European Muslims Shocked At Suggestion They Should Protest Aleppo Like Gaza

“This man has the Gaul – excuse me, the gall – to dictate to followers of Islam what their values should be.”

Paris, September 26 – Muslim community organizations and individual adherents of Islam voiced surprise and anger today upon hearing of the notion that they might engage in rallies and demonstrations to voice objection to Syrian and Russian atrocities in Aleppo as they did when Israel fought Hamas in the Gaza Strip to suppress rocket fire in 2014.

A commentator wondered live on French TV this morning why the same people who protested the deadly Israeli bombings and incursion two years ago appear unmoved by the far more indiscriminate and destructive airstrikes by the Syrian and Russian air forces on besieged Aleppo and other locales. In response, enraged Muslim groups and activists assembled to protest the analyst’s remarks, accusing him of defaming Islam and demanding he apologize.

Marcel Martin, a news analyst with the Les Nouvelles program on France’s TV Trois network, asked on Monday morning’s program what happened to the throngs of protesters who stormed their way through the suburbs of Paris during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, a 50-day confrontation that eventually claimed the lives of more than 2,100 Palestinians. 66 Israelis were also killed. In contrast, noted Martin, “none of the same impassioned defenders of their fellow Muslims seem bothered by Basher Assad and Vladimir Putin’s bloodthirsty campaign to destroy Aleppo from the air, and the hundreds of thousands of Muslim lives already taken in the Syrian Civil War.”

Following Martin’s remarks, a coalition of Muslim community organizations announced an immediate protest against him, to demand a retraction, an apology, and, failing that, Martin’s dismissal from the network for offending Islamic sensibilities.

“This man has the Gaul – excuse me, the gall – to dictate to followers of Islam what their values should be,” charged Fari See, director of the Society of Parisian Expatriate Caliphate Invaders for Occidental Utter Surrender (SPECIOUS), an umbrella group of French Islamic organizations. “It is not up to him to decide for us which deaths matter, as if some infidel commentator who should be licking the underside of the boots of the faithful can simply say such things. We are here today in protest to demand he be shamed into adopting the proper modes of behavior befitting a dhimmi, and never again be allowed to defame the followers of the Prophet this way.”

Hundreds of protesters burned tires, threw garbage at TV Trois personnel, and threatened to behead Martin. The network has yet to respond to the incident, as all its spokespeople have gone into hiding.

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