[Rummyfan]

My colleague Rod Liddle writes elsewhere in these pages about the media’s strange reluctance to use the M-word vis-à-vis the rioting ‘youths’. I’m sure he’s received, as I have, plenty of emails arguing that there’s no Islamist component, they’re not the madrasa crowd, they may be Muslim but they’re secular and Westernised and into drugs. It’s the lack of jobs; these riots derive from conditions peculiar to France, etc. As one correspondent wrote, ‘You right-wing shit-for-brains think everything’s about jihad.’

This concerted effort to paint what's happening as economic and not jihad is the most disturbing aspect of the whole intifada.

[hershey]

Muslim terrorists are like the boogeyman under the bed. If you pretend he's not there, you won't have to gird your loins and protect life and limb. They're terrified of inciting events like Amman, Jordan or the London tube bombing. The real question is what will it take for France to face the fact that putting off the day of reckoning gives Muslim terrorists the upper hand? They feed the tiger bit by bit, until there's nothing left, and the tiger eats them alive.

[goldstategop]

As I mentioned in my mini-essay in post 83 for the benefit of posterity, its not really a question of material deprivation. Its the values, stupid. Mark Steyn would surely agree the matter to the larger picture. Who is Europe? There used to be a Christian answer but in the post-Christian continent, no one knows. There isn't even a French identity. That's what the pan-European project has done in the name of abolishing nationalism; its enfeebled governments and stripped entire populations of the will to defend a nation-state already decreed to be extinct in the new world. A century from now if Eurabia triumphs, all this will be seen as a transition stage from a by-gone age to a new age.

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