Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Muslim expectations were high when a Muslim woman from a North African background was made an instant star in France’s new Socialist cabinet in May.
Guardian Not only was Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, 34, made minister for women’s rights – a hugely important position in an administration committed to equality – but President François Hollande also appointed her official government spokesperson.
Muslims who envisaged a leftist government quashing the dictates of the Nicolas Sarkozy era are particularly interested in one piece of discredited legislation: the crassly tagged “burqa ban”. It was introduced by Sarkozy for “reasons” such as the fear that face coverings could be used by terrorists planting bombs.
The Socialists abstained from the 2010 vote that brought in the ban, with many agreeing it was a cloak for prejudice. Only a muddled view of secularism – or laïcité – prevented them from voting against the measure; one that failed to acknowledge that outward expressions of faith or culture are entirely compatible with the principles of the Fifth Republic. It was with a similar lack of sensitivity that the new President Hollande refused to overturn the “burqa ban”, instead awkwardly pledging to “apply it in the best way”.
Having met several women receiving convictions for the offence of wearing a full veil in suburban French courts, I am convinced there is no “best way” to continue the ban. There are ample anti-terror laws to stop burqas being used as a disguise, just as there are plenty of measures to stop discrimination against women. Manipulating the concept of secularism to criminalise such beliefs is anathema to a tolerant society.
Salima Kader, a 38-year-old mother-of-three who lives in the Paris suburb of Evry, and who continues to ignore the law and wear a full veil, says: “Since the ban came in we have experienced unpleasant attention from the police, but it is the hatred which comes from other people that makes it worse.
They think the ban is official authorization to insult, spit at and even physically assault. The ban has become a symbol of hate against all Muslim communities.” (In that case, all Muslim women should wear them)
Sarkozy’s ban vilified six million French Muslims in a campaign that also included efforts to outlaw halal meat, and a deeply divisive national identity debate.
Many of the Muslim women I have spoken to are disappointed with the behaviour of Morocco-born Vallaud-Belkacem, one of seven children of an immigrant builder and housewife. They would rather see her introduce realistic measures that would appease citizens from a similar background: from the building of mosques to simple reforms, such as Muslim women-only swimming sessions in public pools.
French Muslims provided massive support to Hollande in May, with a le Figaro poll suggesting that 93% of the estimated two million followers of the religion who voted backed him.
Those votes were vital to his victory, and some came from traditional Muslim women who wanted an end to the state vindictiveness that the “burqa ban” encapsulates.
A laïcité bill was adopted by the Senate as recently as January – one which prevents any woman looking after children from wearing a simple headscarf. This applies to schools, leisure centres, nurseries and numerous other private institutions where ordinary, headscarf-wearing Muslim women work, including their own family homes.
Rather than presiding over job losses for these women, Vallaud-Belkacem should be championing a better place in society for them. Sonia Choukri, a 23-year-old student from Marseille, says: ‘The Socialists could get rid of the burqa ban with the stroke of a pen. They have a huge majority in Parliament.’
TRANSLATION: IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE VEIL, YOU ARE AGAINST ISLAM. Well, DUH!
Muslim women in France are, in the main, from modest backgrounds. They are marginalised and, without exaggeration, scared of politicians who threaten their lifestyles and beliefs. If Vallaud-Belkacem is to become an effective women’s rights minister, then she should be working to try to improve the lot of the same underprivileged Muslim communities from which she came.
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Me thinks and hopes that the Socialist retard Hollande and his cronies might have fooled the Muztards that under that government, Muztards would get favoured more of their ridiculoud demands so get snookered into voting in Hollande. Maybe Hollande, like most politicians go back on their wird and do the opposite. If thats the case then how funny would thst be that the Muztards were used purely for votes. Another case of ‘Ripleys Believe It Or Not’ if thats true lol.
Maybe they know their constituents.
The principal of Laïcité (far stricter than the anglo-saxon secularism found in America) was a French response against the chronic interference by the Church in state affairs and the antisemitism revealed by the “Dreyfus Affair”. It was also adopted in some Muslim nations under secular governance in order to suppress the symptoms of Islam.
The article fails to mention that Belkacem is married to a non-muslim man, so I hope that they are under protection. Notice the entitled attitude of the bagheads, angry that Belkacem isn’t pandering to them. She was appointed to serve the whole country, not just muslims.
I wonder if she’s received any death threats for being married to a non-muslime. I’ve read on Ali Sina’s site that women have been murdered for doing so — along w/their husbands.
well the are better things to do do in France than worry about the burka and face veirl ban.
Stop calling Najat Vallaud-Belkacem a Muslim. Muslims object to her being called a Muslim, don’t they?
“French Muslims”? This confuses me.
Alternate more accurate phrases: Muslims in France. Al Qaeda In France.
Replace burqa ban with a ban on recognition of Muslim citizens of the Islamic Ummah as French.
Muslims will Dominate and Displace non-Muslims until there are none remaining, and French Muslim is needlessly duplicative.
