12 thoughts on “Zineb el-Rhazoui: “Islam Isn’t Sacred””

1. Slightly off-topic – but has anyone considered how the Charlie Hebdo massacre may have been planned on the basis of knowing about the editorial meeting? In which case, surely any of those who may have had such knowledge, but who were not present, may have been in contact with the attackers, or intermediaries?

   I’m not implying here anything about Mme el-Rhazoui – it could have been someone else. Just after the massacre, I recall reading that one of the editors had a Maghrebi girlfriend (Algerian, I think) – who his family did not desire to see at the funeral… did they also suspect something? Just saying…

   • Green-

     Your theory is well within the realm of possibility.

     The Frenchman who was abducted and beheaded while hiking in the Algerian mountains in 2014 was allegedly sold out by his local friends/guides.

     • It could be that their editorial meeting was a regularly scheduled thing that wasn’t hidden?

       As for the poor fellow that raspailwasright mentions: how could *any* sensible person go hiking by himself in the Algerian mountains? Hiking by oneself anywhere is dangerous, but especially in an area like Algeria, known for its disrespect for human life and the rule of law.

       Anyone in the U.S. who hikes by himself on the Appalachian Trail is asking for trouble. Lots of doped-up brigands lie in wait for the naive. It was a safe enough endeavor at one time, and (after things fall apart and resolve themselves into new social alignments) it will be so again.

       But that will be after all of us are gone.

       • Are meetings like that usually made public though? Where I am, they’re mostly just an item in the Outlook calendar – and not mentioned, unless in a conversation.

2. The self dishonest countries playing the Good Devil has gone and confused itself terribly. The French could select a Muslim president. No wait. That did not work. Too late..here comes…….

3. at 3:02 min. she claims not to confuse islam and muslims.
   Watch out! We should give it up to blame a book! It is muslims who cause all the problems, not a book from 1400 years ago.
   BTW : nobody blames national socialism and its holy book Mein Kampf for the nazi crimes, but only the perpetrators themselves. Why abandon this logic in the case of muslims?Is this another rhetoric scam like the so called islamophobia, a desease unknown to the psychosphere?

   • Muslims are followers of Islam… would it not be right to be weary of people claiming to be National Socialists?

4. Zineb thoroughly, but thoroughly, confounds Islam with literal belief in other religions. She claims that any religion, if believed literally, is totalitarian. This is simply not true. Many, if not most, religions have conformity to a government in their dogmas. There is nothing in Jewish, Christian, or Buddhist teachings that mandates the overthrow of the government under which the adherent lives.

   Islam is not like that. It is part of the fundamental, base, not-to-be-ignored dogma of Islam that any non-Islamic government be replaced with an Islamic government that enforces sharia, as defined by Islamic law and commentary. This is not optional for Muslims. Any Muslim who kills another Muslim that does not advocate the imposition of sharia law in every country is acting fully in accord with sharia law. I repeat: a mandatory aspect of sharia Islamic law is to kill any Muslim who neglects the spread of sharia governments.

   Given that mandate, how can you have a secular Muslim or a moderate Muslim? You can only have a suspended Muslim, where part (or all) of sharia law is ignored. How long is it ignored? Forever? Until Muslims gain sufficient political power? For the present generation? Who knows? It’s a crapshoot. But having Muslims in our country is exactly like those unexploded World War II bombs the Germans are always finding: they may be perfectly safe for the foreseeable future, but then again, they may explode at any time.

   To extend the metaphor, the bombs may not explode, but they can leach poisonous chemicals into the groundwaters over time. Muslims may not practice terror at all, but they form hundreds of organizations and practice identity politics with a vengeance. Politics in any “diverse” society is evenly balanced and unable to act, so any group acting as a bloc gains immense advantage through the political process. So, the Muslims infiltrate, subvert, and coopt democratic institutions. In a sense, the terrorist activities act as an early warning sign of irreversible underlying rot, and may be a blessing in disguise.

   The distinction between Islam and individual Muslims may work when your density of Muslims is low, but as the proportion of Muslims increases, the distinction breaks down. A Muslim by definition cannot be a democrat or republican. It’s logically you’re an apple or an orange, but not both.

   You have some Muslim sects such as Amadiyya, Alewites, Ismailis, etc that claim to reinterpret the violent, aggressive aspects of Islam. Generally these sects revolve around a charismatic leader or prophet, itself forbidden in Islam, and are persecuted as apostates in Islamic countries. Anyway, these sects do not succeed in squaring the circle: Islam is Islam, Muhammad is Muhammad, the Koran is a manual of murder and aggression, and Muslims carry the seeds of totalitarian oppression.

   Right now, political leaders such as Trump and even Hillary distinguish peaceful immigrants, including Muslims, from terrorists. I fully understand that Trump, regardless of his beliefs, has got to approach it like that to get elected. Again, any election in our diverse society is on a knife’s edge, and to say you would absolutely filter out a particular religion would lose you the election. I’m not saying Trump believes that: nobody knows. But, I’m saying that ultimately, anyone who is a professing Muslim should not be admitted to Western countries. If they want to practice as a Muslim, they should develop their own society/country as a democratic Islamic country. Good luck to them, and the riches of the world if they succeed. But, the time for experimentation in Western societies has ended.

   • But having Muslims in our country is exactly like those unexploded World War II bombs the Germans are always finding: they may be perfectly safe for the foreseeable future, but then again, they may explode at any time.

     Good analogy. I’m going to DM Trump’s peeps with that one.

5. I hope this young women can afford the best personal protection out there, because between her book and this television appearance she has basically marked herself for death.

6. Look at her, she is no Arab. Roman genes flow in her blood, great to see she has thrown off the shackles that enslaved her ancestors.

   • Baucent-

     This is uncommon but not rare here in North Africa.

     It is always a joy to see European genes shining through the ugly masses of the inbred Turko-Arabic stock.

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