Always interesting to see which way a celebrity will fall. You discover that so-and-so, whom you thought intelligent, is a complete ass politically. And someone else, whom you always assumed was of the sois-belle et tais-toi brigade,turns out to be completely sensible -- at least about that matter which, as of this moment, matters most. How curious that Brigitte Bardot should have a better immediate grasp of things than Olivier Roy, Gilles Kepel, Dominique de Villepin, and virtually the entire graduating class of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
Happy Birthday, Brigitte Bardot.
We never thought you would be the big Mo's foe.
Just goes to show, as Hugh put it so well,
you never know who'll turn out to be so swell.
So raise those glasses high
jihadwatchers and drink a toast
to the best the french have to offer.
Though I agree with her views on Islam and animal rights, I disagree with her views on nearly everything else,(her homophobia, opposition to inter-racial marriage etc.).
Yes...France is full of paradoxes and surprises. Yet what a chilling sight to see BB in the dock, and convicted, for refusing to play the dhimmi, and for not wanting her country to play the dhimmi. This is what I was referring to in my message of the other day. (And of course I thank you for your thoughtful reply). There is a significant number of people who do not like what is going on here in France, but not only are they vilified in the media and everywhere else in society...but you can even go TO PRISON for not playing the dhimmi. Just look at poor old BB. OK, it's funny and the media laugh at BB in court...yes, look at the clueless old lady that was once beautiful (like France?)...but it's not a question of influencing people or talking to people or having intelligent discussions. You can go to jail if you dare say that Islam is too strong in France and we are in danger.
You mentioned the "Douce France" article that you wrote some time back. Well, I have to tell you that your article was how I found this wonderful web site, and I was deeply moved by what you wrote. I said "this man has hit the nail so squarely on the head it is frightening". Nobody, and I mean nobody, has put the situation here in France so eloquently down on paper (metaphorically!) You asked me "what I was doing" to change the situation. Well, let me tell you what I did. I immediately sent the URL of your essay to just about everybody in the French speaking world that I know, who speaks English, and asked them to read it. And what did I get back? Dead silence. Nothing. In fact it was worse, some just trotted out "the guy who wrote that is a racist". There it is again: racist racist racist. Good God don't these people have ears to hear and eyes to see...and brains? Living in France, I feel as if I am in a Twilight Zone episode...everybody smiling and laughing and going about their business "tout va bien, eh?", and I am one of the tiniest handful of people who see that this splendid country is filling up with an alien population with values and ideals and habits and laws in perfect juxtaposition to the laws of the people here, they may as well be from another planet. And yet when I try to point this out, nicely, am told to shut up, get lost, drop dead. So, like the protagonist in a Twilight Zone episode, I am obliged to ask myself whether I am not the one who's got something wrong with him.
That's what I was referring to...it's not a question of having intelligent discussions with intelligent people who can "agree to disagree". Most French DON'T EVEN SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.
But believe me, I'm doing what I can...
I'm still waiting for the US Air Force to organize airlifts out of France to America. Sign me up!
We'll have to just wait and see to find out...the French have been sleepwalking for at least three decades now...if not more. How can they be awakened? Who will do it?
the only sure escape from islam is to receive Yeshua as your saviour while there is still time to escape the great tribulation that is rapidly approaching.
the west is in a death-grip with islam.
understand that this is prophesied in the bible and there is NOTHING you or i can do about it. daniel 2.41-45.
ENTER THE ARK!
the DAY of the LORD will trap millions and will come as a thief in the night.
i implore you: Receive Jesus Christ as your saviour today: both moslem and non-moslem.
Even decades after "And God Created Woman," I remember Bardot well. She created quite a stir in my hormone bathed psyche. As time passed, her physical beauty devolved, but her soul evolved. She is one French person who not only sees France morphing into Eurabia, but she has the character to decry it. She has also stood up for animals who cannot defend themselves against human cruelty. She is a beautiful person.
pelayo
a few weeks ago i had a conversion with some french people in a cafe in Northern france.
they agreed totally with the (moderate) views on this site.
