Mark Steyn: It’s the demography, stupid

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 11/12/05 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Thanks Pokey! BTTT!

[Rummyfan]

de Villepin and Chirac fiddle while France burns......

[hang 'em]

"Let them eat cake" -Madame de Villepin

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Mr. Jeeves]

And the trouble with the social democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Thanks for the new tagline, Mark! ;)

[Senator Bedfellow]

Poets, said Anatole France, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

I saw it first, I saw it first! I caught Steyn in a mistake!

Percy Bysshe Shelley said that, not Anatole France. ;)

[Rummyfan]

My colleague Rod Liddle writes elsewhere in these pages about the media’s strange reluctance to use the M-word vis-à-vis the rioting ‘youths’. I’m sure he’s received, as I have, plenty of emails arguing that there’s no Islamist component, they’re not the madrasa crowd, they may be Muslim but they’re secular and Westernised and into drugs. It’s the lack of jobs; these riots derive from conditions peculiar to France, etc. As one correspondent wrote, ‘You right-wing shit-for-brains think everything’s about jihad.’

This concerted effort to paint what's happening as economic and not jihad is the most disturbing aspect of the whole intifada.

[MadIvan]

Well that tears it, time to shut down the Channel Tunnel.

Regards, Ivan

[turbocat]

Excellent!

[Bertha Fanation]

"The measures include ‘the creation of an anti-discrimination agency’, ‘20,000 job contracts with local government agencies’ reserved for those in the less fashionable arrondissements, an extra E100 million for ‘associations’ in said neighbourhoods, etc."

I'm sure the white union goons in Paris will love it when they see the bill from this and when they have to share "their" jobs.

[Dog Gone]

Long but brilliant analysis. Thanks for finding this, Pokey.

[Paleo Conservative]

It is not necessary, incidentally, for Islam to become a statistical majority in order to function as one. At the height of its power in the 8th century, the ‘Islamic world’ stretched from Spain to India, yet its population was only minority Muslim. Nonetheless, by 2010, more elderly white Catholic ethnic frogs will have croaked and more fit healthy Muslim youths will be hitting the streets.

[Tax-chick]

Unless you act, you’re going to lose your world.

Mark Steyn thinks the future looks like us :-). (Except for the part that's Moslem, of course.)

[Rummyfan]

This is THE BEST STEYN EVER! Should be required reading everywhere.

[madinmadtown]

Always a joy to read Mark Steyn, but this piece was exceptionally good!!!

[Tax-chick]

Few people are as camp in the heart of the mystery as the flowery-furrowed M. de Villepin, but after the last two weeks he may be less enthusiastic about all those flashes inflaming the night. Poets, said Anatole France, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. But in making one of them an actual acknowledged legislator the French have stretched the thesis beyond breaking point. Few countries are in such desperate need of ‘the enclosures of thought’.

[aculeus]

BTTT

[Tribune7]

A great column, and scary.

[dennisw]

It's the DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD stupid!!!!