New French president wastes no time in bowing down to Islam – BANS PORK from Presidential Elysee Palace

And you thought Sarkozy was an Islamopanderer. Not even in office for a week and Francois Hollande has banned all dishes containing pork products from all government offices, in deference to France’s demanding and perpetually offended Muslim population. How long before he unbans street prayers and burqas?

Revolts in Europe (H/T Susan K)   Effective immediately, the new French head of state never again will allow pork to pass his lips…or the lips of his staff, other government officials, or foreign guests.

With this decision, Hollande embraces the profound change in the French ethnic and religious population, with Christians becoming slowly extinct, replaced by the massive and permanent infestation of Muslim occupiers.

The new president’s decision is payback to the Muslim electorate, who overwhelmingly - 93% – voted for him. Formerly banned from the USA (until Obama took office) controversial Islamist Tarik Ramadan, called on France’s 700 mosques to support Hollande.

Pork will be replaced with mutton or beef slaughtered in the most inhumane way possible – Islamic approved halal slaughter. Muslim authorities in the country welcomed the decision, celebrating France’s demise as a Christian nation and moving it toward becoming the first European Islamic state.

HALAL-opponents in Paris donned pig masks to protest a restaurant chain’s Halal menu. I wonder if they will stage a protest against the Presidential palace?

More good news about the growing backlash against the Islamization of Europe

Anders Breivik aside, anti-Muslim sentiment across Europe no longer is the exclusive property of the right wing and has worked its way into mainstream thinking. Slowly awakening from a long slumber, native populations now view Muslims as ungrateful intruders, who overtax the welfare systems, refuse to assimilate, and demand special accommodations for their religious practices that no other religious group could expect.

So, is it any wonder that parties on the right and even the far right are gaining real traction, pushing for severe limits on Muslim immigration and deportation of all Muslim convicts, as well as backing laws that ban the building of minarets, limit mosque construction, and prohibit the wearing of muslim face veils in public?

The rapid rise of right wing parties in Europe has the left wing shaking in their PC booties

Europe’s traditional liberal and tolerant policies, when directed toward the most intolerant people on earth (Muslims), are being challenged by right wing patriotic parties in virtually every country. Not surprisingly, this is not sitting well with the socialists, multiculturalists, and Muslim-apolgists who are trying to destroy European culture, traditions, and even Christianity.

IS EUROPE LOST? NOT IF THE SURGE IN RIGHT WING PARTIES HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT

Ukranian Week  The Breivik massacres are a brutal awakening for Europe’s politicians, who have tended to ignore the growing Islamophobia and opposition to immigration (justifiable anti-Islam sentiment and opposition to a flood of Muslim immigrants, most of whom live off the government dole, getting benefits that the native populations are not not entitled to) even in countries traditionally liberal and tolerant.

In Scandinavia, across central Europe and especially in France, as Marie Le Pen has just shown in the French elections, hundreds of thousands of people, especially the young, are rallying to parties that promise an end to the influx of immigrants and refugees, a harsh crack-down on Muslim activists and a new emphasis on Europe’s ethnic “purity” and Christian identity.

Across Europe there are now some 30 far-right political parties that are winning votes, entering parliaments, influencing mainstream politicians and even signing agreements with traditional conservative parties – as has happened in the Netherlands. Few of these groups openly espouse the more extreme ravings published in Breivik’s manifesto. But all share similar core beliefs, and all, like Breivik, are spreading these through right-wing websites.

Extremist Patriotic parties on the right are mainly motivated by their visceral opposition to immigration (especially of Muslims), to ethnic diversity and to multiculturalism, which they believe is a danger to European culture and identity. They appeal to latent nationalism, are hostile to pan-European institutions such as the European Union, and have no time for liberalism or “soft” social policies.

Nationalism is still a powerful force among far-right groups, which seek to whip up pride in past glories and hatred of any curbs on the right of the majority to enforce its views on minorities. In Hungary, the Jobbik party has made clear its contempt for post-communist democracy. “We are not communists, fascists or National Socialists,” said Gabor Vona, one of its leaders, in January. “But – and this is important for everyone to understand very clearly – we are also not democrats”.

