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Riposte Laïque
Inventing "The Other" Islamophobia |
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Riposte Laïque ("Secular Retaliation") is a French political movement and website.
Their web description is "for the defense of secularism and mutual tolerance principles"[note 1]. Defending secularism can't be a bad thing, right? When you peel off the thin paint, they can't be further from the truth of "mutual tolerance principles; they really are Islamophobes who hold views that echo right-wing nationalism and other far-right bigotry. Their Islamophobia would make even Sam Harris shiver.[note 2]
For example, they deny that moderate Muslims even exist : they're either radical Muslims or lying radical Muslims using "Taqiyya" to cover up their real intentions[1]. Also, due to their general far-right craziness, they've been more than once condemned by French courts for inciting hate speech.[2] Despite this, they very occasionally supported Muslims when their views happened to align with theirs.[3]
Even though France's version of secularism, laïcité or total separation of church and state, would sound left-leaning to the American religious right, most French analysts have found the movement to be hypocritical and far-right-leaning.[4]
History
Riposte Laïque began in 2007 as a website with a hardline secularist stance (even for France) and a focus on Islam - against the Islamic veil for instance - but was still genuinely secular and progressive in some other matters, quite articulate in its views (unlike the hysterical far-right style the site is known for today) and occasionally critical of other religions, including Christianity[5]. Their descent into madness took only a couple of years, the turning point being cooperation with notoriously racist far-right organizations and participation to events that targeted Muslim cultural practices as a whole[6].
Hypocrisy
They're not even that "secular", really : for example, many of them explicitly and repeatedly wrote they're out to defend France's Christian roots[7], or even pagan roots when they deem Christianity to be too close to Islam[8]. Also, they tend to have socially conservative views, and many, if not most of them, opposed same-sex marriage, for instance[9] ; some of their members and contributors are either homophobes[10] believing in the théorie du genre (gender theory)[11][12][note 3] or denounce the hate of some Muslims against the homosexuals SODOMITES OF THE DEVIIIL! for their own gains.[13]
As expected, their favourite political party tends to be the National Front (FN), and they even tend to find it's become too "moderate" in its relation to Islam.[14]
Unsurprisingly, they oppose the EU[15] and also support Donald Trump[16][17]. and PEGIDA[18].
Conspiracy theories
As said above, they believes all Muslims are radical and hiding their real intentions.
They also believe in the Grand Remplacement[19], a French conspiracy theory created by French far-right nutcase writer Renaud Camus[20][21] and unsurprisingly, opposes immigration as a result[22].
They believe that immigration is...The cause of the loss of I.Q. in France[23][24] and they believe in Eurabia[25][26]...
Apart from that, they are also global warming denialists[27][28][29], hate Freemasons, [30][note 4] the EVVUUUUL! Bilderberg group,[31] and support Wafa Sultan.[32] They are also pro-life.[33][34]
Hoaxes
They are experts in hoaxes and Photoshop, using an image in which a mere video game critic is turned into a radical Muslim...[35][36] Their hoaxes are frequently attacked by the Debunkers des hoax d'extrême-droite (Far-right hoaxes debunkers).
External links
- Official website (in French)
- All their hoaxes.
Notes
- ↑ "pour la défense de la laïcité et des principes de tolerance mutuelle" in French.
- ↑ They don't even try to hide it.
- ↑ Spoiler alert: that theory doesn't exist
- ↑ YET a Catholic fundamentalist managed to call Riposte Laïque a Masonic sect...
References
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/L-islam-n-est-pas-une-religion.html "One shouldn't be surprised when a Muslim lies by omission or by action, dissimulates or falsifies, because it's a quranical prescription. Indeed, when it comes to developing Islam, all shots are allowed. "Taqqya" (sic), which means "dissimulation", is a duty for believers in inferiority. However, as soon as the balance of power is reversed, the Muslim can consider aggression."
- ↑ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riposte_la%C3%AFque#Condamnations_en_justice
- ↑ An example here : http://ripostelaique.com/tareq-oubrou-serait-premier-ministre-dali-juppe.html
- ↑ An example here : http://www.gaucherepublicaine.org/respublica/riposte-laique-analyse-dune-strategie/808
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070911103925/http://www.ripostelaique.com/
- ↑ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riposte_la%C3%AFque#Evolution_de_la_ligne_.C3.A9ditoriale_et_accointance_avec_le_Bloc_identitaire
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/?s=christianisme
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/recourir-au-christianisme-pour-combattre-lislam-est-absurde.html
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/mariage-homo-le-nouveau-message-de-belkacem-a-nos-enfants.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/encore-les-bourdieuseries-des-aberrations-lgbt.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/quesako-la-theorie-du-genre.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/la-theorie-du-genre-va-plutot-favoriser-notre-islamisation.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/lislam-glorifie-pedophiles-condamne-a-mort-homosexuels.html
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/marine-pen-version-0-2-light.html
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/?s=union+europ%C3%A9enne
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/?s=donald+trump Which, in light of recent comments, means they're so much racist towards Muslims they're ready to support someone who's racist towards the French.
- ↑ That is, until the first American airstrikes in Syria, like a large part of the pro-Putain far-right.
- ↑ http://ripostelaique.com/?s=pegida
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/le-grand-remplacement-un-tabou-qui-se-leve-peu-a-peu.html
- ↑ Grand Remplacement - Wikipédia (in French)
- ↑ French newspaper Le Monde debunked that bullshit.
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/macron-ne-va-pas-limiter-limmigration-bien-au-contraire.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/le-qi-des-francais-a-baisse-de-38-points-en-10-ans-record-du-monde.html
- ↑ http://www.debunkersdehoax.org/la-regression-du-qi-en-france-les-immigres-bien-sur-selon-riposte-laique
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/suicide-de-france-de-leurope-seul-coupable-eurabia-1.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/eurabia-lislamisation-de-leurope-soumission-dun-continent-2.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/surprise-le-climat-va-changer.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/le-rechauffement-climatique-anthropique-meme-stephen-hawking-y-croyait.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/le-rechauffement-de-la-planete-faits-et-mythes.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/quand-hollande-fete-les-300-ans-de-la-franc-maconnerie-entre-mensonge-et-seduction.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/theorie-du-complot-et-si-on-parlait-des-francs-macons-et-de-bilderberg.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/livre-choc-de-wafa-sultan-edite-par-rl-lislam-fabrique-de-desequilibres.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/ivg-desinformation-numerique-et-liberte-dexpression.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/reponse-alice-braitberg-et-a-son.html
- ↑ https://ripostelaique.com/cest-lislam-a-endeuille-france.html
- ↑ http://lahorde.samizdat.net/2015/11/17/les-mythomanes-se-tripotent-laique/