--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:11 PM, authfriend wrote:
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> > You posted this as an example of the kind of subhuman
> > bigotry to which some people can descend, right, Vaj?
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> A counterpoint.
More POVs:
Paris Burning: How Empires End
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted Nov 7, 2005
The Romans conquered the barbariansand the barbarians conquered Rome.
So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the
history of the empires of the West.
This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in
Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid,
the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these
crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who
were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.
At this writing, the riots are entering their 12th night and have
spread to Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux,
Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice. Thousands of cars and buses have been
torched and several nursery schools fire-bombed. One fleeing and
terrified woman was doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While almost
all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For
never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And
some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but
are not French.
The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they
mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and
were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots.
Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy, a candidate to succeed President
Chirac, is said to have infuriated and inflamed the rioters. Before
the rampage began, he promised "war without mercy" on crime in the
teeming suburbs where unemployment runs at 20% and income is 40% below
the national average. He has denounced the rioters as "scum" and
"rabble."
Like the urban riots in America in the 1960s, which the Kerner
Commission blamed on "white racism," Paris's riots are being blamed on
France's failure to bring Islamic immigrants into the social and
economic mainstream of the nation. Solutions being offered range from
voting rights for non-citizens to affirmative action in hiring for the
children of Third World immigrants.
To understand why this is unlikely to solve France's crisis, consider
how America succeeded, and often failed, in solving her own racial crisis.
While, as late as the 1950s, black Americans were not integrated fully
into our economy or society, they had been assimilated into American
culture.
They worshipped the same God, spoke the same language, had endured the
same Depression and war, listened to the same music and radio, watched
the same TV shows, laughed at the same comedians, went to the same
movies, ate the same foods, read the same books, magazines and
newspapers, and went to schools where, even when they were segregated,
they learned the same history.
We were divided, but we were also one nation and one people. Black
folks were as American as apple pie, having lived in our common land
longer than almost every other ethnic group save Native Americans.
And America had a history of having assimilated immigrants in the tens
of millions from Europe.
But no European nation has ever assimilated a large body of immigrant
peoples, let alone people of color. Moreover, the African and Islamic
peoples pouring into Europethere are 20 million there noware, unlike
black Americans, strangers in a new land, and millions wish to remain
proud Algerians, Muslims, Moroccans.
These newcomers worship a different God and practice a faith
historically hostile to Christianity, a traditionalist faith that is
rising again and recoils violently from a secular culture saturated in
sex.
Severed from the civilization and cultures of their parents, these
Arab and Muslim youth may hold French citizenship and carry French
passports, but they are no more French than Americans who live in
Paris are French. Searching for a community to which they can truly
belong, they gravitate to mosques where the imams, many themselves
immigrants, teach and preach that the West is not their true home, but
a civilization alien to their values and historically hostile to their
nations and Islam.
The soaring Muslim population is a Fifth Column inside Europe.
Nevertheless, their numbers must grow. For not only do they have a
higher birth rate than the native-born Europeans, no European nation,
save Moslem Albania, has a birth rate (2.1 births per woman) that will
enable it to endure for many more generations. The West is aging,
shrinking, and dying.
Yet, to keep Europe's economy growing and taxes coming in to fund the
health and pension programs of Europe's rising numbers of retired and
elderly, Europe needs scores of millions of new workers. And Europe
can only find them in the Third World.
Nor should Americans take comfort in France's distress. By 2050,
there will be 100 million Hispanics in the United States, half of them
of Mexican ancestry, heavily concentrated in a Southwest most Mexicans
still believe by right belongs to them.
Colonization of the mother countries by subject peoples is the last
chapter in the history of empiresand the next chapter in the history
of the Westthat is now coming to a close.
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