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Paris Burning: How Empires End
Human Events Online ^
| 11/7/05
| Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 11/07/2005 2:42:16 PM PST by B Knotts
The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.
So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the history of the empires of the West.
This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.
At this writing, the riots are entering their 12th night and have spread to Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice. Thousands of cars and buses have been torched and several nursery schools fire-bombed. One fleeing and terrified woman was doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While almost all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but are not French.
The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buchanan; eurabia; france; frenchriots; immigration; insurgency; intifada; islam; islamism; jihad; parisriots; patbuchanan; quagmire; surrender; uprising
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To: B Knotts
France is a socialist country. If the Muslims take over the running of the country it is indeed lost. Under socialism there is no way to accumulate capital even if the Islamics knew what to do with it.
All great civilizations were pulled down by exactly the same mobs now destroying France. The French are so involved with the Middle East its leaders dare not do anything harsh to the rioters.
France must make up its mind in the next few days whether it wants to continue as a civilized nation or surrender to a group of people who have not advanced in 2000 years.
To: B Knotts
France is a socialist country. If the Muslims take over the running of the country it is indeed lost. Under socialism there is no way to accumulate capital even if the Islamics knew what to do with it.
All great civilizations were pulled down by exactly the same mobs now destroying France. The French are so involved with the Middle East its leaders dare not do anything harsh to the rioters.
France must make up its mind in the next few days whether it wants to continue as a civilized nation or surrender to a group of people who have not advanced in 2000 years.
To: B Knotts
France is a socialist country. If the Muslims take over the running of the country it is indeed lost. Under socialism there is no way to accumulate capital even if the Islamics knew what to do with it.
All great civilizations were pulled down by exactly the same mobs now destroying France. The French are so involved with the Middle East its leaders dare not do anything harsh to the rioters.
France must make up its mind in the next few days whether it wants to continue as a civilized nation or surrender to a group of people who have not advanced in 2000 years.
To: B Knotts
France is a socialist country. If the Muslims take over the running of the country it is indeed lost. Under socialism there is no way to accumulate capital even if the Islamics knew what to do with it.
All great civilizations were pulled down by exactly the same mobs now destroying France. The French are so involved with the Middle East its leaders dare not do anything harsh to the rioters.
France must make up its mind in the next few days whether it wants to continue as a civilized nation or surrender to a group of people who have not advanced in 2000 years.
To: Irontank
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Foresight, indeed. Perhaps Gramsci read Lincoln. Perhaps, Teddy K, Chuck Schumer, et al have been studying as well as drinking.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:26:19 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: B Knotts
Good point! Thank you, my *nix friend.
86
posted on
11/07/2005 3:27:12 PM PST
by
rdb3
(Get rid of all of the repetitive redundancy, why don't ya?)
To: B Knotts
He's wrong from what I've seen and read in claiming this has much to do with Islam. The rioters are not jihadis they are hip hop thugs. It's the Rodney King riots in Arabic, not a fundamentalist Islamic revolt.
To: Dionysiusdecordealcis
I think Buchanan is right to point out that huge bodies of unassimilated immigrants in the long run doom any culture.It certainly doomed the American Indian's......
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:28:53 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: Stepan12
"Pat will not take the trouble to understand the Muslims because he's having to much fun bashing the Jews and watching them get bashed by the Muslims." If he could only see that Islam is much like Hitler's Nazism. In fact Hitler had high regards for Muhammad, and modeled Nazism on Muhammad's successes.
To: R.W.Ratikal
Did you HAVE to post it 6 times?
90
posted on
11/07/2005 3:29:46 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: B Knotts
Funny how he sides against the Moslems except when they kill Israelis: then he sympathizes and finds excuses for the (his word) barbarians.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:33:15 PM PST
by
Sabramerican
(Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
To: Spiff
The largest immigrant group in the United States is composed of people born in Mexico Snapshot in time does not hold 45 years into the future as claimed by Patsy. By this rationale, we've been overrun by the Germans (how is your Deutsch these days?), the Irish (kiss the Blarney Stone lately?), and the Chinese (use chopsticks for all your meals?).
Two examples. My friend's family immigrated to the U.S. from Hong Kong back in the 1940s. He speaks with a Texas drawl, wears cowboy boots, and is also fluent in Cantonese and Spanish. He's conservative Republican and married to a red-headed lass who is an FBI special agent. My mother's family immigrated to this country from Mexico about the same time. Two generations later, I'm the only one in the family who speaks Spanish...and I learned it in school. No one in my family has the slightest inclination to give anything to Mexico. We're Americans. We've assimilated.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:33:31 PM PST
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: alloysteel
A Tex-Mex guy I work with said many Arabs were living on the periphery of the Mexican neighborhoods (Chicago). Most moved out right after 9-11.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:33:56 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Sane, and have the papers to prove it!)
To: B Knotts
Buchanan is no doubt a smart man, but sometimes I don't think his ideas are consistent. If the policies he endorses today were followed, there would be no Western civilization, and certainly no United States.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:38:43 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
To: Dionysiusdecordealcis
And are you so sure you understand Coughlin, if you are so convinced Buchanan is his acolyte? Coughlin was an isolationist who found Zionist banker conspiracies in everything. His anti-semitic views led to the Church ordering him to cease his radio broadcasts. Buchanan's father was a big Coughlin supporter. Given that Buchanan's isolationist and anti-semitic views are identical to Coughlin, the fruit didn't fall far from the tree. Buchanan still argues that Hitler didn't want war with the U.S...and places the blame on FDR and the Jews for American involvement in the war in Europe.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:39:04 PM PST
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: B Knotts
Colonization of the mother countries by subject peoples is the last chapter in the history of empiresand the next chapter in the history of the Westthat is now coming to a close Hey Pat .... lighten up .... Islam is not taking over the world and Mexico is not our enemy. Our main problem is a congress that puts political party and personal power ahead of country. This is very easy to fix ... in upcoming elections, FIRE THEM.
96
posted on
11/07/2005 3:42:00 PM PST
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
Comment #97 Removed by Moderator
To: B Knotts
"Agreed. There may be a threat to a cohesive American culture, but at least it's not a threat to our very liberty."
A threat to a cohesive American culture IS a threat to our very liberty.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:42:44 PM PST
by
MonaMars
To: Sabramerican
"Funny how he sides against the Moslems except when they kill Israelis: then he sympathizes and finds excuses for the (his word) barbarians."People don't understand that Pat is for America first, not Israel.
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:42:52 PM PST
by
ex-snook
(Vote gridlock for the most conservative government)
To: Southack
The white people are the French, the arab immigrants are not
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posted on
11/07/2005 3:44:13 PM PST
by
avile
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