As France steadily islamizes, what should the governments of the rest of the Western world, those generals seconded to NATO, for example, begin to plan for? What should the peoples of the West worry about? The last time I saw Paris, in 2000, I had been shaken by what I saw. And, shaken and stirred, I sat down at the famous Brasserie Lipp, famous because of the kidnapping decades before of the Moroccan general Ben Barka by agents of the Moroccan secret services (for a time, in the late 1960s, not only “Le Parisien” carried stories about “l’enlèvement de Ben Barka,” though only “Le Parisien” juxtaposed those stories to those about the passionate vicissitudes of Johnny and Sylvie), and wrote out nearly twenty items in a half-hour.
I had only an envelope to write on, and jotted down first on its smooth front, and then, with the ever-so-slight awkwardness that comes from writing on the back of an envelope, on the back. The back of an envelope, of course, is topologically distinct from a flat piece of paper, with that flap waving that distinction in your face, and offering a surface tantalizingly close to being flat, but annoyingly marred by that flap which, no matter how flat you force it to attempt to lie, never lies quite flat enough for pen or pencil not to notice.
I filled up both sides of the envelope with a list of the things that came to mind as representing France, a personal and idiosyncratic France -- one that had existed, that still in part existed, and that could not possibly exist if things continued in the same way, at the same pace, while those trying to sound the alarm about the situation were met with indifference or incomprehension or confusion or panic.
Each item on the list was a dot. All the dots, once connected, would reveal a hexagon. That hexagon illuminated France’s history: its illuminated distant past, its enlightened recent past, its confused and hedonistic and despairing present, and its imperiled future. France, land of the Dictée and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, seemed to be succumbing to the defenders and adherents, in many cases even the submissive slaves, of a primitive belief-system that had nothing to do with what made France France. Any list of celebrated Frenchmen, artists and scientists and thinkers, would quickly reveal that not one of them could possibly have been produced by, or lived within, the world of that belief-system, the world of Islam.
The same could be said for England, or Holland, or Italy, for all the countries of Western Europe. All are similarly threatened, though few of their citizens realize it or realize it in a useful way. All are nevertheless threatened by the gangrene from the self-inflicted wound, the wound represented by the permitting within these countries an ever larger and ever more demanding and threatening Muslim presence. That wound is worsened by the European practice of offering every assistance, in the vain hope of somehow winning hearts and minds to that Muslim presence, and not daring, for example, to limit the carefully targeted campaigns of Da’wa that have been so successful among certain populations – such as prisoners, such as some racial or ethnic minorities – as well as among the psychically marginal or vulnerable who exist in every society. Such people may find in Islam the very thing which supplies that Total Regulation of Life, along with that Instant Umma or Community of Believers, and that Complete Explanation of the Universe, that the john-walker-lindhs, richard-reids, and adam-gadahns, the lost or resentful souls of this world, find so compelling.
The ruling classes, the same classes responsible for allowing in such large numbers of Muslims, continue to deceive Western publics. They do so partly by encouraging ignorance, and partly by refusing to remedy their own ignorance. It is not difficult to read the texts of Islam, nor to study enough history to understand what Jihad-conquest, and what dominance by Muslims, meant for non-Muslims from Spain to East Asia, over 1350 years of history. Yet these ruling classes do not do so, and continue to encourage ignorance also by engaging in a collective refusal to believe the evidence of their senses. Apparently there is little to stop the Three Horseman of the Esdrujula Apocalypse -- Cupidity, Stupidity, Timidity – who come on their midnight ride not to warn us, but to lullaby us, should we anxiously awaken, and to send us back to bed. The publics of Western Europe have over the past three decades been steadily fed by their elites in their governments (especially in the upper ranks of the E.U.) and by members of the media (whose bias, by now, should be clear to all) a steady diet of nonsense and lies. This has consisted of positive nonsense and flattering lies about Islam and the Arabs, accompanied by negative nonsense and slanderous lies about the United States, about Israel, and about the history and achievements of the West, of Western man, of Western rationality, of Western art, of Western encouragement of free and skeptical inquiry – of everything that is not found, and cannot possibly ever be found, in the world of Islam.
