French Socialist Leader Combats ‘Rumors’ of Husband’s Closeness to Islamists
Martine Aubry, the chair of the French Socialist Party and a leading contender for the party’s presidential nomination, went on the offensive over the weekend against what her camp and the mainstream French press have described as “rumors” concerning her husband’s closeness to Islamist circles. Aubry also took the opportunity to hit out at longstanding rumors regarding a drinking problem, as well as supposed rumors about her sexual orientation and state of health. But it is clear that the focus of the highly-publicized offensive were not the latter rumors, but rather what are in fact detailed reports concerning the defense of Islamist causes by Aubry’s husband, the lawyer Jean-Louis Brochen.
An article published on Friday evening on the website of the French daily Le Parisien ascribes the alleged rumor-mongering to internet sites that are close to Marine Le Pen’s National Front or to “ultra-Zionist groups.” “For some time now,” the paper writes,
internet sites suspected of being close to the National Front or to ultra-Zionist splinter groups have been conducting a fierce campaign of denigration on the web, accusing the Socialist’s husband of being an “Islamist” lawyer, a “lawyer for the bearded guys [barbus – a colloquial allusion to Islamists],” or a “halal lawyer.”
In a similar vein — although without the allusion to “ultra-Zionists” — the website of the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) wrote already on June 28 of “attacks” on Brochen’s professional activities emanating from “various sites that are close to the Far Right.” The JDD returned to the theme in a front page story this weekend, adding that Aubry and her camp suspect members of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential majority of spreading some or all of the “rumors.”
As an example of the attacks from websites “close to the Far Right,” the JDD links a nearly year-old post on the Observatoire de l’islamisation or “Islamization Monitor” blog. Much of the post in question, however, consists of a lengthy citation from Caroline Fourest’s 2005 book La tentation obscurantiste [The Obscurantist Temptation]. Far from being “close to” the National Front or the “Far Right,” Fourest is in fact a left-wing feminist critic of Islamic fundamentalism whose latest book is a would-be exposé of Marine Le Pen. The book (which is co-authored by Fiammetta Venner) has been described by France Inter radio as a “combat manual” for fighting against the National Front. Fourest and her anti-Le Pen “combat” were recently the subject of a glowing profile in the pages of none other than the JDD.
Wow, socialists and Islamists working together to overthrow a country? Who could have seen that coming? Oh, that’s right, we already saw it happen in Egypt. So why is it so far-fetched to think that it could happen in France, especially with its large and hostile Muslim population there?
What bin Laden called “The clash of civilizations” is already here, folks. And the French had better take it seriously because, unlike the 1950s or early 1960s, their colonies are gone and there is no place left for the French to either run to or away from. All they have left is France. So what will it be, give in to the Muslims or maintain some sort of national independence? Something tells me the right-wing in France is about to take over. Remember, the French have no place to run to anymore. It’s sink or swim time, and, given how much hostility there is in France against the Muslims there, I think the French about about to swim.
Socialists and Islamists are working together to overthrow EVERY non-Muslim country.
Including the UK, the US, Australia, Canada…
The Iranian Revolution was Socialists and Islamists working together. The Socialists thought they had won. Then they were dead.
Unfortunately I think you are correct Libertyship46. It is sink or swim time not only for the French but it is getting dangerously close to that time for all of Europe. That time is coming here in the US as well. I fear it, because in the end it will not be political doodleshtting around, the likes of which we have been seeing since WWII, but will come to a true war of attritian.
To the French Socialists, Israel’s existence is proof enough of ultra-Zionists and a good Jew is one that is self-loathing.
A lawyer to the Islamists, you mean like Eric Holder and his former law firm ?
Can’t French Socialists find some people with unassailable credentials ? Last guy I read about slated to head up the Socialist party in France was our good buddy Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The Socialist leader that Sarkozy defeated, female, had some issues too.
Of course Le Pen on the other end of the spectrum seems somewhat wacky. (Is it possible to be only a little crazy or a little pregnant ?)
France is the European country with the highest percentage of Muslims. Muslims did well in France for decades, but the newer breed seems more insistent on taking over the place and installing its own version of how to live. Imagine that.
French law is being ignored with Muslims praying in the streets of Paris. There are at least 751 ZUS (zones urbaines sensibles, “sensitive” urban zones) where French cops won’t enter to enforce French law.
Actually it is in the UK not in France where authorities have allowed Muslims to have their own courts. It is in the UK not in France where Muslims are making noise, making noise because they think they could get way with it, for Shariah-ruled zones where anyone Muslim or not Muslim shoulmd abiode by the Shariah.
There are areas in Britain where Islamists want to live inside their own fiefdoms, immune to and untouched by British law.
And Islamists have been pushing on the British legal system any way they can for a very long time, sometimes with help from prominent locals, like the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
But Zones Urbaines Sensibles describes enclaves…
In and around French cities and towns
Why do I always confuse Rowan Williams (The ArchCant)
and Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean)?
I have no idea
The ArchCant presided over the recent royal marriage.
Thankfully, he kept his trap shut and didn’t get into his fondness for Shari’a.
In the world of Le Parisien, and most of the European (leftist) elite, “ultra-Zionist” means anyone who doesn’t support the Arabs’ ambition to carry out Holocaust 2.0.
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France is already lost to the muslims, but who cares? Domestic wine is fine
The French and the rest of Europe are slowly waking up.
Multiculturalism set in motion by the socialists is finally being seen and denounced as the Islamic reconquista that it is. Shariah law is a totalitarian system masquarading as a religion.
The marxists/socialists always smooch it up with anything authoritarian. The communists are in awe of the fanaticism and violence Islamists bring to the table. They are willing to throw gays, women and all non-muslims under the bus to co-opt the muslims. They somehow magically think ride the tiger to intimidate others without being swallowed up themselves.