Christine Tasin Explained

Christine Tasin
Birth Date:1955 1, df=yes
Nationality:French

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.

Biography

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).[3] 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] [4] As a counter-jihad activist, she founded the Republican Resistance in 2010,[1] which organises social gatherings and demonstrations together with Riposte Laïque.[3] In 2010 she notably helped organise a "wine and pork aperitif" event in a heavily Muslim neighbourhood in Paris.[1] [3] She has later participated in Pegida demonstrations in Germany,[5] and in the Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms (SIEL) political party together with Renaud Camus among others.[6]

Legal issues

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,[7] to 1,000 euros in 2015 for writings on the website Boulevard Voltaire in May 2013,[8] and to 1,500 euros in 2017 for a speech at a SIEL demonstration following the 2016 Magnanville stabbing.[9]

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.[10] She won an appeal of one of her convictions in 2014, during which her legal costs were covered by the American Middle East Forum.[11] 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".[8]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. News: Portrait: Bouffeuse d'islam. 2 March 2011. Libération. fr.
  2. News: Islamophobie: qui est Christine Tasin, accusée d'apologie d'un acte terroriste?. Emilie. Tôn. 26 June 2017. L'Express. fr.
  3. Book: Nilsson, Per-Erik. French Populism and Discourses on Secularism. 7. 2018. Bloomsbury. 9781350055834.
  4. News: Pierre Cassen et Christine Tasin, de la gauche à la haine de l’islam. 25 June 2015. Pauline. Verduzier. Le Journal du Dimanche. fr.
  5. News: Anti-Islam Rallies Are Gathering Support in Germany In Wake of 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks. Sally. Hayden. Vice News. 14 January 2015.
  6. News: Siel se prépare aux législatives . Séverine . Mizera. Le Dauphiné libéré. 12 February 2017. fr.
  7. News: "Je suis islamophobe, et alors?": Christine Tasin condamnée à 3000 euros d'amende. L'Express. 8 August 2014. fr.
  8. News: Condamnation confirmée pour Christine Tasin et Boulevard Voltaire. Ouest-France. 15 October 2015. fr.
  9. News: Condamnation pour un discours islamophobe. Le Figaro. AFP. 31 March 2017. fr.
  10. News: 3000 euros d'amende pour la militante islamophobe Christine Tasin. France Bleu. Soline. Demestre. 8 August 2014. fr.
  11. Islamophobia in Europe: How governments are enabling the far-right 'counter-jihad' movement. Aked. H.. Jones. M.. Miller. D.. 2019. Public Interest Investigations. 18, 41-42, 52.