Posted on 06/20/2021 6:12:21 AM PDT by karpov
L’ISLE-SUR-LA-SORGUE, France—Wedged between river tributaries in southeastern France, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is known for its cobblestone streets and its sun-dappled outdoor market.
But ahead of local elections on Sunday, the debate in this small town, and in others across France, has centered on the fallout from the beheading of a schoolteacher near Paris last fall by a Chechen refugee as well as the slaying of churchgoers in Nice weeks later by a Tunisian migrant.
Across France questions over the place of Islam in French society and tensions over immigration have come to preoccupy many French and have pushed the electorate rightward.
In response, the centrist government of President Emmanuel Macron has leaned toward more conservative policies, cracking down on mosques and other Islamic organizations that it says practice Islamist separatism, Mr. Macron’s term for what the government says is a movement that seeks to override civil laws with religious ones.
But the rightward shift of the electorate has especially favored Marine Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigration National Rally party. Ms. Le Pen has long blamed a string of attacks in recent years on what she considers soft immigration policies that she says allow radical strains of Islam to take root in the country and fuel violence—a link the Macron government rejects.
A recent opinion poll showed 71% of French people were opposed to welcoming new immigrants, compared with 64% in 2018. The share of respondents who believe that welcoming migrants increases the risk of terrorist attacks also rose to 64% from 53%, according to the poll.
“We need more security, and less immigration,” said 62-year-old Bruno Ducres, who was selling earthenware and pottery at L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue’s open-air market on a recent afternoon.
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But...but...Islam is the religion of peace. Surely there’s some mistake!
Quelle surprise!
That’s Islamophobic. /sarc
WOW! Who could possibly have foreseen that? (sarc/off)
It seems like the French had a real long nap, there
Frog is boiled. immigrate 1 million to the US. I’d give them Detroit-let them restore Detwah to it’s French roots.
An arrogant French rightist politician is preferable to an arrogant, ignorant French leftist politician.
It’ll be interesting to observe how the French deal with vote fraud.
There have been quite a few attacks in France by the ungrateful morons they have welcomed into their country. Perhaps this is the time when self-preservation takes the lead and the French reject the left and become France again.
The drama about the “far right” and Anti-Semitism distracts from the importation of Anti-Semites into France from other countries in the name of Big Business wanting to cheapen the labor force in France and Europe.
mark
Sometimes reality rises up and smacks you across the face to get your attention. If you’ve earned it.
“Perhaps this is the time when self-preservation takes the lead and the French reject the left and become France again.”
I wonder if that same sense of self preservation will ever materialize with the white here in the US.
We don’t have a lot of time, a couple of decades at most before whites are a minority. At that point, welcome to South Africa and Zimbabwe.
I read somewhere that they didn’t do as well as expected. I hope that it not correct.
Haters gonna hate...
I have good friends that used to live in Marseilles. They moved out of the city due to aggressive mooslims. They are elderly and on pension. Their pensions were cut to have more money for immigrants. He served in the French military during the North Africa Wars and said that the entire Middle East should be nuked and start over.
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