Posted on 11/10/2005 5:13:33 AM PST by SJackson
11/08/05--When I wrote this May 2002 column on France and its radical Muslim population resulting from uncontrolled borders, I predicted violence worse than the wildings in Central Park. Unfortunately, over the last two weeks, French Muslims from North Africa proved me correct, 3.5 years later. The column is as newsworthy today as it was then--perhaps more so. -- Debbie Schlussel.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2002/05/will_america_be.html
Will America Be the Next France?
By Debbie Schlussel
Will America be the next France-and become a radical Muslim country?
Or will it remain the home of the free and the brave?
That depends upon whether you agree with President Bush or Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) on immigration.
Bush wants to open the floodgates and Tancredo wants real reform.
Bush wants amnesty for all illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. - to grant them citizenship. This will be the last time, he promises. We've heard this before. In the '80s, Congress passed identical illegal immigrant amnesty legislation. That was the last time they'd ever do it. They promised. But now is really the last, last time. Or so they claim, until the next time, which will be the last, last, last time. And so on.
To add insult to injury, Bush, with the aid of Arab-American Congressmen, like Hezbollah mega-fan Darrell Issa (a/k/a Jihad Darrell) (R-California) and Nick Joe Rahall (D-WV), have repeatedly passed legislation to make it easier for undesirables to immigrate to this country.
Why is Bush doing this? That's easy. We are being shamelessly henpecked by Mexican President Vicente Fox and a host of pro-immigration radical Muslim groups operating within our borders. They know that the amnesty program doesn't differentiate between Mexican illegals and those who pledge loyalty to Al-Qaeda while planning homicide bombings and other terrorism.
Instead of thinking, "Gee, the Census reported at least 100,000 illegal Middle Eastern immigrants, all of whom are potential terrorists," White House political director Ken Mehlman and senior Bush political advisor Karl Rove took Tancredo to the woodshed.
Rep. Tancredo, head of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, complained that Bush's "open door" border could lead to more terrorism on our shores. "Then the blood of the people killed will be on this administration and this Congress."
If we do not listen to Tancredo, President Bush will help make this country into a nation ruled by radical Islam-maybe even democratically elected, at first.
That's France's problem. With few controls on immigration, there are now between 5 and 10 million Muslim Arabs in that country of 60 million. The range in numbers of Muslims there is so vast because nobody knows for sure exactly how many there are. One thing is for sure: in the next 50 to 100 years-maybe sooner-France will become a Muslim nation. Demographics dictate it.
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.
Remember Zaccarias Moussaoui, now standing trial as the would-be 20th hijacker of 9-11? He's a French national of Algerian descent. (Last summer, before 9-11, French intelligence warned the FBI that he received training in Al-Qaeda camps. But while in France, he was untouched by those same authorities-just as his computer hard-drive was untouched by our authorities prior to 9-11, due to an over-abundance of Bush political correctness.)
Right now, Islam is the second largest religion in France. There would be nothing wrong with that, if it were a moderate form of Islam, such as Sufism. But the raging anti-Semitism and violent crime-wave of gangs that has accompanied the increase in Muslim immigration and birth in France is illustrative of radical Islam. Don't like the wilding of New York's Central Park thugs, or the gangs of South Central? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Come to France's city of Roubaix, which The Atlantic's Christopher Caldwell nicknames "The Harlem of France." With over 40 percent immigrants, mostly Middle-Eastern, unemployment is 26 percent, crack and other drug use is high, and so is welfare dependence. The unions, controlled by "Maghrebians" (North Africans, ie., Arabs) only hire Maghrebians. Violence rules.
Aside from the massive Arab Muslim immigration, there is French reproduction. It's no coincidence that France was one of the first countries to use RU-486. Its non-Muslim Arab population practices birth control like nobody's business. They are not reproducing much. Contrast that with the high birthrate of Muslims in France, most of whom are religious and do not use birth control.
None of these factors is exclusive to France. They can, will, and already have been exported to the U.S. due to lax immigration restraints. That is why groups like the Dearborn, Michigan-based Arab American Political Action Committee-a group whose officials support homicide bombers--stressed relaxed immigration policy as a requirement for endorsing candidates at all levels. That included endorsed candidate George W. Bush, who fiercely competed with Al Gore for that endorsement.
It is also why groups like Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)-a Hamas front-group, according to former FBI Counterterrorism Chief Oliver "Buck" Revell-support weak immigration restraints. In 1993, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."
Similarly, Islamic Society of North America President and Hamas supporter Muzammil Siddiqi, said, "Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction." (Pakistan Link, "Issues and Questions," Oct. 18, 1996). He's the one who delivered the Muslim prayer at the National Cathedral Service and then hung out with the President at the White House, just after 9-11.
President Bush is a little too comfortable with radical Islamists who support free immigration to the U.S. with subversive motives. Like he said, "You're either on our side or the terrorists' side."
I know on which side Congressman Tancredo is. The question is, on whose side is President Bush?
America must not become La Prochaine (Next) France.
Posted by Debbie at May 14, 2002 02:21 PM
Next time, let the Germans KEEP France!
My post would get deleted if I said what I think.
Bush has left his conservative base on this issue. He has been kowtowing to the illegals lobby under the guise of compassionate conservatism.
Where does he stand? With one foot in Texas and the other in mexico.
ping
Until our corrupt politicans tear it from our cold dead constitution.
Well, for one thing....we're capitalist...the Muslims that live here have to work for a living, not sit home and collect health benefits.
This is not question of where you collect your paycheck. It is a question of where your loyalties lie.
Islam, like communism, is an all-encompassing system of theology, economics and law which claims moral superiority to all others. Muslims are required by their faith to hold their first allegiance to Islam and it's tenets and advance the cause of The Umma (total Moslem dominance of Allah, worldwide) to the exclusion of all other political and religious systems - including by the sword, if necessary. If you a Muslim and not doing that, you are an apostate and subject to the sword yourself.
Don't kid yourself. Islam is a mortal threat to all we hold dear.
Next time, let the Germans KEEP France!That's no joke. What a waste of good American lives that whole enterprise is turning out to have been.
Agreed.
So... if Islam is indeed "a mortal threat" (and in my dictionary, a "mortal threat" portends a life-or-death struggle), what must Islam's ultimate fate be, if the West is to survive?
- John
If our leaders could admit the answer to your question, we wouldn't be in any danger at all.
This would be an easy fight, if we were to actually fight.
In the short run, it needs to be contained and it's adherents pushed back to the margins - as was once done, starting in the 8th Century.
In the long run, it's adherents need to find another religion. Frankly, almost any other will do from a secular standpoint. But for their own best interests and the interests of the rest of mankind, that religion would be Christianity.
It's a difficult thing for a Muslim to convert from Islam - and purposely so. At the minimum, conversion from Islam is a cultural death sentence where one is separated forever from family and community. At the maximum it is a physical death sentence. It takes genuine individual courage and faith to do so. Frankly, this is a work which can only be done by the Holy spirit by a great revival within the House of Umma!
That wouldn't do much good, Germany has the same problem, they are overrun with Turkish "guest" workers.
Guess what religion they are..
That wouldn't do much good, Germany has the same problem, they are overrun with Turkish "guest" workers.
Guess what religion they are..
So I thought up this new joke this weekend. I'll post it here and see if it sweeps the Internet. If not, I'll just say "thanks, you've been a great audience. Don't forget to tip the server. Try the veal!"
Q: What's the difference between Latin and French?
A: In one hundred years, some people will still be speaking Latin.
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