Christine Tasin

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Christine Tasin
Born (1955-01-24) 24 January 1955 (age 70)
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Writer, activist
Website resistancerepublicaine.com

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]

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Biography

Tasin speaking at a rally in 2015

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Portrait: Bouffeuse d'islam". Libération (in French). 2 March 2011. Archived from the original on 10 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Tôn, Emilie (26 June 2017). "Islamophobie: qui est Christine Tasin, accusée d'apologie d'un acte terroriste?". L'Express (in French). Archived from the original on 7 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 ""Je suis islamophobe, et alors?": Christine Tasin condamnée à 3000 euros d'amende". L'Express (in French). 8 August 2014. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 "Condamnation confirmée pour Christine Tasin et Boulevard Voltaire". Ouest-France (in French). 15 October 2015. Archived from the original on 8 April 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Condamnation pour un discours islamophobe". Le Figaro (in French). AFP. 31 March 2017. Archived from the original on 8 April 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 Nilsson, Per-Erik (2018). French Populism and Discourses on Secularism. Bloomsbury. p. 7. ISBN   9781350055834.
  7. ↑ 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). Archived from the original on 7 December 2024.
  8. 1 2 Aked, H.; Jones, M.; Miller, D. (2019). Islamophobia in Europe: How governments are enabling the far-right 'counter-jihad' movement (PDF). Public Interest Investigations. University of Bristol. pp. 18, 41–42, 52. hdl: 1983/cd525157-683a-493b-b27f-9a5ffbca312c . ISBN   9780957027497.
  9. ↑ Hayden, Sally (14 January 2015). "Anti-Islam Rallies Are Gathering Support in Germany In Wake of 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks". Vice News. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024.
  10. ↑ Mizera, Séverine (12 February 2017). "Siel se prépare aux législatives" . Le Dauphiné libéré (in French). Archived from the original on 8 April 2024.
  11. ↑ Demestre, Soline (8 August 2014). "3000 euros d'amende pour la militante islamophobe Christine Tasin". France Bleu (in French). Archived from the original on 7 December 2024.
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