Quote:  "He answered that France cannot just expel them because these hate-mongering 
imams have been around for a while, as has their families. It would not be proper" 
Unquote



Pem. France sekali lagi dengan sikap PC (politically correct) nya.  Rupanya lebih baik 
bersikap "proper" dari pada mnengusir imam2 yang memberikan 'hate speech' yang 
menimbulkan berbagai perbuatan kejahatan terhadap suatu kelompok.



Dengan perkataan "Demokrasi", orang2 hanya mengingat salah satu haknya yaitu 
'kemerdekaan berbicara'.  Tetapi demokrasi, dimana pemerintahan adalah untuk rakyat, 
oleh rakyat dan dari rakyat, dimana kebebasan individu tsb. di junjung tinggi, tidak 
berarti bahwa kita bisa membuat hate speech seperti ini yang mendorong orang2 lain utk 
melakukan kejahatan.  Sebab dengan perbuatan jahat tsb. bukankah kebebasan korban 
kejahatan tsb. dilarang hak nya?



Sekali lagi, bebas itu tidak berarti bebas utk ber-buat se-mau2-nya.  Jika saya 
melihat seseorang yang kaya, dan saya ingin memiliki kekayaan tsb., tetapi sekolah 
saya tidak cukup tinggi umpamanya, atau ketekunan saya kurang utk. mengumpulkan harta 
tsb., apakah saya boleh mengambil kekayaan orang tsb.?  Sebab saya kan bebas utk 
berbuat apa yang saya mau?



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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=13715





Preaching for the Enemy

By Olivier Guitta

FrontPageMagazine.com | June 15, 2004



France is home to the largest Muslim community in Europe -- estimated between 5 and 8 
million, roughly over 10 percent of France�s total population. In the past few years, 
the radical element of these French citizens has grown quickly, and is quietly 
overpowering more moderate Muslim voices. Many French Muslims idolize Osama bin Laden 
and consider the destruction of synagogues and assault of Jews to be justified 
retribution. These worrisome phenomena are caused by a number of things: increasing 
influence of radical imams in French mosques, the penetration of Saudi Wahhabism and 
extremist satellite networks spreading their propaganda. 

I recently discussed these issues with Jean Francois Cope, spokesman of the French 
government, during a press conference in Washington DC. First, I asked Mr. Cope: 
knowing that 91 percent of the imams preaching in France are foreigners and most of 
them are illegal immigrants, does it not make sense to expel them, particularly those 
preaching hatred? 



He answered that France cannot just expel them because these hate-mongering imams have 
been around for a while, as has their families. It would not be proper. Perhaps other 
French officials realized how silly this answer is, since very recently France 
expelled 5 of the most outrageously extremist imams since the beginning of the year. 
But in a country with 1,500 imams, this is just a drop in the ocean. 

 

But exporting extremists isn't likely to make much of a dent in the growing radical 
movement, considering the impact Saudi Arabian Wahhabism has on French Islam. 
According to Stephen Schwartz and Dore Gold, both prominent experts on Saudi Arabia, 
the country funds 80 percent of every mosque and Islamic center in France. Saudi 
Arabia financed the very luxurious Institute of the Arab World in Paris. Also, Le 
Monde recently reported that Saudi Arabia is going to finance the restoration of the 
Paris Mosque. 

 

So I asked Mr. Cope his opinion on this issue. Disappointingly, he denied any presence 
of Saudi Arabian influence in France. He added that the government was adamant in 
building a French Islam and as such is working with the French Muslim Council (FMC) to 
demand that future imams speak French. Today, more than 50 percent do not speak the 
vernacular, but Mr. Cope says time will change this.

 

Unfortunately, his optimism might be very short-lived for a couple of reasons. First, 
one of the main Muslim organizations in the FMC is the Union des Organizations 
Islamiques de France (French Union of Islamic Organizations, UOIF) - which is 
affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the terrorist movement founded in 1928 in 
Egypt. Second, the Arab newspaper Al Watan recently reported that the Saudi sponsored 
Islamic Countries Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (ICESCO) is going to 
finance a new school for training new French imams. So much for a true independent, 
foreign-free French Islam.

 

The last issue Mr. Cope and I discussed was the way Arab media spreads hatred through 
French cable and satellite television providers. Last summer, the anti-Western Arabic 
news channel Aljazeera replaced the Italian channel RAI in the main satellite lineup. 
Also, Al-Manar, the terrorist Shia Lebanese Hizbullah TV channel Al-Manar, started 
broadcasting in France in September 2002, after a meeting between President Chirac and 
Hizbullah head Nasrallah. Al-Manar is today one of the favorite channels among the 
French Muslim youth. 

 

Recently, Al-Manar broadcasted a series called �Diaspora.� One episode featured the 
hateful, mythical blood libel, in which Jews kill a Christian child in order to 
prepare the matzo, a dish eaten during Passover. With this kind of blatant 
anti-Semitic indoctrination, it's no surprise Muslim youths feel entitled to commit 
anti-Semitic acts.

 

Don't look for France to crack down on these ignorant, hate-spewing networks, however. 
Mr. Cope said there was an agreement signed with each country that provides the 
service, and as such France had no control over the channels they decided to 
broadcast. Nevertheless, he mentioned that the French Audiovisual Commission was going 
to examine which programs to ban on a case by case basis, but not which channels. So, 
in spite of all the proof of hate propaganda spread daily on Al-Manar, the French 
government has no real will or intention to take it off the air.

 

>From Mr. Cope's position, it appears France is far less than enthusiastic about truly 
>aiding the War on Terror. The country is starting to act against radicalism on a very 
>limited basis when it has no choice, adopting half-measures that serve to quiet 
>critics. There are many more imams to arrest. The government should forbid the 
>funding of French Muslim organizations/mosques by Saudi Arabia. And finally, it 
>should ban TV channels such as Al-Manar, which are only spreading violence and hate 
>against the West. But these kinds of agressive tactics just aren't part of France's 
>program to defeat radical islam. As a result, anti-Semitism and anti-American 
>sentiment continue to increase in the land of our great �ally.�









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