I scribbled that list on that envelope back in 2000 because what was happening was clear to anyone visiting France who had come from outside that the city of Paris was quite different from what it had been in 1980, or in 1970, or in 1966, when first visited. Such visitors who tried for example merely to visit the tombs of the Kings of France at St. Denis saw afresh what had been happening so slowly as not to alarm the natives. It was clear that the large-scale presence of Muslims in France, as everywhere in the Lands of the Infidels, the Bilad al-kufr, had created for those indigenous Infidels, and for those Infidels who had come from elsewhere to settle, a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for all those varied Infidels than it would have been without that large-scale Muslim presence. This realization did not depend upon, did not require, spectacular acts of terrorism. Terrorism was the least of it.
The other day I found that messy envelope, paperclipped to other envelopes, all in a manila folder. Perhaps that old-fashioned papeterie, where I bought those trombones and chemises, somewhere on the rue de Rennes, still exists. But how could it, how could it survive in the Iron Age of chains and Chinese imports? That, however, is another matter, for a different Complaint Book. I managed to decipher most of my own scrawled mess, and transcribed the contents onto the smooth surface offered by a computer’s non-existent paper, and added a few more items so as to make the list consist of an even twenty-five items, an aliquot of one hundred, in the future, to be added to in three successive equal increments, until the set goal -- one hundred fears of dhimmitude -- are reached.
The very first item, however, is not about the culture of France. It is about the arms of France. It is about the arms it possesses: the arms that Muslims within France might come to possess, might appropriate, might manage to gain control of, not in a million years, but in a few decades. This past month one was treated to the spectacle of those black-balaclavaed Kalashnikov-clutching bezonians marching in Beirut, the forces of Hizballah, just as we still possess on captured tapes the recruits of Al-Qaeda going through their training in camps in Afghanistan -- same masked men-in-black menacing get -up, same goose-stepping, same invisible promptings from passages in Qur’an and Hadith, same emulation of Muhammad as the Perfect Man, uswa hasana, al-insan al-kamil. Some things remain the same. Islamic terrorists do not differ, from group to group, in the Qur’anic passages, and Hadith stories, that inspire and motivate them. Their ultimate goals do not differ, even if Lashkar-e-Taiba focuses on Kashmir and India, or Jemaa Islamiya on attacking Infidels for the moment only in Indonesia, or Hamas concentrates on conducting the Lesser Jihad against Israel. For Western consumption, of course, the fiction is maintained that these are entirely different groups, motivated entirely by local nationalist resentments. The evidence of their identity of rhetoric and belief, and their ready willingness to support each other to the hilt, is too great for that pretense to be maintained – or at least for it to be accepted by Infidels. They share the same motivations, hold to the same tenets, reflect the same attitudes, whether they goose-step and massacre civilians on behalf of Hamas, or Islamic Jihad, or Jaish-e-Muhammad, or Jemaah Islmaiyah, or Sunnah al-Islam, or any of another hundred groups whose titles include at least one of the following: Sunna, Tawhid, Jaish, Laskar, Jemaaa, Hezb, Huzb, Hizb, Allah, Allah, Allah, Islamiya, Islamiya, Islamiya.
A new Party Game for Infidels suggests itself. When you were a child, especially if you were an American child, you may have flipped through a succession of possible mouths to go with possible chins to go with possible foreheads, to form a brand-new face for smiling Mr. Potato Head. In the same way, you can find new combinatorial possibilities for “hizb” and “sunna” and “allah” and “tawhid” and “jemaah” and “jihad” and “mujahid” and so on. You will be able to mix-n’-match Arabic words so as to invent new names for groups hellbent on the murder of Infidels, and mayhem in their countries, and every conceivable kind of miching mallecho.
