EUROPE: Anti-Islamization activists face persecution by leftist Islamofacism apologists

Islam vs Europe  FRANCE: Young French patriots from Generation Identitaire have made headlines in French media in recent weeks for their occupation of a mosque demanding an end to new mosque building as well as rampant Muslim immigration while advocating for French culture, traditions, and Christianity. Prominent in the coverage has been the intelligent and articulate Damien Rieu, one of the group’s spokesmen. Until a few days ago, he was working as a trainee at a publishing house in Lyon, responsible for communications. He has now been dismissed from this position as a result of his political activism. 

BELGIUM: A few days ago a documentary about Sharia4Belgium aired on Belgian television. In it the movement’s spokesman Fouad Belkacem declared that they “didn’t feel an ounce of respect for non-Muslim Belgians. We have our religion: superior to yours. We have our system: superior to your system. We have our values: superior to yours.” 

In response to this, Stéphanie Gilson, a student at the IPES college in Verviers, wrote on her Facebook page: “Superior to us? Excuse me? LOL and a big LOL.” She also wrote that in her class at college there were two girls who said the same type of things and it scared her. 

The following day the two girls mentioned, who had obviously read her Facebook page, attacked her in the college, throwing a bench and chairs at her face. All three girls were suspended from the college for one day, the management telling her that she had no right to express opinions about Muslims on her Facebook page. Refusing to accept this, Stéphanie quit the college and filed a complaint with the police. “I am the victim, and all I did was give my opinion.”

GERMANY: Last week Jörg Uckermann, deputy leader of the anti-Islam party Pro-Köln, was arrested in Cologne. He is suspected of claiming payment for political party meetings that did not, in fact, take place. This follows the raids on the party premises that took place two weeks ago. (See here: German government launches raids on anti-Islam Pro-Germany movement)

His family has issued a statement complaining about massively biased reporting in the locally-dominant Dumont press. They claim that the Dumont press is working with the police and political establishment to smear Uckermann, while they themselves have been denied information about what is happening to him. They have not been allowed to visit him and he is not being allowed access to the medications on which he is dependent. The family has set up a Facebook page to campaign for his release.

Uckermann was responsible for organizing the anti-Islam cartoon contest earlier in the year, which so panicked the German government and resulted in a horde of Muslims attacking the German embassy in Sudan.