France: ‘We Have Plundered Everything in the Name of Allah’

“People have claimed that we were invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is totally false,” insists French President Emmanuel Macron, who maintains that the riots that have engulfed France are simply plaintive calls for better-quality schools and a higher standard of living. He has also admonished the world that “we should never mix up peaceful protesters with looters and rioters, because there are people who rightfully feel that fuel prices are going too high. It’s because of the Iran war.”

The far-left Macron was slapping back at two of his bêtes noires, U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump has written: “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!”

And Netanyahu on Tuesday said of the French: “They did not prepare in time; they simply gave up. They succumbed to the invasion of extremist Islam.” He said that the French should “fight back, do not pursue a policy of appeasement — fight against the extremists. They will devour France, they will devour Europe. I told my friend, President Trump, ‘Western civilization that is ready to fight — and that is Israel.’ We of course protect and defend ourselves, but in doing we are protecting you all.” Netanyahu also recounted that he told Macron long ago: “If we do not eliminate them here, you will have them in Paris,” adding, “and that is exactly what is happening.”

Indeed. And there is a great deal of evidence that France is facing more of an Islamic jihad than an economic protest. LifeSite News reported Monday that “an unidentified rioter veiled the head of a statue of St. Joan of Arc near the city center of Toulouse, appearing to mimic a hijab, along with a Palestinian flag.” How do a hijab and a “Palestinian” flag support a protest against the high cost of living? Rioters have also left mosques untouched, while looting everything except pork products. They have taken a break from looting and rioting to pray the required Islamic prayers. In Creusot, a Muslim beheaded a statue of Saint Joseph.

French journalist Paul Amar stated: “They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners. In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t.”

One looter succinctly summed up what was really going on when he paused from his labors long enough to tell a chap who was videoing: “We have plundered everything in the name of Allah.”

Non-Muslims may find it curious to ascribe the act of plundering to a deity, but the man who said this clearly had a good working knowledge of Islam. The conquest of Infidel lands and the promise of booty, according to Ibn Kathir, is “in reference to the goodness that Allah the Exalted and Most Honored caused to happen to the Companions on account of the peace treaty between them and their disbelieving enemies. Ever after that, the Companions gained abundant, general and continuous benefits and accomplishments, leading to the conquest of Khaybar and Makkah and then the various surrounding provinces and areas. They earned tremendous glory, triumphs and an elevated and honorable status in this life and in the Hereafter.”

It’s in the Qur’an, too: “Allah was well pleased with the believers when they swore allegiance to you beneath the tree, and he knew what was in their hearts, and he sent down sakina on them, and has rewarded them with a near conquest, and much booty that they will capture. Allah is always mighty, wise. Allah promises that you will capture much booty, and has given you this in advance, and has kept men’s hands from you, so that it may be a sign for the believers, and so that he may guide you on a right path.” (Qur’an 48:19-20)

In fact, the Qur’an so takes for granted the idea that the pious believers will be fighting the non-Muslims and plundering their possessions that it makes sure that Muhammad (or, in our own day, the Muslim leader) gets his cut: “And know that whatever you take as spoils of war, indeed, a fifth of it is for Allah, and for the messenger and for the relatives and orphans and the needy and the traveler, if you believe in Allah and what we revealed to our slave on the day of furqan, the day when the two armies met. And Allah is able to do all things.” (8:41)

Yes, that’s why he sends his slaves out to kill and seize the possessions of those who dare not to pay him obeisance. As we see happening in France now. In the name of Allah.