Ben Smith is a vicious far-Left ideologue whose writings suggest that believes “Islamophobes” are a far greater threat than Islamic jihadis, and so it’s no surprise that he would have nettled Macron by “legitimizing” the jihad massacres in France rather than defending the freedom of expression.
But Macron himself is not consistent. If France is so committed to defending the freedom of expression, why was Rasmus Paludan deported?
“Emmanuel Macron slams media coverage of France’s position on Islamic extremism,” South China Morning Post, November 16, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
French President Emmanuel Macron has called a New York Times correspondent to criticise English-language coverage of France’s stance on Islamic extremism after recent attacks, arguing it amounts to “legitimising” violence.
“When France was attacked five years ago, every nation in the world supported us,” Macron told Ben Smith in comments published in the latter’s column on Sunday.
“So when I see, in that context, several newspapers which I believe are from countries that share our values … when I see them legitimising this violence, and saying that the heart of the problem is that France is racist and Islamophobic, then I say the founding principles have been lost.”
In his column about their exchange, Smith said the French president had argued “foreign media failed to understand ‘laicite’,” or secularism, a pillar of French policy and society….
“We will not give up cartoons,” he vowed.
Macron reiterated his point in an interview with Le Grand Continent, in which he stated that, despite his respect for different cultures: “I am not going to change our laws because they shock elsewhere.”
“The fight of our generation in Europe will be a combat for our freedoms,” Macron said, adding that he believed they were being “overturned”….
The Financial Times published a piece by a correspondent that was titled “Macron’s war on ‘Islamic separatism’ only divides France further”.
The paper later took down the column, citing factual errors.
Defending France’s stance in a letter to the Financial Times in which he denied stigmatising Muslims, Macron wrote: “France – we are attacked for this – is as secular for Muslims as for Christians, Jews, Buddhists and all believers.”…
Eric S. says
Macron has his hands full with bloodlust Jihadis in France. Islamist headhunters do what headhunters do. Macron is trying to protect his free thinking people from the headhunters, plain and simple, right? Macron does NOT need this hack from the NYTimes to cheer on the Jihadi headhunters. The NYTimes decides to unleash its sub-servant paid writer while Macron is trying to deal with an existential threat from French Islamists and multi-national Islamists. The NYTimes is a force for chaos and death. Thank God Jihad Watch exposes these immoral lowlifes. Kudos to all who promote freedom at Jihad Watch.
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
“Thank God Jihad Watch exposes these immoral lowlifes”
Don’t thank some fictitious “god”, thank Robert Spencer.
gravenimage says
I think that’s what the kudos were for.
LB says
“Macron is trying to protect his free thinking people from the headhunters”
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight….. That’s why he allowed, and still allows, thousands of muslims every single day to freely arrive in France by keeping his borders permanently open (even during this pandemic).
Don’t make me laugh! Macorn is a typical globalist sock-puppet (he’s a banker for fuck’s sake!) who is forced to somehow react after every single muslim is now out for his head.
The beheading of Samuel Patty wasn’t the cause of his current troubles; it was the inevitable consequence of allowing hundreds of thousands of muslims into France. What did he expect to happen? Well I’ll tell you what he DIDN’T expect to happen: him being in any sort of danger for following the globalists’ replacement plan to the letter. Funny how they never seem to expect to be put to the guillotine for their obedience but end up first on the chopping block after there are no more “enemies” (read: dissidents from the agenda) to fight…
Lavéritétriomphera says
Macron is not a lawyer, he is the President of the Republic and he assumes the executive power.
Brando says
THE NEW YORK TIMES is as trashy as it gets, you can say the Same for THE GUARDIAN of the UK,full of lies.
THE WASHINGTON POST is the same.
