The three-day killing spree that left 17 dead in and around Gay Paree -- starting when gunnies stormed the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...on January 7 -- have left the world reeling, with questions raised about how the perpetrators slipped through the cracks.
"Let us call things by their rightful names, since the French government seems reluctant to do so," Le Pen wrote in a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
op-ed.
"La Belle France, land of human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism," the National Front leader continued.
"Moslems themselves need to hear this message. They need the distinction between Islamist terrorism and their faith to be made clearly."
Le Pen called for national border checks, more immigration restrictions, stripping "jihadists" of their French citizenship, as well as "zero tolernce for any behavior that undermines laicite (secularism) and French law."
She also condemned the foreign policy "mistakes that have plunged La Belle France into serious geopolitical incoherence from which it is struggling to extricate itself."
"Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Moslems themselves must fight it at our side," Le Pen added.
Her statements stand in contrast to those made by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has stated that La Belle France is at war with radical Islam, not with the Moslem faith or any religion.
On Sunday, a French court prevented a rally by anti-Islamist groups in Gay Paree on the grounds that they were promoting Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
In the wake of the French attacks and last week's Belgian anti-terror raids, EU foreign ministers were to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss ways to boost cooperation to combat the threat posed by radicalized Europeans returning home after fighting in Iraq and Syria.