Sunday, November 06, 2005
Why France Is Burning
Amir Taheri, editor of the French quarterly "Politique internationale," has the story of how Muslims have set French cities alight. Francophiles and America-haters won't like what this portends for their dreams of peace and brotherhood with Islamists, as it turns out they hate de Villepin and me and you too. There are some for whom appeasement means nothing but weakness and a reason to murder. They are Islamists and they are coming to a theater near you.
I can't wait to read at Kos and the DUh how Rove is worse than the Islamist rioters in France.
Note this take from House Of Wheels, and LGF's Paris Intifada Root Causes. Pretty serious.
Recalling John F'n Kerry's "global test" for such matters, should French leadership, if there is such a thing, invite these "troubled youths" for brunch? Perhaps open a dialogue? Take it to the U.N.?
Here's another idea: send in the military and wield a heavy stick, because these assholes have declared war on their host country, and war is what they should reap, ended only by unconditional surrender, a plane trip back from whence their parents came, and revocation of French citizenship. Then we'd see how long this nonsense lasts.
Here's the problem: the French won't do it, and so France will be lost to Islam.
UPDATE:
Captain's Quarters:
Bad to Worse in France
Rioting has spread from Paris to the Mediterranean, with arson attacks in Avignon, Cannes and Nice, as well as to Strasbourg and Rouen. The attackers are evil people; a couple of days ago they doused a disabled woman with gasoline and set her afire. Today they torched a nursery school and interfered with rescue personnel:
In one attack, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project. They pelted rescuers with rocks and then torched the waiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.
Belmont Club:
The 11th Night
Just hours after French President Jacques Chirac publicly condemned violence and rioting in Paris ... police were fired on by rioters. Ten officers were wounded ... two of them seriously, when police clashed with about 200 youths who were hurling stones and other projectiles ... The incident came only a few hours after Chirac made his first public address since the riots began.
Mark Steyn:
Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands
If Chirac isn't exactly Charles Martel, the rioters aren't doing a bad impression of the Muslim armies of 13 centuries ago: They're seizing their opportunities, testing their foe, probing his weak spots. If burning the 'burbs gets you more ''respect'' from Chirac, they'll burn 'em again, and again. In the current issue of City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple concludes a piece on British suicide bombers with this grim summation of the new Europe: ''The sweet dream of universal cultural compatibility has been replaced by the nightmare of permanent conflict.'' Which sounds an awful lot like a new Dark Ages.
I can't wait to read at Kos and the DUh how Rove is worse than the Islamist rioters in France.
Note this take from House Of Wheels, and LGF's Paris Intifada Root Causes. Pretty serious.
Recalling John F'n Kerry's "global test" for such matters, should French leadership, if there is such a thing, invite these "troubled youths" for brunch? Perhaps open a dialogue? Take it to the U.N.?
Here's another idea: send in the military and wield a heavy stick, because these assholes have declared war on their host country, and war is what they should reap, ended only by unconditional surrender, a plane trip back from whence their parents came, and revocation of French citizenship. Then we'd see how long this nonsense lasts.
Here's the problem: the French won't do it, and so France will be lost to Islam.
UPDATE:
Captain's Quarters:
Bad to Worse in France
Rioting has spread from Paris to the Mediterranean, with arson attacks in Avignon, Cannes and Nice, as well as to Strasbourg and Rouen. The attackers are evil people; a couple of days ago they doused a disabled woman with gasoline and set her afire. Today they torched a nursery school and interfered with rescue personnel:
In one attack, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project. They pelted rescuers with rocks and then torched the waiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.
Belmont Club:
The 11th Night
Just hours after French President Jacques Chirac publicly condemned violence and rioting in Paris ... police were fired on by rioters. Ten officers were wounded ... two of them seriously, when police clashed with about 200 youths who were hurling stones and other projectiles ... The incident came only a few hours after Chirac made his first public address since the riots began.
Mark Steyn:
Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands
If Chirac isn't exactly Charles Martel, the rioters aren't doing a bad impression of the Muslim armies of 13 centuries ago: They're seizing their opportunities, testing their foe, probing his weak spots. If burning the 'burbs gets you more ''respect'' from Chirac, they'll burn 'em again, and again. In the current issue of City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple concludes a piece on British suicide bombers with this grim summation of the new Europe: ''The sweet dream of universal cultural compatibility has been replaced by the nightmare of permanent conflict.'' Which sounds an awful lot like a new Dark Ages.
