Riposte Laïque

Riposte Laïque ("Secular Retaliation") is a French political movement and website. 
Their web description is "for the defense of secularism and mutual tolerance principles"."pour la défense de la laïcité et des principes de tolerance mutuelle" in French. Defending secularism can't be a bad thing, right? When you peel off the thin paint, they can't be further from defending "mutual tolerance principles"; they are really Islamophobes who hold views that echo right-wing nationalism and other far-right bigotry. Their Islamophobia would make even Sam Harris shiver.They don't even try to hide it.
For example, they deny that moderate Muslims even exist: they're either radical Muslims or lying radical Muslims using "Taqiyya" to cover up their real intentions.http://ripostelaique.com/L-islam-n-est-pas-une-religion.html "One shouldn't be surprised when a Muslim lies by omission or by action, dissimulates or falsifies, because it's a quranical prescription. Indeed, when it comes to developing Islam, all shots are allowed. "Taqqya" (sic), which means "dissimulation", is a duty for believers in inferiority. However, as soon as the balance of power is reversed, the Muslim can consider aggression." Also, due to their general far-right craziness, they've been condemned more than once by French courts for inciting hate speech.https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riposte_la%C3%AFque#Condamnations_en_justice Despite this, they very occasionally supported Muslims when their views happened to align.An example here : http://ripostelaique.com/tareq-oubrou-serait-premier-ministre-dali-juppe.html
Even though France's version of secularism, , or total separation of church and state, would sound left-leaning to the American religious right, most French analysts have found the movement to be hypocritical and far-right-leaning.An example here : http://www.gaucherepublicaine.org/respublica/riposte-laique-analyse-dune-strategie/808
== History ==
Riposte Laïque began in 2007 as a website with a hardline secularist stance (even for France) and a focus on Islam - against the Islamic veil for instance - but was still genuinely secular and progressive in some other matters, quite articulate in its views (unlike the hysterical far-right style the site is known for today) and occasionally critical of other religions, including Christianity.http://web.archive.org/web/20070911103925/http://www.ripostelaique.com/ Their descent into madness took only a couple of years, the turning point being cooperation with notoriously racist far-right organizations and participation to events that targeted Muslim cultural practices as a whole.https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riposte_la%C3%AFque#Evolution_de_la_ligne_.C3.A9ditoriale_et_accointance_avec_le_Bloc_identitaire
== Hypocrisy ==
They're not even that "secular", really : for example, many of them explicitly and repeatedly wrote that they're out to defend France's Christian roots,http://ripostelaique.com/?s=christianisme or even pagan roots when they deem Christianity to be too close to Islam.http://ripostelaique.com/recourir-au-christianisme-pour-combattre-lislam-est-absurde.html Also, they tend to have socially conservative views, and many, if not most of them, opposed same-sex marriage, for instance;http://ripostelaique.com/mariage-homo-le-nouveau-message-de-belkacem-a-nos-enfants.html some of their members and contributors are either homophobeshttps://ripostelaique.com/encore-les-bourdieuseries-des-aberrations-lgbt.html believing in the théorie du genre (gender theory)https://ripostelaique.com/quesako-la-theorie-du-genre.htmlhttps://ripostelaique.com/la-theorie-du-genre-va-plutot-favoriser-notre-islamisation.htmlSpoiler alert: that theory doesn't exist or denounce the hate of some Muslims against the homosexuals SODOMITES OF THE DEVIIIL! for their own gains.https://ripostelaique.com/lislam-glorifie-pedophiles-condamne-a-mort-homosexuels.html
As expected, their favourite political party tends to be the National Front (FN), and they even tend to find it's become too "moderate" in its relation to Islam.http://ripostelaique.com/marine-pen-version-0-2-light.html
Unsurprisingly, they oppose the EUhttp://ripostelaique.com/?s=union+europ%C3%A9enne and support Donald Trumphttp://ripostelaique.com/?s=donald+trump Which, in light of recent comments, means they're so much racist towards Muslims they're ready to support someone who's racist towards the French.That is, until the first American airstrikes in Syria, like a large part of the pro-Putin far-right. and PEGIDA.http://ripostelaique.com/?s=pegida
==Conspiracy theories==
As said above, they believes all Muslims are radical and hiding their real intentions.
They also believe in the Grand Remplacement,https://ripostelaique.com/le-grand-remplacement-un-tabou-qui-se-leve-peu-a-peu.html a French conspiracy theory created by French far-right nutcase writer Renaud CamusGrand Remplacement - Wikipédia (in French)French newspaper Le Monde debunked that bullshit. and unsurprisingly, opposes immigration as a result.https://ripostelaique.com/macron-ne-va-pas-limiter-limmigration-bien-au-contraire.html
They believe that immigration is...The cause of the loss of I.Q. in Francehttps://ripostelaique.com/le-qi-des-francais-a-baisse-de-38-points-en-10-ans-record-du-monde.htmlhttp://www.debunkersdehoax.org/la-regression-du-qi-en-france-les-immigres-bien-sur-selon-riposte-laique and they believe in Eurabiahttps://ripostelaique.com/suicide-de-france-de-leurope-seul-coupable-eurabia-1.htmlhttps://ripostelaique.com/eurabia-lislamisation-de-leurope-soumission-dun-continent-2.html...
Apart from that, they are also global warming denialists,https://ripostelaique.com/surprise-le-climat-va-changer.htmlhttps://ripostelaique.com/le-rechauffement-climatique-anthropique-meme-stephen-hawking-y-croyait.htmlhttps://ripostelaique.com/le-rechauffement-de-la-planete-faits-et-mythes.html hate Freemasons, https://ripostelaique.com/quand-hollande-fete-les-300-ans-de-la-franc-maconnerie-entre-mensonge-et-seduction.htmlYET a Catholic fundamentalist managed to call Riposte Laïque a Masonic sect... the EVVUUUUL! Bilderberg group,https://ripostelaique.com/theorie-du-complot-et-si-on-parlait-des-francs-macons-et-de-bilderberg.html and support Wafa Sultan.https://ripostelaique.com/livre-choc-de-wafa-sultan-edite-par-rl-lislam-fabrique-de-desequilibres.html They are also pro-life.https://ripostelaique.com/ivg-desinformation-numerique-et-liberte-dexpression.htmlhttps://ripostelaique.com/reponse-alice-braitberg-et-a-son.html
== Hoaxes ==
They are experts in hoaxes and Photoshop, using an image in which a mere video game critic is turned into a radical Muslim...https://ripostelaique.com/cest-lislam-a-endeuille-france.htmlhttp://lahorde.samizdat.net/2015/11/17/les-mythomanes-se-tripotent-laique/
Their hoaxes are frequently attacked by the Debunkers des hoax d'extrême-droite (Far-right hoaxes debunkers).
== External links ==
*Official website (in French)
*All their hoaxes.
== Notes ==
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