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France’s insane student protests are really about a growing radical Muslim population that wants to get rid of democracy
NY Post ^ | 10 Oct 2026 | Domi9nic Green

Posted on 10/11/2026 9:31:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The French are revolting. It’s a tradition with them. Riots are as French as croissants, adultery and the 35-hour work week.

France’s current riots may, however, presage the fall of the Fifth Republic.

Mobs of students in the streets. Schools going up in flames. Police using tear gas and flash-ball guns. Hundreds of injuries and thousands of arrests.

The spark for the disorder was strikes by left-wing teachers and other public-sector workers, including firemen. The students besieged their schools at once.

The truants claim they’re protesting overcrowded and underfunded schools.

Nothing says “Please address schoolroom overcrowding” like setting fire to a fireman and filming it.

Nothing says “Please raise the biggest education budget in the OECD” like a masked youth kicking a policewoman in the head.

The disorder is backed by the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party. Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is second in the polls for next year’s presidential elections.

The riots, French intelligence agencies told a government crisis meeting on Oct. 1, originated as “an operation organized by LFI (France Unbowed) and its proxies on the far left.”

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...a people and their state are coming apart. The political center cannot hold. The markets are turning on France’s debt-loaded economy.

France is one of the great democratic nations. It is a nuclear-armed Security Council member, and one of the two pillars of the European Union. But no nation is too big to fail.

1 posted on 10/11/2026 9:31:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

They want to get rid of democracy? Dig a little deeper, Mr Green.


2 posted on 10/11/2026 9:34:53 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Rummyfan

We seem to be headed for a world filled with “Presidents for Life.”

The idea of Democracy is coming to an end. We should have known it was being attacked when ‘Rats began their mantra to “defend” it.


3 posted on 10/11/2026 9:38:38 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Rummyfan

I was in France in 2016.

The motorcyclists were unhappy about something.

A huge area had its streets filled with motorcycles.

At the appointed time they roared off.

There was no violence whatsoever. The police peacefully stood by and watched.


4 posted on 10/11/2026 9:39:07 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: stanne

What did you mean by that?


5 posted on 10/11/2026 9:40:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn )
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To: stanne
> They want to get rid of democracy? Dig a little deeper, Mr Green. <

I had to think about that comment for a minute. Yeah, you’re right.


6 posted on 10/11/2026 9:44:32 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Why are signs around the world always in English?


7 posted on 10/11/2026 9:57:07 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Rummyfan

Too late to save The beautiful French Culture, its history,and cannot be saved.


8 posted on 10/11/2026 10:05:40 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

> Why are signs around the world always in English? <

Good question. My guess: English is kinda the common language everywhere these days. You can reach a wider audience when your message in English.


9 posted on 10/11/2026 10:07:34 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Rummyfan

Of course Islam. Tyranny of the minority. Fight back, submit, convert or die. French civilization with its rich history is worth saving. Otherwise it will be extinguished and any record of it will be gone.


10 posted on 10/11/2026 10:08:55 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Leaning Right

Maybe it’s a question of reaching the only audience that counts.


11 posted on 10/11/2026 10:12:50 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Your question almost answers itself. The freedom to be righteously indignant, take action, and throw money around without thought is greatest in the English-speaking countries. Get your message in front of a camera using English and you’ll draw allies and funds from somewhere!


12 posted on 10/11/2026 10:15:22 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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From the looks of it (as I observe comfortably in my recliner safely in a nicely Red State in the USA) it's not a student protest, it's an obedient students' protest.

- Well organized.

- Well funded.

13 posted on 10/11/2026 10:15:39 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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> Tyranny of the minority. <

Right. Dr. Peter Hammond did a study on this. When Muslims are less than 5% of a nation’s population, they are pleasant and peaceful neighbors.

Things change at around 5%. Then the Muslims start to demand more and more. Not ask, but demand.

Their threats become real at around 10%.

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France is now around 12% Muslim. And in some areas, that number is much greater.


14 posted on 10/11/2026 10:16:09 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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There goes the Wine industry and replaced by Poppies and Opium


15 posted on 10/11/2026 10:17:32 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Leaning Right

OMG , the Trash Bag protest ,LOL


16 posted on 10/11/2026 10:18:07 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“Why are signs around the world always in English?”

the OlLine Rebel FTTW

😂😂😂


17 posted on 10/11/2026 10:19:23 AM PDT by kiryandil (I give up with this crew of trolls)
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To: Rummyfan

Not to mention getting rid of legacy French citizens.


18 posted on 10/11/2026 10:24:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of the Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: Rummyfan
There are ~195 nations in the world (193 are members of the UN). That's a very broad array of choices for someone who wants to leave where they're from. That said, those people should choose to go to one of those 195 nations in which the way of life is compatible with their own beliefs and desired way of life.

If the US, with its belief in personal freedom, personal choice, self-determinism, separation of religion and state (e.g. no state religion such as the Islamic Republic of Iran) is incongruent with your own desires and beliefs - then don't come to the US. You have zero right to come here with the idea / goal of changing the US to fit your world view. To do so is to declare that the traditions and shared beliefs of Americans are irrelevant - and therefore that the lives are those Americans are less important than you getting your way and changing the ways of a nation that was so good as to let you come in and start a new life.

19 posted on 10/11/2026 10:25:38 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Judging from various videos of the riots there are a significant number of legacy French useful idiots amongst the algerian and moroccan flags.


20 posted on 10/11/2026 10:37:41 AM PDT by posterchild
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