zeal is struggling to counter the challenge of Islam, a religion with an arguably more direct message and a greater institutional hold on its faithful.

Bishops who have been meeting for three weeks to plot a way forward for a Church whose membership is dwindling in Europe are concerned by Islam's growth and worried about Christian minorities in Muslim countries, according to participants' comments released by the Vatican.

Islam was barely mentioned in preparatory documents for the Synod on New Evangelization, a meeting in Rome of 262 prelates from around the world been held behind closed doors.

But one participant said it had become the "buzzword" of the synod that ends this weekend.

"It's no surprise that Islam has taken on such importance during this synod," French-born Bishop Paul Desfarges, who heads the diocese of Constantine in Algeria, told journalists in Rome this week. "It's an issue that concerns Europe."

Christianity, with about 2 billion followers, is the world's largest religion and Catholicism - its biggest denomination by far - makes up just over half that total.

But some estimates suggest that the 1.3 billion Muslims, four-fifths of them outside the Arab world, are growing in number much faster than Christians, whose numbers are shrinking in their European heartland.

"We need a much more developed analysis and discussion of the consequences of the Islamic presence in the Western world," Sydney Cardinal George Pell said.

Political boost for Islam

Some of the "Arab Spring" uprisings that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East have propelled Islam onto the political stage.

Kyrillos William, the Catholic Coptic bishop of Assiut, painted a stark picture of the situation facing Egypt's large Christian minority - about 10 percent of the population - since the upheavals of the Arab Spring.
"Every day since the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power, we see new steps towards the Islamization of the state," he said. "Christians continue to be considered second-class citizens and many of their rights are not recognized."

In a remark that Church leaders interpreted as criticism, a senior Egyptian official has said the Church's many schools and hospitals, which are used mostly by Muslims, gave it a presence in society much bigger than its actual size.

"Some extremists demand that we leave the country," the bishop said. "We've told them: 'No, this is our country and we're staying'."

In West Africa, where Christianity and Islam are vying for new followers among the many people quitting traditional religions, bishops felt Catholicism had a double disadvantage.

"The rapid expansion of Islam and especially the spreading of fundamentalism in West Africa enormously worries the Church," said Bishop Nicodeme Anani Barrigah-Benissan from Togo.

"It only takes one day to become Muslim but it is impossible to renounce this religion later," he said. By contrast, he added, it takes at least three years of study for an adult to become a Catholic, and the baptized can leave at will.

Patriarch Gregory III Laham, the Damascus-based head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, argued that Islam's main teaching - that there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet - was easier for people to grasp.

"Our beautiful Christian faith is too complicated," he said.

Conversion illegal

Conversion from Islam to another religion is illegal in many Muslim countries, meaning that Christians dedicated to spreading their faith must do so very cautiously, several prelates noted.

Bishop Desfarges reported that some Algerian Muslims had converted to Catholicism. "These new disciples are sometimes rejected by their own family or must be very discreet," he said.

Bechara Boutros Rai, the Beirut-based head of the Maronite Church in communion with the Vatican, said there were also "some secret conversions by Muslims to Christianity" in Lebanon.

"Evangelization is practiced in the Arab countries in an indirect way," he said, through a wide network of Christian schools, hospitals and broadcast media that spread the Church's message without explicitly preaching it.

But several bishops, especially from countries where tensions between Christians and Muslims seem to be worst, saw the meeting of the two faiths as an opportunity for dialogue rather than a reason to bemoan their fate.

"Despite the impression often given by the world media, I want to stress that Christians in Nigeria do not see themselves as being under any massive persecution by Muslims," Abuja Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan told the synod.

"We need to know our Muslim neighbors and keep an open mind to those who are friendly, and they are in the majority," he said. "We have to work together to make sure that the fanatics do not dictate the agenda of our mutual relations."

The Islam debate at the conference got off to a rocky start when Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican Council for Justice and Peace, screened a video suggesting that Europe was quickly being overrun by Muslims.

Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois from France, home to Europe's largest Muslim minority, panned the film as propaganda and said the New Evangelization "should not become a Crusade."

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Jewish Defence League Pours Red Paint on Muslim Agitator

Houria Bouteldja is the one who referred to the indigenous French as "sous-chiens", a pun meaning both "indigenes" and "sub-dogs". She also said "I am Mohammed Merah".

PLOT TO KILL BRIT KIDS AT EURO DISNEY DURING CHRISTMAS

A HUGE cache of weapons and bombs was found near Disneyland Paris yesterday.

Police fear Islamic extremists had been plotting a Mumbai-style massacre at the theme park at Christmas.

