April 6, 2005
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT (via Paul Cella):
Mugged by la Réalité: The unreported race riot in France. (Olivier Guitta, 04/11/2005, Weekly Standard)
FREDERIC ENCEL, PROFESSOR OF international relations at the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris and a man not known for crying wolf, recently stated that France is becoming a new Lebanon. The implication, far-fetched though it may seem, was that civil upheaval might be no more than a few years off, sparked by growing ethnic and religious polarization. In recent weeks, a series of events has underlined this ominous trend.On March 8, tens of thousands of high school students marched through central Paris to protest education reforms announced by the government. Repeatedly, peaceful demonstrators were attacked by bands of black and Arab youths--about 1,000 in all, according to police estimates. The eyewitness accounts of victims, teachers, and most interestingly the attackers themselves gathered by the left-wing daily Le Monde confirm the motivation: racism.
Some of the attackers openly expressed their hatred of "little French people." One 18-year-old named Heikel, a dual citizen of France and Tunisia, was proud of his actions. He explained that he had joined in just to "beat people up," especially "little Frenchmen who look like victims." He added with a satisfied smile that he had "a pleasant memory" of repeatedly kicking a student, already defenseless on the ground.
Another attacker explained the violence by saying that "little whites" don't know how to fight and "are afraid because they are cowards." Rachid, an Arab attacker, added that even an Arab can be considered a "little white" if he "has a French mindset." The general sentiment was a desire
to "take revenge on whites."
So France's Arabs have been assimilated rather well--they're indistinguishable from Germans. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 6, 2005 6:39 PM
It would be well for the worthy oriental gentlemen to remember that not all "whites" are Frenchmen. They don't want to see what "Cowboys and Camel-Jockeys" looks like. Ask the Nazis and the Nips: they knew.
Posted by: Lou Gots at April 6, 2005 7:03 PMThis is no surprise. Chirac will do absolutely nothing about it. His son-in-law is a Muslim and Son Excellence M. le President is going to be living in a Tunisian villa on the Mediterranean within 30 minutes of leaving office, not unlike Bettino Craxi. There is no extradition between Tunisia and France.
Notions of white man's guilt that enabled the John Lindsays of the world to let the savages run riot in NYC do not exist in France, just as no Frenchman would ever allow a French version of ebonics or urban math in the schools. The French problem has been a cravenness in the face of Arab money. French business much of which is state-owned, quite simply, doesn't care how many Frenchmen get killed in order to keep selling their third-rate crap to the Muslim oil producing states. Also, the bureaucratic elite is perfectly content to curry favor with the Muslims in order to play childish games of one-upsmanship with the Anglo-Saxons. Street crime doesn't bother them, they use taxis and have drivers. They vacation in places with armed guards. If a few peasants get killed by Muslims, well it's for the greater gloire de la Republique. If they didn't want to be cannon fodder, they should have gone to a grande ecole.
Posted by: bart at April 6, 2005 7:15 PMIt won't be long before the Mexicans in the US try the same thing. Oh wait, they already are. Thank God for the second amendment.
Posted by: NC3 at April 7, 2005 6:38 AMOr like French Catholics like Action Francaise.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at April 8, 2005 1:43 PMFortunately the Church disabused them of their liking for it. Too bad Germany didn't have a similar institution--might have nipped Nazism in the bud.
Posted by: oj at April 8, 2005 4:17 PMIt's too bad you feel a need to censor the historical record of the German Church's behavior during the Holocaust because it contradicts your fantasy world.
Posted by: bart at April 8, 2005 8:32 PM