The party received 17 per cent of the vote in elections two years ago. And although the mainstream press gives it little publicity, it disseminates its views effectively on Facebook and other social networking services. And far from being a party made up of social misfits or losers, studies have shown that most of its supporters are young, have jobs, a secondary education or even a degree. This profile is also true elsewhere: most of those who vote for populist right-wing parties in Europe come from the middle classes, and are people afraid of economic and especially social change (aka the welfare state), according to a study made recently by the University of Nottingham, in England.

In Germany and Austria there has always been considerable concern for historical reasons, especially abroad, about the growth of right-wing extremism. Other members of the EU boycotted Austria in 2000 when the Conservative party went into coalition with the Freedom Party, led by the charismatic far-right Joerg Haider.

In Germany, concern has been growing not only at the recent  success of the NDP party but also at the activities of fringe movements that have been targetting Turks and other immigrants – with little official investigation or hindrance. And mainstream parties are picking up some of the right’s ideas. Thilo Sarrazin, a highly respected German Social Democrat, published a book in 2010 in which he said Germany would become poorer and lose its identity as well as its potential because Turkish and Arab immigrants had a lower IQ. He said his ideas were supported by a third of Germans, who believed that the state should limit immigration and the practice of Islam. He was sacked from the SPD, but only a year later Chancellor Angela Merkel, from the ruling conservative CDU party, echoed some of his views when she declared that multiculturalism had failed.

In Greece, now suffering rising unemployment, social upheaval and despair as a result of the harsh economic austerity measures, anti-foreigner right-wing groups have been growing fast. They blame Albanians, Muslims and any other foreigners in Greece for taking Greek jobs and undermining Greek morale. Comparisons are being made with the appeal of the Nazis during the economic collapse of the Weimar Republic. (Big difference: the Jews weren’t killing anyone, trying to impose Judaism on non-Jews, or trying to create Jewish-compliant republics all over Europe)

But it is the growth of extremism patriotism in traditionally liberal climates that is alarming many politicians. In 2009 Swiss voters approved a ban on the building of any minaret on mosques in the country. Finland’s new party, True Finns, has sprung from nowhere to capture a significant share of the vote on a platform of hostility to outsiders and to any EU bailout for the weaker southern members of the EU. Sweden, Denmark and Norway have also seen a rise of the far-right.

And the biggest upset has been in traditionally tolerant Netherlands, where Geert Wilders, a politician who has denounced the Koran as an evil book and called Islam a “totalitarian ideology”, won 15 per cent of the vote in 2010. His Party for Freedom is now the third biggest force in Dutch politics. His views on Islam are so extreme controversial that he was recently banned from entering Britain, (but the ban has since been lifted). Before that, after the assassination in 2002 of Pim Fortuyn, the gay anti-Muslim campaigner, there were widespread attacks on mosques in the Netherlands and anti-Muslim riots that shocked many Dutch voters. All governments since then have promised to curb immigration and crack down sharply on Muslim clergy preaching intolerance.

Britain, too, has never had a strong party on the far right, but has recently seen the growth of far-right movements that are winning votes largely on their anti-Muslim platform.  A new group, the English Defence League, has organised street marches against Muslims and acquired a strong following on the football terraces. Its membership is so far small, but it has attracted a large following on the internet – as have other far-right groups elsewhere.

Earlier this month, the English Defence League organised the first pan-European conference of far-right parties in Aarhus, Denmark. About 200 members from several countries met and voted to form a European Defence League, to protect Europe from Islamist extremism. Most of these parties have denounced what Breivik did, but cannot escape association with him, as he has specifically cited his links to far-right groups in Britain as a main influence on his political views.

Part of the blame credit for the rise of the far-right lies with traditional political parties that have sidestepped awkward questions about immigration and the integration of minorities. Most are now adapting their policies to respond to popular pressure. David Cameron, Britain’s Prime Minister, said recently, like Merkel, that multiculturalism had failed, and called for a much stronger assertion of British values and British identity.

Muslims in many European countries have been alarmed by the trend. Some have responded by urging fellow Muslims to do more to denounce extremism in their midst and report suspected terrorists to the police. But instead, many have denounced what they call a wave of Islamophobia, and have hunkered down in their own communities, isolating themselves from the mainstream. The perception that the far-right is goading attacks on Muslims has also enouraged militancy and extremism among many young Muslims in Western urban centres. France saw an eruption of violence in the Paris suburbs three years ago.

