France: Islamism in the Heart of the State

by Yves Mamou
December 5, 2017 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11423/france-state-islamism

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On all questions dedicated to immigration and Islam, France's Council of State has become an Islamo-leftist body, dedicated to encouraging Muslim immigration and protecting the expansion of Islam and Islamism in France.
The government wanted to expel foreign workers immediately after the cancellation of their work permit. Due to the Council of State, deportation was delayed by 24 hours, enough time to allow them to escape and become permanent illegal immigrants.
Maybe the elites are looking for "redemption" after France colonized parts of Africa. They are forgetting, however, that it was Muslims who colonized the Middle East, the Christian Byzantine Empire, North Africa, Greece, much of Eastern Europe and Asia, Northern Cyprus and Spain.

On October 25, 2017, the highest French administrative court, the Council of State (Conseil d'État), ordered the removal of a Roman Catholic cross from the top of a monument dedicated to Pope John Paul II in a public square in Ploërmel, Britanny. According to the France's highest administrative court, this cross was said to violate the secular nature of the State. Not the statue of the ex-pope John Paul II by itself; just the cross above it.

Social media, in France and abroad -- especially in Poland where John Paul II was born -- flew into an immediate uproar: How could the government of a country considered the "eldest daughter of the Catholic church" ask for the removal of a Catholic cross in a tiny village that nobody even knew about before this incident?

The Council of State is an independent legal body that has jurisdiction over disputes concerning civil liberties, administrative police, taxes, public contracts, the civil service, public health, competition rules, environmental law and secularism, to name just a few of its missions. The Council of State is also -- as its name implies -- the main advisor of every branch of government. Each time a minister or a prime minister has a difficult political decision to make, he sends the case to the Council of State. Generally, the Council of State's advice becomes the law.

The immense respect due to the Council of State seems to have caused even the keenest observers to miss the fact that, on all questions dedicated to immigration and Islam, the Council of State has become an Islamo-leftist body dedicated to encouraging Muslim immigration and protecting the expansion of Islam and Islamism in France.

On all questions dedicated to immigration and Islam, France's Council of State (Conseil d'État) has become an Islamo-leftist body, dedicated to encouraging Muslim immigration and protecting the expansion of Islam and Islamism in France. (Image source: Lino Bento/Flickr)

A few examples include:

1978. The right to migrate and work in France without an employment contract. The Council of State cancelled the government's decision to require an employment contract for a foreigner to migrate and work in France.
1978. The right to family reunification. Against the will of the government, which wanted to adapt migratory movements to a slower growth of the economy, the Council of State ruled that non-French immigrants have the "right to a family life", meaning that the wives and children of migrants workers are authorized to come, live and work in France as if they were French citizens. From that date, "family reunification" became an open door to migrants from North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
1980. The right to polygamy. A foreign citizen is allowed to migrate in France with as many wives as he is married to in his country of origin. In 1993, a previous law had prevented second wives from obtaining visas.
1985. The right to illegal immigration. The government wanted to expel foreign workers immediately after the cancellation of their work permit. Due to the Council of State, deportation was delayed by 24 hours, enough time to escape and become a permanent illegal immigrant.
1989. Islamic veil in school is not "incompatible" with secularism. Since 18th century, state public schools were a tool of the state to build an education system away from the influence of the Catholic church. In 1989, with the authorization for schoolgirls to wear the Islamic veil, the Council of State introduced the right for a religion to influence a secularist education system. After 15 years of heated controversy, a 2004 law reversed that ruling and again prohibited the Islamic veil in the public secondary-school system, but not at universities.
2004. Authorization of Al Manar, Hezbollah's virulently anti-Semitic television channel, to broadcast in France. After strong protests by leaders of the Jewish community, however, the government passed a law that made it obligatory for the Council of State to prohibit the Islamist channel.
2010. The Council of State strongly opposed the government's decision legally to ban the burqa in the public space. A law banning the burqa was eventually passed.
2011. Public money is allowed for building mosques after the Council of State bypassed the secularist law from 1905.
2013. The Council of State gives the right to veiled mothers to be part of public school trips. Before that, school trips were considered an extension of the school. Consequently, the 2004 law prohibiting Islamic veil at school was applied against veiled mothers. In 2012, however, that law was reversed; now, veiled mothers are allowed to accompany pupils on school trips.
2013. The Council of State opposed the dismissal of a veiled employee in a daycare nursery, Baby Loup. The Baby Loup veil controversy, which lasted five years, mobilized national and international media, politicians, and a large part of the judicial system. The question was: Does a female employee have the right to wear an Islamic headscarf, even if company rules prohibit it? Eventually, the employee was dismissed and Baby Loup, which was located in a Muslim suburb, moved elsewhere.
2016. The Council of State allowed burkinis, the full-covering swimsuit for women. The ruling affects seaside resorts such as Nice, and places where the burkini does not create public disorder. In August 2016, burkinis started appearing on French beaches. In Nice, the capital of the Côte d'Azur, a few weeks after an Islamist terrorist murdered 82 people on July 14, four policemen delivered a warning to a burkini-clad woman lying on a beach. Pictures in the Daily Mail of policemen surrounding "poor and isolated Muslim woman," were published throughout the world. The Council of State ruled that any municipal prohibition of the burkini was prohibited -- unless the burkini was creating public disorder.
2016. More money for "refugees". The Council of State ruled that the State had to give more money to help tens of thousands of "refugees" to find a place to sleep while their files were being examined by immigration officials, contrary to other applicants.
2017. A government-funded mega-mosque in Paris. The Council of State helped the mayor of Paris legally build a giant mosque and donate it as a gift to an Islamic association.
2017. Islamic veil in nursing schools. The Council of State authorized the Islamic veil in nurses' training institutions even if internal rules prohibited exhibiting conspicuous religious signs.
2017. Public showers and toilets for migrants. The Council of State ruled that the government has an obligation to provide illegal immigrants with public showers and public toilets in Calais, where thousands of young men from Africa and the Middle East try every day illegally to cross the Channel to England. Notably, this ruling is based on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which says this obligation is only for prisoners of war. Does the Council of State consider the French State as a jailer of migrants? There is no mention whatsoever in the ruling of considerations of public health.

