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Intifada in France
Chronicles Magazine ^ | Friday, November 04, 2005 | Srdja Trifkovic

Posted on 11/04/2005 6:26:58 PM PST by A. Pole

The northern industrial suburbs of Paris suffered the worst of eight consecutive nights of rioting on November 3-4. Disorder has now spread to dozens of provincial towns, including Dijon, the first city outside Ile-de-France (the metropolitan region) to be affected by unrest. Hundreds of cars, as well as schools, stores, and warehouses have been torched or ransacked. A disabled French woman, unable to escape from a bus set alight by the rioters in Sevran (Dept. Seine-Saint-Denis), was badly burned. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy noted “a great coordination” among rioters, hinting that the unrest was far from spontaneous.

The rioters are mainly young, French-born North African males. Last week in the Parisian banlieu of Clichy-sous-Bois—a concrete and steel high-rise monstrosity that is now over 80 percent Muslim—they rose in anger when two teenagers were accidentally electrocuted while hiding from the police in a fenced-off area housing a high-voltage pylon. Shouting “Allahu akbar!” groups of youths armed with clubs and sticks went on a rampage forcing the regular police to retreat. When the riot police came in force to reclaim the area, the protests became focused on the demand that the French police get out of the “occupied territories.” The trouble would be ended, various Muslim “community leaders” claimed, if the French authorities accepted that there were de facto no-go areas within the country which should be self-administered. “All we demand is to be left alone,” said Mouloud Dahmani, one of the local “emirs” engaged in negotiations to persuade the French to withdraw the police and allow a committee of sheiks, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, to negotiate an end to the hostilities.

The demand is not new and it will be made with increasing frequency in the years to come. Many Muslims in France and elsewhere in Europe already consider themselves de facto autonomous, a community justifiably opposed to the broader society of infidels and centered on mosques and Islamic centers. The emergence of a huge diaspora of the faithful away from the heartland is seen by pious Muslims as an event archetypically linked to conquest. The demand for the predominantly Muslim areas to be granted communal self-rule will inevitably lead to the clamoring for the sharia law in a segregated Muslim France.

Assimilation is no longer a viable option in France, the country that used to pride itself on its ability to turn foreigners into Frenchmen. That was possible with the Italians, Spaniards, Poles and Russians becauyse they were culturally assimilable and because they came in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands even (e.g., the non-French Pieds-Noirs), but not in the millions. The Muslims now account for ten percent of France’s population and for more than one-fifth of all newborns. They live in compact communities in which it is no longer possible to buy wine in a local store or to see Amelie in a cinema. Their leaders regard their faith and culture as superior to that of the host society. Those who have doubts wisely keep quiet.

Young Muslim men direct particular violence against Muslim women who try to follow French ways. Many French-born Arab girls in the ghettos resort to wearing hijab as the only protection against face-slashings and gang rapes. Not having one makes a girl fair game for both. (A knife slash across the cheek from the lip to the ear is common, and known as a “smile.”) Samira Bellil, a third-generation woman of Algerian origin, has written a book about the hell of the suburban ghettos. She was was gang raped by three people she knew, but could not say anything because her family would be dishonored. She recalls the case of a girl who was raped in a school: “Of course, everybody knew, but they’re so afraid of these young men that they prefer to close their eyes. That’s the price of peace in the ghettos.”

This reality is light years away from the desire of Gilles Kepel, President Jacques Chirac’s advisor on Islamic affairs, to create “an Andalusia” of multi-denominational tolerance in France. As French commentator Yves Charles Zarka, director of Cités, has warned, even that price cannot maintain the semblance of peace for long because the roots of “ideological Islamism” are deep and enduring among the young rioters. France is experiencing “a central phase of the more general and mutually conflicting encounter between the West and Islam, which only someone completely blind or of radical bad faith, or possibly of disconcerting naiveté, could fail to recognize.” Outside the ghettos the price of a wider societal “peace” is a complex web of lies and half-truths by which the elite class has sought to conceal the truth about what it has done to the French nation.

The real cause of the French intifada is the enormous growth, dysfunctionality, and arrogant self-confidence of the Muslim immigrant community within France, coupled with the cultural enfeeblement and demographic decline of the French nation. The mix is dangerous. Its result has been stated with haughty arrogance by Tariq Ramadan, professor of Islamic studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and a grandson of Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadan proposes through his teachings and writings that Muslims in the West should conduct themselves not as hyphenated citizens seeking to live by “common values” but as though they were already living in a Muslim-majority society and were exempt on that account from having to make concessions to the faith of others. Muslims in non-Muslim countries should feel themselves entitled to live on their own terms—while, under the terms of Western liberal tolerance, society as a whole should feel obliged to respect that choice.

That “liberal tolerance” and the accompanying “societal obligation,” is the true enemy. “No other race subscribes to these moral principles… because they are weapons of self-annihilation.” They need to be understood for what they are, and discarded, if France is to survive.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: eu; europe; france; french; immigration; islam; muslim; paris; parisriots; riots
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To: Paladin2

Charles Martel = Charles the Hammer


61 posted on 11/04/2005 7:08:43 PM PST by born in the Bronx
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To: austinaero

Dearborn used to be Christian MEs chased out of the ME, but is increasingly turning Muzzie.


62 posted on 11/04/2005 7:08:46 PM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Porterville

When France goes muslim will that be a wake-up call?


