The following video shows a talk given at the Fondation Varenne in France by
Boualem Sansal, an Algerian engineer and writer. Mr. Sansal — whose writings about Islam have caused controversy in Algeria, making him a “leper”, as he puts it — expresses his dismay at the way France is rapidly giving up its secular society and embracing Islamization.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
00:16 | Good evening, everybody. | |
00:20 | Daniel Pouzadoux, who likes | |
00:24 | to take risks, invited me | |
00:28 | to this ceremony, and he pushed his | |
00:32 | immoderate love of risk up further to ask me to write a paper, | |
00:36 | and without giving me any directions concerning the content of said paper. | |
00:40 | And I just did, trying not to bore you too much, | |
00:44 | and I tend lately to repeat myself, | |
00:48 | and not in the best way, I mean not politically correctly. | |
00:52 | And I don’t know if you can hear it, but I’m telling you, | |
00:56 | it’s not easy to talk in front of you: in the room I can see | |
01:00 | all the big… a lot of bigwigs of the French media | |
01:04 | and illustrious personalities. | |
01:08 | It’s impressive and flattering for me. In my country, | |
01:12 | Algeria, I am being treated like a leper. | |
01:16 | They unleash the dogs, they throw rocks. Right now, | |
01:20 | by the way, as a result of a supposed “amalgam” [between Islamism and “real” Islam], | |
01:24 | blasphemy, or simply a wrong thought on my part, | |
01:28 | they are deliberating about me; and the smoke isn’t white; | |
01:33 | It isn’t predicting anything good. But let’s move on! | |
01:37 | Nothing is sure before it happens. | |
01:41 | I would like, with Daniel’s permission, and also yours, | |
01:45 | to tell you two-three things about Islamism. | |
01:49 | There are other topics, | |
01:53 | but this one outweighs them. It keeps the world in suspense, | |
01:57 | and France in first place; she’s | |
02:01 | the essential element in its [Islamism’s] program of planetary domination. | |
02:05 | It’s here that it’ll win or lose in the West. | |
02:09 | It knows it. This is why it is showing forth with | |
02:13 | all the rage, behind which, however, | |
02:17 | there’s an astounding world of cold intelligence and patience. | |
02:21 | Nobody can understand better than an Algerian | |
02:25 | what you are living through and what you are feeling. | |
02:29 | Algeria knows Islamism. She suffered twenty years | |
02:33 | of it. I don’t want to make believe that | |
02:37 | Islamism is finished over there — only because the terrorism | |
02:41 | Receded — it’s exactly the opposite: Islamism won. | |
02:45 | Except for some dissonant voices, crying out | |
02:49 | in the desert, nothing opposes it. | |
02:53 | It has everything under control in order to fulfill its goal. | |
02:57 | All its theoretical programme is an important element, | |
03:01 | but not the most important. There are ten others | |
03:05 | whose targets are more important: | |
03:09 | breaking all resistance, switching the lights off, with capital “L”, | |
03:13 | and installing mechanisms | |
03:17 | for a deep Islamization of society. | |
03:21 | You can say that Islamism truly begins its job | |
03:25 | after the steamroller of terror has passed. | |
03:29 | At that stage the population is ready to accept everything: | |
03:34 | with fervor, humility and a real | |
03:38 | gratitude. That’s where we are in Algeria. | |
03:42 | The program is running well. The Islamists | |
03:46 | are working as if in a factory: they control everything, they monitor everything. | |
03:50 | the point of no return has been passed and the final point is arriving | |
03:54 | like a punch. A couple more regulations and we’ll have | |
03:58 | a perfect Islamic Republic. | |
04:02 | Perfectly eligible for the World Caliphate. You’ll hear about them, I think. | |
04:06 | An example to demonstrate it: | |
04:10 | In a small town, where I live, 50km from Algiers, which is a college town, | |
04:14 | whose population, about 25,000, | |
