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Psst! The French Rioters Are Muslim

By Abe Greenwald / November 27, 2007

The French rioters are Muslim: a matter that concerns me as much as the fact of its widespread omission in the press. The riots began after two teens on a motorbike died in a collision with a police car in the predominantly Muslim area Villiers-le-Bel on Sunday. The press is on a first name basis with the late teens. An exclusively first name basis. From The New York Times: “The two teenagers who died on Sunday were identified in the French news media merely as 15-year-old Moushin and 16-year-old Larami. . .” I suspect the first name situation reflects something more than respect for the dead. But more importantly, here’s a random smattering of coverage on the riots themselves: [All emphasis mine.] From The New York Times: “The number of police officers injured during clashes by French youths in a suburb north of Paris rose to 86. . .” Time: “Fears of renewed nationwide rioting that rocked France two years ago grew Monday evening, when youths from a suburban Paris housing project staged a second straight night of battles with police.” Bloomberg: “Youths fought police for a second night in suburbs north of Paris. . .” Adding one paragraph down, “Youngsters threw stones and Molotov cocktails, burning shops, vehicles, a school, a library and a tax office.” AFP: “Youths battled police for a second night in Paris suburbs, burning down government buildings and injuring 64 police officers." The BBC: “The youths said they were avenging the two teenagers killed when their motorcycle hit a police car on Sunday." The AP: “On Monday night, youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters. About 30 of 82 injured officers were hit by buckshot, Ribeiro told The Associated Press. Rioters also hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at police, authorities said.” If age is truly the most pertinent characteristic of the rioters, I’d say France has quite a youth problem on its hands. Such teenage extremism demands nothing less than a fully committed War on Puberty. So, perhaps we should be honest about what’s happening in France before Nicolas Sarkozy declares the French Ministry for Youth an official terrorist organization. Here’s what’s happening in France: Villiers-le-Bel is one of France’s "quartier sensible" or touchy neighborhoods. These are French slums populated by North African Muslims who’ve been both unwilling and unable to assimilate into larger French culture, but extremely willing and able to become part of the larger French welfare system. These are Muslims who didn’t emigrate to France for a better life. They went for the same life, with better benefits. So, over 80 police have been injured, some critically, by Muslim rioters for whom the French police are nothing more than armed infidels. I’m not saying the rioters are jihadists, but it requires a commitment to ignorance not to sniff out the familiar in these words of one rioter: “This is war. There is no mercy. We want at least two policemen dead.” Before anyone calls me Islamophobic, I’ll point out that America’s Muslim immigrant population is amongst the country’s most hard-working. I’m not mentioning this out of cowardice, but because there’s a lot to be learned from it. The success of America’s Muslim immigrants is a function both of their individual willingness and the U.S.’ unique ability to bring new citizens into the fold. Even France’s most French-loving Muslim can’t call himself a Frenchman the way his U.S. counterpart can declare himself an American. This is because European citizenship is founded on tribal ties and American citizenship is a matter of philosophical association. If you believe in the U.S. Constitution you’re as American as you’ll ever need to be. In Europe, national identity is an ineffable weave of ethnicity and culture that’s virtually impervious to emulation. When Sarkozy talks about his admiration for the American way, he’s talking about the ability to get in on the good life regardless of ethnicity and religion. He’s talking about making hard work and opportunity part of national pride. We’ll see how he reacts to this latest reminder that his work is cut out for him. As for Islamophobia, the culprits are listed above: The New York Times, Time Magazine, Bloomberg, The AFP, The BBC, The AP, etc. Click on those pages, and do a search for “Muslim”. After typing three letters of the word into your search window your computer will respond with whatever annoying sound it’s programmed to make when it hits a dead end.

 

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  • By gAnonymous 9/19/08 at 2:04 a.m. UTC

     

     Can you see the big picture?

    Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult.  It is a complete system.

    Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components.  The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

    Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called "religious rights."

    When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to "the reasonable" Muslim demands for their "religious rights," they also get the other components under the table.

    Here’s how it works The World Fact Book (2007)).

    As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone.  In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

    United States — Muslim 1.0%
    Australia — Muslim 1.5%
    Canada — Muslim 1.9%
    China — Muslim 1%-2%
    Italy — Muslim 1.5%
    Norway — Muslim 1.8%

    At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

    Denmark — Muslim 2%
    Germany — Muslim 3.7%
    United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
    Spain — Muslim 4%
    Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

    From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

    They will push for the introduction of halaal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.  They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States).

    France — Muslim 8%
    Philippines — Muslim 5%
    Sweden — Muslim 5%
    Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
    The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
    Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

    At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law.  The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

    When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris — car-burnings).  Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam — Mohammed cartoons).

