Paris: police guard Eiffel Tower, other cultural monuments

The violence in France has spread to the Holy Land.
This jihad cum vandalism has spread to Arabs in Israel, although I don't know how much attention the incidents here have gotten in the world media.
On Friday night, a home was firebombed in the Pisgat Ze'ev-Darom [southern Pisgat Ze'ev] neighborhood. Three "molotov cocktails" were thrown at an apartment, fortuately doing little damage. Two Arab "youths" were seen running away towards a nearby Arab neighborhood.

Pisgat Ze'ev is in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Post and Arutz Sheva news reported the incident.

France is finished.

I always heard how the French were such wimps and cowards. After these riots, now I truly believe it. The muslims could ransack the Louve, tear down the Eifel tower and blow up Notre Dame and the naive French would say how it's all their fault because they neglected these poor, misunderstood, peaceful muslims.

Of course the American mainstream media would tell us the same thing.

Ranoir

"I always heard how the French were such wimps and cowards."

Ranoir, I am no fan of the French political class, but your above claim is at variance with history, The French have lost far more men in battle in the last century than America has lost in all its wars combined. Read Lucien Bodard's "The Quicksand War" or anything from Bernard Fall, particularly "Hell in a very small place" French Para officers like Massu, Langlais, Bigeard, Botella, Brechignac, de Seguin-Pazzis have no equivalent in the Anglosphere. You'll walk away with greater appreciation for French Arms.

the french elections are next year, Le Pen will sweep to power, end of problem.

The French elections are in 2007. It would be something if the three main vote-getters turned out to be Le Pen, Philippe de Villiers, and Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Pen has no chance to win, but votes for the Front National demonstrate complete disapproval of the mixture as before, and votes for the other two essentially the same thing, in slightly muted but much more acceptable form. Each is a vehicle for the expression of opposition to the islamization, fast or slow, through Da'wa and demography or any other way, of France and French civilization.

Ideally, Le Pen would somehow disappear, so that only Nicolas Sarkozy and Philippe de Villiers (who has come a long way in the last few years)would split the vote, or possibly agree to share power, in order to save France. Le Pen is terrible, the kind of man who would certainly have acted badly during World War II, unpleasant, and unacceptable even to many who understand the menace of Islam.

Should the French voters be able to express their completely justified fears by voting for either Philippe de Villiers (who is also interesting because he recognizes that the God of Economic Growth has feet of polluted clay, and he deplores the many worshippers of "mondialisation" as an unalloyed good, and of course the worshippers of the Big Market of the E.U.) or Nicolas Sarkozy, whose own example undercuts arguments about French hostility to foreigners.

In my opinion, the violence has just started. The war is on--all across the world. France is merely the testing ground.

spencerd:
"Ranoir, I am no fan of the French political class, but your above claim is at variance with history, The French have lost far more men in battle in the last century than America has lost in all its wars combined."

We must admit that the combination of natural selection (WWI losses and collaboration during WWII) and communist/socialist infection have eliminated the national will to survive and fight.

Hugh,

But what actual concrete measures would Messrs Sarkozy or de Villiers take to reverse the Islamization of France. Mark Steyn in this weeks Speckie writes that the commonly bandied 10% figure of the proportion of Muslims in France is highly misleading and is hiding the scarier number that those living in France under the age of 20 about 30% are Muslim (these numbers are in accord with other sources I've read.) In other words, short of drastic measures none of us are willing to take, its fair to say that it’s too late for France. I don't think all the native French will take this standing down without a fight, tell us what should be done?

So far, from my reading, Le Pen seems just fine and dandy.

Le Pen, from an interview published in Haaretz Daily:

Can you understand the complaints in Israel about the "hypocritical" European reaction?

Le Pen: "Certainly. After all, I got a similar reaction during the war in Algeria, when I served in General Massu's 10th division. We were called upon to fight the terrorism of the FLN (the Algerian nationalist movement that fought against French colonialism). The intelligentsia at home criticized our actions. It's very easy to criticize from the armchair in the living room. I completely understand the State of Israel, which is seeking to defend its citizens."

Do you condone the Israeli action against the Iraqi nuclear reactor?

Le Pen: "Yes, of course. That was an act of prevention. True, it doesn't conform to international law, but in such a situation, there is no need to use it."

Le Pen was asked of his opinion on a variety of things:

The French Revolution - "A bloody calamity for the French people. This revolution spawned two dreadful bastards: Nazism and communism."

The skullcap - "The skullcap that Catholic priests wear? I don't have anything against the skullcap. It's a personal choice."

The Muslim veil - "It protects us from ugly women."

The Dreyfus Affair - "Dreyfus was exonerated and that concluded the affair. We should remember that among those who sided with Dreyfus at the time were people from the right, and that some from the left were among his opponents."

Collaborators with Hitler - "France was an occupied country. There were two kinds of collaborators: those who were forced by the Nazis to collaborate and those who viewed Hitler as the realization of anti-communist socialism. The latter were almost all leftists, by the way."

What is your definition of torture?

Le Pen: "I don't know. I would define it as `a series of violent acts that cause physical injury to individuals, actions that destroy the personality and leave traces.' Police and military interrogations do not fit this definition of torture. What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. And the communists are the ones who used to practice systematic mass torture in their own countries. The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. The struggle against terrorists sometimes requires secrecy and it has its own rules. The enemy must not be allowed the advantage that permits him to plant bombs when and where he wants. In this struggle, everyone must carry his own burden."

