Conrad Black: Defending the Christian West

The National Post ^ | January 10, 2015 | Conrad Black

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As I was sitting down to write about the atrocity in France, my wife Barbara hove into view, always a delicious sight, and announced that she was writing elsewhere on the same subject and that I could not do it. So I will not, other than to say that France had to admit more than a million Algerian Muslims in the mid-sixties, who had been loyal to France in the savage war of independence in that country, as well as a million European Algerians. It has been comparatively indulgent of Muslims since then, but this incident, or a few others like it, will motivate France to lead the Western counter-attack against militant Islam that should have been launched by our united civilization many years ago. Just as the French periodically become bored with life in their legendarily rich country of fine weather, food and wine, and tear up paving stones and hurl them across barricades at the police until bourgeois fear of economic loss reasserts itself and reaction takes over; when French possession and enjoyment of their country is threatened, the national faith in liberty, equality and fraternity will give way to more systematic repression of violent Islamists than would be acceptable in an Anglo-Saxon democracy.

When the Islamist threat is no longer theoretical or just a matter of ethnic slurs or offensive caricatures, and that time should have come after the massacre of 10 journalists in a newspaper office and of two policemen guarding it, in France there will be none of the faddish and abusive meddling of human rights commissions such as persecuted Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant in this country. Since the barbarians comingled with the Romanized Gauls 1,500 years ago, no one has displaced the French from their complete cultural occupation of la douce France....

[Former Proud Canadian]

Normally I don't look at the categories, just the headlines.

Although he gets sidetracked a little, Conrad is on the mark again. I didn't know Eddie Greenspan died.

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"Even among the millions of Americans with post-graduate degrees, from 53 to 65% believe each one of these traditional assertions."

Maybe I'm putting too much emphasis on his use of the word "even" in the above quote, but is he implying that those with advanced degrees should know better than to believe such things, or is he suggesting that that percentage of graduates believe, despite the best efforts of "higher education"?