04:18 | is primarily composed of teachers, scientists and students. | |
04:22 | In that town there was, before the arrival of Islamists, | |
04:26 | in the eighties, one small shaky mosque, | |
04:30 | from colonial times, frequented only | |
04:34 | by some old farmers from the area. Today | |
04:38 | after twenty years of terrorism and destruction, | |
04:42 | and all while the country lacks everything, there are fifteen! | |
04:46 | All large and well equipped, | |
04:50 | with running water, powerful loudspeakers, air conditioning, | |
04:54 | and internet on all the floors. And I wanted to tell you that | |
04:58 | for the Friday prayer they aren’t enough to house all the faithful. | |
05:02 | Clearly, fifteen new ones will have to be built | |
05:06 | or they’ll have to requisition amphitheaters and labs. | |
05:10 | Careful, I don’t venture into amalgam or persiflage. | |
05:14 | I don’t say that the faithful are Islamists. | |
05:18 | None of that, I guarantee you. Don’t worry. | |
05:23 | I’m only saying that the Islamists have worked well, in very little time | |
05:27 | they sanitized the climate, and turned us into | |
05:31 | good and faithful Muslims, punctual and zealous, | |
05:35 | and never, absolutely never, I insist, | |
05:39 | have they asked us to become Islamists like them. | |
05:43 | No compulsion in religion, it’s in the Quran, verse 1:256 | |
05:47 | In Algeria people are following with a lot of anxiety | |
05:51 | the evolution of the events in France. | |
05:55 | I don’t mean Islamists: they’re congratulating themselves for their achievements in your country. | |
05:59 | or about our entire government, mobilized | |
06:03 | at the bedside of our old president Mr [Abdelaziz] Bouteflika. | |
06:07 | I’m talking about those who feel sympathy for you and those | |
06:11 | who have family in France, and who would like to see them continue living | |
06:15 | in France in the best possible way. I’m telling you | |
06:19 | those people are worried. Very, very worried. | |
06:23 | And even desperate. They are even upset with you | |
06:27 | for that. Worried, because they find out, day after day, | |
06:31 | month after month, year after year, | |
06:35 | that France still cannot brace herself face to Islamism. | |
06:39 | Is it bacon, is it lamb, is it a religion | |
06:43 | is it heresy? … She doesn’t know. | |
06:47 | It’s a worry. Meanwhile, | |
06:51 | the boa constrictor Islamist had plenty of time to coil well around her, | |
06:55 | and it’ll very soon strangle her for good. | |
06:59 | She’s so carefree, our little darling. | |
07:03 | She became friends with grand sheikhs of Golf who — everybody knows — | |
07:07 | are the creators and the tamers of the boa, | |
07:12 | and above all ancient dreadful caravan plunderers. | |
07:16 | Worried by seeing France of freedom | |
07:20 | turn into McCarthyism. What is going on? | |
07:24 | Damn it! It isn’t possible for anybody any longer to talk about | |
07:28 | certain subjects connected to the thing without immediately being | |
07:32 | dragged into court and severely sentenced. | |
07:36 | For now, there still are fines and deferments, | |
07:40 | and a brand on the shoulder, but the day is coming when | |
07:44 | the real Shariah will be applied. They are worried and | |
07:48 | disgusted to see this great secular nation | |
07:52 | and avant-gardiste showing everywhere | |
07:56 | her imams, her muftis, her pashas | |
08:00 | from CFCM [French Council of the Muslim Faith] and UOIF [Union of Islamic Organizations of France] | |
08:04 | and for the modern accent: three sisters in balaclavas in the background. | |
08:08 | As in days of yore, during colonial times, two fathers | |
08:12 | would walk from one ceremony to another in those colorful caids [Muslim caciques], | |
08:17 | covered in medals, those marabouts [Muslim African religious leader] in boubous [robes] | |
08:20 | and other medicine men in feathers, and firmly push away those | |
08:24 | who could talk to people without reciting a single verse, | |
08:28 | or hoisting a menacing index finger towards the sky. | |
