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Its towering minaret, which has purposely been designed to change the suburb’s skyline by being taller than any church steeple in the neighborhood, is supposed to become the “new symbol of Islam in France.”
The Socialist government in France has inaugurated a new mega-mosque in Paris as a first step towards “progressively building a French Islam.”
The new mosque, located in the northern Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise, is not only vast in its dimensions (photo here), but is also highly visible and symbolic: its towering minaret, which has purposely been designed to change the suburb’s skyline by being taller than any church steeple in the neighborhood, is supposed to become the “new symbol of Islam in France.”
The blue-domed mega-mosque also has an important political dimension. French President François Hollande owes his May 6 electoral victory to the large turnout by Muslim voters, who cast the deciding votes that propelled Hollande into the Élysée Palace. It is now political payback time, and the mosque at Cergy is one of at least 150 new mosque projects that the Socialist government has pledged to support.
Speaking on behalf of President Hollande at the inauguration ceremony of the mosque in Cergy, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls articulated the Socialist government’s policy vis-à-vis the construction of new mosques in France. He declared: “A mosque, when it is erected in the city, says a simple thing: Islam has its place in France.”
The 2,000 square meter (21,500 square foot) three-story mega-mosque in Cergy can accommodate up to 1,500 worshippers at a time; it has two main prayer halls (one for men and one for women), ablution rooms, two kitchens, a tea room, an apartment and office for the imam, a funeral hall, classrooms and a multipurpose room.
France is rotting from within. I seriously hope that the French people with their traditional love of liberty will come to their senses when they realize that their liberties are been confiscated one by one. The French need another Charles Martel.
All civilizations fall from internal rot, this allows the external conquest.
Every nation in the west is under attack, our civilization must be destroy before the left or the Moslems can take over.
Powerful video imagery juxtaposed against the “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” audio track. Worthy of a stand alone thread with the added feature of Gates-of-Vienna’s post The Kinetic Effects of Prayer in Islam to further emphasize the horror that awaits those who choose to either ignore or refuse to recognize the threat about to confront them.
Arab migration will not erase French identity, just as Viking/Anglo-Saxxon/Norman migration did not erase the original Celtic/Gaul identity. It will enrich it.
One day those minarets will simply mark target rich environments. I can’t wait.
Planning your massacres already? Good Christian!
Once again, a Muslim uses the classic ruse of confusing blocking an Islamic take-over of non-Muslim lands with an offensive “Massacre” of Muslims.
Classic and right out of the OIC handbook as well as the Muslim brotherhood.
I have an idea.
Stop forcing Islam on non-Muslims world wide and people will stop defending against it. That work for ya Dude?
Looks like France has sold its soul to the devil, and now the fee has finally come due.
@ the “Dude” troll
1) who said the mosques would have people in them?
2) you assume I’m Christian because it suits your purposes, I’m not
3) you aren’t even knowledgeable about the subjects you tackle
Yeah… excellent comment I just want to tell Dude go to your masjid if it is that important to you instead of baiting people here and pissing them off.