There was a notaire, a retired instituteur and other professionals.
The problem is not with the french people.
It is with the governments and all the graduates of the ecoles which produce the fonctionaires and bureaucracy that effectuvely rule France.
Also with the left wing universities and media such as Le Monde.
"What can one do" someone said "vote for Le pen ? "
And that is part of the problem.
It is interesting to note that although there are reports of Hate speeches made by Islamic clerics all over the world on an almost daily basis, none seem to come from France.
Is this due to lack of reporting ?
...thanks for your comment. Certainly you meet people here and there who share the same concerns. But how can I put it? We've all been gelded. Voting for Le Pen accomplishes nothing. People here who recognize the danger are completely cowed by the media. And the very bureaucracy that you mention is made up of lots of teachers...who are the vanguard of dhimmitude. I am sure that the people you met at the cafe were, by and large, older people who, I'm sorry to say, have "less to lose" by speaking their minds. But look at the young. I know virtually nobody under age 40 who is not a card carrying dhimmi, and that is where the real danger lies.
Thank you for your kind words. If you know someone who has a complete command of both languages, and who may wish to translate "Douce France" in order that a few more people in France might read it, I would be glad to have that person do so.
The idea that some goals by an Arab soccer player makes for permanent harmony, or that the intervention by some Muslim clerics, for the most transparent reasons of self-interest, might win gratitude from the French public, shows how silly so many people are being.
There was a report in the New York Times about a French series that has acquired a great following -- about a French school in the 1950s, when tabliers were still required, and the general atmosphere was still that immortalized in Zero de conduite. But the unstated reason for the popularity, I suspect, is not merely nostalgia for discipline, and France's great gift to the world, the dictee, but rather the fact that in that distant world, it was without Muslim indiscipline, Muslim attempts to dictate the curriculum, the immiscible admixture of the often aggressive adherents of a belief-system that, in the end, simply does not allow for the permanence of anything else, and regards the land of France as, by right, belong to Allah and the people who rightly worship Allah.
How idiotic can French people be? What is beur hip-hop worth, compared to what it is replacing? And is it only Brigitte Bardot, only Houellebecq (whose Matznevian pornography in "Plateforme" may serve to undercut other things, of real value, that his writing offers). Can dislike of the poor, misunderstood, United States of America really push France into the hands of the deux-rivistes? Do people want their children, or their grandchildren, to be Muslim, or to live in a society that is 30%, 40%, 60% Muslim? Have they talked to Lebanese Christians in exile? To Copts? Have they read Bat Ye'or? Have they read any of the real scholars of Islam? What do they know? Why such inattention, in the land of the concours, and all that study, study, study for the agregation? Suddenly, no time to study or think. Cat got your tongue? Hmmm? What is it with Occuppied France? No Boris Vildes around? No Resistants when you need them?
Just some words to say Hello to Pelayo... as explained some weeks ago in another post (I read much more than I post comment, sorry), I'm also French (well, half French half Belgian actually), and very much concerned about the islamic issue...
Also to say I'm still under 30 years old... so from now on you can say you know at least one person under age 40 who is not "a card carrying dhimmi"! But, agreed, there's not a lot... Like you I try to point out the dangers of Islam, its incompatibility with our values; and most of the time all I get as an answer is -at best- polite silence.But I'm not tired yet. I keep reading and informing myself, and keep trying to discuss the issue...
Good luck with your efforts!
PS: again, thanks to Hugh... I value your comments often as much as the articles!
Sometimes digression is necessary. Bardot in her prime was the babe amongst babes.
She doesn't look 70
It is unfortunate that the icon of Bardot is now being ridiculed as a slave to her own pride by those who condemn her as "pariah".
The masters now are the indigenous "wise" who see it fit to chastise their own for speaking their mind.
France is a lost cause to the insanity of political correctness.
Bardot will become France's forgotten Rosellini.
Europe has lost its mind.
What is next?
