Storm Track Infiltration: Muslim Prayer Rooms Closed in Paris Airports

From The Gathering Storm

Have the French awaken from their dhimmitude? Perhaps, if this news story is correct.

The Paris police have shut down several of ‘make-shift’ prayer room’s at Paris’s two main airports. What caused this shift in appeasement of French Muslims? It seems the French are having second thoughts about Muslim workers in cloak rooms, depots and other areas at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. There are three official prayer rooms _ still open _ at each of the two main Paris airports, just as there are chapels for Christians and synagogues for Jews.

So why are these unofficially sanctioned prayer rooms set up by Muslim workers and in such out-of-the-way areas like cloak rooms and depots? Could the reason be a recently published book by Philippe de Villiers, the far-right politician, published in May? In it, de Villiers reported that clandestine prayer rooms honeycombed the corridors underneath airport runways and that Islamists were poised to put the premises under Muslim Sharia law.

Of course the French authorities vehemently denied that Villiers book was the reason for the unauthorized prayer room closures. They just quietly closed the rooms with no reason given except as a “precautionary'' measure.

“Villiers, a presidential hopeful who opposes immigration by Muslims, claimed to have based his book, ``The Mosques of Roissy,'' on intelligence reports. Many saw the book as a bid for attention. It caused a stir and briefly climbed the bestseller list.”

But it gets better.

The daily Le Parisien reported last week that some 30 prayer rooms were shut at de Gaulle. The Muslim response?

“Hazem El-Shaffei, the imam, or Muslim leader, for Charles de Gaulle and Orly, confirmed unofficial prayer rooms were shut at de Gaulle but did not say how many. He said by telephone that he was not opposed to shutting them, noting that working Muslims can group their prayers in the evening. But he stressed the prayer rooms were ``not a question of any threat.''

Perhaps. But why the closures? What’s the whole story?