Although the list above is not exhaustive, the rulings of the Council of State in favor of Islam, Islamism and unlimited, unvetted Muslim migration is systematic.

The question is: Why? Many French elites seem to be followers of a globalist ideology of no borders, no rules -- only the "human rights" of migrants from other nations vs. the rights of the citizens of France.

Perhaps many elites feel guilty after French State actively collaborated with Nazis, especially against Jews, during World War II, so that now they are trying, instead, to help Muslims -- whose culture and goals could hardly be farther from that of the Jews. Nevertheless, many seem to think of Muslims as "the Jews" of 21st century.

Perhaps many among the elites secretly do not like their country.

Or perhaps many elites are looking for "redemption" after France colonized parts of Africa and Northern Africa. They are forgetting, however, that it was Muslims who colonized the Middle East, the Christian Byzantine Empire, North Africa, Greece, much of Eastern Europe and Asia, Northern Cyprus and Spain.

Maybe it is a mix of all these guilts. What is certain is that after the collaboration of the French State with the Nazis, the judges of the Council of State are collaborating with yet another totalitarian ideology: political Islam.

Yves Mamou, author and journalist, based in France, worked for two decades as a journalist for Le Monde. He is finishing a book about "Collaborators and Useful Idiots of Islamism in France," to be published in 2018.

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21 Reader Comments

saratoga777 • Dec 24, 2017 at 04:37

This makes you think about the following: What do ANTIFA and Islam have in common?

At first glance nothing at all:

Islam wants to murder all homosexuals, whereas the leftists want to glorify a homosexual lifestyle.

Islam wants to murder all Jews, whereas leftists use the Holocaust-theme to attack right wing people, as if leftists were the only true friends of the Jews.

Islam rejects abortion, leftists embrace it.

ANTIFA people love dogs, Muslims hate and kill them.

Islam sees women as sex-objects and private property, as slaves and subhumans to serve them, whereas leftists want to liberate womanhood, they want independent and sovereign women, or at least that's what they claim.

Muslims are ultra-chauvinistic, ultra-conservative religious fanatics, whereas leftist claim to believe in transcending all borders, religions and nation-states, and are ultra-progressive, or at least claim to be.

Muslims are religious fanatics, whereas leftists claim to reject such nonsense as religion and spiritual superstition, at least officially.

So why do they seem support each other, at least sympathy-wise, and maybe even financially? Surely we wouldn't be surprised the least to learn that super-oil-rich Arabs are funding ANTIFA to create chaos in the western world.

