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Nice attack propels anti-immigrant sentiments into France’s mainstream
Washington Post ^ | July 18, 2016 | Michael Birnbaum

Posted on 07/18/2016 5:48:34 AM PDT by Scarpetta

NICE, FRANCE — With this coastal city reeling from the Bastille Day attack by one of its Tunisian-born residents, one sentiment is growing stronger and stronger: Keep the immigrants out.

Across France, it is voiced by the far-right National Front party, which counts Nice as a stronghold. It is embraced by the ­center-right politicians dogging French President François Hollande ahead of elections next year. And though Hollande has preached tolerance and unity every time terrorism strikes France, his allies are also trying to tamp down immigration.

Leaders of Nice’s Muslim community say they fear that a backlash could make people such as the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, even more disconnected from French society, sharpening the risk of more attacks. But there are now few mainstream voices in France’s political establishment advocating a welcoming policy toward migrants. Hollande’s center-left Socialist party appears likely to limp to a third-place finish in the presidential race next year behind the far-right National Front, which long had ties to Holocaust deniers.

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The Muslim infestation of Lake Como and terror on the French Riviera, the EU do-gooders never thought it would affect them directly.
1 posted on 07/18/2016 5:48:34 AM PDT by Scarpetta
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Nice.


2 posted on 07/18/2016 5:51:24 AM PDT by Enduro Guy (Trump/Pence 2016)
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anti immigrant...sounds so evil :)

the Wa post can @#$## my @##


3 posted on 07/18/2016 5:51:45 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Took long enough.


4 posted on 07/18/2016 5:57:04 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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“Leaders of Nice’s Muslim community say they fear that a backlash could make people such as the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, even more disconnected from French society, sharpening the risk of more attacks.”

Absolute tripe. Everything has been done to appease the Muslim community. France has “bent over” trying to be inclusive of Muslims. The result is the same. Islam is about DOMINATION and NOT ASSIMILATION.
What is taking the WEST so long to figure this out?


5 posted on 07/18/2016 5:58:40 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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Hahaha the money quote is Muslims claiming people like the terrorist could be made even more disaffected than the Nice terrorist.

Guy killed a hundred men women and children with a truck loaded with grenades, on the French national Holiday. Wouldn’t want people like him feeling unwanted, I mean, who knows what they might do then. /s


6 posted on 07/18/2016 6:02:29 AM PDT by Williams (If Trump is not the nominee ... The party's over.)
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Nice attack propels anti-immigrant sentiments into France’s mainstream

... where it has been all along except it was scrubbed by the media.

7 posted on 07/18/2016 6:04:28 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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....mine, too......


8 posted on 07/18/2016 6:05:44 AM PDT by Liz (Trump needs to get on this Dem sSAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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a backlash could make people such as the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, even more disconnected from French society

Exactly.

The real tragedy here is not the countless slaughtered people lying bloody in the road; rather it is that poor Mohamed -- were he not dead -- might become more disconnected from French society. A few score corpses should not make us lose sight of the bigger picture.

Only a leftist could write such utter crap.

9 posted on 07/18/2016 6:08:04 AM PDT by Blennos
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Charles Martel is laughing in his grave. The Western Europeans have forgotten the hard truths their ancestors learned with blood at Tours, Grenada,Vienna,Malta, Constantinople, Lepanto and countless other encounters.Islam is simply not compatible with the practices, institutions and values of the West. The Left at its core despises Western culture. When a Left wing government has power, there is decline and decay. The Muslim migrants are not unlike the barbarians that superseded the crumbling Roman empire. History repeats.


10 posted on 07/18/2016 6:09:17 AM PDT by allendale
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Reading this again makes my blood boil. So lucky that Michael Birnbaum or his family or his friends were not in the path of that huge truck driven by the murderous muslim in Nice that night.

Shame on you Michael Birnbaum.


11 posted on 07/18/2016 6:11:33 AM PDT by Blennos
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Leaders of Nice’s Muslim community say they fear that a backlash could make people such as the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, even more disconnected from French society, sharpening the risk of more attacks.

The usual Muslim response. "We didn't do it, and if you make us mad, we'll do it again."

12 posted on 07/18/2016 6:14:44 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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“Nice’s Muslim community say they fear a backlash could make their people even more disconnected from French society, sharpening the risk of more attacks.”

......witness here the Muslims' diseased hate-filled mind......making the argument for even more savagery, and conveniently blaming the victims they intend to slaughter.......

The Muslim is a strange being.....they literally can't see beyond their self-serving hatred.

Too bad for them the entire world is onto them.

13 posted on 07/18/2016 6:19:52 AM PDT by Liz (Trump needs to get on this Dem sSAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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It's still wayyyyyyyy too early to know the outcome of this latest atrocity will be besides the melting of 6,000 candles and 22,000 letters of sorrow.

As long as we continue to be fearful of hurting Muslim feelings AND express a fear about a anti-Muslim BACKLASH, we will not defeat the enemy.

There must be a universal call now to all Muslim communities in the West to openly, publicly (and in writing) officially condemn all the atrocities committed by their brothers. Until such time that ALL MUSLIM communities come out publicly and distance themselves from these heinous acts, there can be no peace, no forgiving and certainly no more immigration...

14 posted on 07/18/2016 6:22:02 AM PDT by Netz
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If Muslims were really afraid of the backlash, they’d be turning in their friends organizing these events - and instead, more than a quarter admit in polls supporting the violence and wouldn’t turn in someone.
That a fourth in Pew Polls and others say they wouldn’t, you know at least that many just didn’t admit it in polls.


15 posted on 07/18/2016 6:23:03 AM PDT by tbw2
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(just checked). France is slightly larger than CA and slightly smaller than TX. We forget how small European countries are. Isn’t it more than a little late for France to do anything to turn things around? Keep in mind this maniac, as with many of northern African heritage, was a French citizen.


16 posted on 07/18/2016 6:24:52 AM PDT by grania
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Since when has repelling an invasion become “anti-immigrant”?


17 posted on 07/18/2016 6:30:24 AM PDT by RideForever
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"Ive opened the doors to my people....and Hillary plans to bring in another
million as president. Stop the hate-mongering. Nothing could go wrong
b/c Marie Harf and the State Dept have US govt jobs lined up for them."

18 posted on 07/18/2016 6:30:57 AM PDT by Liz (Trump needs to get on this Dem sSAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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...fear that a backlash...

...and there it is!

19 posted on 07/18/2016 6:32:47 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Liz

......witness here the Muslims’ diseased hate-filled mind......making the argument for even more savagery, and conveniently blaming the victims they intend to slaughter.......

The Muslim is a strange being.....they literally can’t see beyond their self-serving hatred.

Too bad for them the entire world is onto them.


Indeed!!

Someone needs to buy 0bola a freaking clue. Let him know that the entire world is onto these barbarians.


20 posted on 07/18/2016 6:36:19 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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