Christine Tasin
Christine Tasin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 January 1955 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, activist |
| Organisation | Republican Resistance |
Christine Tasin (born 24 January 1955) is a French anti-Islam writer, activist and founder of the Republican Resistance.[1][2] She has been convicted several times for inciting hatred against Muslims.[3][4][5]
Biography[edit]
Tasin is an atheist and comes from a politically leftist background,[1] having been a member of the Socialist Party (PS) and the Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC).[6] She has been married twice, and has three children from her first marriage.[1] Her attention to Islam was started with the Islamic scarf controversy in 1989.[1] She has collaborated with Riposte Laïque, founded in 2007, and is in a relationship with its founder Pierre Cassen.[1][7] As a counter-jihad activist,[8] she founded the Republican Resistance in 2010,[1] which organises social gatherings and demonstrations together with Riposte Laïque.[6] In 2010 she notably helped organise a "wine and pork aperitif" event in a heavily Muslim neighbourhood in Paris.[1][6] She has later participated in Pegida demonstrations in Germany,[9] and in the Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms (SIEL) political party together with Renaud Camus among others.[10]
Tasin has been sentenced several times for inciting hatred against Muslims, to 3,000 euros in 2014 for remarks in front of a mobile slaughterhouse installed for the ritual sacrifice of Eid al-Adha in October 2013,[3] to 1,000 euros in 2015 for writings on the website Boulevard Voltaire in May 2013,[4] and to 1,500 euros in 2017 for a speech at a SIEL demonstration following the 2016 Magnanville stabbing.[5]
She claims that her convictions are unjustified since French law does not prohibit blasphemy, as she claims to only attack Islam and not Muslims, and states to be an anti-racist activist.[11] She won an appeal of one of her convictions in 2014, during which her legal costs were covered by the American Middle East Forum.[8] During a trial in 2015 she stated "Yes, I'm Islamophobic, so what? I am proud of the hatred of Islam. Islam is a shit".[4]
Publications[edit]
- Assises internationales sur l'islamisation de nos pays - 18 décembre 2010 (with Pierre Cassen), 2010 ISBN 978-2953604221
- La faute du bobo Jocelyn (with Pierre Cassen), 2011 ISBN 978-2953604238
- Apero Saucisson Pinard (with Pierre Cassen and Fabrice Robert), 2012 ISBN 9782888921486
- Qu'est-ce qu'elle vous a fait la république?, 2013 ISBN 978-2954637907
- Les assassins obéissent au Coran (with René d'Armor), 2016 ISBN 978-2954637914
- L'islam à la conquête de l'école, 2017 ISBN 978-2954637945
- Assassins Obey The Quran: Fort Hood, San Bernadino, Orlando (with René d'Armor), 2017 ISBN 978-2954637921
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g "Portrait: Bouffeuse d'islam". Libération (in French). 2 March 2011.
- ^ Tôn, Emilie (26 June 2017). "Islamophobie: qui est Christine Tasin, accusée d'apologie d'un acte terroriste?". L'Express (in French).
- ^ a b ""Je suis islamophobe, et alors?": Christine Tasin condamnée à 3000 euros d'amende". L'Express (in French). 8 August 2014.
- ^ a b c "Condamnation confirmée pour Christine Tasin et Boulevard Voltaire". Ouest-France (in French). 15 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Condamnation pour un discours islamophobe". Le Figaro (in French). AFP. 31 March 2017.
- ^ a b c Nilsson, Per-Erik (2018). French Populism and Discourses on Secularism. Bloomsbury. p. 7. ISBN 9781350055834.
- ^ Verduzier, Pauline (25 June 2015). "Pierre Cassen et Christine Tasin, de la gauche à la haine de l'islam". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French).
- ^ a b Aked, H.; Jones, M.; Miller, D. (2019). "Islamophobia in Europe: How governments are enabling the far-right 'counter-jihad' movement" (PDF). Public Interest Investigations: 18, 41–42, 52.
- ^ Hayden, Sally (14 January 2015). "Anti-Islam Rallies Are Gathering Support in Germany In Wake of 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks". Vice News.
- ^ Mizera, Séverine (12 February 2017). "Siel se prépare aux législatives". Le Dauphiné libéré (in French).
- ^ Demestre, Soline (8 August 2014). "3000 euros d'amende pour la militante islamophobe Christine Tasin". France Bleu (in French).