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.
There is a difference I think. 1) The Latin immigrants are not in Jihad mode and 2) In America how much you assimilate is up to you; it's not that way in Europe.
The French reaction will be slow until idiots like Chirac are out of the way, but when it finally comes, I hope it will be devastating. As France goes, so goes the West, I fear.
Have we been hollowed out by our insane (il)liberal elites to the point that we've lost the will to live or has pressure so built up against them that a powerful rejection will begin, fueled by real patriotism, not Bush-league patriotism.
Pat Buchanan jumped the shark at the convention of 1992 where he contributed so directly to the Clinton election that one suspects he was actually in the pay of the sink emperor. He has been unworthy of serious attention ever since.
Okay, this just proves that Islamic nazis, like Hitlerian nazis with their maps of German India, have stupid dreams.
Welcome to FR, WP. You'll find that on FR, the "ad hominem" attack is a herald of intellectual weakness, or no argument at all. It also is the hallmark of a DU troll....
Only Pat Buchanan can tell it like it is. President Bush should make Pat our Secretary of Homeland Security.
Wake up America!
Time is short for many European countries. How these Muslim uprising are dealt with will tell the tale. If the troublemakers are thrown out of the country or in prison, there is hope. If the governments scramble to accommodate Islam at the expense of their respective cultures, the war will be lost. Instead of the Nazi salute, Europe’s salute will be bowing to Mecca. Is there much difference between the two?
In Texas, more specifically, the Dallas Independent School District, teaches the children of illegal aliens in Spanish. What do they teach them? They teach them the history of Mexico, and that they are Mexicans. "How do I know this?" you ask. It was on the local news a couple of weeks ago.
**** I know that these people are predominantly Catholic. However, I contend that even as Catholics, once they identify primarily with their cultural group (read tribe), they will be easily controlled and minipulated by the left.****
We'll have to fight this battle some day.
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Interestingly enough, the barbarians wanted to be a part of the Roman experience. They didn't want to destroy Rome. They were powerful enough to defeat the Romans and take over the key government positions but culturally, they were incapable of sustaining the Roman experience.
In time, Rome looked just like the barbarian's home land.
If you want to see what the United States is going to look like in 50 years, look at the areas of Mexico and South America where the illegal aliens are migrating from.
"We will not be France as long as our populus is armed."
For decades, the quality of citizens' weapons has been falling behind. Criminals have access to much better weapons. Unfortunately, it would shock most Americans to even consider allowing people to own the kind of guns needed to have a truly well-armed citizens' militia. There was even an effort by the left to ban bullet proof vests from citizens. Ironically, the Iraqi homes have better guns than most US homes. We can trust them more than we trust ourselves?
"Interestingly enough, the barbarians wanted to be a part of the Roman experience. They didn't want to destroy Rome. They were powerful enough to defeat the Romans and take over the key government positions but culturally, they were incapable of sustaining the Roman experience."
Well said. I don't want to see mirror images of the corrupt Mexican beauracracies pop up in counties of the US. It's almost as if the righteous Mexicans believe it's evil to have money or power. It's the wolves we have to look out for, not the sheep.
France is not an empire.........
America needs to look closely at what we are doing and not doing with an eye on the long term.
I heard on the radio news last night that Chirac is pledging 35 bil to rebuild the ghettoes.
I have never heard that before..He can afford it though since he got some bucks from the oil for food program.p>
They may be Hispanic, but they are still 'European', and Christian, NOT a completely different belief system.
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