Mark Steyn: Early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/08/05 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Tzimisce]

...didn't the French Revolution in the late 1700's start as rioting?

[hattend]

Steyn Rocks BTTT

[PeteB570]

"white flight"????????

They screw up their country and we should let them come here so they can start all over again.

To heck with that. Tell them to go to Africa and start a reverse migration.

[Txsleuth]

I heard a "youth" call Michael Medved's show...and complain that the reason those "youths" in France were doing that is because---"no one listens to the youth these days..and we have to find any way we can to be heard"....yeah, right.

[emiller]

Someone should tell these brain surgeons not to mess with the Krauts.

-- not a real good career move--

Just a safety tip from your uncle emiller

[msnimje]

I am sitting her looking at a "youth" across the room and he is quietly reading a book. I wonder when he will enter the "boys will boys and burn cars" stage.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

As did the Russian Revolution. And the Iranian Revolution.

[Alexander Rubin]

Steyn rocks.

[gcruse]

To a large extent, yes. The riots were over the escalating price of bread in France. Ancillary concerns were with high taxation.

[July 4th]

In Normandy, it's not just the cheese that's soft and runny.

Ouch!

[Siena Dreaming]

Yes, which is why the French can't complain enthusiastically now. They look back on that as "noble" behavior.

[hershey]

Steyn on target, as usual. Plus, he's hilarious.

[Maynerd]

"multiculturalism" - . . . where it was sold as a form of benign cultural cross-pollination: the best of all worlds. But just as often it gives us the worst of all worlds. More than three years ago, I wrote about the "tournante" or "take your turn" - the gang rape that's become an adolescent rite of passage in the Muslim quarters of French cities - and similar phenomena throughout the West: "Multiculturalism means that the worst attributes of Muslim culture - the subjugation of women - combine with the worst attributes of Western culture - licence and self-gratification. Tattooed, pierced Pakistani skinhead gangs swaggering down the streets of northern England areas are as much a product of multiculturalism as the turban-wearing Sikh Mountie in the vice-regal escort."

If the libs have their way, multiculturism will be the death of the west.

[Cicero]

One of the earliest incidents in the French Revolution was the Storming of the Bastille, in which as I recall there were three prisoners at the time, one of them the Marquis de Sade, who was released as a hero or pet of the revolution.

There was a lack of conviction or guilty conscience on the part of the Ancien Regime which looks similar to the self-hating attitude of many of the intellectual elites today.

[Eurotwit]

Shouts of "Allahu Akbar" starting at about 8:37.
http://www.netwerk.tv/templates/videoasx.jsp?f=198614

[PetroniusMaximus]

"...not beturbaned prophet-monkeys."

That will get some play.

[dighton]

Actually, they’re very easy to “recognise”: just look out the window, they’re the ones torching your Renault 5. I’d wager the “French” “youth” find that headline as hilarious as the Jets in West Side Story half a century ago, when they taunted Officer Krupke with “society’s” attempts to “understand” them: we’re depraved on account of we’re deprived. Perhaps some enterprising Paris impresario will mount a production of West Eid Story . . .

[gcruse]

One of the earliest incidents in the French Revolution was the Storming of the Bastille, in which as I recall there were three prisoners at the time, one of them the Marquis de Sade, who was released as a hero or pet of the revolution.

No, the Marquis had already been moved to a different prison.  Of the three prisoners freed, IIRC, two were there for having defaulted on debts and the other was a mental case consigned to the Bastille by his family.  All in all, it wasn't much of a prison break.

De Sade was never a hero of the revolution.