08:32 | One would think that France wasn’t decolonized at the same time her colonies were. | |
08:36 | or that secularism was abrogated over there | |
08:40 | by a Great Imam’s edict. | |
08:44 | Worried and angry to see that Algerians of France | |
08:48 | as informed as they are of the true nature of Islamism, | |
08:52 | and they know that it is after their children | |
08:56 | they don’t engage more in the fight against it. | |
09:00 | Nothing beyond protests about the principles: “this is not Islam”, | |
09:04 | “Islam is peace, warmth and tolerance”, | |
09:08 | “Islam is an opportunity for France”. Misery. How to say it? | |
09:13 | The emergency isn’t saving Islam from amalgam [confusing it with “Islamism”] , but | |
09:17 | saving children from death. They are anxious and | |
09:21 | confused, seeing Europe deleting itself and becoming | |
09:25 | an amplifier of crisis, and a manufacturer of truly monstrous European Islamism, | |
09:33 | Which by its totalitarian claims and its hatred directed everywhere, | |
09:37 | becomes similar to Nazism, fascism from the past, | |
09:41 | to whose resurrection it contributes in this way. | |
09:45 | Finally, they are in despair, to see France | |
09:49 | And Europe a thousand miles away | |
09:53 | from being able to conceive and undertake together the only fight | |
09:57 | that could overcome Islamism: the counter-jihad. | |
10:01 | A conception based on the principles of jihad itself; | |
10:05 | and jihad isn’t war: it’s a thousand | |
10:09 | disarrays in thousand different realms, propelled without | |
10:13 | restrictions or brake, in an accelerated Brownian motion, | |
10:17 | and irreversible. After all that, is there still hope? | |
10:21 | Yes, there is. It is powerful. | |
10:25 | France is a large country, with a huge | |
10:29 | history, full of energy and zest. She continues to live and | |
10:33 | project herself into the future; but everybody can tell that this effort costs more and more, | |
10:37 | that the Islamist poison is circulating in her veins, | |
10:41 | that the extend of the decay is destroying her, | |
10:45 | that the country is losing its coherence and its unity, | |
10:49 | that the government is clueless, that Europe is | |
10:53 | a drag. Bottom line: everyone understands that the end is near. | |
10:58 | The hope is precisely there, in this terrible sensation | |
11:02 | that history is over; that’s where the despair | |
11:06 | finds its best energy. There is | |
11:10 | a condition, a true challenge of our days: | |
11:14 | France has to find free speech again | |
11:18 | and turn it into a weapon. If terrorism | |
11:22 | must be fought with patience and in concealment | |
11:26 | by intelligence and infiltration, Islamism | |
11:30 | must be fought with words, spoken in the open, | |
11:34 | high and loud; this fight has always belonged to journalists | |
11:38 | and writers. They have to take up the torch: it’s theirs. | |
11:42 | We shouldn’t forget to fight this fight | |
11:46 | first against the army of useful idiots | |
11:50 | and do-gooders. Who, with the complicity | |
11:54 | of big business, managed to paralyze France, | |
11:58 | people and institutions, and handed it over | |
12:02 | to Islamists, and tomorrow to a civil war. | |
12:06 | Thou shalt not make amalgam. Assassin is thy brother | |
12:10 | of thy brother and thy brother. The do-gooders | |
12:14 | thou shalt address. Thou art racist and Islamophobe | |
12:18 | if thou dost not turn thine other cheek. Thy “mea culpa” thou shalt pound, | |
12:22 | because thou wert a colonizer and slaver. | |
12:27 | Thou shalt nourish thyself with guilt and penitence. | |
12:31 | Thou shalt cede thy home. Thou shalt be a dhimmi. | |
12:35 | Thou shalt practice peace, tolerance and submission | |
12:39 | towards thine assailants. Those formulas arrived in school | |
12:43 | with other “sweets” of the same type, which facilitate the abandonment | |
12:47 | of tomorrow. “Moronic a*****e is dangerous” was said of them by Yves Montand, who himself | |
