THE Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, says the massacre is “a call to rediscover the fundamental values of [the French] republic,” including freedom of religion. This is so wacky it would truly defy belief if it weren’t so darn common these days to see “Catholic” prelates promoting other religions.

“Freedom of religion” means the rise of Islam in France. Jihad and sharia rule are inseparable from Islamic religious beliefs. If Islam has freedom then it must inevitably rule much of France.

It is precisely freedom of religion, as defined by the French revolutionaries, that has led to the Islamization in France.

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Sage McLaughlin writes:

You point out the Archbishop’s loopy statement that the attacks are a call “to rediscover the fundamental values of the Republic.”  Your reaction is apt, but mine was a bit different.  My question for the Archbishop is simply, to whom was this “call” to “rediscover” French republican values addressed?  Do you see what I mean?

After all, it is not as if the French themselves have failed to live up to those values.  As you rightly point out, the French have found their society slowly being eradicated precisely by living out those values—including a boundless and suicidal conception of “tolerance” that is the proximate cause of jihadism in France.

So is he issuing a call to Muslims to rediscover them?  Surely not.  Those republican values are not theirs to rediscover, as he well knows, and anyway, Catholic Bishops make it their business never to address Muslims directly, as a fearful slave who does not dare to look his master in the eyes.

Therefore in parsing what he might possibly mean by these words, we discover that they mean exactly nothing.  That’s fitting, because the Conciliar Church stands today for nothing, and its prelates are incapable of expressing themselves in any terms other than the modern secular vocabulary of rights.  So as people march by the millions in Paris, we may wonder aloud, as I and some of my acquaintances have done, what exactly could this “call for unity” possibly mean?  What does it amount to?

In the end, I think you’re correct: it amounts to nothing much more than a reassertion of the very principles that give Islam free reign to defy and demolish all that which is not itself, whether in France or outside of it.  Unless and until this supposed “rediscovery” of republican values is made manifest in (for example) the absolute suppression of sharia law, as a foreign code of law with no jurisdiction in France, then all we are witnessing in France is not an “awakening,” but a solemn admission of impotence in the face of Islamic violence.

Indeed, the jihadist must rejoice to hear that the French people will go on exuberantly reciting the values of their terminally decadent Fifth Republic.

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