‘Civil War Is Brewing In France’: Thousands Of Soldiers Warn Macron Of Dire Threat From ‘Islamization’
By Tim Pearce
May 13, 2021 DailyWire.com
Hundreds of French soldiers warned the French government in a letter that France may descend into civil war unless the spread of radical Islam is stopped.
The letter, signed by 2,000 active-duty military members, comes after hundreds of retired generals and officers signed a similar open letter last month. The latest letter was published in the right-wing magazine
Valeurs Actuelles on Sunday, according to
Politico Europe.
The active-duty soldiers say that France has “surrendered” to radical Islam through lax policies and a misguided embrace of tolerance. The soldiers signed the letter anonymously to avoid repercussions from the French government.
“Many of us have suffered enemy fire,” the soldiers, who claim to be veterans of operations in Africa and Afghanistan, wrote, according to a translation of the letter by the Italian journalist
Giulio Meotti. “Many have offered their lives to destroy the Islamism to which you are making concessions on our soil. We have seen the abandoned suburbs with our own eyes. We have endured attempts to exploit religious communities, for which France means nothing, is nothing but the object of sarcasm, contempt, and hatred. We marched on July 14th. We see communitarianism taking hold in the public space, in the public debate. We see the hatred of France and her story becoming the norm.”
The soldiers compared the government’s approach to radical Islam today to the government’s approach to the Nazis in 1940 during World War II when France abandoned, “without reacting, entire neighborhoods of our country to the law of the strongest.”
“No one can wish for such a terrible situation, but the civil war is brewing in France and you know it perfectly well. Act, ladies and gentlemen. This time it’s not about ready-made formulas or media coverage. It is about the survival of our country, of your country,” the letter says.
Last month, 1,000 former military members, including 20 retired generals, wrote a letter to Macron and the French Parliament warning of the “disintegration and Islamization” of the country, according to Meotti. The ex-military members said the government’s lack of appropriate action and the spread of “a certain anti-racism” was fracturing France, according to
BBC.
The BBC summarizes the April letter:
France has been rocked by terror attacks in recent years, with some of the latest attacks targeting police officers and police employees, according to Politico. In October, a suspected radical
killed three people in a knife attack in the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France.