But the murders by the Toulouse gunman in March have reawakened fears of al-Qaeda terrorism striking again in Europe. And across Europe, governments are fearful that another Breivik may be waiting somewhere, encouraged by far-right xenophobia and ready to take fearful revenge on what he sees as the new danger to his country’s national identity. (So typical of the left, they fear another Breivik massacre more than they fear another Muslim terror attack)

The following write-ups about Europe’s right wing parties are from a far left wing rag in the U.S. called The Nation

The Nation The continent’s far-right parties vary in their individual ideologies, but most express a growing anxiety with immigration, multiculturalism and what they see as the “Islamization” of Europe. Here are 13 of the many right-wing parties fighting for ground in Europe’s charged ideological battles.

NORWAY: PROGRESS PARTY:

Norway’s anti-immigrant Progress Party, of which Breivik was a member until 2006, won 23 percent of the vote in the country’s 2009 parliamentary election. The party is now the country’s second-largest.  A brochure for the Progress Party urges tighter limits on immigration depicts a masked criminal with the text, “The man is of foreign origin.”

FRANCE: NATIONAL FRONT

The National Front, under the new leadership of Marine Le Pen, has disavowed some of it’s more openly fascist positions in favor of a more specifically anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant platform, and is steadily gaining favor in the country: in local elections this March, the National Front won 15 percent of the vote, only one percent less than President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party. Marine Le Pen at a news conference in December 2010 during which defended her remarks comparing overflowing Mosques in France to the Nazi occupation.

HUNGARY: FIDESZ & JOBBIK

The nationalist Fidesz party won more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament in Hungary’s national elections last year, giving them the supermajority that’s needed to change the country’s constitution. But even more startling were the electoral gains of the neo-fascist Jobbik party, whose anti-Roma and otherwise racist rhetoric secured it 17 percent of the vote in the same elections, making it the third-largest party in the country. This alliance has already cracked down on dissent, censoring media and cutting funding for culturally important theaters.

NETHERLANDS: FREEDOM PARTY

Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party almost tripled its representation in Netherland’s House of Representatives last year, winning 15.5 percent of the total vote. Wilders has become an icon of the anti-Islamization movement with his controversial policy proposals: he advocatesbanning the Quran, limiting the construction of mosques and taxing wearers of headscarves.

Geert Wilders in court in March after he was charged with inciting hatred against Muslims by comparing Islam to Nazism. He was acquitted in June.

 ENGLAND: ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE

The English Defence League takes its ideological battles to the streets: since its founding in 2009, the EDL has specialized in soccer hooligan-style provocation and violence to get its message across. The group confrontationally rallies through largely Muslim neighborhoods, and in the wake of Breivik’s attacks, the EDL’s founder argued that “What happened in Oslo shows how desperate some people are becoming in Europe.”

Apparently, The Nation is unfamiliar with the British Freedom Party with whom members of the EDL are now vice chairmen.

 AUSTRIA: FREEDOM PARTY

Governments of the European Union were outraged in 2000, Buruma writes, when the Austrian Freedom Party garnered enough votes to form part of a coalition government. Party head Heinz-Christian Strache was active in Austria’s neo-Nazi underground for years, and even took part in militia training. None of which has tarnished the party’s image among voters: Freedom Party now garners as much support in Austrian polls as the two mainstream parties.

Austria’s far right Freedom Party (FPO) is causing outrage with its advertising campaign. The slogan causing all the fuss appears in bold letters across huge billboards next to the smiling face of Freedom Party leader Heinz Christian Strache. “Mehr Mut für Wiener Blut” – more courage for Viennese Blood. The next  line says – “Too many foreigners does no one any good”

ITALY: NORTHERN LEAGUE

In the country of Mussolini, the neo-fascists of the now-dissolved National Alliance partyhave found new positions as members of President Silvia Berlusconi’s government. But they’re hardly the only far-right politicians in the country: the anti-immigrant Northern League party’s Mario Borghezio—who is also a member of Italy’s parliament—defended Anders Behring Breivik after the Norwegian attacks, saying “Some of the ideas he expressed are good, barring the violence… some of them are great.”

