Christine Tasin | |
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Born | 24 January 1955 |
Nationality | French |
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resistancerepublicaine |
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]
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]
Christine Tasin | |
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Born | 24 January 1955 |
Nationality | French |
Occupations |
|
Website |
resistancerepublicaine |
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]
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]