French Journalist Convicted For "Racist" Speech‎ (Islamization alert)

The New American ^ | Feb. 2011 | Cort Kirkwood

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French Journalist Convicted For "Racist" Speech‎ The New American - Cort Kirkwood

Eric Zemmour, a conservative French journalist and outspoken foe of the Islamic ascendency in France, was convicted this week of inciting racism. Like Dutch politician Geert Wilders and former screen siren Brigitte Bardot, Zemmour speaks his mind on subjects that the leftst elites who rule Europe consider verboten.

Zemmour's "controversial" remarks included his observation that most drug dealers in France were black or Arab, and that employers "have the right" to deny employment to those two groups of people.b..."He advocates a return to authorizing only Christian first names for children born in France, a restriction lifted in 1993; his ancestors in Algeria had adopted French names, he noted. And he hailed the ban on the public wearing of the full facial veil as a way 'to oblige people to become authentically French.'

“The state needs to do its job, which it’s always done, of imposing constraints,” he said. “For me, France is the ban on the veil.”

He says that his views are those of a silent majority, French people who seek the return of the resplendent France of de Gaulle, a proud, imagined France unencumbered by the guilt of the post-colonial era. Efforts to integrate the country’s immigrant populations have plainly failed, he said, and the country ought to revert to the “assimilationist” approach he says it abandoned decades ago.

“We believe that we have the best way of life in the world, the best culture, and that one must thus make an effort to acquire this culture,” he said. By contrast, he said, the notion of a country made great by the diversity of its people and values “is an American logic.”

Asked why he believes in the superiority of the French model, he said only that “there is a singular art of living” in France.

“For me, France is civilization with a capital ‘C,’ ” he added.

In other words, Zemmour is a French patriot.

LIke Wilders and Bardot

Zemmour's troubles are akin to those of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, who is fighting racism and hate speech charges filed because of his comments on Islam and his film Fitna, which connected the dots between modern Muslim terrorism and Koran injunctions. Wilders recently won the right to a new trial after a review board found that the judges in his previous trial were biased. He has been fighting two years for the right to speak freely and to tell the truth about Islam.

French authorities have prosecuted Brigitte Bardot, the former actress and animal rights advocate, five times for her politically incorrect remarks about Muslims.

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[John Valentine]

By contrast, he said, the notion of a country made great by the diversity of its people and values “is an American logic.”

Not on your life, mon ami.

Au contraire, ASSIMILATION is the American logic.

Remember 'E pluribus unum"? Out of many ONE?

'Diversity' is a leftist snare designed to dissolve social cohesion, and until the nitwits took charge in the US, it was always seen as such. But never worry, we're about to send the rascals packing, and so should France.

I think Canada may still be clinging to this 'diversity' notion. Perhaps they would be willing to accept a few malcontent refugees from a newly Francified France.

Or, maybe not.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

The notion of a country made great by the diversity of its populations is a strong Canadian notion. But the elite who push such a notion are in fact wanting to create the friction. Too bad most folks often do not see how they are being manipulated to accept the destruction of their own societies as the positive notion of multiculturalism is the poison to which they are forced to accept as wonderful.

[Cacique]

Btt

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Diversity without assimilation is like a ship with a huge hole in it’s bottom. Sooner or later, lacking assimilation, the ship will sink.

Problems occur when the diverse members within a society refuse to assimilate. Rather than assimilate, they demand the dominate society alter it’s traditions, in order to accommodate their traditions.

[llandres]

“By contrast, he said, the notion of a country made great by the diversity of its people and values “is an American logic.”

Yes, you picked the one statement out of that article that most struck me as well. He has the typical French arrogance and condescension toward America, yet France (and most of Europe) is further behind the Islamization eight-ball than we are, because of their own liberal “diversity” thinking that they now realize - perhaps too late - was a fatal error.

I’m not sure foreigners who don’t live here can ever really “get it” about our culture and independent spirit, because there is definitely an American culture and an American spirit, unique in all the world.

Despite the dangerous economic and social path BHO is trying to drag us down, we the people have GOT to stand up to him and the left, and vehemently resist the mistakes that Europe has made (and even warns us against) while we still have time. Once unleashed, that evil genie can never be pushed back into the bottle.

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What a great graphic.