FRANCE -- Villepin acknowledges a racial divide

Associated Press ^ | November 8, 2005 | Associated Press

[AFA-Michigan]

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday that France faces a "moment of truth" in fighting racial discrimination that has inflamed tempers in suburbs with large immigrant populations. Speaking to a special session of the National Assembly called to address the wave of unrest, Villepin said France faced a choice between "division or coming together."

"We must be lucid: The Republic is at a moment of truth," Villepin said. "What is being questioned is the effectiveness of our integration model."

Villepin apologized for a recent incident in which a police tear-gas bomb landed near a mosque, adding to ill-feeling in poor suburban housing projects where many Muslims live.

He acknowledged that jobseekers with foreign-sounding names were not always given equal consideration with applicants with traditional French-sounding names when they presented their resumes.

The minister said a return to calm was the "absolute priority" after the violence and arson across the country, but urged lawmakers to read the incidents as "a warning and an appeal."

"The struggle against all discriminations must become a priority for our national community," he said. "They are a reality today for all the inhabitants of troubled neighborhoods when they look for housing, a job or even when they want access to leisure activities."

Villepin said discrimination is a "daily and repeated infringement of our national ideals."

"These discriminations have a considerable cost for our community," he said. "They deprive our country of talent, and the determination to succeed like others. They feed _ notably in the young _ frustration and the feeling of not belonging to the national community."

[Clemenza]

In my travels in France, I have found that there is ALOT of racism in the country, much moreso than in the U.S., but I would assume less than say, Eastern Europe. It cuts both ways, unfortunately.

A key problem is that the French see someone "of color" as not "truly French" even if they are third generation. They are also rather "open" about their hatred of certain groups. As far as "les Beurs" are concerned, their "cultural Islamism" (even if they don't go to mosque) and parochial attitudes have bred a resentment toward the white majority.

[Aquinasfan]

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday that France faces a "moment of truth" in fighting racial discrimination

The stupidity runs deep.

[wideawake]

a police tear-gas bomb landed near a mosque

The papers I have read almost uniformly describe the tear gas canister as having been fired into a mosque.

Completely different.

MSM for you.

[USConstitutionBuff]

Thus the evil nativist/racist nature of Socialism rears its ugly head. Just as the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave an unfair advantage for government subsidies to white farmers and drove black farmers almost entirely out of the business. If your in charge of just GIVING things away, you may as well give them to someone who looks/speaks/acts/believes just like you. Now when you are SELLING things, you don't care about the color of their skin, just the color of their money.

Will these socialist racist twits ever learn?

[Clock King]

Je$$e and the other poverty pimps have sure been quiet. I mean, the whole MSM spin is these "youths" are oppressed, impoverished minorities....

No $$$ in it for them. Not worth their time.

[Itzlzha]

Villepin apologized for a recent incident in which a police tear-gas bomb landed near a mosque, adding to ill-feeling in poor suburban housing projects where many Muslims live.
He acknowledged that jobseekers with foreign-sounding names were not always given equal consideration with applicants with traditional French-sounding names when they presented their resumes.

Oh Le Boo-Hoo...

Reap what you have sown ya damn Frogs...oh, and some tips for your future...

Learn to eat with your left-hand...Buy stock in Burqa factories now; there will be a BIG increase in Euro sales soon...and prepare to rename your monuments..."the Arc de Muhammed"..."Champs de Saladin"..."The Dome of the Louvre"...your capital is now "Paristine", where Muhammed made a rest stop on his way to Allah's side....and all of Eurabia will demand the "right of return" from the time of the Moors.

I'm gonna LOVE watching the Frog's stiff necks bow towards Mecca...get ready for this sight more often...

It's going to be fun!

[YOUGOTIT]

From the AP "Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday that France faces a "moment of truth" in fighting racial discrimination...."

So this is not a war by radical Islam? It seems like the media has won again and this is all do to poverty and race. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This is a war between culture. One of freedom and one of slavery.

[Gritty]

Villepin said France faced a choice between "division or coming together."

Uh, Dominique Ole Buddy, I have bad news for you. The choice was already made - by Muhammad, around 1400 years ago. The only "coming together" acceptable to these "large immigrant populations" and their leaders will be the Infidel French either being eliminated or becoming Muslim French and part of the House Of Umma, not the sovereign Republic of France.

When you get that concept, dear boy, maybe you will start to do something about the situation. Until then, we just expect more high fallutin words from you and your clueless socialist ilk.

[Leg Olam]

"These discriminations have a considerable cost for our community," he said. "They deprive our country of talent, and the determination to succeed like others. They feed _ notably in the young _ frustration and the feeling of not belonging to the national community."

Of course to the apologist Villepin the 'discriminations' are those of the French not the Muslims who don't want to assimilate into the 'national community'. They would rather continue the practices that ruined their countries and made them flee to Europe in the first place. The Muslim immigrants may have some 'talents' but I don't think they are anything the French need or want.

[eureka!]

Re#25 That, and the fact that he and his ilk are as hated by the Muslims as any other westerner...

[bfree]

It sounds like the french are getting ready to pull the grand old WHITE FLAG!!!

[Hank Rearden]

[Dominique de Villepin] acknowledged that jobseekers with foreign-sounding names were not always given equal consideration with applicants with traditional French-sounding names when they presented their resumes.

And I don't seek out "men" to hire with names like Jean-Marie. Or Dominique, for that matter.

[montag813]

Villepin: We are guilty.

I agree! It is time to send in U.N. peacekeepers, set up refugee camps throughout France, and immediately call for an Oslo-style peace conference to determine the disposition of disputed land currently occupied by France.

[munin]

No! it is Bush's fault

[Mr. Mojo]

Yep, a two-state solution.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

I wish I could play the violin.

I want to fiddle as Paris burns.

Yeah, I know. Shadenfreude.

[munin]

Yougotit absolutely right, this is war, oh,Joan where are you in your country' moment of need?

[muawiyah]

Clue ~ change their names ~ get baptised ~ no one will notice, particularly not the French.

[crazycat]

What a jerk, apologiseing for everything.

Bin Laden etc must be laughing their asses off, listening to this pathetic crap.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Je$$e and the other poverty pimps have sure been quiet

Yes, I think Jackass, Sharpton, Farrakhan and the whole gang should go to France and stay until all the arabs and black Africans are fully integrated into French society. I would chip in for one-way tickets, except that I understand Jackass has become quite wealthy in his years of public advocacy.