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Nicolas Sarkozy to target Muslim prayers; Hizh ut-Tahrir
Topic Started: Dec 20 2010, 06:58 AM (215 Views)
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Nicolas Sarkozy to target Muslim prayers
News Watch · December 19, 2010



NICOLAS Sarkozy will take another lurch to the Right with a speech on New Year’s Eve calling Muslim prayers in the street “unacceptable”.

After his expulsions of gypsies and a crackdown on immigrant crime, the French President will warn that the overflow of Muslim faithful on to the streets at prayer time when mosques are packed to capacity risks undermining the French secular tradition separating state and religion.

He will doubtless be accused of pandering to the far Right: the issue of Muslim prayers in the street has been brought to the fore by Marine Le Pen, the charismatic new figurehead of the National Front, who compared it to the wartime occupation of France.

Her words provoked uproar on the Left, whose commentators took them as evidence that far from being the gentler face of the far Right, Ms Le Pen, 42, is no different from Jean-Marie, 82, her father, who has been accused of racism and Holocaust denial.

According to his aide, Mr Sarkozy agrees with the junior Le Pen that the street cannot be allowed to become “an extension of the mosque” as it does in some parts of Paris, which are closed to traffic because of the overflow of the faithful. Local authorities have declined to intervene, despite public complaints, because they are afraid of sparking riots.

“People overreacted to Marine Le Pen’s comments,” said the aide, referring to the furore in which she was accused of rabble-rousing racism. “She is right: this phenomenon is unacceptable.”

The tall, blonde Ms Le Pen is expected to succeed her father as head of the National Front at a party congress next month.

Her advance in the opinion polls reflects a trend all over Europe, where far-Right parties are benefiting from anti-immigrant sentiment and economic fears. As a more moderate voice than her father, Ms Le Pen is widely considered to be more effective and the nightmare scenario for Mr Sarkozy is that he might be knocked out of the race during the first round of the presidential election in 2012. The run-off would then be staged between the two first-round winners: Ms Le Pen and a Socialist candidate.

Something similar happened in 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen took advantage of a fractured Left to beat Lionel Jospin, the Socialist candidate, in the first round and ended up losing in the run-off against Jacques Chirac.

Marine Le Pen’s approval rating has risen to 33 per cent in recent weeks, according to one poll, only three points behind Mr Sarkozy’s, as she has criss-crossed the country articulating what a lot of older people believe: that France has been invaded by Muslims and betrayed by its elite.

Mr Sarkozy’s top lieutenants have been holding meetings to decide how to counter the threat. Some say the ruling centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) should reach out to Ms Le Pen as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has shared power with the anti-immigrant Northern League.

Others have suggested relaunching a “national identity debate” that collapsed this year after degenerating into a forum for immigrant-bashing. Mr Sarkozy may also come under pressure to make more overtures to the Right with another law-and-order crackdown. Street prayers could be banned.

Yet after banning the wearing of the burka in public, Mr Sarkozy will have to tread carefully if he wants to avoid alienating Europe’s largest Muslim community and turning it into an electoral goldmine for his Socialist rivals in 2012.

One presidential contender from the Centre-Right, Dominique de Villepin, could further splinter the conservative vote.

Ms Le Pen wants to end her party’s isolation and appeal to the mainstream. To the horror of some in the party, she has spoken inclusively about gays and described herself as a feminist.


http://www.hizb.org.uk/news-watch/nicolas-sarkozy-to-target-muslim-prayers
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We should be looking to France for political tactics rather than just cookery and fashion tips.

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well, well, well looks like the leftists are on the run all over europe.

Great news...lets just hope that it is a "new" kind of Right rising.
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This is great news. I really see this rise of a serious right wing across Europe as positive and a real threat to the ruling political classes who treat us like lambs going to the slaughter house.
My only question is when will a serious right wing party evolve and fill the huge void in our political landscape in Britain? The clock is ticking
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It awaits to be seen if the French president actually will do anything about the Muslims praying in the street. However, it's great news if he actually is going to stop the prayers.
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Dec 20 2010, 06:58 AM
Ms Le Pen wants to end her party’s isolation and appeal to the mainstream. To the horror of some in the party, she has spoken inclusively about gays and described herself as a feminist.