Disneyland is packed with British children and their parents over the festive season.

The devastating attack could have been more horrific than the commando-style raids on Mumbai in November 2008, in which 166 people died.

Armed police found the guns and explosives in a building in the eastern Paris suburb of Torcy near the park.

The raid came after 11 men were arrested and another shot dead during anti-terror swoops across France at the weekend.

Detectives believe extremists were planning a wave of deadly strikes in a twisted bid to turn France into a Muslim state.

Former Portsmouth football star Yann Nsaku, 19, was among those held. Anti-terror officers then swooped on the building used by the gang in Torcy.

Meanwhile, security chiefs have warned that al-Qaida could still stage a massacre in London after US spies rumbled a plan to target Britain, France and Germany in simultaneous strikes.

Sources claim London landmark buildings were targets and thousands could have died.

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Islamic radical shot dead by anti-terrorism police in France

A suspected Islamic terrorist was shot dead by French police in front of his veiled wife and their young child today.

The man, in his 30s, was gunned down after firing a .357 Magnum revolver as armed officers swarmed into his house in the eastern city of Strasbourg.
Seven others, including another gunman in Paris, were arrested during a nationwide anti-terrorist operation.

Sting operation: A man, in his 30s, was shot dead as police arrested terror suspects around France

Armed siege: A policeman from the GIPN - French national police intervention groups - stands guard outside a building in Cannes, southeastern France, where me connected with an extremist Islamic group were arrested

Dramatic scenes: All the men arrested are believed to be part of the Salafist group which is waging a holy war in Europe

Organised: The anti-terror operation was carried out in several cities around France - notably in Strasbourg where a suspect was fatally wounded

All were suspected of being involved in an attack on a Jewish shop in which one person was slightly injured last month.

The extreme violence used by the authorities in the face of Muslim extremism was praised by President Francois Hollande who 'saluted the action of the police' and urged Interior Minister Manuel Valls to 'take all measures necessary to ensure vigilance.'

All the men targetted today were said to be linked to a Salafist group which is committed to waging a jihad - or holy war - across Europe. 

It follows Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old French Algerian with similar Salafism connections, shooting seven people, including four Jews, dead in the Toulouse area in March. 

At least three policemen were injured in today's Strasboug raid, while others received direct hits to their bullet proof jackets and helmets.

Heavily armed: Police officers wore full protective clothing including bullet proof vests, helmets and shields

The anti-terror operation comes after extremist Mohammed Merah killed seven people - including four Jews - in Toulouse in March

The suspect, meanwhile, was hit by a number of bullets and died at the scene, despite being treated by medics for his wounds.

The source said the man's veiled wife and child were in the Strasbourg house, and that the woman was one of those arrested for questioning.

'He was initially on the sofa, but then started to fire at police with a .357 Magnum,' the source added. 

Dawn raid: Police raided the building in the Esplanade suburb of Strasbourg in the early hours on Saturday morning

It was part of a nationwide counter-terrorist operation aimed at capturing the gang responsible for planting a low explosive device in a kosher food shop in the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles on September 19th.

A judicial source in the French capital said all the men targeted today were thought to be members of a secretive Salafist group. 

Referring to another Paris suburb, the source said: 'A prosecutor in Pontoise was recently withdrawn from the case and replaced with an anti-terrorist prosecutor in Paris. It was him who sanctioned this morning's raids. 

'Armed police visited a number of addresses across the country in coordinated raids. The suspect in Strasbourg tried to resist arrest by firing at officers who had stormed into his home.'

The raids were coordinated by the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI) and the terrorism sub-directorate (SDAT) of the Judicial Police. 

The source said that a gunman arrested in Paris had been acting in a 'threatening and dangerous manner' but was quickly disarmed with no injuries. 

An Interior Ministry spokesman said raids had today (sat) taken place at addresses in cities all over the country, and notably in Nice, Cannes, and Paris. He said there had been seven arrests in all.

Police have been on heightened alert since the attacks by Merah, who was himself finally shot dead by police.

Merah had strong links to Salafist groups in the Toulouse area, where he was brought up, and there are fears that they may have assisted his murderous crimes. 

Crime scene investigation: Police leaving the building in Strasburg, eastern France, where a man linked to the extremist Salafist group was shot dead

Arrests: Around 11 other men believed to be connected to the extremist Salafist group were arrested at locations around France

Dangerous: At least three policemen were injured during the raid while others received direct hits to their bullet proof jackets

 

More Riots on Saturday?

