Barbès - An Update - the takeover of Paris streets by Muslims

A few weeks ago I posted an article on the takeover of Paris streets by Muslims on Friday afternoons during prayer.

The Muslims praying in the streets of the ghetto of Barbès were an indication of the fact that the French authorities turn a blind eye to what is clearly a violation of the rights of citizens living in the city, not to mention a violation of the 1905 law on "laïcité" that separated Church and State.

The website that provided the information and photos, Riposte Laïque, is pursuing its mission to expose this practice. It has posted a long article by Maxime Lepante, accompanied by photos and videos, on the collusion between the police and the Muslims of Barbès. Here is a condensation:

(...) Now we are in a position to publish the shocking revelations on the collusion between the police and the Muslims of Barbès. The situation is much more serious than what we described in the past. Not only do the police take no action against the Muslims who block the streets, but they even support them against the non-Muslims and allow them deliberately to take control of the entire Myrha Polonceau neighborhood during the Friday prayer.

The article then refers to a September 9 television program broadcast on France Ô (an overseas channel) in which one segment was devoted to the blocking of rue Myrha. In the report, Hamza Sallah, the current imam of the rue Myrha mosque declared:

"About 15 years ago, I asked the police commissioner at the time - I believe it it was Monsieur Maucourant (...) to close off the street for me. I did not want any incidents. And so he did, and together we decided to close the street at noon, for the prayer, but it wasn't enough."

In the same documentary, Hamou Bouakkaz, adjunct mayor of Paris in charge of local democracy (sic!) and residents' associations, an elected member of the Paris city council since March 2008, a Socialist, a left-wing radical, adds these pertinent points:

"Arrangements like that with the local commissioner are arrangements no one person is held accountable for. If the commissioner has not covered his back, and... if tomorrow there's a new commissioner, the arrangement is done for. But today it is a modus vivendi that seems rational... If the arrangement has lasted 17 years why not formalize it in an official agreement? Because you would have to write things people don't want to write. They don't want to write that they're going to put up barriers so that the prayer can take place, that they're going to prevent cars from passing... because they would be trivializing and authorizing an illegal occupation of public domain."

And so a secret agreement was passed between the police and the Muslims of Barbès 15 years ago to block the rue Myrha every Friday during prayer! A blockage which the adjunct mayor of Paris admits is illegal!

The France Ô report shows the police chatting with the Muslims blocking the streets and interrogating drivers on rue Laghouat. (...) While entire streets are taken by Muslims, in the center of Paris, the police who are aware of the violation have nothing more urgent to do than to follow their usual daily routine, without intervening in this occupation of public spaces!

Note: Barbès is not really the center of Paris. It's in the 18th arrondissement, in the northeastern part of the city.

But there is more. On October 23, on the corner of rue Myrha and rue Léon, a police officer called out to a woman trying to cross rue Léon, where prayer carpets covered the street:

"No, it's not your turn, c'mon now, it's not your turn!"

To which the woman responded:

"This is all well and good, but I have to get to work too." And she proceeded to walk like a tight-rope walker on the small spaces between the rugs (photo below).

In addition, the report describes the Muslims who direct traffic instead of police:

At the rue des Poissonniers employees of the mosque, wearing on their right arm an orange band marked "Security", direct traffic (photo at top). One of the mosque's directors wears a sign attached to his vest with the words "Mosque Security", as he directs traffic (photo below).

So it is that the national police abandon Barbès to the Muslim parallel police force, who are entrusted illegally with the job of security and traffic of an entire Parisian neighborhood.

This short video shows the scenes described above. Messy and disruptive as it may seem, it does not appear to be an event of momentous import. What IS serious is the illegal act of building mosques, which in turn is the result of the government's destructive, unpatriotic and immoral act of opening wide the borders of France to these people in the first place.

Here are a few reactions of YouTube viewers:

- What a bunch of a..holes you are. They're only helping them to cross the street. Like when school lets out. You're seriously fantasizing! You think Islam is a danger for you? In my opinion it is not. There is a greater danger threatening your little Nazi-Zionist snouts, and it is in your camp. You bunch of pansies.

- What is that mess? Is that France?

- There should be mosques, but the government is too stingy.

- There are already four mosques in this neighborhood - more than enough. Moreover be advised, my little mentally retarded Sofiane (note: author of the preceding comment) that it is FORBIDDEN in France to use public money to build religious buildings. For France is not one of those stinking Muslim States. The little Muslim Nazis better remember that!

- The French Republic does not have to pay for houses of worship, and this type of conduct (i.e. occupation of the street) is a serious offense to the neutrality of public spaces. It leads straight to fanaticism and to Saint Bartholomew's. Now, if you do not get it, or if you have misinterpreted what you have read, or misunderstood the meaning of History, you are free to ask for citizenship in a State that does not separate Church and State, and to leave French territory if the laws there are hateful to you.

- In 2012 let's cast a useful vote for once. (note: signed FN)

- Barbèsistan now has its own police. It's just surreal to see things like that.

- Au revoir, France.

- France will fight against the demons, no matter how many. We won't let ourselves be eaten up by viruses that seek to destroy our culture!

A Daily Motion video (in French) of the declarations made by Hamza Sallah and Hamou Bouakkaz (cited above) may be of interest to those who understand French.

More photos here.

There is much more material on Barbès that I'll cover in subsequent articles. For example, the installation of loud-speakers and the call of the muezzin (theoretically forbidden in France, though it exists in overseas territories such as Reunion and Mayotte). Also, a map showing that the takeover is spreading to more and more streets, slowly but surely.