Posted on 07/14/2016 7:51:31 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
The Charlie Hebdo attack, the Kosher market, the Bataclan attack, Nice attack...
yet it won't surprise me if we see more liberal "virtue signaling;" putting up quotes "in solidarity" with France, changing their profile pics to a translucent French flag, or even trying to use the occasion to stifle criticism of Muslimism.
France was once one of the great civilizations of Europe. It was the first to follow in our footsteps against tyrannical government. It gave the world great wine, fashion and art as well. It even had representative democracy, of course until the Munich surrender, the surrender at Compiègne, and the rise of Petain. That might be the roots of where France went wrong, falling to fascism when Britain did not, but it did not stop there.
It tried to right the wrong. De Gaulle was heroic in WWII, and until the '60s, France stood with Israel against Pan-Arabism and Nasserism, a dressed up form of Islamism. But after that, France began to make surrendering an even bigger a habit; they started cozying up to the Muslim world, taking a leading role in European Israel and America bashing. They have since also been at the forefront of taking mass Muslim immigration. They even had Communists in their government in the '70s and '80s, and during the Cold War too. They were extremely critical of the Bush admin's war on terrorism in a way that made Michael Moore look tame. They didn't even take part in Afghanistan.
This has contributed to seeing a lot more burkas and hijabs around a formerly fashionable place, no-go zones, sympathizers/apologists for this stuff, and Jewish emigration from France. Even before the Bataclan, they were leading in taking Muslim refugees.
One would've been forgiven if immediately after the Bataclan attack, one might've thought they'd wisen up on immigration and refugees. But what did they do after? "MORE MUSLIM REFUGEES, PLEASE!" To the tune of another 60000!! This mentality has been the epitome of the French national character for decades. While I 1000% sympathize with the victims of radical Muslim jihad everywhere, France's political class' general pussyism, dishonor of America and Israel, two bulwarks against Islamic jihad, and their refusal to face their problem makes it hard to feel sorry for that country on the whole.
Certainly, the French political establishment reaps what it sows.
I didn’t say innocents; I said French political elites. Even tho they weren’t among today’s physical victims, they have to live with what they brought about.
If some French nimrod had written this about us after 9/11, we’d be outraged.
French elites need Muslims to scrub their shitters for cheap.
>> France was once one of the great civilizations of Europe
I understand the frustration, but never underestimate France.
Prayers for Nice.
I have French ancestry...and I agree with the above message.
Leni
Yeah whatever.
“French ancestry.”
but America didn’t surrender back then; we had just beat the Bolshevik Union and Saddam Hussein in Desert Storm 10 years earlier, not to mention the obvious WWI and WWII that even kept France a free country.
Has the candlelight vigil been scheduled yet?
What about the moment of silence?
And displaying the french colors on buildings?
And what about warnings against islamophobia?
“Back then?” That is your distinction? [snort]
Leni
that was before Obama. Even with him, we’re STILL less of surrenderers than France.
France was great, right up until Yorktown.
After that, not so much.
They excel in dropped weapons. They do look stylish, though.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea 8:7
Let me second or third that, please go away.
FIY, regardless how erudite you think you sound, a vanity is not “News/Activism.” It belongs in “chat.”
:o)
I felt this way after the attack in Paris. These kind of people supported multiculturalism, thinking we could all somehow get along. While my sympathies go to all the victims, I can’t help how many still believe that religious or ethnic differences aren’t important.
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