Posted on 11/10/2005 8:21:39 AM PST by TheShaz
Perhaps the biggest absurdity, at the moment, is the continuing, somewhat distracted response of the international media -- especially the French media -- to the revolution that has begun in France. They persist in characterizing the revolutionists as disadvantaged French youth, and pretend their uprising has only incidentally to do with Islam.
I see Dominique de Villepin -- the French prime minister who, as foreign minister, was so generous with advice to the U.S. and Israel -- has now prepared the rewards package for the rioters. Lots of new spending on social services and "opportunities" programmes in the 751 sensitive urban zones -- which is the official state euphemism for Muslim ghettoes. Also, special favours for the imams who agree to sign limp-wristed fatwas against rioting after curfew. This is a joke, I refuse to report it seriously.
And part of the joke is that, since long before they were born, the Muslim young raised in these ghettoes were in fact prevented from getting the usual sorts of jobs, and thereby insinuating themselves into bourgeois French society. And this because the powerful, leftwing unions of France -- themselves quite willing to riot for results -- have long since achieved 30-hour weeks, high pay, and perpetual employment for three-quarters of the labour force. It is an arrangement, secured in a form of social contract with the French state, that shuts out everyone else. Tamper with THAT, and the rest of France will be back on the streets.
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Canada finally gets it. NIce post.
Radical ideologies abhor a cultural vacuum.
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Now that is just silly.
The strange thing - even if Old Europe for the most part "figures it out". What can they do?
On so many levels all I can see is Old Europe dying off left and right and Muslims taking over. I will credit them for this, they do know how to play the waiting game with perfection. They just need to multiply like bunnies and momemtum does the rest.
Next stop: Notre Dame becomes a mosque within 10 years.
Best part of the article IMHO were near the end.
Childish yes :-)
But I was amazed on how good (at least IMHO) the article was. The kicker was how the writer pointed out how Canada can and just might also suffer from the same fate.....and that is just too close for comfort.
I agree, I don't see any other future but Old Europe disappearing into a Muslim Caliphate. Even if they suddenly began having lots of babies, Christians and everyone else not Muslim, it's too late. We could try and persuade Mexicans and other Western Hemisphere illegals to cross the pond and colonize Old Europe, but it'd be a tough sell. It's easier to head for the US.
Canada's been looking for more immigrants. They should be careful who they let in and in the meantime, take a long look at the fruits of 'multiculturalism'.
"...sensitive urban zones." Wasn't that a CD by Andreas Vollenweider ?
That's the problem in Old Europe - Christianity going downhill in Old Europe is the root casue - The current "Norm" for Old Europe is not based around the family unit - It has become, in the main, a pagan, childless, hedonistic dump.
What could possibly induce Mexican illegals to go to europe? Who would pay for their re-location there? Which european country would admit them?
I'm so torn by this article.
Which do I hate more, Islam or Socialism?
Islam or Socialism?
It's so tough to decide.
Astonishing that a Canadian paper had the courage to print it. Good find.
"We could try and persuade Mexicans and other Western Hemisphere illegals to cross the pond and colonize Old Europe, but it'd be a tough sell. It's easier to head for the US."
well we could draft Carnival Cruises and send them over in style just a one way trip though
ping
A free plane ride, a job, a phone card, and a trip home every two years. The program could kill two birds with one hombre`
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