GERMANY: Pro NRW PARTY

Der SpiegelSadly, Germans again voted overwhelmingly for left-wing parties with the SPD (Socialists) up almost 5% to finish as the largest party on 39.1%. The Socialists and Greens are now likely to form a coalition. The anti-Islam PRO NRW achieved only 1.5% of the vote, approximately the same as in the previous elections, meaning they get no seats in the regional parliament. This was despite the massive publicity surrounding the Mohammed cartoons and anti-Islam graphics which provoked Muslim rioting and attacks on the police that made national headlines. The demonstrations at which the violence occurred were part of PRO NRW’s electoral campaign.

North-Rhine Westphalia is one of the most heavily Muslim-colonised parts of Germany. There is large-scale Turkish settlement there, along with the usual infiltration of the Socialist and Green parties. The media is obviously hostile to any anti-Islam party but the cartoon riots forced them to at least give PRO NRW some coverage. If an anti-Islamic party was going to break through into the mainstream, this is one of the places where you would think it most likely to happen. But it didn’t.

It’s bad news, then, but PRO NRW did at least cross the 1% threshold, which secures it some state financing.

SWEDEN DEMOCRATS PARTY

In last year’s national elections, Swedish voters gave the far-right Sweden Democrats representation in parliament for the first time. The nationalist party grew out of earlier, more openly neo-Nazi groups, but in recent years has focused on restricting immigration and tarring Muslims as a threat to Sweden’s society and welfare state. 

An Islamic revolution akin to the one that swept through Iran in 1979 could easily take place in Sweden, claims the second highest ranking member of the far-right Sweden Democrats. “It can happen really fast,” said Sweden Democrat party secretary Björn Söder to the TT news agency. Ekeroth said previously that “Sweden and western countries are at risk of going out with a whimper” because of the influence of Islam, drawing a connection to 1400 years of Muslim aggression.

Jimmie Akesson (below), the far-right Sweden Democrats reportedly crossed the four percent barrier needed to win national representation. With expectations of taking 20 seats in parliament, the Sweden Democrats are in a position to form a new government with Reinfeldt’s center-right.

BELGIUM: VLAAMS BELANG PARTY 

Key issues: Flemish independence, anti-multiculturalism, traditional values. Vlaams Belang used the national elections to promote its antimulticulturalism agenda. The party favors strong immigration controls in addition to a limit on the number of mosques in Flanders and the deportation of immigrants who fail to integrate. Its recent campaigns and public rhetoric reflect a more moderate tone than in previous years, when the party, then known as Vlaams Blok, had a more explicit anti-immigrant position. 

DENMARK: DANISH PEOPLE’S PARTY

When the Danish People’s Party demanded customs control on the country’s borders this year to keep out “criminals from Eastern Europe and illegal economic migrants,” it ended the free movement of goods and people that European Union member states have enjoyed for over fifteen years. The People’s Party has also worked to make Denmark’s immigration lawssome of the strictest in Europe.

DANISH PEOPLE’S PARTY AD below that says, YOUR DENMARK? A multiethnic society with: – Mass rapes – Crude violence – Insecurity – Supression of women – Forced marriages IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? 

SWITZERLAND: SWISS PEOPLE’S PARTY

The Swiss People’s Party drew widespread international condemnation in 2009 when it successfully sponsored a bill outlawing the construction of minarets in the country. It also sparked controversy in 2007 with an anti-immigrant campaign poster depicting white sheep kicking a black sheep, presumably out of Switzerland. The SPP is no fringe group, either: it now has more representation in Switzerland’s lower house of parliament than any other party.  

SWEDISH Parents incensed over special ‘religious’ accommodations offered only to Muslim students in public schools

A Swedish school district has sparked outrage for striking a deal with local Muslim groups ensuring Muslim students can skip out on overnight class trips and Muslim girls don’t have to be naked when showering at school.

The Local H/T harryjo)  “My first reaction after reading was total shock: how can schools so casually force children into more segregation and social exclusion?” women’s and equal rights activist Bahareh Andersson wrote on the Swedish opinion website Newsmill.

Her comments came in response to reading a document outlining an agreement between education officials in Jönköping municipality and local Muslim groups ensuring special treatment for Muslim children enrolled in area schools.

MUSLIMS BURNING SWEDISH FLAG

“It’s not only about exceptions for food, but it’s also about an exception from human rights. Children learning from an early age that gender segregation is something natural and that love without marriage is a sin and immoral,” wrote Andersson. “Why do people want immigrant children to be indoctrinated with values from the Middle Ages?”