Of course the same criminal coterie that is supporting ANTIFA, such as George Soros, the Rothschilds and the CIA, are also supporting terror groups, such as ISIS, according to the well known tactics of "pressure from above, pressure from below", to crush American conservatives in the middle, like a sandwich.

But the subversive shadow powers of the deep state couldn't just bring these groups together on an ideological level by funding both of them, there must be some common ideological ground.

You might say that Islam is a concentrated form of hate. Whatever we hear about Islam, it's always about hate, hate, and even more hate: They hate us for being Christians, they hate Trump for accepting Jerusalem as the new capital, they hate our dogs for being unclean, they hate our way of eating, they hate our movies, they hate our music, they hate our way of clothing, they hate science, they hate modern technology, they hate just about anything we believe in, in short they hate the west, heck, they would murder Mickey Mouse if they could.

Now let's look at a typical proponent of Marxism, Kim Jong-un: He hates America, he hates capitalism, he hates our way of life, and now I'm guessing: he probably hates Jesus Christ, like all Marxists do, he hates Christians, he hates freedom, he hates freedom of speech, he hates the free market economy, he hates sovereign citizens, in short he hates anyone who refuses to worship him as a god and be his willing slave. In short he represents a concentrated form of hate, just like Islam.

Granted, most leftists out there don't wan't to live in North Korea, they just know what they hate, they define themselves by their common hate, they don't really know what they love, what they really want. But be it as it may, their ideology will eventually lead to a second North Korea in America, in case they succeed.

So there you have it, this is the common underlying principle of Islam and ANTIFA: They both are concentrated forms of hate, they both want to destroy the west, they both hate our way of life, they both want to enslave or kill us, so they're united in what they reject, although their goals may be quite different.

But for practical reasons this common hate unites them, makes them support each other, and of course the Illuminati know well how to use these useful idiots and their hate-energy for their goal of setting up a totalitarian one world government by getting rid of what hinders them. And that's why ANTIFA wants to see the west getting flooded with as many Muslims as possible.

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Timothee • Dec 5, 2017 at 21:45

Clue: France sells more weapons systems to the Saudi Caliphate and its emirates than any other EU nation, and bribes of anyone who may be in the way of these deals are very common. Saudi Arabia, which oversees our global human rights, has a zero immigration policy, except for temporary slave labour.

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Rames Paulus • Dec 5, 2017 at 20:30

Yves says "Perhaps many elites feel guilty after French State actively collaborated with Nazis especially against Jews".

On the other hand, perhaps it's the manifestation of continued antisemitism... that they would side with Jew haters, the muslims, absolving themselves from direct implication.

What we've come to call the "International Left" has made this alliance with muslims worldwide. Seemingly, they have upended the whole of Christian civil society in Europe. To what end... is no longer an operative or debatable question: they have succeeded. Left for protesters of this state of affairs is to fight back, or acquiesce.

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Michael • Dec 5, 2017 at 14:32

France is no longer the eldest daughter of the Church.

She is the latest sex slave of the Muslims.

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Bisley • Dec 5, 2017 at 14:26

Courts, all courts, are political bodies, and the Conseil d'État is no different. Members are appointed largely for their political views, and expected to apply their views as law. A succession of leftist, pro-Islam governments have created leftist, pro-Islam courts to enshrine their policy as law. It's not about law, justice, human rights, etc, but imposing political beliefs as law.

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Dorothy Davies • Dec 5, 2017 at 13:43

Who then is on the Council of State? Are they elected? They should be named and shamed - perhaps by Marine le Pen's party?

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Yves Mamou

Dorothy Davies • Dec 5, 2017 at 20:59

The "conseillers d'Etat" are not elected. They are the winners of the famous Ecole nationale d'administration. They are supposed to serve the Republic but now they became a caste with privileges and rights, a kind of aristocracy with power but no responsibility.

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Abhishek Ghosh

Yves Mamou • Dec 6, 2017 at 12:01

Wonderful ! The country which imposed democracy and the Napoleonic code on so many European countries is run by an aristocracy ! One can say that these are meritocrats or technocrats, but I won't be surprised that for someone to get through such a premier school, one has to be very well prepared to begin with, which means one has to be pretty well heeled.

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John D. Horton • Dec 5, 2017 at 12:26

France is on a path of suicide.