12:51 | was one of the most famous useful idiots. That was yesterday; today I think he would rather say: | |
12:59 | “Moronic a*****e, dangerous and happy to be one”. You noticed that | |
13:03 | at no instance I did I talk about Islam. | |
13:07 | Over there things have outpaced us. It’s the realm of untouchable. | |
13:11 | Islam: it’s Allah. It’s Mohammed. It’s the Quran. The caliphate. | |
13:15 | The Ummah. It’s the universal end of all the heresies and | |
13:19 | of unbelief. Islam is the untransgressible horizon | |
13:23 | of our time. This our dear Jean-Paul Sartre would surely tell us | |
13:27 | if he were to come back among the living. Next | |
13:31 | to that [Islam] Islamism is nothing: with its poor Shariah | |
13:35 | and its chipped swords, we could annihilate it tonight | |
13:39 | if we were allowed to. It’s solely expression of the ravings | |
13:43 | and of caprices of Bedouins of the Arabic desert | |
13:47 | made half-wits by centuries of ignorance and savage inbreeding, | |
13:51 | suddenly enriched and ennobled by English idiots | |
13:55 | and welcomed with open arms in great European capitals. | |
13:59 | We are experiencing the escapades of those monstrously spoiled children, | |
14:03 | crazy and insatiable hedonists; | |
14:07 | today they’re pillaging countries, as they did yesterday, | |
14:11 | when they learned to take a plane and use an elevator — | |
14:15 | they pillaged palaces, palaces of the free world, before | |
14:20 | buying them to transform them to their taste. This is what the useful idiots | |
14:24 | and the do-gooders like in reality: the money of the sheikhs. | |
14:28 | Gas and fuel oil smell wonderful! | |
14:32 | With them Billancourt [one of the wealthiest cities in France] will never despair, | |
14:36 | and by the way, because of them Billancourt doesn’t exist any longer. | |
14:40 | It vanished at the same time that a certain France did. | |
14:44 | In Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées [ref to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises where De Gaulle lived] | |
14:48 | there’s someone [Gen. de Gaulle] who must be ranting like hell! To finish, | |
14:52 | I would like to share my feeling about the recent propositions of the Institut de Montaigne | |
14:56 | — no representatives of Institut de Montaigne here, I hope? | |
15:00 | to reform Islam and facilitate the appearance of a French Islam. | |
15:04 | I verified, they’re really talking about Islam. | |
15:08 | About French Islam, which already is a huge blasphemy. | |
15:12 | Islam is One. It is at home EVERYWHERE. | |
15:16 | It was through [unintelligible] the Sunday Journal from September 18th | |
15:20 | that I found out about it here, from my friend Daniel. | |
15:24 | There are ten of those propositions that follow one another like pearls | |
15:28 | in a necklace, and they can be summarized this way: | |
15:32 | 1: We install a fee for halal. | |
15:36 | 2: We build mosques. 3: We train chaplains and | |
15:40 | imams. 4 or 5: we teach Arabic to students | |
15:44 | and French to imams. 6: We purge history. | |
15:48 | 7: We create a Secretary of State for Secularism | |
15:52 | and Religions. We practice morals. | |
15:56 | We use diplomacy to staunch the influence of Wahhabi regimes | |
16:00 | from Arabia and Qatar. When I read it I almost fell over. | |
16:04 | I understood that the plan was one of the severest programs of Arabization | |
16:09 | and of Islamization. And it would allow | |
16:13 | no possibility of going back in case of regrets. | |
16:17 | It looked exactly the same as | |
16:21 | the project of Arabization and Islamization which the Algerian Government | |
16:25 | enforced in Algeria in the early eighties, | |
16:29 | under pressure from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. | |
16:33 | And which was supposed to turn us into | |
16:37 | Salafized Wahhabi parrots in no time. | |
16:41 | We had to think, and understand | |
16:45 | the intention of the Institut [de Montaigne]. Even | |
16:49 | in the long term and in an appeased environment, those suggestions | |
