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A group calling for "resistance to the Islamization of France" is using Facebook to advertise an anti-Muslim party at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris Friday. Some 7,000 have RSVPed already.
French organizers of a so-called “pork sausage and booze” party in Paris – designed as a deliberate provocation against Muslims – will move it from a heavily Muslim neighborhood to the Arc de Triomphe on Friday.
The group, "Identity Block," called the new venue “Plan B,” after Paris police banned their bash this week on grounds of maintaining public order.
Advertised on Facebook and receiving some 7,000 RSVPs, the party is billed as a “resistance to the Islamization of France.” It was initially planned to take place next to a mosque in the 18th district after Friday prayers, and on the same day as the English-Algerian World Cup soccer match.
The date holds meaning for the French: On June 18, 1940, Charles DeGaulle issued his famous call for the French to resist Nazi occupation in World War II.
“Identity Block” is an assortment of mostly French right-wing groups.
Today, the group sent out a press release, calling upon “all Parisians … and French” to meet at the Arc de Triomphe Friday to eat ham and drink grape juice, fly French flags, protest the police ban, and listen to speeches against “religious control of public space” in France – a reference to the majority Arab-Muslim Goutte d’Or neighborhood where the sausage and wine party was to be held.
Fadela Amara, a French federal minister of Algerian origin, calls the implicit protest against Muslims "hateful, racist, and xenophobic."
The idea to gather at the Arc de Triomphe is described by Identity Block as symbolic, since it was where 2,000 schoolboys defied a Nazi ban on protest and marched against the occupying forces some 70 years ago.
The plan to hold a pork-and-wine bash in Goutte d’Or, where the overcrowded mosque spills into the streets on Fridays, was considered provocative enough to cause a riot. Islam forbids the consumption of pork and alcoholic beverages.
But it is also the latest and most public example of France’s current identity and culture wars aimed mainly at Muslims. In the past year, a controversial “national identity” debate run by the ruling party has gone along with a nearly completed federal ban in public places of the full-length veil or burqa worn by Muslim women. France is home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, some 4 million, most of whom are of North African origin.
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Swiss voters on Sunday approved a constitutional ban on the construction of mosque minarets, another strong showing of European backlash against the ever growing Muslim faith.
Muslim groups are already condemning the constitutional ban as faith biased and frightening intolerance. Further stating that they feel the Swiss will feel an economic blow as Muslim nations and investors refuse to economically interact with the country.
"The Swiss have failed to give a clear signal for diversity, freedom of religion and human rights," said Omar Al-Rawi, integration representative of the Islamic Denomination in Austria. The IDA made its own comment, stating they were met with "grief and deep disappointment" after hearing the results.
Passing 57.5 percent to 42.5 percent by roughly 2.67 million voters, the nationalist Swiss People’s Party’s referendum labeled mosque minarets as a sign of rising Muslim political power that could possibly transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation. The double approval, that makes this law become part of the Swiss constitution, was secured after only 26 cantons/states opposed the initiative.
With only 6 percent of the Swiss population of 7.5 million people being Muslim, the opposition to this referendum came out with full support even after results were tallied. Signs through the streets were filled with quotes of regret and sorrow for the Muslim people.
The referendum, when introduced, came with surprise to many. Switzerland only houses 4 mosque minarets throughout the entire country. However, they will not be affected by the ban.
"The minaret is a sign of political power and demand, comparable with whole-body covering by the burqa, tolerance of forced marriage and genital mutilation of girls," the sponsors of this referendum said. Further stating that Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, compared mosques to Islam's military barracks and called "the minarets our bayonets." Erdogan is a leader of a constitution recognized secular state.
Europe isn’t new to the thought of anti-Islamic legislation. The French recently moved to ban burgas within their borders. German states have also recently introduced bans on head scarves for Muslim women while teaching in public schools. European citizens of Sweden, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Germany and Slovenia have led protests over the construction of mosque and minaret construction.
No matter the legislation introduced before Sunday, the Swiss ban is the largest of its kind to prevent Muslim faith-based principles in recent history.
The results came to a shock of many analysts. Just 11 days ago the Swiss showed only 37 percent support for this proposal. Many of the experts are speculating that the Swiss were only pretending to be opposed to the ban so that they weren’t viewed as intolerant.
"The sponsors of the ban have achieved something everyone wanted to prevent, and that is to influence and change the relations to Muslims and their social integration in a negative way," said Taner Hatipoglu, president of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Zurich.
Amnesty International stated that the vote violated freedom of religion and that they anticipated that the ban be overturned by the Swiss supreme court or the European Court of Human Rights. Even the seven-member Cabinet that heads the Swiss government strongly voiced their opposition to this initiative. No matter their concerns, the government said it accepted the vote and would impose an immediate ban on minaret construction.
The Swiss government has released the following statement, "Muslims in Switzerland are able to practice their religion alone or in community with others, and live according to their beliefs just as before." They took the unusual step of issuing its press release in Arabic as well as German, French, Italian and English.
Only time will tell if this ban will be contested by courts in Swiss or even throughout Europe.Swiss voters on Sunday approved a constitutional ban on the construction of mosque... more
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Serbia has withdrawn the American writer Sherry Jones's novel from bookstores following protests by the country's Muslim Community.
Belgrade's Beobuk publisher withdrew The Jewel of Medina and confirmed that the book would not be available 'in a single bookstore in the country', B92 reported.
Beobuk's director, Aleksandar Jasic apologized 'for the offense suffered', saying that his company 'had no intention of insulting anyone'.
American publisher Random House also withdrew Jones's book from the US market last month following protests from Muslims. Serbia has withdrawn the American writer Sherry Jones's novel from bookstores... more
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