Posted on 11/13/2005 2:56:06 AM PST by mal
For many years our family had a house in southern France on the edge of the marshes of the Camargue, not far from the beautiful city of Montpellier. When we first arrived it seemed lost in time. It was bull fighting, sea fishing, farming country with hot summers, cold winters and the treacherous mistral wind — la France profonde. Then the government rapidly developed the beautiful coast for mass tourism and a lot of building went on everywhere. But our village remained much the same, with a bull ring and a church in the main square full of plane trees, a few cafes, a smart pharmacy and not much else. For years we were the only foreigners and while nobody paid us much attention, everyone was pleasant enough. By the end we were on friendly terms with quite a few people.
I say by the end, because we left. We sold the house a few years ago because the atmosphere of the village had gone sour. There was something almost frightening in the air. It is strange to me that people have been so surprised by the past few weeks of burning and rioting in French cities, including Montpellier. It has been obvious for at least 10 years, even to a foreign visitor, that something was badly wrong.
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It wasn't all that long ago all Chirac could do was rant against any American words getting into their vocabulary.
They're reaping what they sowed and they will never change.
I didnt say it was perfect. But its much better than anywhere else in that at least a percentage of immigration occurs with targeted national interest in mind.
Zawahiri is a doctor. Sami al-Arian is a professor.
Most of the rioters were born in France. France is there country, not Algeria. Are they not entitled to their own homeland where they can be free of French oppression? Perhaps Pres. Bush and Condi can broker a deal between the French government and the mullahs who rule the muslim localities. They can call it the road map to peace which results in these good people finally getting a country of their own. Of course there is the question of who gets Paris, but since the Eiffel tower is roughly shaped like a mosque anyways...
Hm... thats a well made point, of course.
"It is perhaps pointless to look back at the shamefully irresponsible immigration policies that have brought so many European countries to this explosive point. It is pointless to wonder how anyone in authority could have imagined that it would be a good idea to dump enormous numbers of poorly educated Third World immigrants from different societies into unprepared and unwilling, sometimes racist, European host cultures, into hellish high-rise suburbs from Seville to Rotterdam, in numbers so huge that integration became ever more unlikely and ghettos more inevitable. It is done now."
Bears repeating, pointless or not. And the USA better start to re-think our own seeming desire to bring the entire third world here by next Friday.
Good point. Large percentages of the Muslim terrorist leadership are well-educated (e.g., Zawahiri was a physician), or wealthy, and/or of elite backgrounds.
The emphasis on poverty and French racism (which is real) is a smokescreen.
Bin Laden himself comes from a wealthy family.
It's not soley poverty or position in life that creates monsters. This is what the liberals want us to believe. This includes liberal writers and media big mouths who are flooding us with unabated BS about France.
A perverted religion infesting the entire world creates monsters, also.
Leni
It wasn't determined in the sense that it was tested in court.
What happened was that Canadian and world-wide protests brought pressure to bear against the McGuinty gov't's plans and they backed down.
The gov't took it a step further with plans to prohibit all religious based tribunals, Catholic, Jewish etc.
Wow... and a good thing too. Why even have a national legal framework if noone will follow it. Who is this McGuinty and what the hell has he been smoking?
yikes!!!! good find
bttt
__Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne in a 1974 UN speech.
>They only imported these people to replace
>the lack of children being produced for cheap labor.
>Very poor planning on their part.
Now you know why Japan put so much effort into developing robots. They did not want to deal with immigrant labor and mixed marriages. They did not want to dilute their national identity with foreign genes.
er... ok...
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