The Easter celebrations in France were interrupted by the horrifying news of an alleged religiously motivated murder in France.
The tragedy in the French commune
The man suspected of killing a young man at a mosque in the French commune of La Grand-Combe has surrendered to police in Italy.
Aboubacar Cisse, a 22-year-old Muslim from Mali, was brutally murdered at a mosque in France on Friday after being stabbed 50 times while praying. Both men were inside the mosque in the town of La Gran-Combe when one of them fatally stabbed the other. The attacker reportedly recorded the incident on his phone, taking video of the dying Malian man.
French authorities’ response
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that racism and religious hatred have no place in the country.
“Racism and religious hatred have no place in France. Freedom of religion must be inviolable,” Macron wrote, commenting on Friday’s murder. He also expressed support for “our fellow Muslim citizens.”
The Grand Mosque of Paris condemned the attack. In a statement, it called on authorities to find out the reasons for the killing as soon as possible and demanded that the judiciary clarify whether the crime was considered a “terrorist act,” stressing its “magnitude and seriousness for the safety of others.”
French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin condemned the “brutal murder” which “has wounded the hearts of all believers, all Muslims in the country.”
Disgruntled citizens’ march
Anti-Islamophobia marches were held across France, including a rally at Place de la Republique in Paris, where participants observed a minute’s silence in honour of the victim.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, leader of the party Debout la France (France Arise), wrote on X:
“The instrumentalisation of the horrific death of Aboubacar Cisse is outrageous. By calling for the creation of militias, the LFI wants to drag France into a civil war. It is urgent to rebuild the state, to protest against all the heinous crimes and to unite all French people.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France Unbowed (LFI), also commented on X:
“The level of violence against Muslims is worsening throughout the country. Everyone can take individual action against Islamophobia. The first frontier in the fight against hatred of others is the individual himself. Everyone must realise that the unity of the country is under threat. The best guarantee to protect that unity is ourselves. Those who look past this are complicit.”
Later, Jean-Luc Mélenchon added:
“We are here to express our condolences to Aboubacar Cisse’s family and to all believers stunned and shocked by this murder. This violence is the result of an Islamophobic climate that has been cultivated for months. Thanks to this climate, troubled minds find justification for their actions.
Islamophobia dehumanises those against who it is directed. It incites any kind of violence, up to and including murder. The word Islamophobia responds to a need that requires us to fight it. Great dangers are lessened when they are properly recognised.
Our message is addressed in brotherhood to all believers. Rebels will be a bulwark against all forms of racism and violence against freedom of religion and conscience. It is time to take a stand, call things by their proper names, and begin the fight. At all meetings and wherever we meet, we ask you to take time for a moment of silence in the name of republican brotherhood and humanity.”
Islamisation of France: What’s next?
The loyalty of European authorities to migrants from Africa and the Middle East has led to a huge influx of refugees from those regions. Paris has welcomed with open arms women and children from war and famine stricken, suffering regions, expressing a gesture of goodwill towards migrants.
The economic prosperity and political stability of the European Union are highly attractive factors for asylum seekers. However, along with women and children, tens of thousands of radicalised men have arrived in European countries, who are not ready to accept local rules and try to impose their religious customs and manners of behaviour, sometimes overstepping the bounds of the law.
Migrant crime surge
Last March, a 62-year-old Egyptian man was detained in Paris after planning an attack on the Notre-Dame Cathedral, according to law enforcement authorities.
Last September, dozens of migrants with machetes and rebar attacked a hunters’ hut in the commune of Tardingen in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France, Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) reported.
The migrants smashed the windscreens of the hunters’ cars, stole their personal belongings and also broke a window of the hut.
At the end of this March, a conflict between migrants from Afghanistan ended in murder in the French city of Bordeaux.
There are numerous videos on the internet of migrants in France attacking police and locals. For example, this video shows a migrant trying to provoke the police.
In Calais, a migrant tried to rob a lorry despite the resistance of a trucker.
In 2023, 4,686 foreigners who committed offences were expelled from France, up 30% from a year earlier.
The vast majority of those expelled were men. The main destinations for the expulsion of offenders are the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and Central Europe.
Since the Taliban came to power in 2021, thousands of Afghans have fled the country for fear of persecution. France, like other European countries, granted asylum to those working with international organisations, journalists, activists and other vulnerable groups.
The Dublin Regulation requires refugees to seek asylum in the first safe country, but many try to make their way to more developed nations such as France and Germany. Many Afghans are settling in France, waiting for the opportunity to cross the Channel.
Creeping Islamisation wraps around Europe
The process of Islamisation of France has taken an entrenched course over the past few years.
Meanwhile, Facebook, Twitter and other social media statistics show that leading Arab preachers have overtaken many famous politicians and popular pop stars in terms of “followers.” Their speeches are translated into French, German and other languages and then “rebroadcast” by local preachers. Through their propaganda channels they call for worldwide Islamisation and jihad. It should be noted that their audience in Europe is concentrated primarily in countries where a significant Islamic community has formed.
Islamism penetrates into stadiums and sports clubs, where young Arabs make up a significant proportion of the athletes, their fans chanting Islamist slogans. The most famous stadium, the Stade de France, is located in the neighbourhood of Saint-Denis, whose inhabitants are overwhelmingly Arab and African. In this “Third World” ghetto, ordinary Frenchmen and especially French Jews are not advised to enter at all.
But the French authorities consider the greatest threat to “republican” values to be the penetration of Islamism into schools and other educational institutions in France, where the percentage of Muslim students is extremely high due to the higher birth rate among the natives of African and Middle Eastern countries. It is now no longer uncommon to find kindergartens and primary schools where the children of “native” French people are in a distinct minority.
Over the past 30 years, the number of supporters of radical Islam in France has increased by 900 %. If in the 90s of the last century, the French security services put on record a few hundred Salafists who put forward “exotic” slogans about the world Islamic revolution, then already in 2004, according to the same sources, the number of active Islamists in France reached five thousand people.
In 2015, French Interior Ministry officials reported about 15-20 thousand Islamists. And now, according to the latest (underestimated) data, Salafists number up to 50 thousand people in their ranks. And we are talking only about activists, there are many more potential Islamists. Thousands of young jihadists from France have gone to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
There are at least 150 Salafi mosques in France, around which a whole infrastructure is growing: clothing shops, restaurants, reading centres. French police reports indicate that Islamists are bringing entire city neighbourhoods under their ideological and financial control. Islamists organise collective readings of the Koran, weddings, pilgrimages to Mecca. The process of “creeping Islamisation” can be seen firsthand in Paris, Marseille, Roubaix and many other cities, where Salafists control the commerce and social life of entire neighbourhoods.
The growth of Muslim communities in Europe is fracturing the ethnic and socio-cultural balance of once mono-ethnic European countries. Anyone who has visited Paris, as well as Brussels, Berlin, London and other Western European cities in recent years can see this.
However, in France, due to the special weight of the Muslim community and the dominance of tolerant of other ethnicities and religions ideology, this trend is most dramatically manifested. Experience shows that even in 3-4 generations (since the early 60s) the majority of Muslims could not or did not want to integrate into French society. Living in the suburbs, which have turned into a kind of ghetto, young Muslims actually reproduce the cultural and religious cluster of North Africa.
The current French authorities seem to want to cover up the problem of Islamisation with more pressing issues of their state, such as the declining economy and health care.