16:53 | would have — in my opinion — neither impact nor effect | |
16:57 | concerning their objective: to reform Islam and make a French Islam emerge, | |
17:01 | accepted by all. First of all the French people, | |
17:05 | religious and secular of all types, and then all the Arabic and Muslim countries | |
17:09 | headed by Saudi Arabia, the jealous guardian of | |
17:13 | the Dogma. On the contrary: | |
17:17 | let’s play in the direction of reality, and here it is: | |
17:21 | France is already very well on the way | |
17:25 | to her Islamization by an imported Islam: | |
17:29 | an archaic, brutal, sectarian and heinous | |
17:33 | swindler and infernal opportunist, strongly | |
17:37 | tainted with Salafism but not only; adept at | |
17:41 | Globalized jihad; and those unexpected generous propositions | |
17:45 | will formidably help its expansion and its | |
17:49 | taking root. The multiplier effect and accelerator | |
17:54 | wasn’t taken into account | |
17:58 | in the study, but it will have full effect! | |
18:02 | What the study shows, however, since it teaches us that 29% of Muslims in France are already cut | |
18:07 | from their national community. It would seem that | |
18:14 | the Institut hasn’t worked on the reality, but on an image | |
18:18 | of the reality. The fact of formulating such a proposition | |
18:22 | in their context of rupture, and after the year 2015 | |
18:26 | rich in bloody Islamist attacks, | |
18:30 | reveals that the goal set by the | |
18:34 | the state planners has been reached: France is ready | |
18:38 | to give up everything. The ten propositions of the Institut | |
18:42 | appear like an act of allegiance to the Caliphate. | |
18:46 | I don’t want to despair of the Institut de Montaigne, | |
18:50 | but we need to tell them: the caliph | |
18:54 | gets his power from Allah; he doesn’t expect anything from anybody. | |
18:58 | Even less from the Institut. He crushes everything in his way: | |
19:02 | the useful idiots, the faithful, | |
19:06 | and the submitters in the first place. Thank you very much. |
“Moronic a*****e is dangerous” was said of them by Yves Montand, who himself
12:51 was one of the most famous useful idiots. That was yesterday; today I think he would rather say:
12:59 “Moronic a*****e, dangerous and happy to be one”.
Please don’t bowdlerizer the text, it obscures meaning.
We are a PG-13 blog, because the parents of homeschoolers allow their older children to come over here to further their education. I will continue to maintain this standard. If it causes a momentary delay in someone’s understanding of a phrase, that’s a small price to pay.
He is right. It can be done by a counter Jihad. Mustafa Kemal Attaturk showed everyone how to drag the populous out of the 7th century.
You had better inform Erdogan about that who is trying very hard, and mostly succeeding, in dragging them all back to the 7th Century.
Turkey is – and has been – very much in a rural-urban divide. Erdogan’s mythology plays to the traditional, rural sentiment.
I have a love-hate relationship with French intellectuals. Some of them are daft. Others are insightful like this speaker.
From the United States of America, I sincerely sympathize with your worry and sadness. Here, we have not declined to the level you describe, but the “do-gooder’s” here are working on it.
Thank you for the wake-up call, I hope you can visit here and give the same talk. We need this type of experience to be known and to make us aware of the threat to Western Civilization.
I would highly recommend Sansal’s book “Le Village de l’Allemand ou le Journal des Frėres Schiller”. It has been translated into English but I’m not sure of the title. It is excellent but chilling.
From Wikipedia:
Boualem Sansal (born 15 October 1949) is an Algerian author.
2008: Le village de l’Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller, Gallimard. translated by Frank Wynne and published in the US as The German Mujahid (2009) and in the UK as An Unfinished Business.
France is employing its well-honed strategy of preemptive surrender. Works every time!