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April 2, 2006

France: Islam, Barbarians, And Paris

Two stories have come on the internet recently, and both point to a disturbing situation developing in the banlieues (suburbs) of Paris. Last year, the riots of Muslim youth were dismissed as products of state negligence, discrimination by employers, and had nothing to do with the cultural milieu of the Muslim rioters.

The first story concerns the Belleville region of northeast Paris, where Muslim gangs have attacked an art exhibition, which features cartoons of religion, as reported in The Peninsula and the Middle East Times.

The exhibition is being held in a cafe called Mer a Boire or "The ocean to drink", in the 20th arondissement of Paris. The cafe opened last September, in a region with a racially diverse population, with many people of North African origin.

On Tuesday, a gang of children, aged 10 to 12, who usually play soccer in the street and get free glasses of water from the cafe, came into the establishment, threw their water on the floor, and called the cafe-owners racists. Later, they returned with sticks and iron bars, and proceeded to attack the pictures, smashing a few in the process. Customers chased away the youths, but they returned repeatedly.

Later, a group of older youths came to the cafe and , according to one of the owners: "They said they did not approve of what the youngsters had done. But what we were doing was unacceptable, too. They warned us that if we didn't take down the cartoons they would call in the Muslim Brothers who would burn the cafe down. They kept saying: 'This is our home. You cannot act like this here."

As a response, the owners placed white sheets of paper over cartoons of an "Islamic" nature, with the words "censored" written on these. None of the offending cartoons displayed representations of the prophet Mohammed. There are about 50 cartoons in the exhibition, which parody all faiths. The owners of the cafe have filed a report to the police.

The other story, which is far more disturbing, appears in today's Sunday Times, and concerns the current climate in Parisian suburbs, where Muslim youth are regularly making attacks against Jewish people. In the print edition of the paper, it is revealed that figures recorded of attacks upon Jews have increased dramatically in recent years.

The figures, given by the National Consultative Committee of Human Rights, state that in 2001, there were 96 such attacks. These rose to 516 in 2002, dropped to 400 in 2003, and reached a peak of 974 in 2004. Last year, there were 504 cases. The attacks against Jews have forced many to emigrate to Israel. The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France said that last year 3,300 such emigrations took place, the highest ever.

The Times article details more of the activities of the group "The Babarians", which was led by 26-year old Youssef Fofana, who styled himself as "Brain of the Barbarians". This gang killed a young Jewish man, 23-year old Ilan Halimi, after kidnapping him. This had been achieved in late January, with the aid of a young woman, a "honey trap" who seduced him. Ilan was found naked, tied to a tree, with cuts and burns over 80% of his body, at Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois in Essonne, on February 13 this year. Ilan was barely alive, and died on his way to hospital. He had been tortured with cigarette burns and acid.

We reported how Fofana (pictured, above right) fled to Cote d'Ivoire to escape justice, where he was then arrested. He was then extradited, arriving back in Paris on March 4.

Today's article in the Times makes for disturbing reading. The young woman engaged in the honeytrap was called Yalda, a 17 year old schoolgirl. She had met Ilan at the store where he sold cellular phones, and had arranged a rendezvous, knowing he was to be abducted. "He screamed for two minutes, with a high-pitched voice like a girl", she said to investigators.

The same night Ilan was kidnapped, she stayed in a hotel-room with her boyfriend, paid for by Fofana's gang. She had been paid $5,400 by Fofana to act as the honeytrap to ensare Ilan. Fofana had told her "With you, I can do wonders. With your physique you'll make a fortune...all the boys will fall into the trap."

23-year old Audrey Lorleach, who was one of the first of the gang to be arrested, said of Fofana: "He wanted a Jew." Fofana believed that all Jews were rich, and that they would be united, and therefore would pay the expected ransom.

Sadly for Ilan, his family could not afford to pay. They received telephone calls demanding money, with quotations from the Koran spoken, but they could not afford the ransom, even when it was reduced. After two weeks, the phone calls ceased, and a week later, Ilan's body was discovered.

Another procurer was Tifenn, a 19-year old from Brittany, who at the age of 13 had been gang-raped as a tournante in a Parisian suburb. We described earlier the role of the tournante in France's Muslim communities, as depicted by the late Samira Bellil in her book: "Dans l'Enfer des Tournantes" (in the hell of the gang-raped).

Before her death from cancer in 2004, Ms Bellil was a patron of the charity "Ni Putes Ni Soumises" (Neither Whores Nor Submissives), which was founded by Fadela Amara, and campaigns against these forced rapes and other brutalities, committed by young Muslim males of North African origin upon young women, mostly from their own communities. The charity has 6,000 members.

In November we reported how Fadel Amara's charity organised a march for a young Muslim woman, 19-year old Chahrazad Belayni, who was deliberately set on fire by a Muslim male whose sexual advances she had rejected, on November 13. The Moroccan girl was set on fire in the street, received burns over 60% of her body, and, according to the Times today, she still remains in a coma.

The Times also reported that on Friday (31 March), a trial detailed another similar attack from a Parisian suburb. Jamal Derrar is accused of burning to death a 17 year old girl, Sohane Benziane in 2002, in Vitry-Sur-Seine. She broke his order to stay away from "his territory", and the trial heard that he poured petrol over the girl's head, before he pulled out a cigarette lighter. He flicked it alight and extinguished it several times to reduce her to tears before he immolated her.

Sohane's sister, Kahina, stated: "It is barbarism. I want barbarism rejected. It is becoming so banal. We are not in a war. I refuse to live in a country that cannot defend its citizens."

As Matthew Campbell, author of the Times article, states:

Testimony from this grim underbelly, the immigrant banlieues - literally "places of banishment" - has fortified the elite's view of young immigrants on the wrong side of the Paris ring road as "barbarians at the gate".

Campbell is right. The common thread in the cases of the cafe in Belleville, the murder of Sohane Benziane, and also the issue of the "Barbarians", the group led by Foufana which launched attacks against Jewish citizens, is "territory", claimed by young Muslims, which is seen as theirs. And heaven help those others, like the French citizens whose cars were torched during last autumn's riots, who are seen to be living within these alienists' "territory".

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 2, 2006 1:42 PM

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