Op-Ed: The cradle of French Christianity is Islam’s Mecca
Islamists know Europe’s history much better than the Europeans themselves. Islamists dream of returning to Rome, Spain, Paris and Vienna.
Published: Sunday, May 29, 2016 1:09 PM
The cradle of French history is becoming “Molenbeek-sur-Seine,” from the name of Brussels’ terror hub. Le Figaro newspaper decided to investigate Saint-Denis, the heart of Islamization in France, the suburb from where the ISIS terror cell orchestrated the Paris attacks (the mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaoud, was killed there in a raid).
Saint-Denis is the religious epicenter of France. The “Lendit Plain” between the Montmartre hill and Saint-Denis was, before the Roman conquest, the Celts’ religious site. We know that Denis and his companion martyr Éleuthère paid with their lives to evangelize the region. In Saint-Denis, the holy lamp used for coronations of the kings of France in Reims was kept.
The battle cry of the era of kings was “Montjoie Saint-Denis!”.
Saint-Denis can be reached by a few metro stops from the Champs Elysées and the Arc de Triomphe. This is the burial place of the kings of France and Charles Martel, whose victory stopped the Muslim invasion in 732 and it is traditionally held to have halted the Islamization of Europe.
Today, the University of Paris VIII-Saint-Denis is full of girls with headscarves. There are more and more Islamic dress shops, Islamic restaurants, Islamic libraries, mosques. And even some hairdressers for veiled customers.
This is also Israel’s leaders mistake, that they cannot even conceive a Palestinian Arab war for the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Islamists in Saint-Denis consider these graves as a magnet for the revolutionary message. As the scholar Gilles Kepel once said, “the ancient city of kings has become the Mecca in Islam of France.” This is Europe’s biggest problem: its cultural amnesia.
This is also Israel’s leaders mistake, that they cannot even conceive a Palestinian Arab war for the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
France today has 2,400 mosques, against 1,500 in 2003: it is the most visible sign of the rapid growth of Islam in France. Almost two new mosques per week. Among these, simple prayer rooms, difficult to identify accurately. But also ambitious mega mosques, as in Bordeaux (a project of 20 million euro, to accommodate 3,500 worshipers), Marseille (22 million euros), Mulhouse (11 million), Narbonne, Tours ...
Who funds these mosques? Foreign regimes average 50%: for the Grand Mosque of Strasbourg, 37% was donated by Morocco, 13% from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In Marseille, Qatar should provide 25% of funding.
Islamists know Europe’s history much better than the Europeans themselves. Islamists dream of returning to Rome, Spain, Paris and Vienna because they have already been there. They dream of replacing Spain with Islamic "Andalusia" and turning the Saint Peter’s Basilica into a mosque, the global epicenter of Catholicism.
Ravings? Delirious speech? Probably yes, but don’t forget that Adolf Hitler too searched for the “Holy Grail” of the Christian legend and sent his henchmen to Tibet to find the roots of the “Aryan race”. Totalitarianism is always supported by symbols and myths.
By populating places such as Saint-Denis, the Islamists can spread their message: “So we Muslims have won the Battle of Poitiers after all!”. Won it not by force of weapons, then by immigration and fertility.
London, one of the great capitals of Christendom, now has a Muslim mayor…
Saint-Denis is the religious epicenter of France. The “Lendit Plain” between the Montmartre hill and Saint-Denis was, before the Roman conquest, the Celts’ religious site. We know that Denis and his companion martyr Éleuthère paid with their lives to evangelize the region. In Saint-Denis, the holy lamp used for coronations of the kings of France in Reims was kept.
The battle cry of the era of kings was “Montjoie Saint-Denis!”.
Saint-Denis can be reached by a few metro stops from the Champs Elysées and the Arc de Triomphe. This is the burial place of the kings of France and Charles Martel, whose victory stopped the Muslim invasion in 732 and it is traditionally held to have halted the Islamization of Europe.
Today, the University of Paris VIII-Saint-Denis is full of girls with headscarves. There are more and more Islamic dress shops, Islamic restaurants, Islamic libraries, mosques. And even some hairdressers for veiled customers.
This is also Israel’s leaders mistake, that they cannot even conceive a Palestinian Arab war for the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Islamists in Saint-Denis consider these graves as a magnet for the revolutionary message. As the scholar Gilles Kepel once said, “the ancient city of kings has become the Mecca in Islam of France.” This is Europe’s biggest problem: its cultural amnesia.This is also Israel’s leaders mistake, that they cannot even conceive a Palestinian Arab war for the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
France today has 2,400 mosques, against 1,500 in 2003: it is the most visible sign of the rapid growth of Islam in France. Almost two new mosques per week. Among these, simple prayer rooms, difficult to identify accurately. But also ambitious mega mosques, as in Bordeaux (a project of 20 million euro, to accommodate 3,500 worshipers), Marseille (22 million euros), Mulhouse (11 million), Narbonne, Tours ...
Who funds these mosques? Foreign regimes average 50%: for the Grand Mosque of Strasbourg, 37% was donated by Morocco, 13% from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In Marseille, Qatar should provide 25% of funding.
Islamists know Europe’s history much better than the Europeans themselves. Islamists dream of returning to Rome, Spain, Paris and Vienna because they have already been there. They dream of replacing Spain with Islamic "Andalusia" and turning the Saint Peter’s Basilica into a mosque, the global epicenter of Catholicism.
Ravings? Delirious speech? Probably yes, but don’t forget that Adolf Hitler too searched for the “Holy Grail” of the Christian legend and sent his henchmen to Tibet to find the roots of the “Aryan race”. Totalitarianism is always supported by symbols and myths.
By populating places such as Saint-Denis, the Islamists can spread their message: “So we Muslims have won the Battle of Poitiers after all!”. Won it not by force of weapons, then by immigration and fertility.
London, one of the great capitals of Christendom, now has a Muslim mayor…
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