See the books on Islamic Invasion issues:

-- American jihad : the terrorists living among us https://lccn.loc.gov/2002319345
-- Arab winter comes to America : the truth about the war we're in https://lccn.loc.gov/2014002639
-- Eurabia : the Euro-Arab axis https://lccn.loc.gov/2004025171
-- Invasion : how America still welcomes terrorists, criminals, and other foreign menaces to our shores https://lccn.loc.gov/2002010845
-- Islam, America's Trojan Horse! : a Christian looks at Islam https://lccn.loc.gov/2003440494
-- Jihad incorporated : a guide to militant Islam in the US https://lccn.loc.gov/2006020265
-- Kaleidoscope : the resettlement of refugees in the United States by the voluntary agencies https://lccn.loc.gov/84673139
-- Red-green axis : refugees, immigration and the agenda to erase America
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/947844269
-- Refugee resettlement and the Hijra to America http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936107302
-- Refugee resettlement in the United States : language, policy, pedagogy https://lccn.loc.gov/2015023405
-- Stealth invasion : Muslim conquest through immigration and resettlement Jihad https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035955
-- Stealth jihad : how radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs https://lccn.loc.gov/2008044011
-- Stop the Islamization of America : a practical guide to the resistance https://lccn.loc.gov/2011276829
-- The strange death of Europe : immigration, identity, Islam https://lccn.loc.gov/2017434818
-- The terrorist next door : how the government is deceiving you about the Islamist threat https://lccn.loc.gov/2011009881

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B E Bradley • Dec 5, 2017 at 12:13

Where are the people of France? Are they really going along with this?
It is clear that this Islamization is insidious and has gone on for many, many years (in France).
Is it already too late to do something about it?

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b.a. freeman

B E Bradley • Dec 6, 2017 at 10:00

B E, although the pious muslims are well along in their conquest of france, i do not believe that the question has been determined with finality yet. the elites are *pushing* islamization, and as a result, the rights of the french people are being visibly trampled. this may yet get their attention. in other countries, such as indonesia, where islamization has taken place over many generations, the process has been slower, and the majority did not notice; each generation grew up with muslim unrest and victimhood, grew used to it, and lived their lives, and the process advanced slowly without attracting undue attention. there is now a very large province, aceh, which is ruled by sharia, and naturally, the religious minorities are suffering, as islam says they should. given the resurgence of fundamentalist islam, it should not be very long now before the national government fully implements sharia, and civilization in indonesia dies.

in france, i suspect that the hard left is using pious muslims as a proxy army to destabilize society; when it begins to collapse, the State, always leftist to one degree or another, regardless of the ruling party, will declare martial law, and it will be much easier for the hard left to execute a coup. this plan is pure conjecture on my part, but i cannot believe that the elites in france are so stupid they don't examine islam more closely, given the radical activity in their nation. i refuse to believe that *anybody* is that stupid; the only possibility left to explain the bizarre behavior of the elites is a power grab. it's hard to guess what will really happen, especially since there has never been a so breathtakingly treasonous attack on civilization before, but my guess is that the left will do a coup, try to murder all muslims, pious or not, in several banlieue (the left is very good at mass murder, but not much else), and a 3-way civil war will start between pious muslims (moderates will get religion and turn pious after a banlieue is slaughtered), the hard left, and french patriots. since there are more patriots, the battle may go their way, but none of them are armed, while the hard left will own State armaments, and pious muslims are always armed, so your guess is as good as mine as to whether france will survive.

of course, none of this was necessary; the hard left has never been able to win at the polls, so they are seizing power instead. the fun part is that if the muslims win, there will be a nuclear-armed sharia state in europe. the blood of thousands, if not millions, of frenchmen (not to mention all those who have already been murdered by pious muslims) will be on the hands of the left.

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B E Bradley

b.a. freeman • Dec 6, 2017 at 16:19

Thank you for responding.
It is a grim and disturbing "forecast" but not at all too unrealistic. I can not wrap my brain around the magnitude
of this problem (muslim/islamization) of Europe.
How can we "drill down" to find out why the political leaders and "leftists" are so unaware of the danger to our
western civilization. If I recognize the danger, why don't they? I am no great thinker but I have a brain, education
and lots of experience.
We must keep in mind the "Globalists" that influences everyone and everything with their money. Then there is
Saudi Arabia paying for enormously large mosques being built in all the European countries.

