French President Nicolas Sarkozy and two top government ministers have been sent anonymous death threats in letters stuffed with 9mm-calibre bullets, a judicial official said Tuesday.

Counterterrorism agents are investigating the mailings to Sarkozy, Justice Minister Rachida Dati and Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie – the latest members of the ruling conservative party to be targeted by such a letter campaign, the officials said.

The two-page, typed form letters feature disjointed messages addressed to “purveyors of freedom-killing and fascist laws,” the judicial official said, on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

via Death threats and bullets mailed to French president, top ministers.

In the letters, it was written: “You think you have your life under control, but no, your lifes and your families are under our control”.

They don’t know yet who has threatened them…

(UPDATED) A 42-year-old man has been detained. Apparently he is a “little deranged”. He identification has not been published.

«I am not a Le Pen from the far-left. I am a revolutionary supporter, with only one objective: the peaceful destruction of capitalism. Those who say that I am the best ally of Sarkozy are wrong. The liberal left is lost when goes by the path pointed by the right…».

Olivier Besancenot (Levallois-Pérret, 1974), teachers’ son, professional postman, has evolved with that language in the ghostly menace for the Socialist Party, truly uncomfortable after discovering this rising star of the “social agenda”.

«The New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) that we have founded will never make a deal with the great capital. We are asking for a massiva rise in the minimum wages, inmediately; the massive construction of apartments for poor people; the inmediate abandonment of the nuclear energy..» he repeats, remebering the first principle of the recently founded party, with 9.000 registered supporters: “We have a revolutionary orientation. We have to found another State, controlled by the workers».

via El nuevo «enfant terrible» – Internacional_Europa – Internacional – ABC.es.

“We have a revolutionary orientation. We have to found another State, controlled by the workers“. And that is revolutionary??? I think this man is 1 century too late…

A Pakistani man went on trial in France on Tuesday for setting his ex-girlfriend alight after she refused to marry him, in a case that rights groups are using as as a symbol of violence against women in poor neighbourhoods. Amer Mushtaq Butt, 28, doused Chahrazade Belayni in petrol and set fire to her on the street as she was leaving her home in the under-privileged Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Marne in 2005. She suffered third-degree burns on 60 percent of her body, fell into a coma and underwent many operations. Belayni, now 21, works for the police. “I want him to pay for what he did, not for my sake but to show other girls who have problems with their partners that it’s possible to fight back and the justice system won’t abandon them,” she told reporters just before the trial opened.

via France: Pakistani going to trial for torching his girlfriend who refused to marry him | Infidels Are Cool.

This was one of the first things I blogged about, back when I was blueslord (how far does that seems now!!). This is the translation of what happened then:

A witness’ account: I live in Neuilly-sur-Marne and I want to speak about something dramatic that has happened near here. On Sunday morning, at 9a.m. Moroccan 18-years-old Sherazade, has been burned alive by two Pakistani youths. The only error she has made has been to reject his constant wedding proposals. Today Shérazade is in hospital in the great burned unit, with her face and her body burned in a 60% and in an induced comma to prevent her from having unneeded sufferings. No journalist was here to report about this tragedy, being as they are now very worried about the violence in the banlieues.

My note back then: The surprising fact here is that only a brief note has been published on Nov 14th [] and another in France 3 région (on Sunday afternoon), pointing out that the cause was a “love disappointment”. It was never qualified as a “sexist crime”, according to the link.

So you see we get on pretty the same: this was not a case of “torching someone because he was poor“. This was a case of “torching someone because she is a woman and has no right to say no to a man who asks her in marriage, she must give birth to a lot of children to be educated in Allah’s teachings“. MSM are repeating once and again the same errors. And that is truly dismaying…

Islam in Europe:

Human rights groups such as the prominent “Ni Putes Ni Soumises” (”Neither whores nor submissive women”) say violence against women is rife in certain poor communities with high Muslim populations on the outskirts of French cities.

The activists say some young Muslim men take out their frustrations about poverty and discrimination on women, demanding that they cover up according to Islamic tradition. If they refuse, they are considered “whores”.

yeah, that’s right… absolute whores… and so they can be raped… gang-raped. But no, Islam and Sharia are not related to this phenomenon. That is a neocon’s tale.

From Spanish Pundit

The woman in the photo is Belayni now, after being burnt alive and having underwent plastic surgery several times.

Related: Wikipedia on l’affair Belayni (French).

UPDATED: The attacker has been condemned to 20 years in prison.

