“We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their ‘comrades’ free when they are arrested.” — Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the Action Police trade union of France
Who can be surprised? The Islamic appeasers and liberal immigration laws of the French are coming back to haunt them. I have been saying for a while that France will be the first Western European nation to suffer with the kind of violence the Islamists have been spreading throughout the Middle East and Asia.
Chickens are roosting.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Unlike America, Canada, Australia and even some countries in South America, whose founding myths and history include immigration and the creation of a new national identity (never an easy project), Europe, like most of the globe, is region of ethnic identity. To think that Europe could somehow manage an influx of tens of millions of Muslims –Europe’s ancient enemy– was an act of…I don’t know… hubris, self-hatred, greed, ideological blindness…all of the above.
In 1453 Mehmet II completed centuries of jihad (aka Muslim military imperialism) by snuffing out the last bastion of the Christian Roman Empire, when Constantinople became, after 1000 years, Istanbul. In 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella completed centuries of native Spanish attempts to expel their African Muslim occupiers and expelled all Muslims from Spain.
Will this be Europe’s choice again?
But wait a minute! How can this possibly be? The French did everything they could to keep Saddam in power, they opposed the war in Iraq, they treat terrorism as a police rather than military issue, and they go out of their way to side with the Palestinians over the Israelis. The French are following the left-wing anti-terror plan to the letter. How can they possibly be faced with a Muslim insurgency in their own country, unless…
unless…
unless liberalism is completely wrong about how to deal with terrorists?
Quickly, leftists! To DailyKos! You must immediately start formulating conspiracy theories about how BushHitlerBurton is behind the Muslim insurgency in France!
My suggestions for the French Government/People:
Go ahead and SURRENDER NOW, (to save time) so that WWIII can be OFFICIALLY declared.
Lay low and blame everyone BUT yourselves.
Wait for the USA and England to save your ass’s AGAIN!
Why is it, whenever there is a major war, France always gets invaded and occupied?
I think the problem with current anti war liberalism is that they do not understand the threat, and even worse they try to minimize it out of some desire to be uber PC.
AHAHAHAHHA!
Yes France is about to be overrun! They’re no match for rocks and bottles full of gasoline! Some of them even have planks with nails in them! It’s war! We must kill the brown people before they kill us all!
I think y’all should start digging your bunkers now and get stocked up on supplies for the inevitable invasion. If you survive you can stand in the rubble and say “I told you so!!!”
Hey did you know that North Korea is testing their nukes? I know they’re not as scary as mob of kids sick of being treated like shit by one of the most racist and corrupt police forces in Europe but maybe you want to check it out? Seems kind of important and a bit more of a threat somehow.
Or not, it doesn’t feed your bigotries so you’re probably not that interested.
We’re so used to viewing Americans as racists that we don’t maybe realize that Europe is very much racist. The immegration myth as a vital part of our identity is part of that, good point, and Europe doesn’t have it. Europe seems to talk a good talk about tolerance but from everything I’ve seen, in practice, the very concept of *not* happily tossing religion out the window and conforming to a new identity is nearly incomprehensible. So France ends up with “tower blocks” of unemployed “youths” who instead of tossing away their heritage have embraced it with fervor.
There parents didn’t emmigrate in order to escape their cultures, like earlier immegrants from the middle east (I was once told by a German lady that upset about laws prohibiting head coverings weren’t *really* about religious belief because earlier immegrants hadn’t felt the need to keep those traditions), they came for jobs. The “youths” don’t have jobs.
I’m not excusing violence or anything else but idle hands really are the devil’s tools. “Tower blocks” of unemployed young adult men of *any* ethnicity or religion sounds like a bad idea to me. Add Islamic extremism to the mix and it can only be that much worse.
Synova, I read an interesting theory by an anthropologist a few weeks ago. His thesis was that the transition from an high-brithrate agricultural to an industrialized economy always produces a ‘population surplus’ of young, unemployed men, and that war is one of the ways in which this surplus was dealth with.
Britain largely avoided this phenomenon by shipping its ‘surplus population’ to the US, Australia, and its colonies during its period of industrialization. But France, under Napoleon and his successors, Germany under Bismarck and Hitler, Russia (as the USSR) and Japan all embarked on expansionist wars. Mexico, like Britain before, is using the USA, to export their surplus population and avoid war.
The Middle East, on the other hand, is still made up of largely Feudal cultures ill-suited to a modern economy. This war of Islamic Expansion is a natural consequence of having too much population for their social structure to support.
Raise a hand if you like the French.
Raise both hands if you ARE the French.
Some things never change.
Regards,
Peter H.
I thought this past spring the French Assembly passed a series of reforms that would better control immigration, end the ethnic hostilities boiling just below the surface in France and reverse years of liberal, left-of-center ruling elites. Isn’t that what Sarkozy is supposed to be about?
The part I liked about those reforms was the one which required immigrants to sign a promise to either integrate into mainstream French culture or, at the very least, respect the French way of life.
Can you imagine how that would be received by the Left in America? Heck, 2/3rds of the Democrats in House/Senate would have to change behavior and respect American values like patriotism, loyalty, honor.
Sarkozy is supposed to be the best candidate to win election in France. Not only is he the anti-Chirac, but he also is in favor of closer ties to Les Estas-Unis (that’s the USA, for you lower-case-losers).
Regards,
Peter H.
And the reason this is such a problem in both France and Germany is that, after years of leftist rule in which they’ve made it virtually impossible to lay off an employee AND completely removed the consequences of unemployment…..businesses have no incentive to hire and people have no incentive to work.
And don’t forget the 35 hr work week, NDXXX. Remember how the govt employee unions in America thought that was THE answer to worker dissatisfaction & productivity a few years ago? Oh yeah, France is a great place to do business –that’s why they fight so hard to get contracts in overseas ventures… nothing happening at home.
Ah, the cultural suicide of multiculturalism.