It hosts an art exhibition that celebrates the Jew-killing Muslim terrorists from Hamas.
JPOST A photo exhibition sympathetic to Hamas opened in the western French city of Angoulême last Tuesday, despite strong protests from the country’s Jewish leaders. The exhibition by French photographer Frédéric Soutereau is being held within a photography festival in the Charente region of France.
The town hall of Angoulême has lent the organizers a room at the Hotel Saint-Simon in the city. Eighty-eight photographs, in large format, will stay on the walls for the rest of the exhibition, which is due to close on April 21, the eve of the first round of the presidential election.
The controversial photos have already been exhibited and praised at a previous photojournalism festival in the southern French city of Perpignan in 2010. The exhibition runs during the cultural Palestinian Fortnight event organized by the Charente Palestine Solidarity Association.
In response to Jewish protests over the exhibit, which has been accused of glorifying the terrorist organization, an organizer of the exhibition announced to the press on the day of the opening that the association had decided to go ahead with it. Jean-Claude Caraire told AFP that the exhibit was “at the heart of the cultural Palestinian Fortnight” in order “that people could understand better what Hamas really is.”
The exhibition shows the daily activities of Hamas and its “active and positive role” in the social, economic and cultural life of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, he said.
His statement was immediately criticized by Richard Pasquier, president of CRIF, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France and the supreme body of Jewish organizations.
Pasquier unsuccessfully asked for the cancellation of the exhibition on the grounds that, from his point of view it was in fact an “apology for terrorism.” In an open letter, he has denounced as “worrying” the “complacency of our society with regards to the Islamist terrorist hatred against Jews.”
The photographer answered in an open letter, and claimed he used the word “terrorist” three times in his introductory text for the exhibition. For the photographer, Hamas is “a terrorist organization for some, a resistance movement for others.”
Why are we making it so easy to be turned into another muslim slum country?
FRANCE NEEDS TO CHANGE THE TRICOLOR TO A WHITE FLAG
Martin, don’t you touch my flag, that’s an insult to us patriots. Obviously not all citizens are patriots, but there’s enough of us still to hopefully make all the difference the day we will rise.
hope you’re not waiting for Jerry Lewis to say something, how long before you start getting ready for that “rise” thingy?
Have you ever know resistance shoot from the rooftops “hey, we’re here, come and take a potshot”? Really John! Let’s see how you’ll fare when it’s gonna be your butt on the line and it’ll be decision or apathy time.
Alain, how is Marine LePen doing in the polls? Is France a lost cause? I am part French and I would hate to see France surrendered to these muslim invaders! I am watching France from America.
Dave, I just heard from a friend of mine in Paris and she says it looks like the Socialist could win. I think he said he will tax people who make over 300,000 Euros per year 100% tax on everything over 300,000. That’s government grand theft, isn’t it?
Dave, the polls have been a total joke and media have done their best to pretend there’s only Sarko and Hollie to choose from -30 years of brainwashing aren’t going away just like that and is being denounced, but I guess there always will be sheep buying the crap, and not all want to be woken up because they can’t get their brain around what’s coming. Marine has done better than credited, that’s for sure, but by how much is difficult to know, yet. Hopefully, enough to send a message as to how many are rebelling against those muppets.
Beside the fact people don’t always tell the truth as to their voting intentions, the ways polls were conducted’s pretty funny, in an appalling kind of way so best left ignored and wait for the results.
Ah leave it to the french to support such a thing. Just so you know I for one will not step foot on EU soil. And when it all falls apart and the muzzies take over… I will not give a a crap. I am going to stay home and protect what i have from these jackasses. LOCK N LOAD! It is time to stand up and be counted! We The People!
You have got to be kidding me!!! Soutereau you dhimmi p****ck, we don’t need your crappy insulting expo to know what hamas really is all about.
Well no doubt we’ve got a PC leftist who’ll vote accordingly tomorrow! Am so tired of dirt like that littering my country and frankly, there’s no two ways about it and it’s inevitable: if Marine doesn’t get in, you can bet your cotton socks that WAR IS COMING!
Alain,
Marine Le Pen doesn’t stand a chance. Hollande will win. Incidentally, I was just in Paris, and saw one of Jean-Luc Melenchon’s cronies on TV describing their tax proposal – 100% tax for those earning over 300k euros a year. Yeah, good luck with that one. Hollande will put the top rate up to 75% anyway. Insane. Looks like there will be more of your fellow citizens on the Eurostar to London. There are quite a few Frenchies in London now, lots of them hot, elegant, women, so they’re welcome!
Good luck with the war against Islam in France – you’ll need it.
John you could well be right, but even if she doesn’t stand a chance is no reason to go for one of the other muppets; best for people to stick to their gun and vote for her, otherwise, what’s the point?
Mélanchon’s a dangerous nuts, and both he and Hollie are away with the fairies on many points. As for Hollie’s 75% figure, after pulling that bunny of the hat, he sent reassuring words to ‘the concerned’ that this wouldn’t happen.
