Some nasty cracks in this article, but he does voice a
grave concern in Western Europe regarding a Muslim
underclass. They don't/can't assimilate into the
dominant culture and are really frustrated at their
outcast status.
--- Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paris Burns Again
>
> Let's Roast Frankfurters
>
>
> by Fred Reed
>
> November 7, 2005
>
> Paris burns, crackling and popping as merrily as a
> Yule log when
> England was still Merrie and still English. Moslems
> prance about
> setting things alight, cars incinerate briskly, and
> the police suck
> their thumbs. Diversity. Oh yes. And more to come.
>
> Time and again these days, national governments let
> in all sorts of
> people who belong somewhere else. Pretty soon the
> country has so many
> that the government comes to fear them. At that
> point the problem
> passes beyond easy solution. So politicians paper
> over everything,
> and make concessions to buy a years peace. The
> newcomers breed and
> increase. By and by the remaining possibilities are
> acquiescence or
> civil war.
>
> Which latter, boys and girls, isnt impossible.
>
> The assiduously courted invasion usually rests on a
> curious idealism
> that I find hard to credit in adults. The notion is
> that we are all
> just people, brothers under the skin, that all we
> need is love and
> understanding, black and white together, kum bah ya;
> only a few
> reactionary forces need to be stilled to bring about
> universal bliss.
> This happy thought doesnt surprise me among
> students in high school.
> Politicians arent.
>
> Has no one noticed that diversity doesnt work?
> Putting together
> peoples with little in common begs for trouble,
> usually with success.
> It is the chief source of the worlds bloodshed and
> enmity.
>
> Look around you. Start with Canada, where the Brits
> and French detest
> each other. Drop down to the USA, where black,
> white, and brown wait
> uneasily for no one is sure what; the lid is held on
> by Washington,
> which acts as a sort of federal Tito. There are
> Hindus and Moslems in
> India, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, blacks and
> whites in South
> Africa, Moslems and Buddhists in Thailand, Turks and
> Germans in
> Germany, Vietnamese and Montagnards in Vietnam,
> Moslems and animists
> in the Sudan, Jews and Moslems in Israel, Cambodians
> and Vietnamese
> in Cambodia, Protestants and Catholics in Ireland,
> Indians and
> Mexicans in Chiapas, Basques and Spaniards in Spain,
> Indians and
> Fijians in Fiji.
>
> But what have facts to do with foreign relations? It
> is much more
> entertaining to base policy on adolescent theories
> and see what happens.
>
> When the anticipated melding fails and riots ensue,
> the response is
> to try to buy, or legislate, the impossible.
> Invariably the cry
> arises that the government hasnt done enough for
> the indigent
> arrivals. We must spend more money on welfare, on
> schools, on special
> programs to raise the unraisable and mix the
> immiscible. It is our
> fault really. We need to change our outmoded
> attitudes, require
> classes on ethnic sensitivity, celebrate the culture
> of the new
> incompatibles. We will have National Islamic History
> Week, and
> children will make mosques from construction paper.
> That will fix
> everything.
>
> Instead the problem gets worse. The majority
> population becomes
> angrier, but has no recourse. The government is
> against them. The
> immigrants can loot and burn, and nothing is likely
> to happen to
> them: Punishing their misbehavior would engender
> more violence, which
> the government wants to avoid at any cost. If the
> citizenry defend
> themselves, as for example by shooting arsonists,
> the government will
> put them in prison. Citizens have much to lose; the
> malefactors do not.
>
> A spring is thus wound.
>
> Moslems in particular are poison. A failed
> civilization, Islam sends
> its unsuccessful, thus double failures, to Europe.
> They gravitate to
> slums because they can do nothing else. Cohesive,
> angry, ineffectual,
> with no loyalty to their new home, they neither
> flourish nor
> assimilate. Resentment grows among them. And so the
> cities burn.
>
> Which is interesting. In the United States, the
> hostility of Islam is
> often attributed to American support of Israel.
> Beyond doubt, there
> is truth in this. It does not explain the riots in
> Paris, the papered-
> over violence in other European countries, the
> Islamic terrorism in
> Russia and in southern Thailand, the anti-Christian
> fighting in East
> Timor, or the terror in Kashmir. Moslems are
> trouble.
>
> Immigration is not prima facie a bad idea. It
> depends on who you let
> in. Some immigrants can assimilate. If for example
> the United States
> allows the entry of moderate numbers of reasonably
> educated Chinese,
> nothing untoward will happen. The Chinese share such
> crucial European
> traits as studiousness and respect for law. In fact
> they are superior
> to the white population in both respects.
> Consequently they arouse
> little hostility and not a little admiration. They
> may congregate for
> a generation or so in Chinatown, but the term
> designates a place
> where a lot of Chinese live, not a hostile ghetto.
>
> Other immigrants cannot assimilate. Most especially
> practitioners of
> Islam cannot prosper in Europe. Watch.
>
> Incomprehensibly, permitting their entry has been a
> deliberate
> decision. Europe could have kept these swarming
> newcomers out by
> simply not letting them in. No visa, no work permit,
> instant
> deportation. It didnt. Now France and Holland are
> on the edge.
> Amsterdam could be the next Paris. England, once a
> delightful land of
> safety and civility, becomes in parts a North
> African slum. I have no
> sympathy. They made the choice. But why did they do
> it?
>
> For that matter, if Washington wanted to end the
> illegal immigration
> of Latinos, it could do so in a paragraph: Establish
> a fine of five
> thousand dollars a day for employing illegals or
> renting them
> accommodations, half of it to go to the person
> turning the offender
> in; require proof of citizenship for welfare in any
> form, or use of
> the schools; allow police to demand a green card at
> their discretion;
> put the army along the border with orders to shoot.
> It wont happen,
> of course. I dont care, but lets not be surprised
> at the consequences.
>
> What the French need to do, but wont, is to send
> the army into the
> Islamic slums, round up the whole lot, and put them
> ashore on the
> beaches of North Africa with a box lunch and a
> coupon
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