The French Intifada: A Whiff of Grapeshot
Back in 2005, during the last wave of rioting in France, I predicted that although those disorders would eventually subside that without further action on the part of the government of France they would simply mark the beginning of a clear process of violence followed by concession followed by violence followed by either civil war or surrender. Those who fail to see the Jihadist element in all of this are blind. It might well be that these “Youths”, as the media insist upon calling them, are motivated by economic conditions and by the general liking of many young for mayhem. But it is equally clear that in France today, as we saw in Israel twenty years ago, there has been a clear and progressive escalation of both rhetoric and violence – a movement which, if allowed to proceed unchecked, can only lead to ultimate disaster.
Two years ago (using the pretext, as they are today, of the timely death of a pair of young criminals) the Franco-Islamic street rose in scenes reminiscent of the first stages of the Palestinian intifada nearly two decades before. Rock throwing. Vandalism. The occasional Molotov cocktail. Burned-out cars.
How did the authorities respond to this? As befits cowards, they took their knees and degraded themselves before the criminals. They offered jobs, money, aid – everything. Violence, both its actuality and the threat of greater violence, brought rewards to the budding Jihadists of Paris. Is it any surprise then that, on a similarly flimsy pretext, the violence should erupt anew?
Of course, I am heartless to suggest that the deaths of the two joy-riding criminals which sparked this (in addition to those sparks which set off the last conflagration) are a welcome event. You bleed for those people if you want – but facts are facts and criminals are criminals. Some will blame the French police for failing to aid the young scum when they struck them with their car – but to do so fails to consider the obvious fact that the officers in question were operating within what has become, in effect, a hostile state within the heart of France – and would almost certainly have been attacked and quite possibly killed had they left their car.
Now, though, it seems to be much worse than before. They’re shooting at the police this time. They’re targeting them for death. And how does the French political class respond to this outrage? The Socialists attack their own government, for failing to sufficiently prostrate themselves before the criminal element. What passes for the French “right” cowers and works hard not to offend anyone.
What would General Bonaparte think of what has become of his country?
The course of events is blazingly clear. The last time these riots came, Moslems made up roughly 10% of the French population or six million of sixty. With a low French birthrate, a high Moslem one, and continued immigration – both legal and illegal – who knows what it is now. Perhaps six and a half. Perhaps seven. And what shall it be in ten or twenty years when I, dear reader, am in early middle age and you, however old you are, are probably still here? The crisis is already here – but it is Armageddon that is drawing near.
I mentioned earlier that they are now shooting at the police. At least four police officers have actually been shot. Perhaps more by the time you read this. Over one hundred have been injured. And yet the riots go on. Troops have not been sent in to quell them. The police have not returned fire, even in self-defense.
I am certain that some – perhaps those Canadians so exercised about the recent Taser-related death of a Polish man – will be quick to praise the French police as a model of restraint. But I damn their leaders – those who send men to be injured and deny them the means of self-protection – as cowards. The know that the evil force in their midst must be resisted, but they lack the courage to do so. The enervated state of the French state precludes the use of any strong or effective measure against what, in effect, is a civic revolt.
What do you get when you have?:
1) An Islamic population which is growing, both in real terms and as a percentage of the population, each year.
2) Riots which are growing progressively more violent and beginning to take on the character of a guerrilla war.
3) A civic establishment too exhausted and too cowardly to confront the threat?
Disaster is the answer.
I cannot, at the present time, project the exact course of events. But once we have established the underlying course, we can make some reasonable assumptions.
As the violence increases – and as the French state is progressively paralyzed by this and other factors – those with talent or money will flee abroad. In my own youth, I knew a large number of white South African émigrés. In ten or twenty years, children will be growing up alongside those of many recent Western European immigrants.
Though the French state may be passive and weak in the face of this danger, the same cannot be said for all of the people of France. Some – some motivated by hatred, some by love of their country, some by some mix of each – will not yield France to their opponents. They will fight back with whatever weapons and by whatever means they can.
Neither will all elements of the French establishment yield. There is a reason why this is already the Fifth Republic. Little about French government in the last two centuries has been permanent. Perhaps, given the chance, some General will decide to make the transition from Fifth Republic to Third Empire.
Civil War? Islamic conquest? Military coup? We cannot say now what is in the future of France if events are allowed to proceed unchecked. We can only say that it will be evil that befalls that great nation if it fails to act swiftly.
Rioters do not understand words. They will respond to concessions – appeasement – with only future riots. In any case, the point for negotiations and compromise has long since passed – these rioters are irreconcilable with the West. The only thing that will wake them up is a whiff of grapeshot.