The five page document outlining the agreement was first drawn up in 1994 and has been revised periodically over the years. The most recent revisions – carried out in June 2011 – involved how schools should deal with Ramadan and other details surrounding how religious holidays would be treated in local schools.

Among other things, the document includes guidance ensuring that schools will allow Muslim girls to shower in their underwear following physical education classes and that students would be allowed to skip out on study visits of class trips that involve overnight stays.

According to the agreement, students fasting for Ramadan are also exempt from attending physical education classes and representatives from local Muslim congregations are also granted access to the school’s kitchen to observe how the school’s food is prepared.

in Rosengaard, the Muslim section of the Swedish city of Malmö, is “Jihadskörkortsteori” (JIHAD DRIVING SCHOOL).

Sweden Democrats single out Islam as the religion that conflicts most with the Swedish culture. 

Party leader Jimmie Åkesson reiterated  the aim yesterday, to seriously challenge the Social Democrats and Moderates in the government. This will come with a broadening of the policy and a turn toward the center, where the new policy program and the designation social conservatism are important building blocks.

GREECE Shocker! ‘Anti-Muslim immigration’ party makes huge gains in recent election

OH NOES! Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s sister-in-law and convert to Islam, complains of being “manhandled” by airport security

Why is she so upset? This is probably the most attention she’s gotten from a man since she decided to don a headbag and become chattel for Islam.

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniya gives a Palestinian diplomatic passport to Lauren Booth before she became a Muslim

Press TV After passing through the metal detector with no beep, she went to pick up her bags from the conveyor belt, and was suddenly – and without warning – searched by a male security guard.  She was even more offended when her complaints to security management were scoffed at. Lauren says her ordeal is indicative of a wider problem.

Ahmed Uddin from the Islam Human Rights Commission says that more people are reporting harassment at airports. But the number may not reflect how wide the problem is, because many Muslims don’t come forward. Human Rights organizations say a consequence of increased security at airport since 9/11 is that more Muslims feel they are regularly and unfairly stopped and searched. They say this is further isolating a community that already feels it is being demonized. (That”s the idea!)

Another warning from Islam’s Public Enemy #1

GEERT WILDERS says, ”My message to the American people is please, don’t make the mistakes we’ve made. What is happening in Europe can definitely happen in America tomorrow,” he warned.

Wilders never walks the streets without a security detail and he and his wife must live in safe houses across the Netherlands. It’s the price he pays for speaking out against the Islamization of Europe.

“I believe that the biggest disease in Europe today is called cultural relativism. And I want to fight with all my life this misconception by politically correct, often liberal and leftist politicians, who invented the multicultural society, that all cultures are equal.” Wilders calls them “the facilitators” — leftists who defend Islam while bashing Judeo-Christian civilization. 

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SCOTLAND: Young Christian school children taken to a mosque for Islamic indoctrination

Make no mistake, this is no ‘culture’ lesson. The children are taught how to wash their hands and feet before they are forced to pray to Allah.

Where is the Scottish Defence League when you need them?

“You slut, how dare you take my wife to the beach?” says Muslim before nearly throwing his sister-in-law off roof of shopping center

Muslim violence against a woman isn’t what makes this case so despicable. An Australian judge granting the Muslim savage a ‘no-jury’ trial because he fears they’ll be biased against Islam is what makes it an outrage.

Moroccan born Muslim ISMAIL Belghar

Daily Telegraph  ISMAIL Belghar, a Moroccan immigrant had originally been charged with the attempted murder of his wife’s younger sister, Canan Kokden, 25. He is believed to be the first Muslim in Australia to be granted a judge-only trial on the grounds that a jury may be biased because of his religious beliefs.

The decision in the New South Wales District Court can be revealed after Belghar, 36, yesterday pleaded guilty to detaining and assaulting his sister-in-law after she “dared” to take his wife to the beach without his permission.

The court heard, because of his religious beliefs and because he thought he had absolute authority over her, Belghar felt it “abhorrent” that his wife, Hanife Kokden, had been to the beach where she “displayed her body”.

“The attitude of (Belghar) … is based on a religious or cultural basis. In light of the fact there has been adverse publicity regarding people who hold extreme Muslim faith beliefs in the community, I am of the view that the apprehension by (Belghar) that he may not receive a fair trial is a reasonable apprehension,” Judge Solomon said.

