Posted on 05/15/2006 11:41:12 AM PDT by Hillarys nightmare
CBN.com – PARIS -- 2006 could prove to be a very dangerous year for Europe, especially for France.
Jacques Chirac may have thought that opposing America and Israel would keep France safe from terror, but it has not.
Christmas Eve 1994, seven years before 9-11, Islamic terrorists from Algeria tried to fly an Airbus into the Eiffel Tower. They were stopped by French commandos at an airport in Marseilles, where the terrorists were waiting on a full load of jet fuel. They had already packed the plane with dynamite.
Europe has lived under the threat of Islamic terror far longer than the United States, but it has largely been in a state of denial, as high immigrant birthrates from Muslim nations turn Europe into Eurabia, and Islamic terrorism becomes a homegrown product.
The car-burning "Intifada" in the Paris suburbs only fed a growing sense of doom that is now pervasive in France.
Calm has returned to the night in Paris, but the political earthquake that resulted from this rioting is still reverberating. As far-fetched as it may sound, French intellectuals now debate whether the French state is dead.
Author and philosopher Gilles William Goldnadel said, "Yes, I think we're in that kind of situation in France. The state is dead."
Goldnadel says that the traditional state has given way to a leftist fantasy.
"In the quasi-religious system that I have described, the foreigner is kind of an ideal martyr, and the white European native is like an ideal devil,” Goldnadel remarked. “The national state is demonized, and is seen as anachronistic -- old-fashioned.”
The French government's response to the riots was so weak that some citizens began to form militias to defend themselves, something unheard of in France, except during times of revolution.
Influential author and journalist Michel Gurfinkiel remarked, “The moment people start talking about self-defense, militias, (vigilante) groups patrolling, it means that the state is collapsing."
Gurfinkiel said, "We are paying, now, the cost for this lack of political courage."
As cars and churches burned, government and media elites seemed to care more about police brutality and the grievances of the rioters than with stopping them, and that has created somewhat of a public rebellion.
Polls show that more French than ever now support the immigration policies of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Le Pen has called for French citizens with African or Asian ancestry to be deported.
Another post-riot poll showed that one-third of all French now willingly admit they are "racist." The figure jumped to almost 50 percent among rural French.
This in a nation that has been fond of saying it is the least racist nation in the developed world.
In response to a poll question, Would you call yourself a racist?, 33 percent of all French said Yes, while 48 percent of rural French replied in the affirmative.
But the riots changed a lot of things. After years of making jokes about the American-led war on terror, the terror threat to France is now said to be high, with the media reporting that Islamic terrorists have smuggled surface-to-air missiles into Europe to shoot down French planes.
Cozying up to the Arab and Muslim world against George W. Bush was supposed to prevent the rioting from happening, but the November riots should not have surprised any Frenchman who was paying attention.
Conservative leader Alain Griotteray predicted 25 years ago, in one his books, that there would be immigrant riots.
CBN News asked Griotteray, “You saw this coming?”
Griotteray replied, “Yes. France has accepted a lot of immigrants without worrying at all about how it was going to get them to fit in. So I had planned for this sort of thing. I knew it would happen.”
The rioting was spun by French elites and the media who did not want to believe it was an intifada, but a crime spree by a frustrated minority.
“The first thing to do is to tell the French people the truth about what's happening -- because the media, the press, and the television do not tell the truth,” Griotteray said.
Gurfinkiel said, “We know that many of the riots were perpetrated with ‘allahu Akbar,’ ‘God is the greatest,’ as a war cry. We know the subculture which is shared by most of these people entails a "revenge war" or holy war against the Christian and Jewish west.”
However, terror expert Olivier Guitta says the French Muslim Brotherhood has been at work in the suburbs for years.
“The Islamic radicals that are in those suburbs are telling all those immigrants, you know, you might be French by passport, but you're not,” Griotteray declared. “You're first and foremost a Muslim. That's your identity.”
French schools in the Paris suburbs, taken over by immigrant gangs and Islamic radicals, have been dubbed "the lost territories of the republic." And the future, in which the high Islamic birthrate swamps the French republic, has become the predominant national nightmare.
Conservative writer Jean-Christophe Mounicq stated, “If we have 10 million Muslims living in France and the Muslims cannot live in a democracy. If Islam is incompatible with democracy -- then it's a terrible threat for France.”
It is, in fact, a threat faced by much of Western Europe. After the London bombings, nearly a third of British Muslims agreed with the statement that "Western society is decadent and immoral, and that Muslims should seek to bring it to an end." (Source: YouGov/ The Daily Telegraph)
Griotteray remarked, “I think the first thing is to understand clearly what is happening in the world. (The attack on) the Twin Towers in New York is really the proof that we are being aggressed. And there is a new style of war. And the whole world is at war, at present.”
The French government's weak response to last year’s rioting means more rioting is likely in 2006. A major terrorist attack is not longer out of the question.
Gurfinkiel said, "We are paying, now, the cost for this lack of political courage."
I couldn't help thinking of the Minutemen at this point...
It begs the question. Is it too late for France? Obviously, it is if Chirac remains the model for a French leader.
I wonder if Johnny Depp will be moving back to the US?
Too bad the French have no right to keep and bear arms...
Stop the bum...no bums allowed.....
except in Congress!!
"What's that you say Jacque? You can't understand how playing politics as usual failed you?"
Although, when it comes to the french, schaudenfreude is de rigueur, in this case I would not be so smug.
This line in the article...
"The French government's response to the riots was so weak that some citizens began to form militias to defend themselves, something unheard of in France, except during times of revolution."
...could easily apply to us today - that's how our minutemen came about.
And I'm afraid tonight's speech by our "el presidente" ain't going to alleviate that need. We're well on our way to losing our country as well. The question is are we going to rise up and stop it or take this invasion lying down?
“The Islamic radicals that are in those suburbs are telling all those immigrants, you know, you might be French by passport, but you're not,” Griotteray declared. “You're first and foremost a Muslim. That's your identity.”
Substitute "American" for "French" and "Latino" for "Muslim" and you've got what is being said in Mexico and here in California.
Wars and rumors of war.
Actually, IIRC, they do. Maybe not to the same extent as the USA, but they can own hunting rifles, shotguns, etc. They have a very active hunting culture.
They may not have a right to self defense as we understand it in the US, but who cares about the police when the Muzzies are burning stuff your neighborhood?
"The French government's response to the riots was so weak that some citizens began to form militias to defend themselves, something unheard of in France, except during times of revolution."
The people in power ALWAYS reach a point when they WILL NOT see the forest for the trees. See the USA and the amnesty thing for a GREAT example of this.
Yeah, it seems like their political predicament is eerily like that of our own in some respects.
But to answer your question; I'd have to say, Yes and no.
Those like us( the minute men) will indeed take a stand. But we both know that many will not, because they have been so long influenced by liberal ideology, that they can no longer distinguish between right or wrong, and are incapable of any action.
Don't get discouraged - the grass-root support for the minutemen is huge. And remember, it's never the masses that lead the revolution, but the few, true believers.
It's France that's the quagmire!
How true.
I wanted to watch the speech before I addressed this, but it seems as though you are right.
While he said much of the so called "right things", (like sending the Guard to the border) it's clear that he is trying to please the libs amongst us at the same time.
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