It is no exaggeration to describe the events in France – now spreading through Europe – as the first stages in what, ultimately, is nothing less than a battle for the survival of Western Civilization as we know it. I have written before that the great flaw of our modern life is the “illusion of permanence”, by which I refer to the presumption underlying leftist economic and social ideals that we operate in a vacuum and are unaffected by outside events and influences. Leftism, both in its social and economic variants, inherently weaken any society, making them less able to effectively resist threats from both within and without.

Barring some astounding turn-about I would wager money that, at this point, France is effectively doomed. Its Islamic population is, quite clearly, utterly hostile to the French nation and people – and its growing at a rapid rate while white France is dying. However the present events are settled, it is quite clear that, in another generation at the most, the only way to save the French will be through the sort of brutal campaign which reclaimed Spain from Moorish savages. As the Islamic population of the French Republic marches towards 25% and then to 50%, the native Frenchmen of means will pack up and resettle abroad much as the Pied-noir’s left Algeria. In all frankness, I fully expect that – by the year 2040 or so, French émigrés will be as common as South African ones are in certain places today, and they will be equally full of stories of the glory of their former homeland.

Leftism has killed France. Economic leftism stalled the economy and allowed the creation of a massive class of unproductive and dangerous scum and flotsam gathered, like a cancer, in clusters across the body of the nation. Social leftism allowed that cancer to metastasize without detection – and then it prevented any treatment while it would have done some good. Now we are left with little more than a choice between the bad and the worse – attempting radical surgery or sending the patient off for palliative care.

Those not watching closely fail to understand the seriousness of what is going on here. These riots are not confined to any one area – they have spread out across the nation as a whole and, indeed, have now seemingly spread even beyond the borders of France. They cannot be contained by any mild means such as a curfew. At this point the only real options are to attempt to appease the rioters, to wait them out and hope that some combination of exhaustion and running out of things to burn will stop them, or to shoot them dead in the streets. Virtually everyone reading this knows that I favor the latter – but I fully expect the French government to adopt some combination of the first two.

Doing so – allowing these riots to procede without an effective response – will ultimately prove fatal to France as we have known it. As in Israel and elsewhere, the scum will only gain courage through our timidity. They will (correctly in my view) interpret French hesitation as a sign of weakness, not as a mercy. And, even if they do stop – they will be back. They will be back because they have learned what so many have dangerously learned in the last century – that weak-willed Western governments are virtually powerless against any sort of ethnic or religious movement whose pretentions to oppression find favor in the Western media and intelligentsia.

Israel versus the Palestinians? The British versus the Irish? The South African whites versus the ANC? The United States versus the Vietnamese? Who came out ahead in the end of all of those? And who, based upon the relative strengths of each group, should have come out ahead? In virtually every case where a Western power, even supposedly ruthless and imperialistic Western powers, have come up against some allegedly aggrieved minority, the Western power has eventually given in – largely thanks to the efforts of cowards, fools, traitors and fifth-columnists within the ranks of the West.

Some, mostly those who make apologies and excuses for every Moslem atrocity and act of aggression against the West (but some not) are attempting to downplay the Islamic character of this assault against the fabric of Western Civilization. Their arguments are patent nonsense – of course this is about Islam. The rioters may not, individually, be the world’s most ardent Moslems – but neither were the soldiers of the Wehrmacht necessarily the most devoted of Nazis.

Whatever the proximate causes of the riots – poverty, etc – the real cause is clear to anyone with an open mind: the unlimited aggressive aims of Islam and the aim of Moslem leadership to, ultimately, conquer the whole of the West. Whatever the individual rioter might be fighting for – loot, fun – the people organizing these riots and building bomb factories clearly have Islamist aims. One has to be blind not to see and accept this.

Why are these riots spreading? Who is organizing them? What do they want? All of this is fairly clear to me.

The riots are spreading because of the ineffective response of the French authorities and because modern technology (the internet and cell phones, most notably) are being used to propagandize and organize them. It is significant that the French government has felt it necessary to arrest a number of bloggers in the last day.

Who is organizing these riots? I doubt if there’s a single central organizer here, anymore than there is a single central organizer for al-Qaeda. Instead, the riots are being urged on and given direction by Islamists and their allies, who are experts at this sort of thing. They are no more an organic phenomenon than the “spontaneous demonstrations” of dictatorships are. The rioters might be out there for fun and frolic – but they’re not alone. And they have a plan.

And what is that plan? That is fairly obvious. The plan is to thoroughly intimidate the French state – and by extension the rest of Europe – and to force them into slavish obedience to the demands of the various Mohammedan clerics and Mullahs. It is to, ultimately, force the French authorities to surrender democratic principle and instead to accept the idea that Moslems may only be policed and governed by other Moslems – a principle which the Islamists will then aim to extend throughout Europe and into North America. And, once the French accede in the creation of a Palestine of the Seine, then the demands for its expansion will be not so much immediate as continuous.

There is only one way to recover the situation in the short term – and I hold out very little hope for it. France – and much of Europe – will only be saved if the French have the guts to use the sort of force which the situation now demands.

The phrase “read the riot act” originates from a real piece of British legislation. The Riot Act provided that various authorities could order any riotous assembly to disperse within one hour on pain of death – and they meant it. France may now only be saved through the emulation of that fine Anglo-Saxon tradition. The French must deploy their army and their police – with live ammunition – and order the Moslems to disperse without delay. If they fail to do so (and they surely will, given the feckless performance of the French up to this date) then the French should, however bad it might look on camera, see to it that the streets are smeared red with Mohammedan blood.

I say this without glee – I make this statement with considerable regret. It should not have come to this. But is has. No other option remains to save the French nation and, with it, the rest of Europe from the horrific fate which is overtaking it. Only the crash of the Musket and the cold steel of the bayonet can now save France.

Nearly four decades ago now, Enoch Powell was excoriated by the respectable for the set for his warning that, unless something was done about uncontrolled immigration, he could foresee, “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”

However, do not mistake my pessimism as to the present situation as a belief that we are doomed. Even should France and other great states of Europe fall to the Islamic hordes, it will not be the end. As we did in the World Wars, the people of the New World shall step forth and block-by-block and street-by-street we will retake the great cities and landmarks of our civilization just as the barbarians were evicted from Rome and just as the Moors were ejected from Spain.