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Muslims have been threatening boulangeries and restaurants in France, even those owned by non-Muslims, to become strictly halal. That means all pork products must be banned. Some outlets have had to ban alcohol, while others have declared that only men should shop in their stores during the week, and women only on weekends. More on this phenomenon of “creeping sharia” can be found here: “Sharia is taking over France,” by Giulio Meotti, Arutz Sheva, August 26, 2024:

In France, sharia is taking over and the bienpensants don’t care.

After months of pressure and the latest altercation in his bakery in Vénissieux (Lyon), Alexandre Dallery announced on Friday that the boulangerie would stop selling pork products.

Le Parisien tells us that one of Dallery’s sales assistants directed two customers towards a bacon quiche. Several minutes later, the two men returned “furiously” and “violently” to the boulangerie after discovering the presence of pork in their meal. To avoid further mistakes, the owner of the bakery therefore decided to continue his business without the ham. In a comment posted on Facebook, Dallery spoke of “several pressures over several months to make it halal.”

No one forced the two Muslim customers to buy the bacon quiche. Could they not have asked the shop clerk “does this quiche contain any pork products”? And even after discovering bacon in their quiche, was it necessary to throw a hysterical fit and threaten the store’s owner? After all, no Muslim is being forced to buy a bacon quiche. To avoid any future mistakes, the owner could simply put up a large warning sign, indicating all of his confections that contain pork. That should have been the end of the story. Instead, the Muslims returned to the store “furiously and “violently,” and threatened the store owner, who quickly decided that to avoid problems from maddened Muslims, he would simply stop using pork products. “They wanted to burn everything, break everything,” Dallery wrote. “To calm things down, we no longer sell ham. Otherwise they’ll burn everything.” Such threats of violence constitute a crime. But Dallery did not call the police. He chooses to be a good dhimmi and yield to Muslim demands, no matter how outrageous.

The announcement from the bakery is chilling, but we are in Lyon, the third largest city in France where Muslims make up 30 percent of the population. Who can blame Dallery, the dhimmi baker?

In Vaulx-en-Velin, also in Lyon, even non-Muslim students confess to Europe 1 that they feel the pressure of Sharia to veil themselves.

Muslims have created an atmosphere of menace, an underhum of violence, that causes even some non-Muslim girls and women, wanting to avoid being attacked by angry Muslim males, to wear the hijab. Why not yield, and wearing a veil, which is not that burdensome, so as to avoid possible trouble? And so, little by little, the rules of Sharia spread ever more widely in France.

And they are succeeding in making France halal, piece by piece.

This bakery is not the first to succumb to Islamist attacks.

Last March, in Paris, an Algerian restaurateur stopped selling alcohol following a raid organized by Muslims who adhere to Koranic prohibitions. In Quimper, a French butcher’s shop closed following several attacks. The restaurant reopened two years later, taken over by a new family, but now offers 100 percent halal meat…”

Muslims in Paris forced a restaurant owner, apparently a non-observant Muslim, to stop selling alcohol by conducting a threatening raid on his establishment. He promptly stopped selling alcohol. Repeated attacks on a butcher’s shop in Quimper that sold pork products finally led the owner to close. Two years later, the place reopened under new ownership; it no longer sells pork products. That’s a win for the local enforcers of Sharia law, and a warning to other butchers and restaurant owners to comply with Muslim dietary prohibitions before they become targets of Muslim attacks.

The boulangerie tells us that we are faced with a clear and unmistakable manifestation of jihad: conquest of the territories of the “unbelievers” by Muslims. By hook or by crook, the country of secularism, of the Enlightenment, of Voltaire and of equality is becoming a little more compatible with sharia every day. Meanwhile, most of the media turns a blind eye, or rather two. This denial of reality is such that it borders on complicity.

In the historic center of Bordeaux, an Afghan in a djellaba stabs two people, killing one and seriously injuring the other. He had reproached them for “boire un coup”, for drinking alcohol, on the day of Eid al-fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.

In Bordeaux, the Afghan was enforcing the Muslim prohibition on alcohol by stabbing two people, killing one of them, for the crime of drinking alcohol, and still worse, doing so at the end of Ramadan, on Eid al-Fitr. Were the victims Muslims or non-Muslims? It hardly matters. The rules of Islam were being enforced through murderous violence.

Thirteen-year-old Samara is beaten outside the Arthur Rimbaud middle school in Montpellier. “Samara wears a little makeup – declared the girl’s mother, Hassiba Radjoul – And this little girl who attacked her has her veil. They called her kouffar (unbeliever.) My daughter dresses in European style. There were insults, kahba (bitch).”

The 13-year-old Muslim girl was screamed at and beaten by her Muslim classmates because she wore “a little makeup.” By itself, makeup is not prohibited in Islam, but it becomes haram if it is applied to attract the attention of men and boys. Apparently the girls who beat Samara decided that her “little makeup” had been applied for such a purpose.

Then a principal [at the Montpellier school where Samara was a student] was threatened with death for asking a student to remove her veil in class.

In French public schools, it is forbidden by law to wear any outwardly religious symbols. They violate the principle of laicité. Hijabs, crucifixes, kippahs, Sikh turbans are all banned. The principal was simply enforcing that law by asking a student to remove her veil (hijab). Now he’s been threatened with death by other Muslims. What was he to do — enforce the regulations, or risk death? The author, Giulio Meotti, doesn’t tell us the result. I suspect he chose not to pursue the matter, letting that student attend school wearing her hijab so that he could be assured of staying alive. Not everyone can be a hero.