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Elen

B E Bradley • Dec 24, 2017 at 04:23

Definitely I would agree with all the above comments. Islam and Islamisation is a slow poison which spreads like a virus. Once it get foothold of anything then there is no stopping of it.

The French people need to be more aware of it and even the European nations should be more aware of the consequences of the Islam threat. Islam has done No Good to Europe or the World. They just convert people where ever they go.

Europeans should follow the hard line stance taken up by Hungary which despite many international condemnation...never allowed mass immigrants to stay in their country. That's the only way to stop this Islamisation of Europe.

The Middle East refugees could have gone and taken refuge in rich arab countries like saudi qatar uae Bahrain...but instead intentionally coming to Europe to gain sympathy and stay and spread radical things.

I hope one day the entire World would see to this and make sure Islam is restricted and should be countered with the extreme measures.

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Ron • Dec 5, 2017 at 12:00

As the decision to remove the cross on top of the monument dedicated to John Paul II confirms, the process of Islamization in France is proceeding with the support of legal bodies that, no doubt having the blessing of Islamists, are committed to secularizing the country by removing the symbols of Christianity that are offensive to the rapidly growing Muslim population. After secularization reaches a critical point and an ideological vacuum is created, Islamists will have an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate the implementation of their agenda of domination by injecting Islamic beliefs, values, and customs into the ideological void with minimal pushback. Once that occurs, the France we know will eventually become a mere footnote in a history that will be subject to considerable revision by Muslim historians.

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Frederica • Dec 5, 2017 at 11:43

Sounds more like the Council is just another Institute for mental cases. Strange how Europe killed and buried Christianity only to willfully and enthusiastically replace it with the Islamic death cult.

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dkjack • Dec 5, 2017 at 11:41

"...many seem to think of Muslims as "the Jews" of 21st century."

I cannot imagine a more obscene notion than that. Muslims portraying themselves as victims reminds me of Nazi Germans portraying themselves as victims in order to justify the terror and mass murder they unleashed on the world, the only difference being that while the Nazis' target were Jews and Bolsheviks, the Mulsims' targets are Jews and "Crusaders".

The weapons of fascist Muslims, in their quest to take over the world, are bombs, knives, guns, motor vehicles...and, perhaps the most effective, thanks to the fecklessness and credulity of the Western left, victimhood.

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Frances Weingarten • Dec 5, 2017 at 11:15

It seems to me that France is hell-bent on its own destruction. Given the orders of the council of state, France will soon be a Muslim country, with all that entails. It's rather shocking, to say the least, that France should choose this course and give the Muslims whatever they ask for. In short order, France will no longer exist as a French country. Living under Islam rule might prove to be less than acceptable!

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Hanna • Dec 5, 2017 at 07:13

I don't think that the majority of the French Citizens realize what they are doing. How stupid is it to let in to one's country all these Muslims — many of them barbarians, not all, but many. It is one thing not to like Jews — we Jews are used to it. But for GOD sake, how can the French Citizens let in so many barbarians who have nothing in common with them, or with anybody else. In any case— IT IS TOO LATE. Welcome to the new Muslim continent — that was all the world needed. Crazy. Thank you Yves Mamou and Gatestone.

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Bill • Dec 5, 2017 at 07:03

The progressive affinity for Islam is due to the sharing of several common characteristics. First, both Islam and PROGRESSIVISM are authoritarian. Second, both Islam and PROGRESSIVISM are inherently cleptocratic. Third, both Islam and PROGRESSIVISM want a form of sexual license to be available. Finally both hate Christianity.

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Abhishek Ghosh • Dec 5, 2017 at 05:39

I didn't know that France even sponsors mosque building, finally Saudi Arabia has an ally in the West. And as for "Eldest daughter of the Catholic Church", that was true before 1789. After the revolution, church powers and properties were severely curtailed and France reveled in it's secularism. Now France is bending over backwards to be seen a islamic.

The French are really arrogant when it comes to their language and their culture. I wonder if the Council is aware that Arab immigrants even in Paris openly use their language, not only in daily conversation but also shop signs. Soon Arabic will be the majority language in France. Let's see where the French run then.

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David Harding • Dec 5, 2017 at 05:37

"Maybe the elites are looking for "redemption" after France colonized parts of Africa." They are looking for MORE money from their Wahabi Arab Donors

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