The first item on the list is, again, not about the artifacts of France, and the spirit which was required to create them, but about the arms of France. What weaponry those Islamic groups, or states, or groupuscules, are able to possess, matters most. Kalashnikovs are one thing, 15,000 rockets and missiles supplied by Syria and behind Syria, Iran, quite another. And so too would even one rocket or missile or plane that carried a nuclear load, or some kind of biological weapon. Those weapons, all such weapons, have to be prevented from falling into the hands of any adherent of a belief-system that uncompromisingly divides the world between Believer and Infidel, between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-harb, keeping always in mind that there is no bright line between those who are “moderate” (often a comforting fiction for Infidels) and those who are “immoderate” in their Islam. In 1942, at a campus rally held at Wellesley College, Vladimir Nabokov, who had experience of both the Bolsheviks and the Nazis, in the midst of all the sentimentality about democracy at the rally “Why We Fight” most unsentimentally said: “Morally, democracy is invincible. Physically, that side will win which has the better guns.” And that is why, in any list of the things that one must worry about, it is not the loss of what is in the museums and in the schools and in the universities of France, but the loss of French control of French weapons. For it is likely that a goal of some Muslims in and out of Western Europe would be to infiltrate the armies of their new states -- perhaps in France even by answering the call of those in the French government who with criminal naivete might, in a policy of “integration,” allow and even encourage local Muslims to join the army, the air force, and the security services of France, and to rise in those services and that military, with some of them no doubt biding their time until they judge that their time has come.
So, the envelope, please. Or rather, what that envelope de la Brasserie Lipp became – the beginning of 100 fears of dhimmitude:
1. The Force de Frappe and the rest of France's advanced armory – the planes, the ships, the submarines, the missiles, and the secrets of how to make those bombs, and to use those planes, those ships, those submarines, that technology intended to be used against enemies of France, and now appropriated by enemies of France that France itself proved unable to properly protect itself from, until it was too painfully late.
2. The entire contents of:
The Louvre, the Orangerie, the Palais-Royale, the Chateau of Versailles, the Musee Guimet, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Rodin, the Musée de Cluny, the Palais de la Decouverte, the Musée de l'Histoire Naturelle, and of the following as well:
Maison de Jeanne d'Arc (Orléans)
Musée de l'Absinthe (Auvers-sur-Oise)
Musée Américain (Giverny)
Musée de l'Annonciade (St-Tropez)
Musée des Antiquités Nationales (St-Germain-en-Laye)
Musée des Archives (Thoiry)
Musée d'Art et Archéologie (Senlis)
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Provence (Provence)
Musée d'Art Moderne (Céret)
Musée d'Arts Décoratifs (Lyon)
Musée d'Arts Décoratifs (Saumur)
Musée Balzac (Saché)
Musée Basque (Bayonne)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Angers)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Blois)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Chartres)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lille)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nancy)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nantes)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Orléans)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Quimper)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rennes)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rouen)
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Tours)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Lyon)
Musée Bossuet (Meaux)
Musée des Carosses (Versailles)
Musée du Champignon (Saumur)
Musée du Cheval (Saumur)
Musée des Cires (Chenonceaux)
Musée du Compagnonnage (Tours)
Musée Condé (Chantilly)
Musée Daubigny (Auvers-sur-Oise)
Musée David d'Angers (Angers)