Always interesting to see which way a celebrity will fall. You discover that so-and-so, whom you thought intelligent, is a complete ass politically. And someone else, whom you always assumed was of the sois-belle et tais-toi brigade,turns out to be completely sensible -- at least about that matter which, as of this moment, matters most. How curious that Brigitte Bardot should have a better immediate grasp of things than Olivier Roy, Gilles Kepel, Dominique de Villepin, and virtually the entire graduating class of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
Happy Birthday, Brigitte Bardot.
We never thought you would be the big Mo's foe.
Just goes to show, as Hugh put it so well,
you never know who'll turn out to be so swell.
So raise those glasses high
jihadwatchers and drink a toast
to the best the french have to offer.
"No, this post is not a digression, and has everything to do with jihad and dhimmitude!"
LOL!! That was very funny, Mr. Spencer. I saw the picture and I go "whoa! Spencer is putting up movie stars?!"
:-)
He does have a funny bone.
Most excellent.
I would like to buy a t-shirt of bardo in her prime kung-foo kicking bin ladens butt. Just a bad idea..oh well.
Though I agree with her views on Islam and animal rights, I disagree with her views on nearly everything else,(her homophobia, opposition to inter-racial marriage etc.).
Good morning Hugh!
Yes...France is full of paradoxes and surprises. Yet what a chilling sight to see BB in the dock, and convicted, for refusing to play the dhimmi, and for not wanting her country to play the dhimmi. This is what I was referring to in my message of the other day. (And of course I thank you for your thoughtful reply). There is a significant number of people who do not like what is going on here in France, but not only are they vilified in the media and everywhere else in society...but you can even go TO PRISON for not playing the dhimmi. Just look at poor old BB. OK, it's funny and the media laugh at BB in court...yes, look at the clueless old lady that was once beautiful (like France?)...but it's not a question of influencing people or talking to people or having intelligent discussions. You can go to jail if you dare say that Islam is too strong in France and we are in danger.
You mentioned the "Douce France" article that you wrote some time back. Well, I have to tell you that your article was how I found this wonderful web site, and I was deeply moved by what you wrote. I said "this man has hit the nail so squarely on the head it is frightening". Nobody, and I mean nobody, has put the situation here in France so eloquently down on paper (metaphorically!) You asked me "what I was doing" to change the situation. Well, let me tell you what I did. I immediately sent the URL of your essay to just about everybody in the French speaking world that I know, who speaks English, and asked them to read it. And what did I get back? Dead silence. Nothing. In fact it was worse, some just trotted out "the guy who wrote that is a racist". There it is again: racist racist racist. Good God don't these people have ears to hear and eyes to see...and brains? Living in France, I feel as if I am in a Twilight Zone episode...everybody smiling and laughing and going about their business "tout va bien, eh?", and I am one of the tiniest handful of people who see that this splendid country is filling up with an alien population with values and ideals and habits and laws in perfect juxtaposition to the laws of the people here, they may as well be from another planet. And yet when I try to point this out, nicely, am told to shut up, get lost, drop dead. So, like the protagonist in a Twilight Zone episode, I am obliged to ask myself whether I am not the one who's got something wrong with him.
That's what I was referring to...it's not a question of having intelligent discussions with intelligent people who can "agree to disagree". Most French DON'T EVEN SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.
But believe me, I'm doing what I can...
I'm still waiting for the US Air Force to organize airlifts out of France to America. Sign me up!
LA FRANCE, REVEILLEZ-VOUS!!!!!!
Pelayo:
But when the French DO wake up, then they still have that revolutionary spirit inside them, don't they?
Bridgette Bardot, you are Superstar in the purest sense of the word.
Voltaire,
We'll have to just wait and see to find out...the French have been sleepwalking for at least three decades now...if not more. How can they be awakened? Who will do it?
the only sure escape from islam is to receive Yeshua as your saviour while there is still time to escape the great tribulation that is rapidly approaching.
the west is in a death-grip with islam.
understand that this is prophesied in the bible and there is NOTHING you or i can do about it. daniel 2.41-45.
