Posted on 11/13/2005 1:01:09 PM PST by VirginiaMil
"This is the beginning of the war!" a French Muslim boy called out in the middle of the riots in Le Blanc Mesnil, just north of Paris.
But is it? Or was the war really going on already?
Few Americans have heard of him, but in Europe, more and more are becoming familiar with the name and the ideas of Dyab Abou Jahjah, founder of the now-international Arab European League (AEL) and the Muslim Democratic Party. Handsome, charismatic, well-educated, and multilingual, he has the perfect makings of a political leader, or perhaps better said, a man poised to lead a revolution. And he knows it.
(Excerpt) Read more at worlddefensereview.com ...
Does he have a blue turbin?
OMG my first thought!
can he make waffles?
JahJah and friends pics:
http://www.arabeuropean.org/picsdemo101102.htm
BTTT
You and Abigail the "world famous journalist" wallowing in content-free speculation about what it's all about.
Drawing linkages and flimsy conclusions about the latest "doings" in terrorism as if reporting on the latest fall fashions from Paris cortouriers...tres swell!
A sort of "People Magazine" late bulletin about all the goings on on this continent and that..
No thanks.
Bat Ye'or said the following about the deal the EU cut with the Arab League...
The nine countries of the European Community (EC) made a deal with the Arab League countries based on a strategy: the creation of a Mediterranean multicultural and united society. This Euro-Arab alliance was based on three pillars: anti-Zionism and the promotion and support by Europe of Arafat; anti-Americanism and a European policy contrary to that of America; the guaranty of oil supply to Europe.
Seems the EU picked the wrong partner.
No sir. "You" and Abigail are the ones wallowing in "content free speculation".
I just read the article and found it interesting. Did not say that I liked it. Did not say that I agreed with any of her conclusions. Not sure if there are any.
You sir have no idea what I am speculating about unless you can read minds.
THE CHIRAC DOCTRINE
(SNIP)
In the past decade, the Islamist element among French Muslims has grown rapidly, overpowering more moderate Muslim voices. Many young French Muslims are influenced by extremist organizations such as the Union des Organisations Islamiques de France, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. They hail bin Laden as a hero;[4] during demonstrations in Paris, marchers recently shouted, "Death to America and the Jews."[5] Since 2000, France has experienced its greatest wave of anti-Semitism since the 1930s. According to the Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de l'Homme, whose statistics are used by the French government, anti-Semitic incidents jumped from 69 in 1999 to 970 five years later.[6] Demography has changed, and French political figures hesitate to criticize members of their largest religious minority. In January 2004, a French Jewish singer was performing at a gala attended by, among others, First Lady Bernadette Chirac when young French Muslims in the first rows interrupted the performance with shouts of "dirty Jew," "death to the Jews," and "we'll kill you." Rather than condemn the blatant anti-Semitism, Mrs. Chirac remained silent.[7]
France's historical legacy is also important. Colonial control of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, and Lebanon has marked the French psyche. France occupied Algeria for more than 130 years, withdrawing only after an eight-year war, which cost at least 300,000 Algerian and 20,000 French lives.[8] Upon Algerian independence in 1962, more than one million French residents of Algeria returned to France; many had been there for generations, and some had intermarried with the Arab and Berber population. As the various French colonies and mandates achieved independence, Parisian politicians had trouble letting go. Today, French officials act as if they never lost their empire. The Quay d'Orsay, where the Foreign Ministry is housed, for example, continues to promote the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (International Francophone Organization), of which fifteen out of forty-nine states are Muslim, as a way to bolster the community and cohesion of former French colonies. Under Chirac, French policy has gone beyond special treatment for the French-speaking Middle East, though, and embraced even the most rejectionist Arab and Islamic regimes while simultaneously working to criticize and isolate Israel, oppose the war on terrorism, and undercut the emphasis on democratization.
http://www.meforum.org/article/772
Since the author resides part-time in the Netherlands, she has the perspective that comes from being close (but not too close) to the scene of the crime. Besides that she's kinda cute.
That's what they say at DU...and they also say that anyone who believes otherwise is a racist.
The Chirac Doctrine
by Olivier Guitta
"With just one-fifth the population of the United States, France boasts the world's second largest contingent of diplomats, and its consulates and embassies number just eight fewer than the State Department's 260.[1] The French investment in its foreign ministry is likewise heavy and demonstrates the importance the French government places on French prestige and grandeur. Under President Jacques Chirac, French foreign policy has become increasingly assertive. Francois Heisbourg, director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (Foundation for Strategic Research), summed up French foreign policy as "oppose just to exist."[2] Such descriptions are not entirely fair, though. While Chirac inherited a French foreign policy already tilted toward the Arab world, his pursuit of close personal ties to Arab leaders and his outreach to Islamists, rejectionist Arab states, and groups considered terrorists by the U.S. government is part of a broader strategy to increase French influence in the region..."
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Now, consider the implications. Chirac, in his Napoleonic zeal to become the most powerful person in Europe, has been instrumental in opening the door to the muslim hordes that now threaten every member of the EU.
No wonder Frere Jacques is so flummoxed at the goings on in France. His lap dog turned out to be a pit bull instead of a bijon frise.
"This is the beginning of the war!" a French Muslim boy called out in the middle of the riots in Le Blanc Mesnil, just north of Paris."
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
We are winning in Afghanastan and Iraq and these parasites need a new host to feed off of. France has volunteered to be that host. Unfortunately in a few years we will have to go in and save them again.
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Dyab abou jahjah binks
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