Musée Débarquement (Arromanches)
Musée Dobrée (Nantes)
Musée de l'Ecole de Barbizon (Barbizon)
Musée Equipages (Vaux-le-Vicomte)
Musée de la Faïence (Quimper)
Musée de la Faïencerie (Gien)
Musée Fesch (Ajaccio)
Musée de la Figurine-Jouet (Saumur)
Musée de la Gastronomie (Thoiry)
Musée de Gemmail (Tours)
Musée de la Guerre 1914-18 (Artois)
Musée Historique (Orléans)
Musée Historique d'Art Populaire (Dol-de-Bretagne)
Musée de l'Huître (Cancale)
Musée Ingres (Montauban)
Musée International de la Chasse (Gien)
Musée des Jacobins (Morlaix)
Musée Jeanne d'Arc (Chinon)
Musée Lambinet (Versailles)
Musée Louis-Senlecq (L'Isle-Adam)
Musée de la Marine (Châteauneuf-sur-Loire)
Musée Matisse (Le Cateau)
Musée de la Mer (Dinard)
Musée Napoléon (Fontainebleau)
Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame (Strasbourg)
Musée de la Pêche (Concarneau)
Musée Pissarro (Pontoise)
Musée Poulain (Vernon)
Musée du Prieuré (St-Germain-en-Laye)
Musée Rambolitrain (Rambouillet)
Musée Ravel (Montfort-L'Amaury)
Musée de la Renaissance (Chantilly)
Musée le Secq des Tournelles (Rouen)
Musée Tavet-Delacour (Pontoise)
Musée d'Unterlinden (Colmar)
Musée de la Vénerie (Senlis)
Musée la Villéon (Fougères)
Musée du Vin (Chinon)
Musée du Vin (Tours)
Musée Vivant du Cheval (Chantilly)
Net Museum (all France)
Nouveau Musée - Institut d'Art Contemporain (Provence)
Paris Museums
Toy Museum (Alsace)
3. Jardins du Luxembourg. Jardin des Plantes.
4. The folly of Retz.
5. Ile Saint-Louis.
6. Saint-Louis.
7. Le bon roi René. Le cours Mirabeau. Mirabeau.
8. Trenet, Mistinguett, Jean Sablon.
9. Lully. Berlioz. Satie. The premiere of "Le Sacre du Printemps."
10. Pierre Mendès-France with his "Got Milk?" campaign.
11. Jean Moulin. Martine Aubriac. Boris Vilde. Le réseau Gallia.
12. Lafayette.
13.François-René de Chateaubriand.
14. "Les Regrets."
15. The Journals of the Goncourt brothers.
16. Les Lais de Marie de France. Les Romans de Chrétien de Troyes.
17. Emile Littré.
18. "Le Testament français" by Andrei Makine.
19.” Fables de La Fontaine” with illustrations by Jean-Jacques Grandville, my copy, bearing a bookplate that reads: “Lycée Imperial Saint-Louis (Ancien College d’Harcourt), Classe de 2-1, Prix d’Exemptions accordé a l’eleve GOURDIER, Paris, le 9 juillet 1870, le Proviseur. .”Histoires Naturelles” of Buffon, or somebody, with illustrations by Bonnard.
20. P's and Q's that must be minded: Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau. Proust and Quatremère de Quincy. Pauline au plage, and Que sçais-je? Pont-Aven and Quimper.
21. A copy of "Génie de la France" by Louis Horticq (Presses Universitaires de France, 1945), with an inscription to the original owner: "A ma chère Maria/En souvenir de son année passée au pays de la "douce France."
22. Raymond Aron. Henri Focillon (died New York, 1943). Wladimir Weidle, auteur de "Les abeilles d'Aristée: essai sur le destin actuel des arts et des lettres," awarded the Rivarol Prize. Paul Bénichou.
23. Charles Du Bos. La Comtesse de Noailles.
24. La Carte du Tendre. La tendresse. “Je préfère au costance, à l’opium, au nuits, l’elixir de ta bouche ou l’amour se pavane.”
25. Odile.
Once you have read the list above, you may perhaps be prompted, even involuntarily, to compile your own list of things about France, or about another Infidel land, England say, in which you will list those threatened monumental brasses, the whole Pevsner-and-Betjeman physical plant, and then start worrying about all those silly subjects some Englishmen think might still be important: the Common Law, the unwritten Constitution, the study of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Joyce, and everyone before and behind and beside in both directions, not excluding Lewis Carroll and all other unique specimens. And of course no Swift or other satirists, unless there is no chance that their savage indignation can never be interpreted as being directed at Muslim beliefs, Muslim ideals, Muslim Total Regulation of Life and Muslim claims to dominance (perhaps England has already attained that happy state). What does Shakespeare, what does Edward Coke, what do Macaulay or Maitland or Newton or Newman have to do with Islam, and therefore with the only thing that really matters?
