What The Uprising Generation Wants

Time.com ^ | 11/15/2005 | milwguy

[milwguy]

The gendarmes have weapons. The kids they face in the street have mostly stones and Molotov cocktails. It is a mismatch. But it's the cops who are the heavy underdogs--the cops and the France that the cops alone represent in those burning godforsaken ghettos where most Frenchmen dare not go.

On the one side are the protester-arsonists, many if not most of them Muslim, whom the Interior Minister called racaille (rabble)--young, restless, violent, vibrant, angry, jobless, envious and fecund. And on the other side is an aged and exhausted civilization, the hollowed-out core of European Christendom, static, aging, contented, coddled, passive and literally without faith. Who would you think will win in the end?

If you needed a snapshot of the balance of forces in this civilizational struggle taking place in France, consider only the incomprehension and inertness of the official French response. The President didn't say a word for 10 days. The state of emergency wasn't declared until Day 13. Meanwhile, the Interior Minister and Prime Minister offered dueling slogans and empty promises, with an eye more on their upcoming presidential contest than on the fire this time.

The best way to know the future is to look at simple demographics. There are an estimated 5 million Muslims in France. Of course, no one knows for sure, not just because of the uncounted illegal immigrants but because in France the government is prohibited by law from even asking about ethnicity and religion. It is not surprising that you don't deal with a problem whose very contours you refuse to see or even inquire about.

France thus is approaching 10% Muslim. But things do not stand still. Even if there were no further immigration, which is a pipe dream, birth rates alone will soon drastically alter the balance. Muslims have the highest birth rate--three times the rate of non-Muslims--of any demographic group in Europe. The most common name for a newborn in neighboring Brussels is Mohammed. Childbearing rates among non-Muslim Frenchmen are well below replacement levels. The old French, like the rest of Europe, are literally disappearing.

"With current trends," Professor Bernard Lewis has said, "Europe will have Muslim majorities in the population by the end of the 21st century." The future? "Europe will be part of the Arab west, of the Maghreb [Muslim northwest Africa]." Today's rioting youth are just a bit ahead of their time in claiming their upcoming patrimony

[milwguy]

Excellent article from a great writer. He concisely and bluntly tells things like they are. I wish our MSM would take a more direct tact in reporting on the invasion of Europe. The last comment is my favorite........France always thought it had one last resort, one ready strategy for fending off the rage of its Arab street: beyond avoidance lay appeasement. No country in the West has done more to cultivate world Arab opinion, to appease Arab terrorists, to ostentatiously oppose American Middle East policy (Iraq above all), to champion the signal Arab cause of Palestine. It was no accident that Yasser Arafat chose Paris as his place to die--Paris, after Jerusalem, his second holiest city.

Paris burns anyway. As the French seem to learn every 70 years, appeasement does not work. It merely whets the appetite. And the angry alien young were already hungry

[ClearCase_guy]

It is legitimate to fear that Europe will become an Islamic power by the end of the 21st century.

But, IMO, the greater fear is that a Napoleon or Hitler will rise in Europe and "deal with the problem".

Then, we will have to answer the question: Should America side with Hitler and watch the Arab Holocaust unfold, with death camps in Poland? Or should America go to war against Europe in order to prevent the destruction of Islamo-Fascism?

[L98Fiero]

"As the French seem to learn every 70 years,"

You only need to "learn" something one to truly have learned it.

[bkepley]

The President didn't say a word for 10 days

They really are cowards.

[Travis McGee]

It doesn't matter what the population balance will be in a century.
What matters is the population balance among those of fighting age today.
Elderly French pensioners will not be out streetfighting to defend their France.

[wizardoz]

Then, we will have to answer the question: Should America side with Hitler and watch the Arab Holocaust unfold, with death camps in Poland? Or should America go to war against Europe in order to prevent the destruction of Islamo-Fascism?

Oh, I thought the real question would be, do we put butter on the popcorn we'll eat as we sit and watch, or should we be mindful of our cholestral?

[conservative physics]

I think we already made that decision in Serbia.


sigh...

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

LOL (or at least chuckling out loud).

[Tintin chez les soviets]

An Interview of Alain Finkielkraut (french intellectual).
It's very long, but very interesting if you want to really understand what happen.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=finkielkraut&itemNo=646938

[ladyinred]

I wish our MSM would take a more direct tact in reporting on the invasion of Europe.

Our MSM thinks the "invasion" of Europe is wonderful, and wants the same thing for the USA.