I think some sort of dhimmitude is a more possible future for France. A dhimmitude in which the non-muslimes are second class citizens that are exploited to support their muslime overlords.
Shades of H. G. Wells’s Time Traveller!
Morlocks and Eloi, eh?
Najat’s guardian angel will be working overtime! The ‘religion of peace’ murders apostates.
The veil is a threat as are all masks.
The threat of the Islamic veil is to women who don’t wear one.
‘If Vallaud-Belkacem is to become an effective women’s rights minister, then she should be working to try to improve the lot of the same underprivileged Muslim communities from which she came.’
The Mozzies who voted for Hollande are misogynists who want Moz women to remain underprivileged.
The answer to the problem of Sharia Islamics in France is simple: ISLAMICS NEED TO LEAVE!
One thing about Hollande, unlike Sarkozy, HE DOESN’T EQUIVOCATE AND DOES WHAT HE SAYS! If this Minister from an Islamic background has any really French values, she is smart enough to hate where she comes from!
Sarkozy’s problem was he couldn’t get the National Front voters to vote for him! Fact is, HE LIED TOO MUCH!
I’d bet $1000 that everyone of those bagged hags in the protest picture is on welfare.
Ooh this is too good, leftist media again filling space because muzturds don’t get their way, LMOF!!! And that student bitch can dream on: first of all, socialists may have the majority in the Assemblée Nationale -and this only because they’ve allied themselves with other parties, but they do NOT have the majority in Parliament, and she chose to ignore that the Senate wouldn’t overturn those bans/laws, which the Socialists wouldn’t touch anyway as Hollande himself said. A reminder to those muztards that those rags are incompatible with our République and its laws, but since those retards refuse to assimilate and obey our laws, those bans had to spell it out to them.
But they know that very well but still of course go apoplectic, refusing to get it that they can go F***K OFF, they are despised even more now that numbers waking up to their shenanigans grow. They may have put Holliecrap in the Elysée, but they didn’t factor in what truly was important in all this: PATRIOTS, whose work now has truly started, and time to announce the color.
This obscurantist cult has no place in the French way of life -and work- and is being rejected, so this is how it’s now working with the trash thinking they can now make a move on us: we get harassed, threatened, insulted, see an attack? We floor the motherf****ers to a pulp. See a bitch in rags? We get her ass dealt with by the boys in blue for breaking the law. Any officials/organizations now thinking in giving in to them is going to find themselves in huge trouble since they’re breaking the law and therefore will be facing the law. Pressure is on at every level to make life as hard as possible for these obscurantists invaders, we will not back off so islamo-collabos had better re-think who’s side they’re on. That crap halal’s days are numbered, their indoctrination centers still *fit for purpose* dwindling in numbers. And should these bastards get any ideas and decide to get really *nasty*, we are getting ready for that too and are preparing in that direction.
French people are the ONLY legitimate sovereigns of their country, and since things have now gone way too far, the days for active Resistance active have returned, and there is nothing that anyone or anything will now be able to do to change or stop that.
Beware of still waters for they often are the deadliest and each Patriot is a drop, quietly coming and working together. Enemies of France and its people, underestimate us at your own peril. Call us any name you want, sneer at us and insult us dhimmis, do-gooders and muzturds but know this: we gather and prepare as we will NEVER let what our ancestors have built over the past 2000 years be destroyed or ever again be occupied by anyone, especially not by obscurantists death-cult worshipers, for you would have to kill us all first.
Alain, that was my feel-good story of the day.
I love this post. I wish you well. I hope everybody is as patriot as you are. I see islam slowly creeping into my country too – Canada. I just found out that the government allows 2 hours of prayer time to muslims on fridays. Islam is not a religion.
Shalom Alain,
Good to see your post which as usual is right on. My wife the kids and I were away at the ocean for a week and Haleluyah didn’t see a single baghead. And some good news, the Carrefour in our area has removed its halal cooler. Maybe it was the porkchops being placed in it!
Shalom Dubi,
Glad you had a restful and baghead-free time, as it should be!
Excellent news about the cooler, and let me tell you that those being *re-filled* with OUR specialties is a VERY popular move. As I know you’re found of indulging yourself, keep up the good work whenever the opportunity arises
Vive la Résistance and every gesture, protest, *coup de gueule* counts!
Thanks to both Sanatan and Bonni above for their kind words.
PS Dubi: when you have a mo. have a look there and spread the word for the email/mail action. That’s one islamo-collabo that’s about to get a huge backlash and get thrown out. Thanks Dubi.
https://francaisdefrance.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/action-sita-prioritaire-actuellement/
You cannot reason with these people! Hello! Apparantlty they think living in the 7th century is all right and they think its all right to impose this F up ideology on everyone else! They are ennoying in the extreme!! Majority who wear thr burqua are butt ugly so let those inbreds wear there bag head so dont have to see the ugly face!!