In Turkey, “secularist” Turkey, after 80 years of supposed Kemalism, Turkish publishers are now producing versions of Western children’s books in which the heroes and the whole story -- from Huck Finn to Pinocchio—have been Islamized. Why should the rewriting of literature for adults be any different? Does it really matter if, at least for Muslim students and then, in a spirit that would certainly help to win Muslim hearts and win Muslim minds, for non-Muslim students as well, certain required texts were changed so as not to give offense, in the same way that “Oliver Twist” and “The Merchant of Venice” have been subject to a total ban ever since they first appeared? Would it be so terribly much to ask, would Keats himself be offended, if the last lines of one of his odes were to be changed ever so slightly, so as now to read: “Islam is Islam, and Islam Islam. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
Everyone can make his own dots to be connected, so as to delineate the outline of this or that Infidel land now threatened by islamisation swift or slow. At this point that conquest, through demography and Da’wa, can be halted, can even be reversed. But how long that will remain a possibility is unclear. It is not something that can wait. And it does not take the formation of a vast army, shipped to distant lands, there to squander men, money, and materiel. All it takes is for threatened Infidels, and their governments whose first duty it is to protect them, to wiggle out of those mind-forged manacles, to shake off those grim lendings. One need not be as agile as Houdini; one need only retain, or regain, and then act upon, what is called common sense.
What's next? A muslim president? How could we be so stupid as to even allow muslims in our military?
No doubt quite a few have security clearances too and they don't go for those jobs because they're loyal Americans.
Posted by: americaningermany
Yes, all this is too alarming for words. I hope that the French and the American "leaders" think thru this logic as well. Looks like other European countries could be affected by what happens in France too. That means some of them need to have a talk with M. Chirac. I hope we'll never see the likes of him again after the next election there.
Dar el-Islam is steadily creeping in on France.
danielpipes.org reports there are 751 no-go zones, so-called ZUS encroaching on French sovereignty:
They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. They are convienently listed on one long webpage, complete with street demarcations and map delineations.
What are they? Those places in France that the French state does not control. They range from two zones in the medieval town of Carcassone to twelve in the heavily Muslim town of Marseilles, with hardly a town in France lacking in its ZUS. The ZUS came into existence in late 1996 and according to a 2004 estimate, nearly 5 million people live in them.
http://i.ville.gouv.fr/divbib/doc/chercherZUS.htm
americaningermany:
Your point is well taken -- I do think many of the Europeans are trying to lie low in the hopes that the Muslims will ignore them, or at least eat them last....
Regarding Spain, the situation is actually worse than you described regarding the fall of the pro-American government and the bombing before the election. I have heard that the Muslims that were caught for the bombing are in a jail in Spain, have taken the prison over, and now have complete control (and I mean total sharia) on that section of the prison in which they are held. They section of the prison has been fully decorated in pro-UBL style, complete with great posters, flags, etc. Spanish guards are afraid, and they don't want to "impose" on the Muslims in this prison! Talk about utter insanity!
PS, a great book I highly recommend to all on this Euro-insanity is by Bruce Bawer, "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within," probably the BEST book I've read in the past year. Bawer is a gay American living in Norway. And as many here have mentioned, he does talk about the gay (usually liberal) groups now seeing what the Muslims like to do with gays, plus a lot more. However, this book goes into far more detail on the entire menace in Europe than I've read elsewhere. Read it, even for me, it was a frightening eye-opener!
Of coure, something like the hypothetical problem of a Franco-Mohammedan force de frappe has occurred before. The British had to sink most of the French Mediterranean fleet at Mers el Kabir in July 1940 while the French had to scuttle their remaining battleships, at Toulon in November 1942, shortly before the Germans arrived as they extended their occupation to the whole of Vichy France. Should the posibility of Muslim domination of France ever arise, don't expect the French to be in a hurry about disabling any weapons that may fall into the hands of the enemies of western democracy and culture.
