Posted on 11/08/2005 1:17:50 AM PST by Candor7
Islamic Jihad: The Conclusive Case
The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.
So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the history of the empires of the West.
This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.
At this writing, the riots are entering their 12th night and have spread to Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice. Thousands of cars and buses have been torched and several nursery schools fire-bombed. One fleeing and terrified woman was doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While almost all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but are not French. The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots.
Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy, a candidate to succeed President Chirac, is said to have infuriated and inflamed the rioters. Before the rampage began, he promised “war without mercy” on crime in the teeming suburbs where unemployment runs at 20% and income is 40% below the national average. He has denounced the rioters as “scum” and “rabble.”
Like the urban riots in America in the 1960s, which the Kerner Commission blamed on “white racism,” Paris’s riots are being blamed on France’s failure to bring Islamic immigrants into the social and economic mainstream of the nation. Solutions being offered range from voting rights for non-citizens to affirmative action in hiring for the children of Third World immigrants.
To understand why this is unlikely to solve France’s crisis, consider how America succeeded, and often failed, in solving her own racial crisis. While, as late as the 1950s, black Americans were not integrated fully into our economy or society, they had been assimilated into American culture.
They worshipped the same God, spoke the same language, had endured the same Depression and war, listened to the same music and radio, watched the same TV shows, laughed at the same comedians, went to the same movies, ate the same foods, read the same books, magazines and newspapers, and went to schools where, even when they were segregated, they learned the same history.
We were divided, but we were also one nation and one people. Black folks were as American as apple pie, having lived in our common land longer than almost every other ethnic group save Native Americans. And America had a history of having assimilated immigrants in the tens of millions from Europe.
But no European nation has ever assimilated a large body of immigrant peoples, let alone people of color. Moreover, the African and Islamic peoples pouring into Europe—there are 20 million there now—are, unlike black Americans, strangers in a new land, and millions wish to remain proud Algerians, Muslims, Moroccans.
These newcomers worship a different God and practice a faith historically hostile to Christianity, a traditionalist faith that is rising again and recoils violently from a secular culture saturated in sex.
Severed from the civilization and cultures of their parents, these Arab and Muslim youth may hold French citizenship and carry French passports, but they are no more French than Americans who live in Paris are French. Searching for a community to which they can truly belong, they gravitate to mosques where the imams, many themselves immigrants, teach and preach that the West is not their true home, but a civilization alien to their values and historically hostile to their nations and Islam.
The soaring Muslim population is a Fifth Column inside Europe.
Nevertheless, their numbers must grow. For not only do they have a higher birth rate than the native-born Europeans, no European nation, save Moslem Albania, has a birth rate (2.1 births per woman) that will enable it to endure for many more generations. The West is aging, shrinking, and dying.
Yet, to keep Europe’s economy growing and taxes coming in to fund the health and pension programs of Europe’s rising numbers of retired and elderly, Europe needs scores of millions of new workers. And Europe can only find them in the Third World.
Nor should Americans take comfort in France’s distress. By 2050, there will be 100 million Hispanics in the United States, half of them of Mexican ancestry, heavily concentrated in a Southwest most Mexicans still believe by right belongs to them.
Colonization of the mother countries by subject peoples is the last chapter in the history of empires—and the next chapter in the history of the West—that is now coming to a close.
Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of The Death of the West, The Great Betrayal, and A Republic, Not an Empire.
What you think is just as important as what Buchanan thinks - or, just as important as what anyone else thinks.
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"What you think is just as important as what Buchanan thinks - or, just as important as what anyone else thinks."
Why, thank you, I'm a little shy!
I think Buchanan is right, but unlike hime , I think its not too late. The USA has time to secure its southern and northern borders. Our president should bite that bullet now, or 50 years from now we could be France all over again ( deja vu all over again?).
I also have a singular message for Hispanics in the USA who insist that their children be taught in Spanish at school: Learn English and be taught in that language.
Support the Republic.
Isn't "cultural diversity" just swell?
What's that incoherent babble of a sentence supposed to mean?
Please elaborate.
There ya go!
Couldn't agree more, except I think "50 years" may be on the high side.
Put some ice on it.
Buchanan is a twist of lime that accompanies a rum and coke. A TOUCH of sweatness makes a bitter decision palatable. Buchanan thinks that because He has never been responsible, HE is the one who offered ANY real Decision?
Bush is to blame, and to praise, and to question. It isn't Buchana, with his 3 or 4 positions that is strong, because Pat, can recover no matter what. Bush? Made a choice. That is Called "Leadership"
What a scintillating response! Jeeze Louise, don't quite know how to respond in the teeth of such a witty riposte...
...(snicker)...
Get lost.
We need to use France as a bad example of policy on guns, immigration, and economics.
If we think it can't happen in the USofA, we're not paying attention to the steps taking us there.
What does this article have to do with choosing George W. Bush?
I just became a big fan of ....you!
And they live in Australia but are not Australian, they live in American but are not Americans, they live in Germany but are not Germans, they live in Russia but are not Russians and on and on.
They're mooslims and they have a goal: take over the world and exterminate the infidels.
Not all of them
People attack Pat Buchanan for the same reason they attack rattlesnakes.
Well-this-is-the-first-time-that-I-have-read-the-article,and-I-am-glad-for-the-post.
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