Michel in France writes me of a young school girl who was beaten during recess. Apparently she was eating during Ramadan so her Muslim schoolmates stoned her.
The story is developing ..............
Over at Resilience;
Une collégienne du collège jean mermoz dans le 8° arrdt de Lyon a été agressée à coup de pierre mercredi matin en cour de récréation alors qu'elle mangeait son goûter . La thèse d'un acte lié au non-respect du ramadan est confirmé par le parquet de Lyon sur la foi des premiers éléments de l'enquête.
Azzedine Gacci, le pdt du CRCM, déclare que si "les faits sont avérés, ils sont inacceptables". Il déplore l'ignorance des élèves à qui il faudrait enseigner le Coran à l'école et qui ignorent que sont exemptées de suivre le ramadan les "femmes indisposées".
Translation anyone?
UPDATE: Pastorius sent this over from Charles......thanks fellas. Just as we suspected;
A female student of Jean Mermoz College, in the 8th municipal borough of Lyons was assaulted with stones Wednesday morning in the schoolyard [“cour de recreation”] while she was eating her afternoon snack. The theory that this act is connected to disrespect of Ramadan is confirmed by Lyons’ public prosecutor on the strength of preliminary facts in the inquiry.
Azzedine Gacci, president of the CRCM [“Conseil régional du culte musulman”, the Regional Counsel of the muslim faith] declares that if “the facts are proven true, they are unacceptable.” He deplores the ignorance of students to whom one should be teaching the Koran at school and who ignore the fact that “sickly women” are exempted from following Ramadan. ***
This is the regional website of the islamic group mentioned in the article..: CRCM
There's a photo of the Gacci fellow here
The meaning in the second paragraph is a bit ambiguous, at least to me; it's hard to infer whether the muslim group's president feels that muslims themselves have to be better taught their own religion, or if he instead means that other people outside the faith need to be better informed about the truth about islam. (he might mean that it's crazy to suspect other muslims of the crime, since they would know of the exemption for sickly women and wouldn't be likely to stone them)
Charles
Sarah and J, thank you. Marine T points out: CRCM=Regional Council for the Muslim Religion









Then uneat its snack coming forth of the stone and woman walking away for tomorrow.
Bequeeth to its stoners the maximum jail term. (ptui) !
Posted by: wxjames | Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 04:51 PM
I've asked one of the French speaking IBA guys to translate it.
Posted by: pastorius | Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 06:18 PM
Thanks Pastorius, I am sure we got it right. :-(
Posted by: Pamela Geller | Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 06:46 PM
Here's more from Western Resistance:
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003151.html
By the way, I emailed you a new translation of the original.
Posted by: pastorius | Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 11:20 PM
If I am not very much mistaken, the term "femmes indispossees" is a polite way of saying, "women who are having their periods". Either way, it seems like French Muslims have the worst of both worlds, violent tendencies and a complete ignorance of their own religion.
Posted by: unclebenjamin | Sunday, October 08, 2006 at 04:55 PM