    Guyana — Muslim 10%
    India — Muslim 13.4%
    Israel — Muslim 16%
    Kenya – Muslim 10%
    Russia — Muslim 10-15%

    After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

    Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

    At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

    Bosnia — Muslim 40%
    Chad — Muslim 53.1%
    Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

    From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

    Albania — Muslim 70%
    Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
    Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
    Sudan — Muslim 70%

    After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

    Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
    Egypt — Muslim 90%
    Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
    Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
    Iran — Muslim 98%
    Iraq — Muslim 97%
    Jordan — Muslim 92%
    Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
    Pakistan — Muslim 97%
    Palestine — Muslim 99%
    Syria — Muslim 90%
    Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
    Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
    United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%

    100% will usher in the peace of "Dar-es-Salaam" — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

    Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
    Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
    Somalia — Muslim 100%
    Yemen — Muslim 99.9%

     

    Of course, that’s not the case.  To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

    "Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life.  It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.  –  Leon Uris, "The Haj"

    It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity.  Muslims do not integrate into the community at large.  Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.

    Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat. http://www.frontline.org.za/books_videos/sti.htm

     

  • By Stout Viking 11/30/07 at 6:03 p.m. UTC

    And nevertheless I can't seem to disagree with him.

  • By Anonymous 11/30/07 at 5:45 p.m. UTC

    Great to know you're proud to be American. Sad though that you're the kind of (insert insult – too lazy) who makes everyone else embarrassed to be American these days.

  • By ProudTo BeAn American 11/30/07 at 12:48 a.m. UTC

    I just had a huge bowel movement which included two very large, very smelly turds. I named one turd "Mohammed" and the other "Allah" because as a religion Islam is full of crap! The only thing the savage muslims have ever been proficient at in their history is injuring and killing innocent men, women, and children. Any Muslim who doesn't like this post can come to Texas and kiss my hairy American ass!

  • By Fried Wire 11/29/07 at 11:16 a.m. UTC

    Pushing the religion angle here is like accusing Mexican illegals (another group you don't seem to like much) of pursuing some kind of 'Catholic agenda'. Maybe coming over to destabilize Protestant America on direct orders of the Pope? The most enormous irony here is that you as Jewish people are perpetuating the "Islamic conspiracy to establish a worldwide caliphate" with the same paranoid enthusiasm as the neonazis who rant about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and all the other Jewish conspiracy garbage.

  • By Anonymous 11/29/07 at 3:57 a.m. UTC

    The fucking politicalcorrectness gone mad that’s what we are seeing. Had the fucking “youths” beenregular French, we would all have known it, don’t you worry. But Arabs,Muslims? Oh, how could our lovely Arabs do anything wrong, ever? So they become, endearingly, “youths”.

    Youssouf Fofana lead thekidnap of torture and murder of the French Jew Ilan Halimi – just becauseHalimi was Jewish. How is Fofana called by the press? “A boy of 26 years-old” –“un garcon de 26 ans”. Such a cute boy! How could we be rude with the 26-yearold boy who drove cigarette butts through the skin of Halimi! Awwww, such acute boy Fofana!

     It’s all the same now withrioters. They’re not bad, no no no. They’re Arab and Muslim, so a priorithey’re right, a priori the crash victims were right. Right even if they drovelike idiots and crashed into a police car. Police car? Shouldn’t have beenthere. How dare the French police enter an Arab neighborhood and offendtheir sensibilities! We’ll soon here it’s against the Holy Qur’an and we’llhave a few murders of nuns or whatever peaceful Islam, the religion of peace,decides to mete upon the mass of infidels. 

     

  • By Anonymous 11/28/07 at 11:29 a.m. UTC

    The French republic is predicated on "Frenchness" which is as much an acceptance of republican values as being a descendant of the Franks or Gauls or whoever.  Witness Leon Blum or even the Hungarian Sarkozy.

    How much the French have allowed for the non-"French" to assimilate into France is a matter of debate, but from images I saw on the BBC and such there were very few Asian faces.  Perhaps Vietnamese and Cambodians have had an easier time assimilating into French society and have been able to accept republican values.

    It may be that the Africans and Buers don't want to accept values like "laciete"(secularism) but do want French welfare.  Maybe the French are just racists and don't allow arabs and blacks to join French society.  I have not seen any hard data, though this may be because French republicanism frowns upon dividing society by ethnic origin or race so they don't collect this kind of data. 

     

  • By Obbop 11/28/07 at 10:52 a.m. UTC

    Why do blithering idiots post knee-jerk rhetoric?

    "They (insert group of choice) are so hard-working and this and that, etc."

    What parameters are being used to ascertain how "hard" that group is working? Any scientific measurement?

    How about working smarter vice harder? There's surely a multitude of hard-working folks across the world living in horrid poverty. What's so great about working hard if the end result is negligible results?

    I saw a crew of five Mexican illegal alens doing floor-care work. When I did the job I accomplished more than those five and the end result was superior. Those 5 loafed and barely worked…so I suppose following the logic of extrapolating from the few I can proclaim all illegal alien Mexicans are lazy!!!!!

    Even if Muslims on the whole were hard-working…should the USA import millions more so as to dilute the western culture even more? What about the opposite…how about those possessing the general western culture emigrating to Islam-dominated countries and start living there? How would WE be treated.

    It is time to take a stand and preserve our way of life.

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