It’s insane indeed, not to mention worrying, for us anyway ’cause all the more eye candy coming your way then!
I’m not saying don’t vote for Le Pen, but now that she’s out, her followers need to vote for Sarkozy. I know it’s like being stuck between a rock and a hard place, but the rock is preferable in this case…
Okay so blocking that w*****er Hollie sure is a must, but at this point I doubt Sarko’s even an option for us because he sure as hell has done massive damage, and he is so arrogant that he won’t stop. I heard him have the nerves to call patriots to vote for him now, but HELLO???!!!!!! Not only patriots did vote Marine -and they’re all shocked about how well she did considering- but he didn’t even APOLOGIZE to the patriots he sold out?!!! I’m so mad I actually sent a mail to the Elysée asking pointing just that and asking him if he ever even going to apologize to us! Wouldn’t hold my breath getting a reply to that one!
Alain, that’s great that LePen did so much better than expected. But the idea of a far left winger winning is beyond horrible.
While I don’t trust Sarkozy, isn’t Hollande a whole lot worse? What is his position on muslims and immigration? I’m afraid to ask. Is there any chance that LePen could win?
Oh Bonni, yes, he is a LOT worse! With Hollie in, he’ll hand the keys to those bastards muzzies! So we patriots now face a grave choice: we either let the f****er in and thus accelerate the downfall so that all these who refused to listen and open their eyes have no choice but to face what is in front of them, and then enter civil war…. and the chance to take our country back and say and make no apologies for it.
Or we keep Sarko in but then we get bought down with the rest when the Euro zone collapses and he’ll have bankrupt the country, he’ll still refuse to restore our sovereignty, kiss Merkel and Brussels’s asses… And as for him tightening borders and immigration? Has he done that? No he hasn’t!
Le Pen was the ONLY answer for my country, and only just about 20% know that and acted on it. The rest was either to afraid to admit it, fell into the trap of polls and muppet politicians constantly brushing her aside, dismissing her as a nobody of importance or consequence, or was simply too afraid to vote for her for fear of being labeled the R and I we all here get labeled. Her electorate, us, have constantly being dismissed and insulted, why? For being patriots loving our country. Major slap in the face from all fronts.
So at this stage, no she can’t win since she’s not in the second round. But we’ve sent a shocking message, and the legislative are still to come. But meanwhile, here comes the second round and for the life of me, right now, I cannot bring myself to even consider participating in the second round, I need to thing on the appropriate course of action. Right now, I need to grieve for my country.
For the first time in a long time, tonight I have shed tears and I’m not ashamed to say it.
Alain, because there wasn’t a lot of difference between Obama and McCain, a lot of people thought that
letting Obama have a term would upset/damage the country so much that he’d never get a second term. I hope
they were right.
So do I Bonni, for your own sake I hope they’re right in that, and in that, I’ll keep keep fingers crossed for you, and promises I keep and do not brake.
And thanks to your educating your fellow US citizens as well as the rest of the world, more and more people can wake to the damage he’s caused and will be stopped causing some more.
Alain, he is so evil, I’m sure he will do something to steal the election. That’s why he’s stopping every state from requiring photo ID’s from voters at the polling places.
Incidenatlly, the BBC are absolutely overjoyed here in the UK at the propsect of Hollande winning. They are beside themselves. The reporters in Paris cannot contain their glee. As*holes.
“I cannot bring myself to even consider participating in the second round, I need to thing on the appropriate course of action”
If people like you don’t vote for Sarkozy, the consequences will be much worse. If all Le Pen’s supporters vote for Sarkozy, he could still win. If they don’t, Hollande will win. Then your country really will be fuc*ed in a whole new ball game…you need to be pragmatic and take the ‘less bad’ option.
John, very much aware what’s at stake here if we abstain and Hollie gets in. But risks also go both way because keep in mind that, unless for once Sarko truly works for France and not the damned EU, he’ll again screw up so badly that this time, save for the FN’s voters, all who voted for him WILL THEN vote left to get rid of the Right.
The problem these HAMAS arselifters have IS NOT that people don’t “understand what HAMAS really is”, their problem is that too many CIVILIZED human beings are recognizing the lying lowlife pieces of terrorist sh– for what the REALLY are!!May God bless Israel and anyone else anywhere who continues to battle the spread and Islamaization of the world AND the anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-ANYTHING or ANYONE who is in disagreement with these pukes!! Note also the bastards salute is much the same as that of the NAZIs in WW II!! Oh yeah…They are really a proud and honorable organization….BS!!..I think I have more respect for the KKK than for these bastards of HAMAS!!
the french are used to surrendering
Since you’re a history buff, is that what the books you’ve read taught you? Sorry if that sounds crass but so was your comment, an insult to my direct and indirect ancestors who died fighting. And to me personally as I will NEVER surrender.