The Crown appealed against Judge Solomon’s ruling arguing that, if the judge was correct, every Muslim would be entitled to a judge-only trial. Last week the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the ruling and ordered Belghar be tried by a jury.

The trial was due to start yesterday when instead Belghar pleaded guilty to detaining Ms Kokden for advantage to intimidate and assault. He denied attempted murder and that charge was dropped.

The court had heard Belghar, who has been married to his wife for 11 years, became aware she had been to the beach in late 2009 because her shoulders were slightly sunburned. He rang his sister-in-law and said: “You slut, how dare you take my wife to the beach.”

Just before Christmas, 2009, Ms Kokden came face to face with Belghar while out shopping with her brother at the Broadway Shopping Centre.

Belghar slapped her across the face then carried her to the railing around the car park where he held her out over it. She was freed when her brother tackled Belghar.

Belghar will be sentenced at a later date. 

GEERT WILDERS, in his new book, ‘Marked for Death,’ makes himself an even bigger target for Muslims who want to kill him

Wilders calls upon Muslims to leave Islam. “We must encourage Muslims to leave Islam and choose freedom and prosperity instead. Our Judeo-Christian and humanistic civilization is superior to the barbaric Islamic civilization.”

Geert Wilders is widely known in Europe for a platform to ban the Quran, along with new mosques, and Muslim immigrants – and for his incendiary speeches. He calls Islam “the ideology of a retarded culture” and likens the Quran to Mein Kampf.

Fanatics, terrorists, and appeasers have tried everything to silence Geert Wilders, Europe’s most controversial Member of Parliament—from putting him on trial to putting a price on his head. For years, from his native Netherlands, Wilders has sounded the alarm about the relentless spread of Islam in the West. And he has paid a steep personal price, enduring countless death threats and being forced into a permanent state of hiding.

In Marked for Death, Wilders reveals: How—and why—liberal politicians, including Barack Obama, downplay the Islamic threat The systematic suppression of free speech through lawsuits, prosecutions, threats, and violence meted out against Islam’s critics The untold story: how Islamic groups are redefining human rights to suppress non-Muslims everywhere The true, bloody history of Islam’s spread throughout the world How the West can defend itself against an existential enemy determined to conquer the globe

Wilders claims that his book was written to inform people about the ‘totalitarian ideology’ which Islam is according to him. But according to him his book is also meant to encourage freedom loving Muslims to turn their back on Islam.

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MOSCOW: Muslim Asslifters foul the subway and police simply stand there and watch

Seems as though even the Russians have become pussies when it comes to Muslims.

Despite the threats by Muslims in Russia that blood will run in the streets unless they are allowed to be governed by sharia law, police remain hands off. Have they forgotten what Muslims did to hundreds of Russian children in Beslan not so long ago? Praying in public is not required  by Islam, it is done by supremacists who want to throw Islam in the faces of all non-Muslims.  Disgraceful.

GERMANY: 29 police injured, 100 protesters arrested, as foaming-at-the-mouth Muslims try to shut down free speech

GERMANY: Pro-Muslim, Anti-Fascist, Leftists got the crap beaten out of them by Muslims

What we didn’t know about the Muslim protests against the right wing Pro-NRW party anti-Islam cartoon contest the other day.

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Islam vs Europe  Ah, a chance to use that excellent German word Schadenfreude. On 1 May in Solingen, the German anti-Islam movement PRO NRW (Pro North Rhine Westphalia) held a demonstration. Hundreds of assorted Muslims and far-left extremists turned up to harass and intimidate them. Two of these “antifascists” found themselves in the midst of a horde of Salafist Muslims, who promptly started beating them up with bits of wood. Even after they were lying helpless and passive on the ground, the Muslims kept laying into them. One was badly hurt in the head; the other in the arm. Both required hospital treatment.

Apparently it wasn’t a failure of recognition either. The Muslims knew that these were leftist anti-fascists who had come to protest against the “islamophobes”. They beat them up anyway.

On Indymedia, the Antifa activists are whining about what happened, wondering whether they should organise a protest against the Salafists, but say they’re worried they may not get permission. Permission? Who’s running these people?

Contest winner: "I think the church in Germany has integrated really well!!"

GERMAN COJONES! Right wing party to use Mohammed cartoons despite police ban

The anti-Islam, right wing Pro-NRW party on the campaign trail in Germany’s most populous state is threatening to put caricatures of Mohammed outside mosques in a string of cities, prompting fears of (Muslim) violence.

