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May 30, 2006

Paris: Riots In Suburbs, Threats By Black Muslim Group, Tribu KA

We reported earlier on the riots in Paris, which were made by young Muslims and Blacks, starting in the suburb of Clichy-Sous-Bois October and spreading throughout Paris suburbs to engulf various towns in France and beyond and finally ending in November. At the end of the three weeks' unrest, 10,000 vehicles and 200 public buildings had been burned, and numerous police injured.

We also reported on the subsequent phenomenon of the mainly black Muslim gang called the Barbarians, led by Youssef Fofana, originally from the Cote d'Ivoire (pictured right). This gang kidnapped a 23 year old Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, and subjected him to torture. The gang had specifically wanted to target Jewish victims. Ilan's naked body was found in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois in Essonne, Ile de France, on February 13. Ilan was tied to a tree. He had been cut with knives, burned with cigarettes, acid had been poured on him, and he had been set on fire. He died on his way to hospital.

Now, there has been another resurgence of rioting in Paris, and also a resurgence of Black Muslim-inspired individuals threatening the Jews of Paris. Firstly, the riots last night, as reported in English by the Times and Expatica, and in French by Le Monde and Le Figaro, which took place in the suburb of Montfermeil. According to police, these were the worst incidents of unrest there since last November's riots. Rioting also took place in Clichy-Sous-Bois, the epicenter of last year's riots, where about 60 youths fought with police in the Chene housing estate.

About 100 youths armed with sticks and baseball bats on Monday night, around 10.30 pm GMT, clashed with police. The youths tried to attack the home of the mayor, Xavier Lemoine. In April, Lemoine had introduced anti-hoodlum measures, prohibiting gatherings of more than three youths at any one time in the town center of Montfermeil. The youths shook the gates of his home and smashed windows.

Police used rubber bullets to disperse them and they went to the town hall, where threw Molotov cocktails which failed to ignite, broke its glass frontage with stones and set fire to garbage cans. They then moved into the Basquets housing estate nearby and 250 riot police confronted them, in an engagement lasting about four hours.

Yesterday, Lemoine said "Tonight's violence showed that the lives of my family and my seven children are in danger". In late April his home was stoned, and following threats made since his anti-delinquency measures have been introduced, he and his family have been given police protection.

In all, 400 police were involved in quelling the violence, and seven of their number have been injured. Though the mayor of Montfermeil's measures may have been a factor behind the riots, a source in his office said that the unrest was triggered after a youth was arrested following his assault upon a bus driver.

Today, Nicolas Sarkozy, the Interior Minister announced that Clichy-Sous-Bois will be getting its own commissariat, to address problems of the area, and with a review of how policing is carried out.

But there are other more ominous forces beneath the extreme dramas, and perhaps there is even growing an ideology of hate which has been fermenting beneath the public front of these expressions of "dissent". Currently, a Zaire-born black rapper, called Monsieur R, aka Richard Makela, is being sued for obscenity for depicting, in a video, naked women writhing on a French flag. The lyrics of one of his CD tracks, from a 2005 collection called Politikment Incorrekt run: "France is a bitch, don't forget to fuck her - to the point of exhaustion. Like a slut, she should be insulted." The case, carried out in the southern Paris suburb of Melun, is the 12th incident of French rap music being tried in the courts for insulting French identity.

TRIBU KA

A factor that may link the suburban unrest with the anti-semitism of the "Barbarians" who kidnapped and murdered Ilan Halimi, may come from the so-called "philosophy" of the group Tribu K or Tribu Ka, founded by Kemi Saba (aka Kami Saba, pictured). The group is founded on principles formerly espoused by the Black Muslims of the United States. Kemi Saba himself admits in an interview that he was a follower of the Nation of Islam, and had attended a NoI mosque (Mosque 27) in Los Angeles, where he became "galvanised" on his mission.

The sermon was led by Tony Muhammad. "Fara" Kemi Saba states: "I had heard mention of the organisation (Nation of Islam) by way of the film "Malcolm X" and above all "the Million Man March" in 1995, in Washington, of which I have had echos for some years afterwards."

"The act of being in a group comprised exclsively of "blacks", hearing a sermon, inspired by the appearance of the public reactions moved me to tears, even though I did not inderstand all of the discourse, not being bi-lingual. At the end of the meeting, seeing me visibly moved, and young, visibly not American (I was that day dressed in African attire), a "mother" member of the Nation of Islam came over to meet me, and spoke to me maternally. In broken, but understandable English, I discussed with her for some mintues, telling her that I lived in Paris, and that I was sad to not have the Nation of Islam in France."

"To my great surprise, she informed me that there existed a branch of the NoI in Paris, led by Karim D. Muhammad."

"On my return to France I was assisting at a meeting of the NoI, in Paris, at the Theatre of the Golden Hand. The theatre was almost empty, but that was not important to me. For the first time, I heard a French-speaking black "brother" translate my vision of the white man, and explain the painful situation of the black man, with a faultless eloquence. Brother Karim was for me a monument."

Why am I bothering to translate this account of a young man's epiphany to Islam? Because his group, Tribu Ka, has gained prominence as a potential threat to Jews living in France.

On Sunday, according to Le Figaro, the Times and Expatica, members of his group marched through the neighbourhood of Marais in Paris, a historic Jewish neighbourhood, shouting anti-semitic slogans.

The sudden emergence in the media of this group has been met with shock in the French press and the French establishment. Since yesterday I have been searching for nuggets hidden in the Francophone websites to gain some insights into the workings of Tribu Ka, its philosophy, and the attitudes of its founder.