THE SLAVE TRADE
I wonder what the ANTIFA and BLACK LIVES MATTER terrorist groups who promote Hatred of Western Culture would say to the Historical Fact that:
1.VIRTUALLY 100% of the blacks CAPTURED and later SOLD to Europeans and Americans (12 MILLION) ,from 1450 to 1850( 400 years ),
were because of BLACKS ( but of Different Tribes),
who live on the Coast of Africa.
2.But those 12 million are only those sold to whites, you have to add MILLIONS more who DIED along the way or were KILLED in attacks on villages(of OTHER tribes ).
SLAVE TRADERS AND PAUL
By the way,the whites engaging in slavetrading were going AGAINST their religion.
THE LAW
Paul defines the LAW as “Love your neighbor as Yourself” in GALATIANS 5:14 and ROMANS 13:8-10.
SLAVE TRADERS ARE CONDEMNED BY THE LAW
Paul in 1 TIMOTHY 1:8-10 says:
” We know that the LAW is good if one uses it properly.
We also know that the LAW is made not for the righteous but for
lawbreakers and rebels, the UNGODLY and SINFUL,
the UNHOLY and irreligious,
for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality,
for SLAVE TRADERS / KIDNAPPERS OF MEN
and liars and perjurers
—and for whatever else is CONTRARY TO SOUND DOCTRINE.”
WHAT IS A SLAVE TRADER?
Besides capturing people,for a time,he is a SLAVE OWNER, the slaves he has are his PROPERTY,and so they are also condemned by the LAW.
Notice Paul ALSO says being a slavetrader is CONTRARY to SOUND DOCTRINE. What doctrine?Of course CHRISTIAN doctrine.
dapto says
Bezos loves the Terrorists and any Terrorist will do that why his papers and organizations run cover for these Terrorists.
Charlie in NY says
France doesn’t like being on the receiving end of the media’s “Israel treatment”. Yet since their own media joins in that particular form of journalistic malpractice when Israel is the topic, with the al Dura canard being perhaps the most notorious example, perhaps the French media should heed the old caution, “if you can’t take it, then you shouldn’t dish it out.”
jewdog says
How can any sane person actually think that those vicious murders had external causes, had anything to do with Islamophobia or racism? Does the concept of personal responsibility mean anything to those fools? I guess not. This is some sort of new ignorance in the world. It’s so outrageous that even a moonbat like Macron called it out, which shows you just how bad things have gotten.
James Lincoln says
jewdog,
You are correct about Macron.
If politicians like him are starting to call this stuff out, things have gotten so bad that they are undeniable…
Giacomo Latta says
It sure sounds like reality has finally caught up with Macron. Hopefully he’ll have the same opinion should a year go by without any more decapitations.
mortimer says
I bet Ben Smith would be unable to identify and accurately describe the main sources and elements of jihadism and Islamism.
His pretentious whitewash of jihadism would be destroyed in the first two minutes of a scheduled debate.
mortimer says
It’s too bad Ben Smith was not in the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege in 2015, when a Muslim terrorist held 19 hostages, of whom the Muslim terrorist murdered four Jewish people. His mind would not be so deluded.
Ben Smith is shallow in the matter of Islam. It takes ten years of study of Islam’s source texts to master what Islam is. He cannot learn what Islam is from the thesaurus of invectives.
Giacomo Latta says
I must disagree. If you are only willing to allow yourself to feel it, the unabated hate of all that is not muslim should wash all over you before you have finished a single book of the koran selected at random.
Joe Bagus says
Anyone wants to know the real islam teaching should read book Christian Prince “The Deception of Allah”.https://archive.org/details/christianprincethedeceptionofallah/page/n105/mode/1up
Watch also his debates wth muslim scholars on YouTube. Type : “Christian Prince debates”.
Anyone wants to know all Muhammad’s actions should read FW Burleigh “It’s All About Muhammad”. These books are straight away from verses in quran, hadiths, sunnah & islamic books.
Currently I’m spreading these books to some Western & Eu leaders & politicians. Anyone wants to join me can message me to joeyahoo1@hotmail.com .