The Local  The “Pro NRW” party in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia has already shown anti-Islamic caricatures in Essen and Gelsenkirchen, though the police prevented demonstrations taking place directly outside mosques.

Police have also banned “Pro NRW”, which is campaigning on an Islamophobic platform, from using the Danish cartoons that caused massive protests in the Islamic world in 2005. 

But “Pro NRW” intends to send activists to 25 mosques throughout the state in the run-up to the election on May 13, staging protests in Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Wuppertal and Solingen.

A report in Die Welt newspaper on Sunday said the far-right party intended to post around 100 what it called “Islam-critical” drawings outside the mosques.

Interior Minister in state Ralf Jäger condemned the campaign and expressed support for planned counter-demonstrations. “Pro NRW is committing spiritual arson,” he told the paper. ”The party is consciously taking into account that Muslims will feel provoked and upset. (That’s the idea!) The authorities will exhaust all legal avenues to prevent a xenophobic hate campaign.”

The federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich is reportedly worried about violent confrontations with the Salafists, the fundamentalist Muslims who began distributing free copies of the Koran in Germany three weeks ago.  (Then ban the Muslims, not the patriots)

“Pro NRW” campaign manager Lars Seidensticker says he did not understand the outrage over the campaign, and says his party would bear no responsibility for any violence. 

“If the situation is so tense that you can’t do a campaign like this against Islamist influences any more, then the politicians are responsible for doing away with Germany,” he said, alluding to the title of a 2010 book by banker Thilo Sarrazin (“Germany Does Away with Itself”), which criticized Islamic immigrants in Germany.

“Mosques are potential centres of a new civil war that we have to prevent,” said Seidensticker. “That’s why we have to pull out the Islamist evil by its roots.”

“Pro NRW” is also planning to award a cash prize for the “best” anti-Islamic caricature, named after Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who was responsible for the 2005 images.

UPDATE! Radical Islamists attacked police in the western German city of Solingen on Tuesday in protest of a far-right demonstration where anti-Islamic cartoons had been put on display.

SPIEGEL (H/T Martin) They were provoked by the anti-Islamic Pro NRW party, which displayed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Officials had warned that the publicity stunt could spark violence. 

Some 30 Salafists were arrested after injuring three police officers and a passerby by throwing stones and wielding poles from protest banners, police said. Pro NRW, categorized as an extremist right-wing group by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, had staged a demonstration near a Salafist mosque in Solingen.

The violence erupted when Pro NRW demonstrators showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad drawn by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. One of his drawings was among a series of cartoons published by Danish newspapers in 2005 that led to worldwide protests by Muslims, who were offended by the pictures. Many Muslims believe that visual depictions of Muhammad should be prohibited.

“Several Salafists wearing turbans suddenly jumped over the cordon and threw stones at police officers and also hit them with flagpoles,” police spokeswoman Anja Meis said.

Pro NRW has said it will run a “Muhammad cartoon contest” and put the cartoons on display outside 25 mosques in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The move, a campaign stunt aimed at generating publicity ahead of an election in the state on May 13, has been widely criticized.

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich warned last weekthat the cartoon contest and the demonstrations near mosques could lead to violent clashes and also endanger German embassies and companies abroad.

FRANCE: Muslim cemetery desecrated with swastikas and pro-Marine Le Pen graffiti

Swastikas were spray painted in pink on nine graves and ‘Islamophic’ slogans – ‘Arabs get out’ and ‘Long live Le Pen’ (Front National Party) – were found on a wall of a Muslim cemetery near Nice.

20Minutes  Lydia Schenardi, departmental secretary of the National Front, said she felt that this could not be “the work of the FN people because it would be really foolish for us to do something that can only harm us.”

But the graffiti could well be the work of Muslim youth acting at the behest of other politicians who want to discredit the FN, especially following the strong showing Le Pen made in the recent first round elections. Or it could be done by Muslims who fear Le Pen’s strong anti-Islamization and anti-immigration policies.

Abdallah Zekri, president of the Observatory against Islamophobia, attached to the French Muslim Council, has “deplored” the “cowardly acts detrimental to live together”, while SOS Racism has denounced “regular stigmatization of the Muslim community and the climate of hatred deliberately instigated by politicians in the presidential debate.”