Update II (11/9): The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris
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Known collectively as the Paris riots, the madness continues to rage out of control in France (Curfews?).
In the past few days I’ve heard so many excuses for this barbaric behavior. The “youths” are poor, white French people are snotty, France failed to assimilate Muslims into French society, the police killed two teenagers, and on and on. I, on the other hand, make no excuses for these thugs, and what I’d do to crush the riots guarantees that I’d never be elected or appointed to rule over anyone.
Pat Buchanan has written another great one. He lays out some pertinent and frequently ignored-by-the-media facts in his latest column, Paris Burning: How Empires End:
The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While almost all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but are not French. The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots.
Buchanan makes an important point here. While blacks were not integrated into the economy or society in general during Jim Crow, they were fully assimilated into America culture. One of my many pet peeves is hearing people talk about a “black culture,” when it’s actually the “black subculture.”
Black Americans are uniquely American and have more in common with white Americans than with black Africans, for instance. “Black” slang (“ebonics”), expression, music (including jazz), style of dress, etc., are all part of a subculture of the American culture. Whether some blacks wish to believe otherwise is their sad problem.
To this, Buchanan adds:
Black folks were as American as apple pie…immigrant peoples, let alone people of color. Moreover, the African and Islamic peoples pouring into Europe — there are 20 million there now — are, unlike black Americans, strangers in a new land, and millions wish to remain proud Algerians, Muslims, Moroccans.
Some “African Americans” may long for a romanticized affinity with the African continent, but the reality would drive them back to these shores faster than you can say “Kente cloth.”
Buchanan wrote a book called Death of the West several years ago, and I devoured it. He contended, in so many words, that America is becoming a Third World nation. As foreign non-westerners continue to flood into the United States without assimilating into American culture (the best in the world, by the way), they bring with them the worst of what they fled from, ironically. As they continue to out-produce Americans, the kind of people who made this country great will become the minority and die out if they don’t reverse the trend.
It’s already happened in some states, including Texas, of all places.
Buchanan attributes a conquering nation’s decline to rebellion among the subjects. To compare it to lunatics running an asylum may be a bit of a stretch, but not much. Be offended by that characterization if you like. It really doesn’t matter to me or the rest of the world.
As an aside, I want to talk about imperialism. Nations conquer nations. That’s the nature of the human race. At various times in history, certain countries built empires to exploit resources of other countries. Whether you believe it’s wrong or evil to do so is not the point. In one way or another at one time or another, countries with the military might to do so have built powerful and far-reaching empires, including followers of Islam.
Founded in the late 13th century, the Ottoman Empire extended from North Africa to the Mediterranean to parts of southern Europe. The end of WWI put an official end to the Ottoman Empire, which had been in decline years before that. Fascinating stuff, history, but the point is that all people of all races and religions conquer other nations. The United States and Europe are not unique in this regard.
Buchanan concludes with this warning:
Nor should Americans take comfort in France’s distress. By 2050, there will be 100 million Hispanics in the United States, half of them of Mexican ancestry, heavily concentrated in a Southwest most Mexicans still believe by right belongs to them.
I’d like to think Americans would fight to the death to protect this country from foreign invaders, but that’s only a fantasy. Mexicans have invaded this great nation right in our faces, and they do so boldly as they pour across the border in violation of our laws.
King George even wants to grant them amnesty for their illegal activity. That’s crazy and suicidal. Perhaps he’s descended from that other George, you know the one who wanted to maintain control over his rebellious colonies?
America fought to gain freedom, respect, and independence all those years ago. Let’s see if there’s any fight left in her.
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What’s going on in France, where young Muslims are rioting in the streets, may be readily explained. By most accounts, Muslims are treated with everything from indifference to hostility by the police and by French society.But the violence cannot be justified or countenanced by the government there.
I have come across this shocking bit of evidence that while France burns, Chirac has spent the last eleven days reading the French version of the much maligned children’s story “My Pet Goat.â€
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Sources: The riots rage on despite curfews and state-of-emergency declarations. France won’t be a tourist destination for a while.
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Update: From WorldNetDaily:
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., in an interview with WND, said he believes the chickens are coming home to roost in France because, for years, the country with the largest Islamic population in Europe has ignored rising Muslim tensions within its own borders. The real issue the French “are now dealing with,” he said, “is [that] you cannot integrate some people into your society.”