Up until this point I was thinking "well this is good news, but do we really want a bunch of far-right nutjobs in control of France?" but having read this I hope she wins the presidential election!
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Dec 21 2010, 09:50 PM
This is great news. I really see this rise of a serious right wing across Europe as positive and a real threat to the ruling political classes who treat us like lambs going to the slaughter house.
My only question is when will a serious right wing party evolve and fill the huge void in our political landscape in Britain? The clock is ticking
maybe it wont be a party but a street movement,there is no sign of a serious right wing party even on the farthest horizon.
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Dec 21 2010, 09:54 PM
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Dec 20 2010, 06:58 AM
Ms Le Pen wants to end her party’s isolation and appeal to the mainstream. To the horror of some in the party, she has spoken inclusively about gays and described herself as a feminist.

Up until this point I was thinking "well this is good news, but do we really want a bunch of far-right nutjobs in control of France?" but having read this I hope she wins the presidential election!
I hope she wins too. France has been Islamified so much that her winning the election has got to be better than any of the other candidates winning.

France needs to get tough.
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Sarkozy is in a difficult position: as a representative of the business elite, he is pushing for mass immigration, multiculturalism and 'positive' discrimination, inspired by the English and American examples. But at the same time, he is losing the right-wing French natives as voters. Many feel betrayed and are turning to the more right-wing Ms. Le Pen.

Concerning Le Pen isolation from the rest of the political class and from the media, you must know that France is governed by a club called Le Siècle or The Century. It was founded in 1945 and regroups all the French elite: politicians from the mainstream parties (PS on the ‘left’, UMP on the ‘right’), the main ministers, TV and newspapers directors, prominent journalists etc. A little bit like the Chinese Party. The existence of this organization was kept secret until the 70s. Major newspapers, whose directors are also members, never speak about it. This is a kind of elephant in the room in French politics. Usually, the Century club proposes two candidates at every presidential election: one that is labeled ‘right’ and one that is labeled ‘left’. As they own the media, they are almost sure to stay in power. The voters are just always shifting from ‘right’ to ‘left’ or ‘left’ to ‘right’ at every election. The differences between the two proposed candidates and parties are merely packaging since 80% of new laws in France are decided not in Paris but in Brussels and the elected candidate serves the interests of the same elite anyway.

Apparently, Le Pen, father or daughter, are not members and it may explain why they are bashed by the media or journalists belonging to the club. In the 2002 presidential election, the ‘left’ candidate, Jospin, didn't make it to the second round because he was beaten by the ‘far right’ Le Pen. If Ms Le Pen or another non-member of the club is elected, it will completely redesign the French ruling class. As the French are more and more dissatisfied with both the ‘left’ and ‘right’ candidates, they might turn to Ms Le Pen. This is reinforced by the fact that she’s trying to differentiate herself from her old father and his ‘extreme’ reputation. For example, she was the one who recently caused outrage by denouncing the street prayers and she now poses herself at the last defender of secularism and the republic. She has also spoken inclusively about gays and described herself as a feminist, which appeals to left-wing voters. She's probably been inspired by parties like the Freedom party in Holland and the UDC in Switzerland. It's a clever move that is dangerous for the ruling class. That's probably why Sarkozy is trying to keep the voters from turning to Le Pen by adopting a tough stance on the street prayers like he was also obliged to do about the burka. (at least in theory because the law would only apply in the middle of next year and it will be impossible to enforce in no-go areas).

I may be wrong, but I find that the ruling class in the UK works in the same way: two main parties with different packages but following the same policies (for the EU, multiculturalists etc.) and few other smaller parties (like the UKIP). I suppose that those parties or organizations (like the EDL) are bashed by the media in the same way.
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Sarkozy is a twat, he's hearing the mainstream population's objections to this overflow of muslims at prayer time and he's making noise about it. But the prick has been on record espousing more immigration from muslim countries, no doubt to get the muslim vote.
At the end of the day all politicians are just saying sh1t to get the vote. It takes a visionary and a statesman to stick to his/her guns no matter what. Sarkozy is neither.
“Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.”-Thomas Jefferson
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