The New Old Europe

Ottawa Citizen ^ | November 10, 2005 | David Warren

[TheShaz]

Perhaps the biggest absurdity, at the moment, is the continuing, somewhat distracted response of the international media -- especially the French media -- to the revolution that has begun in France. They persist in characterizing the revolutionists as “disadvantaged French youth”, and pretend their uprising has only incidentally to do with Islam.

I see Dominique de Villepin -- the French prime minister who, as foreign minister, was so generous with advice to the U.S. and Israel -- has now prepared the rewards package for the rioters. Lots of new spending on social services and "opportunities" programmes in the 751 “sensitive urban zones” -- which is the official state euphemism for Muslim ghettoes. Also, special favours for the imams who agree to sign limp-wristed fatwas against rioting after curfew. This is a joke, I refuse to report it seriously.

And part of the joke is that, since long before they were born, the Muslim young raised in these ghettoes were in fact prevented from getting the usual sorts of jobs, and thereby insinuating themselves into bourgeois French society. And this because the powerful, leftwing unions of France -- themselves quite willing to riot for results -- have long since achieved 30-hour weeks, high pay, and perpetual employment for three-quarters of the labour force. It is an arrangement, secured in a form of “social contract” with the French state, that shuts out everyone else. Tamper with THAT, and the rest of France will be back on the streets.

***** IT GETS BETTER, READ THE WHOLE THING *****

[TheShaz]

This is one of the best editorials I have read on the whole "Old Europe" getting taking over. Not bad IMHO for a Canadien Liberal paper

[hershey]

Canada finally gets it. NIce post.

[linear]

Radical ideologies abhor a cultural vacuum.

[edcoil]

***** IT GETS BETTER, READ THE WHOLE THING *****

Now that is just silly.

[TheShaz]

The strange thing - even if Old Europe for the most part "figures it out". What can they do?

On so many levels all I can see is Old Europe dying off left and right and Muslims taking over. I will credit them for this, they do know how to play the waiting game with perfection. They just need to multiply like bunnies and momemtum does the rest.

Next stop: Notre Dame becomes a mosque within 10 years.

[TheShaz]

Best part of the article IMHO were near the end.

Childish yes :-)

But I was amazed on how good (at least IMHO) the article was. The kicker was how the writer pointed out how Canada can and just might also suffer from the same fate.....and that is just too close for comfort.

[hershey]

I agree, I don't see any other future but Old Europe disappearing into a Muslim Caliphate. Even if they suddenly began having lots of babies, Christians and everyone else not Muslim, it's too late. We could try and persuade Mexicans and other Western Hemisphere illegals to cross the pond and colonize Old Europe, but it'd be a tough sell. It's easier to head for the US.

[hershey]

Canada's been looking for more immigrants. They should be careful who they let in and in the meantime, take a long look at the fruits of 'multiculturalism'.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

"...sensitive urban zones." Wasn't that a CD by Andreas Vollenweider ?

[Bonaparte]

I predicted several days ago that france would try to stop the rioting with a disastrous program of concessions. And, as usual, the french believe they can make the problem go away with bribes. In so doing, the french have made themselves hostage to their muslim nationals, who will come back for more and riot whenever they don't get what they want. Fifth century Rome tried the same tactic and we all know what happened.

[TheShaz]

That's the problem in Old Europe - Christianity going downhill in Old Europe is the root casue - The current "Norm" for Old Europe is not based around the family unit - It has become, in the main, a pagan, childless, hedonistic dump.

[Bonaparte]

"We could try and persuade Mexicans and other Western Hemisphere illegals to cross the pond..."

What could possibly induce Mexican illegals to go to europe? Who would pay for their re-location there? Which european country would admit them?

[samtheman]

I'm so torn by this article.

Which do I hate more, Islam or Socialism?

Islam or Socialism?

It's so tough to decide.

[George W. Bush]

Astonishing that a Canadian paper had the courage to print it. Good find.

[nmh]

If you are not a true Frenchmen, you don't have much of a future there. The LIBERAL French are VERY racist. They look DOWN on anyone who is not a legitimate (birth/blood) French person.

[DM1]

"We could try and persuade Mexicans and other Western Hemisphere illegals to cross the pond and colonize Old Europe, but it'd be a tough sell. It's easier to head for the US."
well we could draft Carnival Cruises and send them over in style just a one way trip though

[nmh]

I skimmed the article and this stood out:

"Their ostracism from French society is completed by overt racialism. The contrast between the hypocritical liberalism of French public speech, and the overt racialism of private behaviour, is such as no North American will fully comprehend. We come from the society of the melting pot. The European melting pot froze and hardened -- quite literally, more than a thousand years ago. And that racialism is mutual. What the Muslims feel for their aging French “hosts” -- whom they consider to be perverts, by every Islamic standard -- is expressed by the way they torch their cars."

Europeans at large do not like OTHER races or ethnicities. They'll use them to fund socialism but they do NOT find them to be EQUAL or ACCEPTABLE - their than to pay their bills. They see themselves as ELITES. THAT is the long and short of it.

[nmh]

"Next stop: Notre Dame becomes a mosque within 10 years."

It'll happen ... just a matter of time. The birth rate of Europeans is down but the birth rate of Muslims is UP and RISING!

[kanawa]

ping

[elbucko]

What could possibly induce Mexican illegals to go to Europe?

A free plane ride, a job, a phone card, and a trip home every two years. The program could kill two birds with one hombre`