Christine Tasin
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Christine Tasin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 January 1955 |
| Occupations | Writer, activist |
| 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]
Legal issues
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]
