[Tancred]

Not only does she make sense, but she's good-looking as well (like many other conservative spokeswomen).

Speaking of unchecked immigration, some guy from India (working as a taxidriver and without a valid license) called the Howie Carr show yesterday and said he intended to stay in America and that there was nothing wrong with what he was doing. Howie couldn't get it through his head that he was breaking the law on several points: his illegal stay here, and his violation of workplace and driving rules. He thought he was entitled to stay just because he wanted to! We need to stamp that mentality out, and remind these people that they are guests in our country. We make the rules, not them.

[browardchad]

”if we are outside this country we can say O Allah, destroy America, but once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it...There is no way for Muslims to be violent in America, no way. We have other means...to do it. You can be violent anywhere else but in America.”
--- Abdulrahman Alamoudi, former Executive Director of the American Muslim Council, Annual Conference of the Islamic Association for Palestine, Chicago, December 29, 1996.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

There's some good points in the column. There a problem, however:

There is a reason Yasser Arafat’s wife, Suha, and daughter reside in safety and comfort in France. The country is dominated by Arab Muslim immigrants from North African countries--Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Tunisia, by the way, was home to Arafat and his terrorists for much of his pre-Palestinian Authority exile.

Suha Arafat is Christian. Although some say she renounced Christianity, when she married Yasser, she did have their daughter baptized. This has caused some controversy in the Palestinian Muslim community.

It doesn't make Suha particularly praiseworthy, but the reason she's living in France may be as much to protect her and her daughter from the more radically Islamicist elements, as much as because of the Arab population there.

[serinde]

This will be the last time, he promises. We’ve heard this before.

And politicians never seem to understand why people don't like them or believe them. Are they really that dense?

[Ben Bolt]

Her argument may be sound but the premise of the article is an untruth. Bush does not want all iillegals made citizenns. He wants an extension of the time allowed so that the very slow INS can catch up with the paperwork many of these people have already filed in the alloted time. Typical fare of the left. Great argument about a lie.

[Ohioan]

It is to be hoped that France will eventually wake up--at least 18% did, even in the face of an incredible smear campaign, nine days ago--and elect to remain France.

But closer at hand, we have to reexamine a lot of premises about immigration. And we are already years late in doing so. (See Immigration & The American Future.)

The article is a good article, in that it points out how immigration can change a country's ability to make necessary decisions in its own interest. But I think it is a mistake to focus on the Moslem aspect of immigration. Most American immigration, today, is from Latin America. The point is, that a Nation is not a game of "musical chairs." It matters, it matters terribly, who occupies those chairs. And you do not need to put anyone else down, to assert that you want your neighbors to continue to be those with whom you share a sense of kinship; those who have similar value system, march to a similar tempo, share a common cultural legacy; whose ancestors fought the same battles and won the same victories, whether in war or peace, as your ancestors.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[zefrog]

Hysterical. This woman knows nothing about how things truly are in France. I really urge all these people who absolutely want to voice a strong opinion on a foreign nation to visit this nation first, and for a significant amount of time if possible, before making such absurd and ridiculous claims.

[Ben Bolt]

There is so much to debate and rip in this article . Thanks for the post Vance !

[usadave]

One thing is for sure: in the next 50 to 100 years—maybe sooner—France will become a Muslim nation. Demographics dictate it.

This is assuming that the French people apathetically stand by and let it happen, a huge assumption indeed.