At that time, a witness heard Amer’s mother hope that “with all those cars burnt in the banlieues”, his gesture would “not get any attention from the media”. In front of the cout, this family’s friend told he didn’t remember hearing that (how appropriate!).

Just what seemed to happen at first. And what would have happened if the blogs hadn’t pointed out to Shérazade’s case.

In its exquisite concern for “visible minorities”, the agency ignores the fate of an invisible minority – intellectuals reduced to silence because they dared to criticise Islam. The freedom to say what one thinks about any religion – its clerics, practices, precepts and sartorial rules – is as much a part of the European heritage as giving voice to the oppressed. At the dawn of the 21st century, in a once enlightened Europe, Theo van Gogh was savagely murdered. Authors and politicians need police protection, have been forced into hiding, reduced to silence and deprived of their fundamental rights. For Robert Redeker, a former philosophy teacher at a lycée in Toulouse, the consequences of this thought control have been devastating.

Redeker has been in hiding ever since his op-ed article “Face aux intimidations islamistes, que doit faire le monde libre?” (How should the free world confront Islamist intimidation?), appeared in Le Figaro on 19 September 2006, two days after Pope Benedict XVI’s speech at Regensburg. The outrage provoked by the Pope’s observation on the relation between Islam and violence, wrote Redeker, was an attempt by this same Islam to stifle freedom of thought and expression, the most precious Western value, which did not exist in any Muslim country. Islam was trying to impose its rules on Europe, he added, citing, among others, prohibition of caricatures, pressure to allow girls to wear the hijab to school and accusations of Islamophobia.

(…)

Immediately after publication of this op-ed (ironically, such articles are called “libre opinion” in French), Redeker received credible death threats from Muslims and was forced into hiding. The support of a handful of courageous minds was outweighed by criticism from academic and journalist colleagues, teachers’ unions and public officials, who accused him of reckless insensitivity. Today, Redeker is still in hiding, under government protection.

Redeker explained to Standpoint his current situation: “I am a sort of political refugee within my country.” He has given up teaching, moved away from his home region and must be protected by two bodyguards when he goes to any city. His life has become a crippling exercise of perpetual precautions, but Redeker is not a cause célèbre in France.

(…) Who stands up for Robert Redeker today? Intellectuals such as Roger-Pol Droit, Claude Lanzmann and Pierre-André Taguieff. Certainly not his former colleagues. “Leftists and teachers’ unions would rather defend a terrorist convicted of murder like Cesare Battisti than defend me, a man in danger of being murdered by terrorists,” he says. (France agreed to extradite Battisti to Italy. He had lived in France for 20 years under the protection of a refuge policy established by President François Mitterrand and repealed by the Sarkozy government. But after a campaign led by Carla Bruni, he has since been granted asylum in Brazil.

Is it possible to speak freely about Islam today in France? No, replies Redeker, freedom of expression is under constant pressure from the fallacious notion of “Islamophobia”. The term, invented by Ayatollah Khomeini to stifle critics, equates the legitimate criticism of a religion and its ideology with racism. Reasonable people are frightened, he says, by Islamist ideology and barbaric practices. “It’s not a question of Islam as religious belief but as a coercive ideology that crushes millions of human beings under its implacable yoke.” Europeans justifiably fear the loss of freedoms won in bitter struggles over centuries; they fear the intrusion of religion in politics, jeopardising the separation of church and state.

via Refugee in his Own Country | Standpoint.Online. Thanks to O Insurgente.

Considering the circumstances leading to the present situation, it is something to examine carefully. I mean: he is not a guy from the MSM, nor a politician. He was just a school teacher and the establishment rejected him because his ideas didn’t fit in the tolerant rants a good teacher should give from time to time. He was not glamourous, just as Sarkozy marrying Carla Bruni, and he was saying inconvenient truths. Comparing Muhammad with Jesus to lately say that the first was a prohet of hate while the latter was a prophet of love, is something very dangerous, specially because it attacks the foundations of the multicultural ideology.

But just as in another cases of hunting down anti-Islamist types, the attacks are not directed towards the jihadists (whatever they are legal jihadists or killing jihadists), but towards the people who are denouncing those jihadists and their supporters. It’s killing the messenger or, more likely, understanding why the messenger is killed. In case he is killed.

Other interesting links:

1. Wikipedia page on Robert Redeker.
2. Teacher in hiding after attack on Islam stirs death threats.

Another aspect of this to mention is that role played by Carla Bruni: she had time to defend a convicted terrorist, but the Secular God forgive her if she had to defend Redeker. Hmm, speaking about European leftists (don’t forget she supported Royal in the past Presidential Elections…).