… and Mark Steyn suggests that Europe wake up:
Ever since 9/11, I’ve been gloomily predicting the European powder keg’s about to go up. ”By 2010 we’ll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,” I wrote in Canada’s Western Standard back in February.
Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule. As Thursday’s edition of the Guardian reported in London: ”French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.”
”French youths,” huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the “youths” are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn’t take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ”French”: They’re young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you’re likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ”Arab street,” but it’s in Clichy-sous-Bois.
Have you seen some of the images coming out of France? It’s almost surreal to see. And sad. But not entirely unexpected … as Steyn points out.
As a side note, I have it from a very reliable source (and no this is NOT a leak 
) that French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is the man to watch, as the time nears closer to the elections there (2007). He’s said to be more pro-US (even though he opposed the war in Iraq), and not too fond of French President Jacques Chirac (the feeling is mutual).
I don’t think we can help France. I’m dead certain that her brethren in the EU can’t — for fear of their own Muslim populations.
The important thing for America is to draw the lesson. We’ve tolerated “unmeltable ethnics” for too long. In some ways, we’ve even assisted them in resisting assimilation. Muslims in this country, who are famous for their proclamations that their allegiance goes to Islam, not the United States, belong in that category. Should their numbers increase to French proportions, will they do here as they’re doing there? If so, will we be ready?
Keep your powder dry.
Comment by Francis W. Porretto @ 11/6/2005 - 12:36 pm
When in bed with the devil, expect to wake up in hell. This is so sad. I feel so badly for the people of France.
Comment by Lorica @ 11/6/2005 - 3:59 pm
But we could be more optimistic. Maybe Paris is Europe’s Pearl Harbor
Comment by Dean Jorge Bocobo @ 11/6/2005 - 11:03 pm
Spot on, Francis.
Dean, hello and welcome - you may very well be right. We’ll see.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 11/6/2005 - 11:09 pm
I just wanted to point out two things:
1) The APNews 170 picture slideshow I just went through had all White Males in each picture of an elected leader.
2) In the news stories I couldn’t help notice that the rioters are being arrested and jailed instead of talking to them and figuring out what it is they want….
Comment by Baklava @ 11/7/2005 - 1:58 pm
The radical Muslims do not want coexistance. They never did, and never will. Even Denmark is having a problem:
LINK
Comment by PCD @ 11/7/2005 - 2:15 pm
:neutral:I JUST HOPE THE MUSLIMS DON’T BURN THE PLACE UP BECAUSE I WAS TOTALLY PLANNING ON GOING THERE SOMEDAY BECAUSE FRANCE SUPPOSEDLY HAS REALLY GOOD FOOD.
Comment by PEACHES @ 11/8/2005 - 4:45 pm
come on!!! france is not burning it’s not a civil war!!! you can visit paris of course you won’t be shut
a parisian
Comment by xxxx @ 1/6/2006 - 2:48 pm
Sure, xxxx, we can believe an anonymous person trolling a long dead thread. Sure we can.
Comment by PCD @ 1/6/2006 - 3:27 pm