ENTER THE ARK!
the DAY of the LORD will trap millions and will come as a thief in the night.
i implore you: Receive Jesus Christ as your saviour today: both moslem and non-moslem.
please read romans chapter 10
Even decades after "And God Created Woman," I remember Bardot well. She created quite a stir in my hormone bathed psyche. As time passed, her physical beauty devolved, but her soul evolved. She is one French person who not only sees France morphing into Eurabia, but she has the character to decry it. She has also stood up for animals who cannot defend themselves against human cruelty. She is a beautiful person.
pelayo
a few weeks ago i had a conversion with some french people in a cafe in Northern france.
they agreed totally with the (moderate) views on this site.
There was a notaire, a retired instituteur and other professionals.
The problem is not with the french people.
It is with the governments and all the graduates of the ecoles which produce the fonctionaires and bureaucracy that effectuvely rule France.
Also with the left wing universities and media such as Le Monde.
"What can one do" someone said "vote for Le pen ? "
And that is part of the problem.
It is interesting to note that although there are reports of Hate speeches made by Islamic clerics all over the world on an almost daily basis, none seem to come from France.
Is this due to lack of reporting ?
George,
...thanks for your comment. Certainly you meet people here and there who share the same concerns. But how can I put it? We've all been gelded. Voting for Le Pen accomplishes nothing. People here who recognize the danger are completely cowed by the media. And the very bureaucracy that you mention is made up of lots of teachers...who are the vanguard of dhimmitude. I am sure that the people you met at the cafe were, by and large, older people who, I'm sorry to say, have "less to lose" by speaking their minds. But look at the young. I know virtually nobody under age 40 who is not a card carrying dhimmi, and that is where the real danger lies.
Pelayo--
Thank you for your kind words. If you know someone who has a complete command of both languages, and who may wish to translate "Douce France" in order that a few more people in France might read it, I would be glad to have that person do so.
The idea that some goals by an Arab soccer player makes for permanent harmony, or that the intervention by some Muslim clerics, for the most transparent reasons of self-interest, might win gratitude from the French public, shows how silly so many people are being.
There was a report in the New York Times about a French series that has acquired a great following -- about a French school in the 1950s, when tabliers were still required, and the general atmosphere was still that immortalized in Zero de conduite. But the unstated reason for the popularity, I suspect, is not merely nostalgia for discipline, and France's great gift to the world, the dictee, but rather the fact that in that distant world, it was without Muslim indiscipline, Muslim attempts to dictate the curriculum, the immiscible admixture of the often aggressive adherents of a belief-system that, in the end, simply does not allow for the permanence of anything else, and regards the land of France as, by right, belong to Allah and the people who rightly worship Allah.
How idiotic can French people be? What is beur hip-hop worth, compared to what it is replacing? And is it only Brigitte Bardot, only Houellebecq (whose Matznevian pornography in "Plateforme" may serve to undercut other things, of real value, that his writing offers). Can dislike of the poor, misunderstood, United States of America really push France into the hands of the deux-rivistes? Do people want their children, or their grandchildren, to be Muslim, or to live in a society that is 30%, 40%, 60% Muslim? Have they talked to Lebanese Christians in exile? To Copts? Have they read Bat Ye'or? Have they read any of the real scholars of Islam? What do they know? Why such inattention, in the land of the concours, and all that study, study, study for the agregation? Suddenly, no time to study or think. Cat got your tongue? Hmmm? What is it with Occuppied France? No Boris Vildes around? No Resistants when you need them?
We have a poster girl!
Just some words to say Hello to Pelayo... as explained some weeks ago in another post (I read much more than I post comment, sorry), I'm also French (well, half French half Belgian actually), and very much concerned about the islamic issue...
Also to say I'm still under 30 years old... so from now on you can say you know at least one person under age 40 who is not "a card carrying dhimmi"! But, agreed, there's not a lot... Like you I try to point out the dangers of Islam, its incompatibility with our values; and most of the time all I get as an answer is -at best- polite silence.But I'm not tired yet. I keep reading and informing myself, and keep trying to discuss the issue...
Good luck with your efforts!
PS: again, thanks to Hugh... I value your comments often as much as the articles!