France Riots Continue as Hundreds Arrested - BBC News

Jun 30, 2023 | At least 667 people have been arrested across France after a third night of violence triggered by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in Paris. The teenager, named as Nahel M, was shot in his car in the Paris region after failing to stop when ordered to by traffic police. In Paris, shops have been ransacked and cars set on fire despite a heavy police presence. French President Emmanuel Macron will hold another crisis meeting with ministers later after calling the protest violence "unjustifiable".

Paris Protests after Teen Died | News18

Jun 30, 2023 | France saw unrest spread to major cities in a third night of riots on Thursday as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting crisis triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop

The State of the Suburbs: Is France at Its Ferguson Moment? (Parts 1 & 2)

Paris Rioters 'Criminals' says PM
BBC: French PM Francois Fillon has said that youths who have rioted for two nights in the Paris suburbs are "criminals".

More than 80 police officers were injured, four seriously, during the second night of clashes, police unions have said.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has called an emergency meeting for Wednesday on his return from a trip to China. >>

Mark Alexander

Chirac's measures are destined to fail!
President Jacques Chirac's measures to deal with France in crisis, France in flames, do not address the root cause of the violence; therefore, they are destined to fail.

Creating opportunities for young people is all well and good. Condemning the "poison" of racism is also to be lauded. However, it doesn't serve the French well to castigate themselves for failing to integrate the Muslims from North Africa, since Muslims generally have no intention of assimilating - their religion proscribes assimilation with the infidel - and because where people fail to assimilate, they live, by definition, in a parallel universe. It is this parallel universe which we observe in the French ghettos.

It should be pointed out that the French themsleves probably have about as little interest in integrating with the Muslims of North Africa as the Muslims of North Africa have in integrating with the French! To understand why, we need to make a few observations...

First and foremost, France belongs to the French. The French are a deeply proud nation; and there are many good reasons why it is so. French culture is high culture. The French are a clever, refined people. They have contributed much to the world: in the arts, in literature; in cuisine (think of the fine recipes and wonderful cheeses!), in viniculture (some of the finest wines in the world have traditionally been produced by the French), in fashion, in architecture, in furniture design, in science and medicine; indeed in oh so much. Who, for example, has a refined kitchen like the French? Their attention to the delights of the palette and the refinement of the table is unsurpassed by any culture. Nobody understands how to dine better than the French!

Moreover, take their language: Most languages are beautiful in their own way, at least when spoken properly; but it is difficult indeed to outclass the beauty of French when spoken and written well.

So the French have much to be proud of. Do you really think that there is much desire on the part of these people to integrate with people who come from North Africa with a totally different way of living? The French look down their snouts at the English and the Americans, and have great difficulty accepting us on equal terms! What chance have we got of withnessing their integration with Muslims, a people with a totally and utterly alien culture?

Muslims in France are equally proud. They also feel themselves to be superior. This comes from what their faith teaches them rather than from their achievements. Muslims the world over believe - firmly believe - that the world is theirs for the taking! It is their objective to Islamize the world, whether the rest of the non-Muslim world wishes to be Islamized or not.

Muslims live a different life altogether. They like to eat on the floor with their hands, they like to pray five times a day, they like to keep their women subjugated and inferior, covered up for none but the closest relatives to view, and, as we all know, they frown on the consumption of alcohol - at least officially!

For true integration to take place, there has to be some common ground. What common ground can we find between these two diametrically opposed peoples? The difference between them is as great as the difference between black and white, day and night!

Moreover, do you think that French people really want to integrate with a people who feel themselves to be superior, who eat on the floor, who do not respect art and high culture, who do not partake of fine wines, and who treat their women as inferior and as sex objects, there for the pleasure of their men? Oh, the list goes on!

The French should refrain from castigating themselves for their failures in this matter. One should ask oneself if they could have done anything to get Muslims to integrate? After all, the Prophet Muhammad exhorted his followers not to befriend the infidel, not to engage with them unless they absolutely have to. He also exhorted Muslims to kill and maim infidels where'er ye find them, and only to stop when they have been beaten into submission, when the infidel either embraces the faith or feels himself subdued, and when he is prepared to pay the Muslim community the tribute, or jiziyah! - the high tax levied on non-Muslims.

The fact of the matter is that France has just witnessed the first pangs of jihad, or holy war. The youth that rioted were heard shouting Allahu Akbar, God is Great(er)!, and chanting that this land will belong to us soon anyway! If this is not proof that there is something more sinister going on, then what is?

In general, the French response to this crisis is a typical socialist response. If there's a problem, throw more money at it! But I'm sorry to tell you that this one problem which money alone will not solve. What really needs to be done is to roll back the frontiers: The advance of Islam in France (and the West) needs to be halted, now, before it is too late.

Why does political correctness only go one way? How politically correct are Muslims? How much tolerance of non-Muslims do Muslims show? How many churches are built in the Middle East? How many Christian schools? Indeed, how many Christians are allowed to live there?

In the case of France, all troublemakers should be deported forthwith. Sarkozy has promised this. It is to be hoped that he acts on his promise. Further, it is to be hoped that the door through which they are sent is not a revolving one!

All illegal immigrants should be sent home. France is under no obligation to allow them to remain. Islam in France is growing apace. The riots have been a manifestation of this exponential growth. The growth needs to be stemmed; otherwise all good intentions, and all policies, however generous, will fail.

