Douce France, by Hugh Fitzgerald (France and Islam)

jw ^ | June 23, 2004 | Hugh Fitzgerald

[King Prout]

I pity the French.
Not their elite, but the commoners.
I pity them.

[Colosis]

I'll never forget a French school teacher telling me that on 9/12, the muslim children in his class refused to stand for a minutes silence to respect the fallen ones in the twin towers. Truely a dead country walking.

[dennisw]

This is poetic in it's truth.

[laotzu]

Excellent post. Excellent.

Karma is a wonderful, and tragic thing.

[saleman]

There will be a war. A war to end all wars. Unless something is done now. What? Any suggestions.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Malesherbes]

This is very, very sad. France, aside from its arrogance and obnoxiousness, was a great part of western civilization and contributed much. Yet, it is not alone, the whole of western civilization is in danger. and very few speak up.

[saleman]

If you speak up your a bigot, racist, Islamaphobe, whatever. The culture of Islam is to convert, and if not convert, KILL, non-believers. It will come to a head. Probably in my lifetime, but if not certainly in my kids life. What a wonderful world!

[nosofar]

"For the moment, you allow yourself to believe that something will come up. Most likely, all those Muslims will simply convert. I mean, they do that, don't they, quite easily I'm told. Of course, why didn't I think of it, that is exactly what will happen. The situation is always saved in time. Just like during the war. Nothing to worry about. Nothing."

Some people have a very laessez-faire attitude towards this. The culture will change. So what? Life goes on. These are the multi-culturalists and relativists. No culture is better than any other. They live in an insulated fantasy world.

[Paleo Conservative]

And then you learn what Jacques Chirac -- who now has a Muslim grandchild himself -- and Dominique de Villepin, do not wish you to learn. For if you did, you might be very angry. You discover that 1 out of every 3 babies born in France today is a Muslim baby. And that means, in 20 years, one of every three 20-year-olds in France will be a Muslim twenty-year-old. And that means, twenty years after that, at present rates of reproduction, France will have a majority Muslim population. Where shall we hide the statues from Marly-le-roi? And the Venus de Milo? And what about all those paintings of animated life -- all those portraits in the Louvre, and the Grand Palais, and the Musée Guimet down there in linden-lined Aix, and everywhere else in art-filled artful France, mère des arts, des armes, et des loix -- that are absolutely forbidden according to the immutable strictures of the Qur'an. Should they be sent for safekeeping to those Americans across the seas? By then most of the Jews in France will have left, gone across the oceans for their own safekeeping, to Israel or to English-speaking Canada (they were worried about the Muslim population of Quebec, you see, which had been allowed to grow under the Province of Quebec's policy of encouraging francophone immigrants, preferring North Africans to potential immigrants from Italy, Greece, Spain), and above all, to America. What luck those Americans have had. No more bequests to France by the likes of the Rothschilds, or Nissim Camondo. No more Donations from another Pierre Lévy. Enjoy the Kufic calligraphy; some find it endlessly fascinating.

[untenured]

...Jacques Chirac -- who now has a Muslim grandchild himself...

I didn't know that.

[Former Proud Canadian]

I have suggestions. Not very PC. They will probably get me banned.

[headsonpikes]

Here's something to brighten your day.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Who thought in 1978 that within a year, the modern, pro-Western Shah of Iran would fall and be replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who at that time was in exile in FRANCE?

France could fall to an Islamic revolution right now, within days. The French people are dissolute - truly, they are cheese-eating surrender monkeys. They have no will to fight for their country. I can easily envision a mob marching down the Champs Elysees and setting fire to the Louvre. French Vogue would respond with a new feature on how fashionable is the burqa.

Of course, France is much more useful to the Ayatollahs now, as the foil to evil America. They have no need to actually take over the country. That's the really scary part, isn't it?

[white trash redneck]

...Jacques Chirac -- who now has a Muslim grandchild himself...

And let's not forget WV's own senior senator, "Sheets" Byrd, has a muslim son-in-law, and, perhaps already, grandchild.

[DoctorMichael]

'In-Yo-Face' sarcasm aimed at the French Sheeple (Frencheeple?).

Very good! Thanks.

[MCRD]

The truly scary part to me is what will the French Muslims do with France's nuclear weapons.

[ought-six]

"There will be a war. A war to end all wars. Unless something is done now. What? Any suggestions."

Nope, no suggestions. The war is inevitable, and the opening shots have already been fired.