63 posted on 11/04/2005 7:09:41 PM PST by luvbach1 (Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: A. Pole
"The real cause of the French intifada is the enormous growth, dysfunctionality, and arrogant self-confidence of the Muslim immigrant community."

The truth at last. None of that poor little thugs feel under-appreciated stuff, which is just making excuses for scum.
64 posted on 11/04/2005 7:10:00 PM PST by Ninian Dryhope (The cause of the French intifada is the arrogant self-confidence of the Muslim immigrants)
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To: A. Pole

bttt


65 posted on 11/04/2005 7:10:25 PM PST by nopardons
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To: born in the Bronx

Well, it looks like we need to get Tom the Hammer out'a the slammer to save the manor.


66 posted on 11/04/2005 7:11:13 PM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Paladin2

I can't say for sure, but I think it's either Dearborn or somewhere near there that a town is expected to endure the call to prayer siren 5 times a day...voted in by the town council. Sorry, my memory fails me on this one.

Saw this on a t-shirt:
"At least if I get Alzheimer's, I won't have Alzheimer's."

That sums up my memory right about now.


67 posted on 11/04/2005 7:11:30 PM PST by austinaero
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To: A. Pole
The trouble would be ended, various Muslim “community leaders” claimed, if the French authorities accepted that there were de facto no-go areas within the country which should be self-administered. “All we demand is to be left alone,” said Mouloud Dahmani, one of the local “emirs” engaged in negotiations to persuade the French to withdraw the police and allow a committee of sheiks, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, to negotiate an end to the hostilities.

There's a name for this sort of thing. It's called annexation. "We claim this area for the Muslim nation. We rule here. It belongs to us."

That's what the Muslims are doing. Annexing France. Little by little.

68 posted on 11/04/2005 7:12:14 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: domenad
PISTOL PISTOL PISTOL!

Good idea, get three of 'em ;)

69 posted on 11/04/2005 7:12:14 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Peace will be here soon

I agree. I think it will be quite different if it comes to America.


70 posted on 11/04/2005 7:12:40 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: timsbella
"This reality is light years away from the desire of Gilles Kepel, President Jacques Chirac’s advisor on Islamic affairs, to create “an Andalusia” of multi-denominational tolerance in France."


The Spanish knew what to do with “an Andalusia”. You run them all out and then you fire up an Inquisition to make damn good and sure that you got each and every one of the buggers out of your country. It worked for five hundred years, but we have forgotten the lessons of history.
71 posted on 11/04/2005 7:13:47 PM PST by Ninian Dryhope (The cause of the French intifada is the arrogant self-confidence of the Muslim immigrants)
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To: luvbach1
france won't go muslim, too many racist in france.
72 posted on 11/04/2005 7:13:49 PM PST by Porterville (Pray for War- Spanish by birth, American by the Grace of God!!!)
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To: domenad
I think it's time I finally went and bought a pisol.

If you do; go to the range and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! Join the NRA, subscribe to Guns & Ammo Magazine, and Shooting Magazine. And PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

The smell of gunpowder, followed up by the scent of Hoppe's No. 9, makes for a great week-end shoot.

73 posted on 11/04/2005 7:13:54 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Popman
hopefully this will be a wake up call for Britain, Germany and Spain

Now that I think about it, you are absolutely correct. Germany has an employment problem, Britain has a slumping manufacturing sector, and Spain has a new pacifist government. Best case scenario: Germany employs hundreds of thousands building mechanized military products and subsequently re-occupies France. The Brits freak out and start manufacturing a huge air defense. Spain can condemn the violence and build a bridge to the African continent. Win-Win-Win!

74 posted on 11/04/2005 7:14:50 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever (Proud to be named as a member of the Radical Right Wing. Vast Right Wing got old.)
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To: A. Pole

Looks like we need a repeat

75 posted on 11/04/2005 7:16:06 PM PST by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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To: sheik yerbouty

Got anybody in mind? ;-)


76 posted on 11/04/2005 7:19:50 PM PST by sneakers
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To: sneakers

Saudi Arabia?


77 posted on 11/04/2005 7:21:01 PM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Ninian Dryhope
Gilles Kepel, President Jacques Chirac’s advisor on Islamic affairs

Let me state that if a government has created a position for an Advisor on Islamic affairs, they will be partitioning land and ceding autonomy in short order. They claim to be "civilized" now. Almost makes one wish that Stalin had run amok for a few decades with France instead of Poland and Czechoslovakia.

78 posted on 11/04/2005 7:22:46 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever (Proud to be named as a member of the Radical Right Wing. Vast Right Wing got old.)
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To: A. Pole

This is not funny. Yes, it points out typical weakness on the part of the French government, but what about innocent people? This is ridiculous!


79 posted on 11/04/2005 7:23:26 PM PST by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: A. Pole

How do you connect a roll with medieval warfare?

What does the battle of Tours (732 AD) and a tasty breakfast food have in common? Well, unless you eat your morning meal with a battle axe or you consume your sausage and eggs while clad in Saracen armor, most would say not much. However, there is an edible connection to the Battle of Tours which should make for some very interesting table conversation. When news of the great victory spread throughout the Frankish countryside, bakers began to fashion bread in the form of the Islamic crescent. The croissant was served up as a testament to Charles and a symbol how he devoured the invader on the battlefield. Today, the French croissant still holds a place of respect at most breakfast tables. And yet, many people are unaware that their favorite roll has a direct relationship to an engagement fought over 1200 years ago.
80 posted on 11/04/2005 7:24:33 PM PST by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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