The death of a French National treasure, the great actor Phillipe Noiret, was reported today. What career for such as he in the Muslim France of the future?
All is not lost, the numbers are still 4:1 and people are starting to take notice. And as the 20% continue to drive out the privileged and enlightened through higher and higher tax burdens to pay for welfare and security, the angry stiffs who have to live in the working class neighborhoods, or who have escaped to the Countryside, will gain political power.
Something will trigger a backlash, most likely violent, in the next ten or twenty years. France’s past achievements will probably serve as the rallying cry. Whenever the time comes, here are 156 words that may be of use (previously posted in a different form but on topic):
Whereas;
(1) Islam is a societal model coupling rigid codes for personal allegiances, legal systems, governance, and religion;
(2) In modern practice, these codes call for the undermining of the rights and freedoms of women;
(3) These codes cannot be reconciled with the Constitution of _____________as they call for non-believers to either convert to Islam, pay taxes to Islam, or be killed in the name of Islam;
(4) Followers of Islam actively seek to undermine the __________ Constitution and the people who live under it;
It is found that Islam cannot be considered a religion with respect to the Constitution. Organizations based on the teachings of Mohammed shall be banned in ___________. Individuals professing allegiance to any such organization shall be offered to become apostates from Islam and remain Citizens in good standing. Those who do not chose to leave the belief system shall be found guilty of Sedition, stripped of their Citizenship, and deported to their Country of Origin or Saudi Arabia.
………….
The re-location logistics would not need to be overly complicated; the US could help to make sure things were humane. With 111 C-5s (~300 passengers each), 500+ C-130s (~100 passengers each), 125 C-17s (~100 passengers each), not to mention civilian charters, millions could be moved closer to their religious homeland monthly. If landing rights were denied, functional airstrips could be constructed in a few days in remote, defended locations. Grain shipments and repatriation payments to the receiving countries could be made to alleviate hunger and other costs during a one-year transition period. Full compensation could be given to deported individuals who have their French real estate and business assets nationalized.
All in all, very fair and humane treatment, all things considered.
The people who are going to allow this to happen are the LIBERALs, who proclaim Christianity is evil and has been the cause of war and suffering. Underlying their view America is bad, caucasian guilt, political correctness. They think Moslems are just like us and will change to become us when they have lived here. They have no concept of history nor any framework other than that one provided by psychology (which is inappropriate by itself) to analyze history. In other words they are mired in their own superiority. I had an earful of it last night and am still reeling.
History has a way or repeating itself.
66 years ago, Europe was in the process of ridding itself of those pesky semites, The Jews. No, the Jew was not welcome in Europe. Never was.
And yet, somebody actually thought that Muslims would be okay. The brilliant Isaac was being fed to the gas chambers, but immediately following, the hordes of Isaac's retarded half-brother Ishmael were being welcomed.
Okay, so now we wait.
Also to add to the above comment:
Rather than view the invasion that is ongoing as an invasion, LIBERALs view any changes in the polity as being merely the process of history. So yes Hitler, according to their view, achieved power though democratic process, not realizing that such was not the case and all the consequences that flowed therefrom. Heaven protect us from LIBERALs.
Perspicuous Praeceptor Prodigiosus proffers prognosis, perplexed people parse prolix prose, prevision proposals, perceive problems, psyches plummet, prospects perish.
Goner Gauls gall.
Someone please freshen Hugh's Mint Julep.
He must be feeling thirsty after that effort.
The good news about France is come election time Chirac will be out.
That bad news is that while both Sarkozy and Royale are much better then Chirac they are still both painfully inadequate and often borderline Dhimmi.
FJORDMAN REDUX -- "What a Grave Mistake..."
We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims!
We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to create.