It would seem that France's greatest failure has been one of recognition: Recognition of the true problem facing it!

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Dissembling Elevated to an Art Form!
Watching a BBC online video on Talking Point last night entitled What outcome will the French riots have?, one could be forgiven for thinking that Islam had nothing to do with the riots in France during these past weeks. The whole programme gave no time for the discussion of the rôle of Islam in the disorder in France. Indeed, had it not been for one caller, an Italian, the "I" word wouldn't have been mentioned at all! Further, the guest French MP, Jacques Myard, went so far as to say that religion played no part in the violence. He could only bring himself to mention people of Arab descent! I would go so far as to say that no meaningful discussion can be conducted about the riots without mentioning the rôle Islam played in them!

We are stumbling from crisis to crisis because of the growing influence of Islam in the world, yet everyone seems to be quite unwilling to factor in this religion. It's simply amazing! Just how the BBC - often known as Al BBCeera to many these days, and for obvious reasons - can make a seemingly serious discussion programme about the French riots without even as much as mentioning the growing influence of Islam in France beats me!

The only one to mention Islam, as I have already mentioned, was a well-inflormed Italian. But Brigitte Kendall's discomfort when he spoke was palpable; so, of course, she gave him little air time.

If you have some spare time, it would be well worth spending a little of it to watch this video, since it encapsulates one of our greatest problems in today's Western world: The problem of speaking the truth!

Not speaking the truth, or not being allowed to do so, is the enemy of freedom and democracy. No democracy, however strong, can survive for long without being truthful. This stands to reason, for, in a case such as this, we are only empowering our attackers by failing to discuss the problem as it really is. How damaging political correctness has become to the furtherance of true democracy! Not only this, but we are damaging our own democracy at home. It seems that the goal of not offending others has become more important than our own survival as a civilization!

At one point in the programme, Jacques Myard mentioned the deleterious effect of polygamous marriages in French society, what a problem for the French government they had become, and the indirect rôle they played in the violence in recent weeks. At which point, Brigitte Kendall, the presenter, interjected and told the French MP that such comments could be considered by some to be "offensive"! 'Offensive', Ms Kendall? I don't think so! Are you not aware that it is quite illegal for anyone to marry more than one wife at the same time in our Western societies? These people are breaking the law. Were you or I to have more than one wife, I dare say that we would end up in prison for breaking the law. How come these people can get away with it? Is this another manifestation of over-tolerance of ethnic minorities, perhaps?

We have laws here in the West, and they should be obeyed. People who immigrate to the West know what the score is before they come here. I would suggest that if these people wish to marry more than one wife at the same time, then they should leave the West for different shores, for countries which tolerate such practises.

We are under no obligation to accept polygamous marriages. These people are living with us. We have offered them a good home, and they should not be disrespectful of the hospitality extended to them. I know what I do with disrespectful guests in my home: I kindly ask them to leave!

Polygamous marriages and honour killings are totally unacceptable in our society. This needs to be pointed out to these immigrants. Moreover, they should be told that they must obey the laws of the land. Just as everybody else has to do.

It seems to me that we have little chance of survival if we are paralyzed by pc attitudes and practises. Insisting on our own standards, however uncomfortable doing so might be, is of paramount importance for the survival of the West. Barbaric practises such as honour killing, should, under no circumstances, be tolerated. Nor should polygamous marriages, since this gives the growth of Islam in the West a shot in the arm which we can ill afford to give it. The number of babies being born to Western families is disproportionately low as it is; we need not exacerbate the demographic problem by allowing polygamous marriages here, too!

The West is in crisis! This crisis is brought about in no small part because of liberal-thinking and liberal solutions to very intractable and difficult problems. The liberal media are playing no small part in this crisis, since they are refusing to inform the people of what is actually going on. To try and conduct a serious programme on the causes and solutions for our neighbour, France, at this most difficult time for the French Republic, is as absurd as it is dangerous. Without speaking the truth, we will come to no good solution! How can good, real and long-term solutions be found when the real problem is swept under the carpet?

This is no time to dissemble. France has a real problem on its hands; we could have the same problem next. The quicker this problem is solved, the quicker French society will be able to return to order and normality.

Ever since 9/11, our leaders, our media, our pundits have all been busy, busy, busy trying to make excuses for Islam. Indeed, even to mention the "I" word has become fowned upon. Such is the Zeitgeist!

If they won't tell you, I will: The riots we have been witnessing in France in recent weeks have been caused not so much because of failed French policies - how could they have succeeded, since Muslims won't integrate! (they keep themselves separate by dint of their religion) - but by the growth of Islam there. Indeed, many of the rioters were heard shouting Allahu akbar, God is Great(er)!, and such things as this land belongs to us [Muslims]! Unless we come to realize, and pretty soon, that we have this problem of the growth of Islam in our midst, then we shan't be able to deal with such crises effectively. Throwing more money at the problem may help in the short-term, but in the long-term a far better solution will have to be found.

I feel sure that upon further investigation, and in the fullness of time, we will see the hand of Al-Qaeda is this very violent unrest in France.

The future for France looks bleak indeed. In fact, it doesn't look much brighter for any of us. We have brought upon ourselves a colossal problem. It will take all the courage and determination we can muster to solve it. Dissembling, especially to the degree to which the BBC has elevated it to (i.e. an art form), when discussing Islam, can only weaken us still further.

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