And, after that? Well, we know the answer. The world is not a single big happy place. Everyone cannot live together in peace and harmony. The West’s choice to discard integration in favour of multiculturalism must now be acknowledged for the utter disaster that it is. Those who fail to adopt Western –be they French, English, American, Canadian, Australian – norms ought to be repatriated. Voluntarily if possible – otherwise otherwise.
Two years ago (using the pretext, as they are today, of the timely death of a pair of young criminals) the Franco-Islamic street rose in scenes reminiscent of the first stages of the Palestinian intifada nearly two decades before. Rock throwing. Vandalism. The occasional Molotov cocktail. Burned-out cars.
How did the authorities respond to this? As befits cowards, they took their knees and degraded themselves before the criminals. They offered jobs, money, aid – everything. Violence, both its actuality and the threat of greater violence, brought rewards to the budding Jihadists of Paris. Is it any surprise then that, on a similarly flimsy pretext, the violence should erupt anew?
Of course, I am heartless to suggest that the deaths of the two joy-riding criminals which sparked this (in addition to those sparks which set off the last conflagration) are a welcome event. You bleed for those people if you want – but facts are facts and criminals are criminals. Some will blame the French police for failing to aid the young scum when they struck them with their car – but to do so fails to consider the obvious fact that the officers in question were operating within what has become, in effect, a hostile state within the heart of France – and would almost certainly have been attacked and quite possibly killed had they left their car.
Now, though, it seems to be much worse than before. They’re shooting at the police this time. They’re targeting them for death. And how does the French political class respond to this outrage? The Socialists attack their own government, for failing to sufficiently prostrate themselves before the criminal element. What passes for the French “right” cowers and works hard not to offend anyone.
What would General Bonaparte think of what has become of his country?
The course of events is blazingly clear. The last time these riots came, Moslems made up roughly 10% of the French population or six million of sixty. With a low French birthrate, a high Moslem one, and continued immigration – both legal and illegal – who knows what it is now. Perhaps six and a half. Perhaps seven. And what shall it be in ten or twenty years when I, dear reader, am in early middle age and you, however old you are, are probably still here? The crisis is already here – but it is Armageddon that is drawing near.
I mentioned earlier that they are now shooting at the police. At least four police officers have actually been shot. Perhaps more by the time you read this. Over one hundred have been injured. And yet the riots go on. Troops have not been sent in to quell them. The police have not returned fire, even in self-defense.
I am certain that some – perhaps those Canadians so exercised about the recent Taser-related death of a Polish man – will be quick to praise the French police as a model of restraint. But I damn their leaders – those who send men to be injured and deny them the means of self-protection – as cowards. The know that the evil force in their midst must be resisted, but they lack the courage to do so. The enervated state of the French state precludes the use of any strong or effective measure against what, in effect, is a civic revolt.
What do you get when you have?:
1) An Islamic population which is growing, both in real terms and as a percentage of the population, each year.
2) Riots which are growing progressively more violent and beginning to take on the character of a guerrilla war.
3) A civic establishment too exhausted and too cowardly to confront the threat?
Disaster is the answer.
I cannot, at the present time, project the exact course of events. But once we have established the underlying course, we can make some reasonable assumptions.
As the violence increases – and as the French state is progressively paralyzed by this and other factors – those with talent or money will flee abroad. In my own youth, I knew a large number of white South African émigrés. In ten or twenty years, children will be growing up alongside those of many recent Western European immigrants.
Though the French state may be passive and weak in the face of this danger, the same cannot be said for all of the people of France. Some – some motivated by hatred, some by love of their country, some by some mix of each – will not yield France to their opponents. They will fight back with whatever weapons and by whatever means they can.
Neither will all elements of the French establishment yield. There is a reason why this is already the Fifth Republic. Little about French government in the last two centuries has been permanent. Perhaps, given the chance, some General will decide to make the transition from Fifth Republic to Third Empire.
Civil War? Islamic conquest? Military coup? We cannot say now what is in the future of France if events are allowed to proceed unchecked. We can only say that it will be evil that befalls that great nation if it fails to act swiftly.
Rioters do not understand words. They will respond to concessions – appeasement – with only future riots. In any case, the point for negotiations and compromise has long since passed – these rioters are irreconcilable with the West. The only thing that will wake them up is a whiff of grapeshot.
And, after that? Well, we know the answer. The world is not a single big happy place. Everyone cannot live together in peace and harmony. The West’s choice to discard integration in favour of multiculturalism must now be acknowledged for the utter disaster that it is. Those who fail to adopt Western –be they French, English, American, Canadian, Australian – norms ought to be repatriated. Voluntarily if possible – otherwise otherwise.
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