Le Pen was asked about fascist elements alleged to have been in his party, the National Front:

Le Pen: “In [my party, the National Front], there was no mention of fascism or national-socialism. In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. Incidentally, I define all of them as leftist movements that were spawned by the French Revolution. The only reason that our movement was pegged with the extremist label is because of our loyalty to the principle of `French Algeria' and our opposition to the policy of separation from Algeria, which De Gaulle instituted.”

Do you agree with Jacques Chirac's 1995 statement about France's responsibility for the crimes of the Vichy government?

Le Pen: "No. France was not responsible for this criminal policy. France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. Therefore, to be fair, you cannot say that it was a willing partner in this policy. On this I agree with De Gaulle [who viewed France as a `resistance country' - A.P.], and with practically all the French leaders aside from Jacques Chirac. I am sure that he made this statement for electoral reasons. It was a showy move designed to win sympathy in certain circles."

Which circles?

Le Pen: "In this case, Jewish circles. In a successful book that was published recently ["L'homme qui ne s'aimait pas" - "The Man Who Didn't Love Himself"], Eric Zemmour, a journalist from Le Figaro, quotes President Chirac as saying after his declaration of French responsibility for Vichy crimes: `I hope the Jews will stop pestering me from now on.'"

There's much more at the link from which I culled the above --
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=153419&sw=le+pen

I agree with Hugh. Le Pen is a fascist and anti-semitic - certainly not the kind of leader we want in Europe, no matter how strong the Islamist threat is.

Two decades ago I read a prescient book, called the Camp of the Saints.

I didn't quite understand then what the problem was, but then again at the time I thought Islam was a quaint relic of the past, and thought that the invasion of Europe was more in the terms of race.

Then again aren't "Islamophobes" (and I use term hestitantingly for lack of another), accused of racism.. what race be ye Ibrahaim Hooper, ye look anglo saxon to me, and you too Yusuf Islam and all of ye anglo Muslims.

Subject shift according to my version of the OED.
A phobia is simply "a mordbid fear or aversion"
it says nothing of "irrational fear". I have a morbid fear and aversion to pit vipers and fer de lance, and cobra's and black widow spiders and fiddler spiders and all kinds of things that will and can do me grievous bodily harm, and all of those fears are perfectly rational. I also have a morbid fear of high places, (sans a parachute or rope) which has undoubtedly been instrumental in my attainment of age 67.

I agree with Hugh. Le Pen is a fascist and anti-semitic - certainly not the kind of leader we want in Europe, no matter how strong the Islamist threat is.
Posted by: londongirl

Antisemites can change, Muslims can't, therein lies the difference, an antisemite can wake up and realize that he has been wrong, a Muslim is forbidden by his holy book. Secular antisemites are not constrained by holy books.

But lets' work this out to a choice
between
a. Islam which is religiously and doctrinally Anti Semitic
and
b. Antisemitic nationalists who are also anti Islamic.

On the face of it, it is the lesser of two evils and in this case the lesser evil is the Le Pen type, as he is also trying to save western culture and civilization which most obviously has Judeo Christian roots and values, from submission to an alien culture which is antithetical (for the most part, except perhaps for monotheism, "family values" and patriarchialism) to those values.

Sadly London Girl, there is no champion on the French or European scene, with the will and cajones to take on the Muslims (even if they are or were antisemites). Or do you have in mind some potent examples who have a chance at all of reversing the tide?

Without the Le Pen's, the chances are that France, will become Muslim and then follows all of Eurabia, so in the end Europe will be definitively (doctrinally) antisemitic and Muslim.

londongirl,

What's your proof that Le Pen is a "fascist and anti-semitic"?

Philippe de Villiers may be one of those intelligent people whom the media seldom quote precisely they have something intelligent to say that contradicts the standard line.

LePen is a slimey creep. Now, if someone likes what he says today, then he should wait until tomorrow when LePen may say something different. He was an admirer of Saddam Hussein and was received with honor in Baghdad [just like Geo Galloway], although he was known to be hostile/critical of the Muslims/Arabs in France. Then, in regard to the Holocaust, he once said that it was "un point de detail," that is, a mere "detail" of history. LePen is about as straight as a spiral and as consistent as a chameleon. Don't trust him.

De Villiers once made the insightful remark that "the money of the poor in the rich countries is sent to the rich of the poor countries." That's what foreign aid is, isn't it? Didn't "foreign aid" in various forms, overt and covert, make the rich in the poor countries richer? A case in point being the Saudi royals. What has happened to the money that the EU, the US, and Japan gave to the PLO/PA? It made a bunch of arafat's cronies rich. Look at Muhammad Dahlan's expensive wardrobe. Look at the big homes they built in Ramallah-El-Bireh, Gaza city, etc. Much of that money also went for terrorist purposes, including the Goebbels-like PLO/PA TV, radio, press, schools, mosques [where imams agitate for jihad against Israel], where teachers praise mass murder bombing, etc. The Saudi princes who have gotten rich on disguised foreign aid from US, UK, and France [through tax breaks for oil cos. {i.e., foreign tax credits} and oil imports], also contribute generously to the PLO/PA terrorist entity. Meanwhile, the pensioners in Paris spend their winters in cold apartments or go to the museums to keep warm. Maybe most EU leaders hate their own poor and middle class.