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Heaven help the French; they can't help themselves
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Posted on 11/06/2005 8:17:38 PM PST by quesney
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:17:38 PM PST
by
quesney
To: Tolik
Short, but sweet...and, I think, hammer-worthy.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:18:15 PM PST
by
quesney
To: quesney
The question is how do you give a population with a 7+-child-per-family birthrate a stake in representative government without authoring your childrens' destruction?
To: quesney
Taking of the Bastille
Islam has no respect for any belief but it's own
Islam has no respect for any writings but those derived from Mohammad
Islam will kill those who renounce Mohammad
Their world view is frozen into the 7th century
Identify those who propagate hate speech in Islam
Arrest, Deport, or Imprison
Do not reinforce or reward violent behavior, ever
To: quesney
Ironically, France has done just about everything it can to undermine this effort by the U.S. And now they are reaping what they have sown... and I am enjoying watching it! Especially the part about Chirac taking 11 days to make a statement. What a baffoon!
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:22:26 PM PST
by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
To: quesney
The point is the Muslims in France have never assimilated. Napoleon offered the Jews the same bargain and they have been loyal subjects despite bouts of official anti-Semitism. The Algerian Jews, in contrast to the Muslims, were granted French citizenship by the Cremieux Decree in 1870. Today the French face an insurrection by a hostile Muslim minority that is neither loyal to the French state nor wants better treatment. Whether they can disabuse this minority of the notion that violence can get them what it wants is the unanswered question of the century.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:24:11 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: quesney
I heard one commentator suggest that universal conscription is the best method of acculturation.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:24:37 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(Mesocons for Rice '08)
To: quesney
this happened because france's support for the iraq war. oh wait.....
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:25:12 PM PST
by
Stellar Dendrite
( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
To: thoughtomator
The French have a tradition of convulsive bloodbaths as the means of social realignment. They may decide to return to the roots.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:25:30 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: quesney
There was a time when the French did a wonderful job battling Islam's incursion into Europe. Now they sit by and watch their country and Europe become overrun by the crescent bearing hoards.
Originally, I thought (or maybe hoped) that the French might have been allowing the riots to continue to foster discontent in the country against the current immigration situation. From what I can tell now, is that Chirac, and Villipan have allowed it to get out of control just so that they can make Sarkozy look incompetent.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:25:45 PM PST
by
Sthitch
To: quesney
To credit the author, this was written by Paul Mirengoff of Powerline.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:27:30 PM PST
by
msnimje
("People for the American Way have issued a Fatwah against Alito" --- John Cornyn)
To: Stellar Dendrite
this happened because france's support for the iraq war. oh wait..... Interestingly enough, there was a post on the Corner that said that some of the problems they are currently having now is because of their stance on the liberation of Iraq. The weakness that they showed was not missed by the "Arab street".
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:28:03 PM PST
by
Sthitch
To: quesney
France has done just about everything it can to undermine this effort by the U.S. Well then, there you go.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:30:48 PM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: quesney
"The best hope may be that the U.S. succeeds in its efforts to transform the Middle East to the point that Muslims perceive themselves as having a stake in the democratic project (as American blacks did) and in the global economy."
This, I gotta disagree with. They don't want a "stake" - they want total control and total domination and nothing less, IMHO.
To: Sthitch
And maybe the apparent French State involvement in stealing money from the Oil for Food program.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:32:23 PM PST
by
msnimje
("People for the American Way have issued a Fatwah against Alito" --- John Cornyn)
To: quesney
Their objective is to transform France into an Islamic state What? Who in France said that?
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:32:40 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker!)
To: quesney
We should have let the Germans have them 60 years ago.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:32:45 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: dalereed
Vici France was French, not German
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:34:45 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker!)
To: Sthitch
I think it's because the frenchies are so economically dependent on the North African and arab states. They can't afford the international repercussions.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:35:22 PM PST
by
tsomer
To: msnimje
I don't think that they care about the oil for food scandal. I think that the French showing weakness when it came to facing off with Iraq. The reasons that they gave made it clear that they were scared of their Muslim minority. That gave this minority strength they had not had in the past.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:35:54 PM PST
by
Sthitch
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