I do not pretend to be fully apprised of everything Marine Le Pen has said or done throughout her political career. But I treat with great skepticism the Left’s constant attempts to dismiss her as an alt-right fanatic given that I know I too might qualify as such in the bizarre world of “progressivism” though I don’t have a racist, sexist or homophobic cell in my body.
On Nov. 13, 2015, various coordinated terrorist attacks killed 130 innocent people in Paris, France. Shortly thereafter, Le Pen, a member of the French National Assembly and the head of what is now known as the National Rally, posted three graphic pictures of horrific ISIS murders, one showing the decapitation of American journalist James Foley. She was primarily motivated, she said, by left wing journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin’s absurd claim that there really wasn’t much difference between her political party and Isis itself.
In 2018 she was charged with inciting hatred and perhaps violence against France’s Muslim population. That the atrocities she highlighted had in fact occurred, that her denunciation of Isis was utterly valid to anyone with a single moral cell in their body, did not deter her “compassionate” accusers from trying to destroy her. If there was simmering resentment among the French population against new Muslim immigrants, it was not, apparently, because of the senseless atrocity of Nov. 13, but because Le Pen had posted her pictures. Absurd!
Thankfully, just a few days ago, Marine Le Pen was acquitted. But that she was even submitted to this Leftist Inquisition is literally insane! So totally has the academically endorsed B.S. of Karl Marx come to dominate our Civilization, so convinced are “progressives,” who simplistically conflate Success with Evil, that Western European Man is the most oppressive monster on the planet, that the denunciation of the barbaric slaughter of 130 innocent French citizens was indited as hate speech. Pardon my language, but really, those of you on the Left, how fucking stupid are you?
Recently, French President Emmanuel Macron received a letter signed by approximately fifty retired generals and thousands of others whose major concerns were the sharp increase in the country’s crime rate due to Islamic immigration, the academically endorsed Neo-Marxist re-writing of France’s history and the growing tendency of the Fascist Left to “cancel” anyone who dared express such concerns. Le Pen gave her assent to the contents of the letter as did 58% of the French public who chose to respond.
This was but further proof, mainstream publications in the “enlightened” West declared, of the widespread rise of an extreme form of nationalism evident throughout the nations of both Europe and North America. Now let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Britain’s Brexit vote was perfectly justified for a number of eminently rational reasons. If 10% of those who voted to leave the European Union were in fact racists, does this in any way impugn the rationality of the Brexit vote. The unconscionable, morally and intellectually degenerate tactic of the Left is to always ignore the substance of any opposing p.o.v. and simply denounce its adherents by calling them names. Very sophisticated! But are Marine Le Pen and the 58% of the French population who expressed concern with their country’s immigration policies, all simply borderline Nazis or do they have some very legitimate concerns? What are the facts? I ask this question because I still believe facts to have some inherent, irrefutable value. Unfortunately, and this is no exaggeration, Facts no longer seem to matter to many on the Left!
A 2013 study conducted by the non-partisan Pew Research Center found that 79-86% of Muslims polled in Afghanistan, Egypt and Jordan thought that apostates, those who chose to leave the religion, ought to be executed. Approximately 237 million of their brethren world-wide agreed! In the 39 countries covered in the survey, 345 million Muslims saw honor killings as an appropriate response to indiscretions committed by females. In Western countries [France, England and the U.S.] 26 to 42% of the Islamic youths questioned thought suicide bombings conducted on civilian targets were a perfectly legitimate way to further one’s political agenda!
So these are the FACTS, facts which seem to suggest that the indiscriminate admission of millions of Muslims into the Nations of the European Union over the last three decades almost certainly guaranteed the deaths of a certain number of the citizens of those nations. History has proven that to be so. Absurdly, I have read dozens of articles by Leftists arguing that right-wing fanatics just as often kill innocent Muslims, as if two wrongs somehow make a right! While it is inarguable that the vast majority of terrorist acts committed around the world today are perpetrated in the name of Allah, such statistics are quite irrelevant to the many “conservatives” I revere who would never consider trying to rationalize the atrocities of one group by invoking those of another. Such moral relativism, of course, is fundamental to the Left.
I have a stack of articles before me written by “progressives” lamenting the rise of alt-right nationalism. One wonders if they might not radically amend their views had one of their sons or daughters been the victims of a terrorist attack. One marvels at the hypocrisy and brazen denial of facts of “journalists” such as Jean-Jacques Bourdin who dared equate Le Pen, appalled by the barbarism of Isis, to Isis itself. One can’t help but ask how the “elites” of an “enlightened” civilization became so utterly divorced from the reality of Human Evil.
Just to clarify: Of course there are millions of peace loving Muslims who would never consider resorting to acts of violence. But, as Brigitte Gabriel argues, this in no way means Islam is not a dire threat to world peace. Most Germans, she asserts, did not share Hitler’s absurd racism, yet his dementia led to the torture and death of millions.
In 2017 Canadian Conservative Kellie Leitch, while vying to replace Stephen Harper as head of her party, dared suggest that Muslim immigrants needed to be checked for their “Canadian values.” She was of course skewered from coast to coast by the mainstream media. Fellow Conservative Deepak Obhrai, a Hindu, was “outraged” that she should specifically target Muslims. But Mr. Obhrai, it is a Fact that several hundred million Muslims around the world continue to be plagued by medieval ignorance and xenophobic hatred. It is a Fact that Turkey’s Tayip Erdogan has invoked them to take advantage of the open borders of the European Union and swarm into Western Europe while reproducing like rabbits so as to Islamize the entire continent. But of course to the moral/intellectual cripples of the Left, while the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol represented a serious attempt to overthrow America’s Democracy, though not a single gun was found among the “revolutionaries,” the notion that Islam represents any sort of threat to the West is just another stupid, alt-right conspiracy theory.
In Sept. of 2019 Lebanese social commentator Joumana Haddad declared Arabs to be a brazenly racist people. “We are racist because we still lack human and ideological awareness,” she said. “We do not belong to the third world, but to the tenth world.” I am in awe of her courage. Fortunately, a significant portion of every race continues to put Truth and Integrity ahead of the self-serving allure of Identity. I have cited a number of wonderful Black “conservatives” willing to call out the duplicity and hypocrisy of B.L.M. Here in Canada both Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza clearly cherish the Principles and Values of their Western homeland while showing no hesitation whatsoever in exposing the barbarities of various Islamic regimes, whenever warranted. Such is the essence of “conservatism.” Truth before Identity!
But the Left thrives on exploiting the cancer of Identity. Hence its denunciation of Marine Le Pen as a latter day Nazi because she has reservations with the indiscriminate admission into her country of a religious group which includes several hundred million who see Infidels [i.e., Christians] as the spawn of Satan. This is not, I must reiterate, an inane conspiracy theory, but a verifiable FACT!