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Posted on 11/11/2005 7:55:04 AM PST by cgk
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Again, I am glad my great grandfather dumped the french last name from our family. Of course, "Fond DU Lac" is french, unfortunately
On the bright side at least you don't live there...:)
I should have stopped reading right there.
Mona, it's not the economy. Stupid! - tom
Great article. Mona is at the top of her excellance with this analysis of current france.
In the jungle, at least everyone is equal.
In ultracivilized France, the barbarians are herded into ghettos and kept in their places.
There are, in fact, two issues here. One is the danger of inviting into any country large numbers of Muslims who have no desire to assimilate. The other is the problem of a sclerotic socialist economy which has no rungs at the bottom of its ladder, so that even immigrants of good will will be disaffected.
Put the two together and you have a recipe for disaster.
Is Chirac still taking Saudi 'campaign' money?
If so he took their money so he rides for their brand....
Yes in part it is the economy. France is text book non-soviet socialism. They imported workers they could not employ and then hoping to avoid violence, gave them generous welfare benefits.
The above makes for a hopeless day everyday, add in that most of these people are of a cynical, hopeless, and violent religion(islam), you have the volitile happennings in france now.
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"The French boast of (and American liberals drool over) France's 35-hour workweek."
I like my 40+ hour-a-week job. I particularily like the "+" part when events warrant it. No drooling over Frenchy suppression of productivity here! Then again, I ain't a liberal...
The French thought it was fine for US troops to free France two times, but didn't think it was okay for the US troops to free Iraq.
Are the French leaders racists who only think Europeans deserve self-determination? Do French Muslims wish they had a bright future like the Iraqi Muslims do?
I don't think it is a coincidence that the riots began within 2 days of the official approval of the Iraqi constitution.
I think it had more to do with the evident success Palestinian violence had in causing Israel to retreat from Gaza.
Good post.
Absolutely correct!
I like to point out the idiocy of European quasi-socialism any chance I get, and it certainly is A problem, but these people cannot be assimilated into either the economy or the social system, because they refuse to assimilate. That's not why they are there.
They are there to establish a foothold for Islam.
I agree. Iraq was the central war for the enemy, they have said so many times. Islam does not like what it sees in Iraq. Both the French riots and the Jordanian bombings are an indication of frustration with where things are headed in Iraq.
Why France? Because they are expendable as an ally now, because the jihad sees Iraq as lost. This is an attempt to change the subject.
Good thought. It seem like Muslims are "feeling their oats."
It seems that way. The poor MSM is confused about how to cover this.
Speaking of the Jordanian bombings, by now, I fully expected that these bombings would have been disavowed by Al Queda and blamed on Israeli agents. As soon as this happens, the entire Muslim world will fall in line and blame Israel for attempting to discredit the Muslim Holy Jihad.
Al Queda really must be slipping to miss this opportunity..
Jean Francois Kerry applauds the actions of the French government.
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