Yesterday, French police began an investigation into the group. Le Figaro states that the investigation is being mounted by the Bureau National de Vigilance Contre l'Antisemitisme (BNCVA), whose president, Sammy Ghozlan states that according to Tribu Ka's head, Kemi Saba, they hope "to replace the real chosen people, the Kemites, to the head of the human race".

On 19 May, states Le Figaro, they had already shown their contempt for Jews, when they went to a gym room in the 11th arrondissement, where a combat sport practised by the Israeli army, the krav manga is taught. The Tribu Ka members filmed themselves haranguing the people in the class, shouting "Are these Jews? Is this a Cohen here?"

They similarly filmed themselves in the rue de Rosiers, in Marais on Sunday evening. About 30 members of Tribu Ka were at the meeting. According to some accounts, the group was carrying baseball bats in Sunday's march. Police broke up the meeting and said that no batons or bats were found. The BNCVA stated that the gang members were "performing Nazi salutes, looking for a fight with the neighbourhood's Jews, threatening and intimidating them". They also called out "Death to the Jews".

Witnesses state that the gang on Sunday were expressing anger against two Jewish groups, Betar and the Jewish Defence League. On the group's website, TribuKa.com, the group announced that they were "hunting" these two groups.

In another article in Le Figaro, entitled "Tribu KA through the lens of Justice", yesterday morning Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the website to be closed down.

Phillipe de Villers, the head of the Mouvement Pour France group, said that Tribu KA underlined a "new racism".

The Tribu Ka had its own message to the Jewish community regarding Ilan Halibi, the victim of the black "Barbarians" gang, as reported by Christian website Top Chretien on 24 Feb, a mere 11 days after Ilan was found mortally injured.

The message is this:

"We observe that over the past few days following the death of mobile phone seller Ilan Halimi that a veritable manhunt has been in operation for Youssouf Fofana, accused by your community of being responsible for the death of one of you."

"We will get straight to the point, that whether our brother (Fofana) is responsible or not, we anticipate that you, on this incident, if you choose to want to brush lightly against a single hair on our brother's head, instead of letting him have a fair (legal) process, we will grab by force the curled beards of your rabbis, and believe us, your pseudo security forces of the LDJ (Jewish Defence League) or Betar will not be able to help you, when faced with the will for justice of our members."

"Leave the brother (Fofana) to be judged fairly or you will pay. Kemi Sada, Fara of Tribu KA."

So what do the members of Tribu Ka believe? They refer to white people as "leucodermes" or "leucos". The initials KA stand for Kemites Atoniens. Kem is their word for Egypt, and Aton is the name of the monotheistic deity revered by Akhenaten. Akhenaten was the heretical pharaoh, who was husband to Nefertiti and father of Tutankhamun. After his death, many of the carvings of his reign were defaced where the symbol of the "Aton" or the One God were represented, and the usual roster of multiple deities was resetablished in Egypt.

The Top Chretien site has this statement made by Kemi Saba to journalists, which draws from Egyptian religious terminology.

"The Tribe has seen the day at the moment when Horus vanquished Seth. He is for us the synbol of the creative energy, or Ka."

"According to my vision of the Ennead, Horus had, in mixing the values of the will, comprising of truth and justice (Ma'at), anger, the spirit of vengeance, allows his followers to see that which is the potential of the creator, but also the potential of destroyer, of Ka."

There is more of this, and it is gobbledegook, but it appears to be an attitude which, like the peripheral cosmology preached by NoI and the Black Muslim ideology of Yusuf Bey, states that Egypt's lost civilisation was originally Black, and the Black man became superceded by "white demons", the Leucodermes.

I will probably update more of their philosophy, and compare it to some of the bizarre theology of the Nation of Islam, as first mapped out by the enigmatic figure, Fard Muhammad (pictured, right), founder of the Nation of Islam, in the 1930s. This is an extract of what Louis Farrakhan claims about Master Fard Muhammad:

the man who taught Elijah Muhammad and came to raise us up from a dead level and make us rulers over those who once ruled us, not by guns and sticks, but by giving us a superior knowledge.

Seventy-one years ago, before you knew anything about Mars, Master Fard Muhammad called Mars an inhabited planet. He said Mars is 141,500,000 miles from the sun, and she travels at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. He said her diameter is 4,200 miles. Master Fard Muhammad said Mercury is also an inhabited planet and is 36,000,000 miles from the sun. Her diameter is 3,000 miles and she travels at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. Think about that. No matter how close they are to the sun or how far they are from the sun, all of the planets travel at the same rate of speed.

The website of Tribu Ka is now down, on the orders of Nicolas Sarkozy. But there is still a Google cache which gives some idea of their beliefs.

A film, made on 18 May, in which Kemi Saba gives an interview, can be found here. It is in French, and I have not made a full translation. But though Kemi Saba begins the conversation fairly calmly, and appears educated and thoughtful, his composure slips when the subject of Jews is brought up. He has a contempt for the Jewish race. The Black Muslims, and members of the Nation of Islam, have often used Jewish people as scapegoats, blaming them for the demise of the black race. This anti-semitism fails to acknowledge that historically, in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has relied upon funds donated by Jewish sponsors for its very survival.

Tribu Ka is not a large group per se, but it is tempting to wonder whether they are a symptom of an underlying Black Muslim anti-semitism, or whether they and their ilk are actually influencing the current hostilitiy against Jews, enacted by blacks, in Paris.

I need to bring news of other events in the world of Islamism, but this article will be updated later, when I have translated more articles. I have translated the main page of their website below:

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 30, 2006 5:43 PM

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