Granny Spills the Beans

The Leftist propaganda machine is masterful at constructing and maintaining a narrative. A connection with reality is unnecessary. We need only recall the Russian Collusion hoax, the Jan. 6 “insurrection” hoax, the COVID hysteria and subsequent vaccine madness, and innumerable other recent examples to see how true this is. The picture that the political and media elites insisted upon, and demanded that everyone accept on pain of deplatforming and accusations of spreading “disinformation,” had only the most tenuous connection to actual events, but rolled on inexorably anyway until the fictions became too obvious to maintain. Sometimes, however, it’s the small things that make the whole scenario fall apart. In France recently, all it took was one angry grandmother.

When a police officer in France shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old Muslim migrant from Morocco, nationwide riots began. According to the New York Times, Muslim migrants and Leftists in France saw the killing as “emblematic of a deep-rooted racism within France’s law enforcement agencies and its history of disproportionately targeting Black people and immigrants of Arab descent, particularly in France’s poor urban suburbs.”

French President Emmanuel Macron, a key cog in the globalist socialist machine, convicted the police officer without trial, calling the shooting “inexcusable” and “inexplicable” even as the police officer explained that his gun went off unexpectedly when Merzouk, who was sitting in a car, suddenly accelerated and drove away from the officers who had stopped him. Slate Magazine stated Friday that “some left-wing leaders have convincingly argued that the connection between Nahel Merzouk’s death and youth rage is simple: A violent and discriminatory police force which humiliates young men of color with frequent identity checks.” The Left’s solutions are straight out of the Black Lives Matter/George Floyd playbook: “getting rid of those identity checks, repealing that ‘right to shoot’ law, shifting to community policing,” and the like.

But will all that really fix what’s wrong with France? Nahel Merzouk’s own grandmother would likely say no. She isn’t talking anymore, however, after making some most revealing remarks in the wake of the shooting. The French-language Le Parisien reported Wednesday that “during the investigation at the scene” of the fatal shooting, “the police officers stated that they heard the victim’s grandmother say threatening words, ‘The two policemen will not escape from my hands. I will wait for them (…) Tomorrow is mutton day, I will cut the throats of those who shot my son. There is a terrorist who will catch them all.’” Perhaps realizing that she had said some things she shouldn’t have said, “since then, the grieving woman has called for calm.”

Nahel Merzouk’s grandmother was indeed grieving, and that has to be taken into account when considering her statements. Nevertheless, it would be unwise to dismiss them as merely the voicing of a justifiable anger after the killing of her teenage grandson. She didn’t talk like the average grieving grandmother. She was very specific in saying that she would not just kill the offending police officers, but slit their throats. This recalls the Qur’an’s chilling command: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (47:4). She also appears to have referred to herself as a terrorist, unless she meant that she knew a terrorist who would bring the cops to her for the throat-slitting. These are not the comments of someone who abhors terrorism, or who views the Qur’an’s violent passages as referring to distant events in the past but to nothing in the present day, as Islamic apologists in the West frequently insist.

Rather, Granny’s remarks make it clear that community policing and the abolition of identity checks aren’t going to calm the rage of the Muslim migrants in France one bit. Their rejection of the French system isn’t due to the alleged injustice or racism of the French police or other authorities; they reject the French system because it is jahiliyya, a society of unbelievers, “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6), while the Muslims are the “best of people that has been raised up for mankind” (Qur’an 3:110). What the migrants ultimately want is a society that is based on the laws of Islam; in fact, the Qur’an only calls Muslims the “best of people” in connection with the fact that they “command what is right and forbid what is wrong” (Qur’an 3:110).

Yet French society is not based on what Islam says is right and wrong. At least not yet. But if demographic trends continue, it will be before too long, and the rage of today’s rioters will finally be calmed. The unique peace of what we all know as The Religion of Peace will dawn over Paris and the rest of the land once known as the Eldest Daughter of the Church, and all will be well. Won’t it?