Saturday September 22 promises to be an eventful day. First, the new Islamic wing of the Louvre museum, a major project, long-awaited by Islamophiles and art lovers, as well as groveling politicians eager to give Islamic art its rightful place in France, will open. A reader sent this English-language article that gives some background information, but I hope to have more later on the political motivations behind this costly endeavor.

Now, while the Louvre pays tribute to Islamic art, what will last Saturday's salafists be doing? The social networks have been buzzing with calls to demonstrate against that movie again. This time the protests are to take place on the Esplanade of the Trocadéro, opposite the Eiffel Tower. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has banned the demonstration, saying "We will not tolerate rampages. The Republic will not be made a fool of."

Below a poster that says "Don't touch my Prophet!"

Writing at Islamisation, Joachim Véliocas warns of possible violence:

Last Saturday, the police had already been on the alert from the quantity of noise on the Internet. They were overwhelmed, and allowed the Islamists to drift as far as the place Vendôme. Six officers were wounded! A "remake" of a greater order of magnitude, considering the buzz all over the web, is likely in several Paris neighborhoods. And with Charlie Hebdo adding fuel to the fire, that may incite those who at first didn't care about some film made 5000 miles away. And to believe that this involves only salafists is an enormous mistake, since the Prophet is respected by all the Muslims in the ghettos.

Note: The satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has reprinted the Danish cartoons.

Ayrault has just announced that the demonstration will be banned. Big deal! Was it banned last Saturday? And the movement may spread, to Lyon especially, where a demonstration is scheduled. The young identitarians of Lyon, who are "holding" the old part of the city, have been receiving many phone calls from worried residents.

Note: The identitarian movement of Lyon has issued a communiqué in which it vows to defend Lyon in case of violence on Saturday:

(...) Everybody fears a repeat of the riots such as those in Paris last Saturday, where we saw Islamists and thugs in a common cause… Everybody knows that our city and its region have not been spared by either. For problems linked to Islam to dictate daily life in Lyon on Saturday, and for the rest of the year, is out of the question.

(...) In September 2012, the young identitarians of Lyon will defend their city if necessary. In case the Islamists/thugs demonstrate this Saturday, we will not hesitate to fight in the streets. We urge the people of Lyon to remain vigilant and informed of the situation.

"We Demand Better Free Houses, Dhimmis!"

Saint Denis : Des mal-logés occupent le... by HLMPOURTOUS

 This from Saint-Denis in Paris. An "Association of the Badly Housed" occupies a government office to demand better accommodation. They are promptly rewarded with the promise of a meeting with a government minister. Looking at their attire, I think we can make a good guess at their religious orientation.

FRANCE: Muslim man shoots two policewomen in cold blood.

The two female police officers, 29 and 35, were shot to death, when they intervened in a family dispute in Collobrieres in southeastern France.

 The report about the French cop-killer was all over the news this morning, but none of the English-language bulletins mentioned his ethnicity or gave his name. It was necessary to open the French news sites to find the name “Abdallah Boumezar”.




The killer, Abdallah Boumezaar, is a 30-year Algerian Muslim mason. He was let out of jail after serving a  prison sentence for drug offenses and armed robbery. He was also recently  convicted of serious violence against his mother, but received a suspended sentence. He has already spent nearly ten years in prison for drug trafficking, theft, violence.

The policewomen were responding to a call about an Arab who had robbed a purse from a female neighbor. Abdallah, who is big and tall, struck the police sergeant, stole her gun, and shot the 35-year-old mother of two with several shots to the face.
The second policewoman, newly married, ran to hide in a small alley, but the killer shot her to death with at least 7 bullets to the back, using her own gun.  Boumezaar then fled on foot along with “one of his wives.” But the helicopter and 300 police officers managed to track him down and arrest him. He has confessed and is now awaiting sentencing.

Le Parisian

 At three o’clock in the morning, while dozens of police and helicopters stalked him, he was arrested with his girlfriend behind the gas station in the village.  He admitted being the murderer of the policewomen  without explaining the reasons that prompted him to kill.   The prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux intended to call for charges of murder on Audrey Berthaut and assassination of Alicia Champlon, which implies premeditation.
His brother, Chaouki Boumezaar, painted a picture Tuesday of the suspect hard: “It was uncontrollable, emotionally shot, he killed the police but he could have killed my mother, my sister or me.”

They may want to rethink this
A French appeals court approved Tuesday the construction of a large mosque in the city of Marseille, home to an estimated 250,000 Muslims. The mosque, seen as a symbol of Islam's growing presence in France, has attracted national controversy. 

 http://www.france24.com/en/20120619-marseille-mega-mosque-gets-appeals-court-go-ahead