You took the words right outta my mouth!
This WILL come back and bit them in the butt… errrr, chopping off the butt and their heads once they get it through the wine-based-brains!
When poorly led, as they were in 1939-40, yes. At most other times in the history of France, the Franks have often stood their ground and won out.
France is in trouble, as is most of the rest of the non-Muslim world. The West might want to take a lesson from the South Sudanese, who have, thus far, fought back and driven back Islamic Sudan’s jihad against them. Or from the Chinese, who have taken no shit from the Muslim Uighurs who’ve been trying to stir up trouble there. There ain’t much I will say good about the Chinese government, but in the matter of dealing with Muslim troublemakers in their lands, I applaud them.
We’ll after the exhibition is over they can move this “art” to the Lourve Museum where they just added a new islamic exhibit.
I was in Paris in the 80′s on business and visited The Lourve Museum, Notre Dame, Galleras Laffette and the Eiffel Tower.
I was manufacturing metal apparel component parts for a father and son who owned a business in Paris. They had sold these parts wholesale to apparel manufacturers throughout the country, I often think of them when I here these horror stories in going on in France.
This is way France will never be a great Country,The leadership is a bunch of COWARDS!
what is with the French anyway? too much cognac has rotted their brains.
….come on France get Le-Pen in there,NOW.!!!
What a shame it would be if this disgusting exibition “accidently” managed to catch fire !
The heart of Islam is jihad. No jihad, no Islam.
Jihad is evil.
Somebody “draw me a picture !! Just what the heck does it take to graduate from a “resistance movement” to a “terrorist organization”? I must be awful dense !!
France lost in the two world wars and it was only with the help of the west that they kept their land. We can not help them this time because you can not fix stupid. You gotta love the pictures of the cowardly, inbred retards with their face masks on. These muslims are a joke. It is time for Israel to do some serious housekeeping and putting out the garbage.
WRONG!!!! France did bleed white in World War I, but she did NOT collapse into defeat – to the contrary, she gave her all and finally was victorious against the imperial Germans of Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern!!
World War II is where you’re right: after being really drained (1 out of every 28 men were killed in World War I), weakened by infighting within the politician-ranks (enough people wanted to go back to the Bourbon or Bonaparte monarchies, while others wanted Marxism – remember Marchais? – or Fascism/Nazism), army people (some, like Général Brécart couldn’t accept that the tanks had effectively destroyed the traditional cavalry power and thus horses were no longer needed) and other such factors including the fear of having to fight again only 20 years and less after the Armistice of 1918/11/11, and without the need for revenge that was present for World War I (remember Alsace-Lorraine, lost in 1870-71?): YES, THEN France was easily collapsible for the Nazis in 1939-40…
Hat out to you ADHD, you are well versed into the history of my country. Thanks for straightening some erroneous facts as well, but it may well fall into deaf ears as I’ve noticed that for some, it’s always the same sang song and narrow vision, no matter what. But thanks for trying.
You’re welcome, Alain!! When something is wrong, it’s my pleasure to try to correct errors, even though it has cost me all too dearly over the years; and history is one thing that interests me not a little bit. [Yours truly was brought up that way; furthermore, that he spent over a decade of his life in Rome as a child couldn't but affect me as well...]
I’m very sorry to hear about Marine LePen’s being eliminated merely because she didn’t get to first or second place!! [I remember about 15 to 20 years ago how her father helped eliminate Lionel Jospin from an expected 2nd-place finish by winning it himself - presumably Chirac had something like 40 to 49 percent in the first round.]
That she got nearly 20% of the vote is already a good showing – I could have wished that when the first two candidates are so low as not to capture at least 60% of the popular vote (as happened in this case), the third-choice candidate could be included. Sarkozy’s 26% and Hollande’s 28% add up only to 54%, meaning that 46% of voters wanted neither the one or the other. Naturally I positively LOATHE all followers of that Antichrist Karl Marx, so I amply understand your fury and bitterness (I’d weep in your shoes likewise)…
I also must give full credit to William Shirer for his books “The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich” and “The Collapse of the Third Republic”. To God Be the Glory…
Seriously, what is WRONG with the French?!?!?!? Are they nuts? You want to elect a “multicultural” socialist like Hollande? He would most likely be WORSE than Sarkozy! As an American who is part French this is embarrassing!
Dave the same thing that we have here corruption and EVIL in place of good. They do have better censorship of the news though. could be part of the problem.
The world is gone mad or coward or both. it is incomprehensible and preposterous that the majority let and allow those very small minority terrorize and destroy their achievements. What is going on? Where are the courageous men? None, nothing?!!!!
Why are we criticizing the French? We are not better. As a matter of fact, we are way worse. At least, the French did not elect a Muslim to the highest office of the land. It so shameful that I am very careful trying to educate Europeans about the danger of Islam. The keep throwing this obama thing in my face.