We must admit that Europe, by relaxing its borders and giving in under the pretext of tolerance to the values of a fallacious cultural relativism, opened it's doors to 20 million Muslims, often illiterates and fanatics that we could meet, at best, in places such as Raval, the poorest of the nations and of the ghettos, and who are preparing the worst, such as the 9/11 and the Madrid bombing and who are lodged in apartment blocs provided by the social welfare.
http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/11/are-muslims-jews-of-today.html
We also have exchanged culture with fanaticism, the capacity to create with the will to destroy, the wisdom with the superstition.
We have exchanged the transcendental instinct of the Jews, who even under the worst possible conditions have always looked for a better peaceful world, for the suicide bomber. We have exchanged the pride of life for the fanatic obsession of death. Our death and that of our
children.
What a grave mistake that we made!!!
"Hitler ordered the poorer Jews to be exterminated and yet had very rich, affluent Jews in his cabinet, or so I've read."
-- from a posting above
If you have read that, you have been reading nonsense. There were no Jews in Hitler's cabinet. He spared no one. That kind of story can only be the sort of thing that neo-Nazis and apologists for the Nazis spread as a way of muddying or confusing the historical record. Be careful what you read. Konrad Heiden's "Der Fuehrer" and William Shirer's "Berlin Diary" and post-war writings are good places to start, and so of course are the records of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. And Raul Hilberg, and Lucy Dawidowicz.
But whatever you read, wherever you read it, that misinformed you in such a way, is clearly sinister nonsense, and anything from such a source is completely untrustworthy. Might as well read David Irving.
I would almost be willing to bet that "Royale" is even more of a Dhimmi. What I have read about her is not encouraging.
Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Posted by: americaningermany at November 24, 2006 07:29 PM
I initially would have guessed that untill she said no to Iranian Nukes (Her only known foriegn policy belief).
I think it is in NATO's interest that new riots take place. "We" (as the NATO alliance) should press for more riots while every time the French government is more and more being forced in a corner. Namely the place where they cannot deny that the riots are in the name of Islam and not in the name of unemployment.
The only candidate who seems to have an adequate understanding of Islam is Villiers, but I haven't heard much about him lately. I expect LePen to get an even larger vote but it will be Sarkozy or Royal. Both are disappointments in understanding the threat. When I read the 751 'sensitive areas' article today, I could not understand why the politicians in France cannot be sounding the alarm bells. They cannot all be fools or enriching themselves in all kinds of corrupt ways from the islamization of France. So what is the new name for France? Francistan? Francabia?
De Villiers does understand, unfortunately since he is unlikely to win we must hope that Sarkozy or Royale won't screw things up too much (at least they will not be like Chirac in allowing unlimited rioting, helping Islamize a very important Western Country, unlimited immigration and to top it all of an anti-american foriegn policy while talking tough to Israel to try to get petro-dollars into their pockets) so console yourself with this, they are incompetents but at least not Chirac.
The only candidate who seems to have an adequate understanding of Islam is Villiers, but I haven't heard much about him lately. I expect LePen to get an even larger vote but it will be Sarkozy or Royal.
Posted by: NicephorusPhocas at November 25, 2006 01:24 AM
Le Pen is at the moment struggling to get enough signatures for him to be allowed to run for the election, although polls suggest if he does run, between 15% and 20% of French will vote for him.
GreekFrenchInfidel wrote:
Le Pen is most certainly not the answer to the islamization of France. Le Pen attracts anti-semites, racists, and disgruntled nationalists.
The West needs politicians who truly understand the threat of (global) jihad/da'wa but who are not associated with anti-islamic views.
Great essay Hugh (though it could have done without the Mr Potato-head analogy).
US military planners better begin long-range contingencies based on the assumption that a nuclear-armed Europe will soon represent a threatening foe.
It took China exactly 2 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union to redesignate America as its #1 threat (at a plenum of the CCP in 1993). It took the USA another 3 long years (1996) to discover China was no longer an ally...and this only because China began test-firing missiles over the straights of Tawain...and even a pansy like Clinton was compelled into dispatching a carrier task-force.
Such is the complacency of bureaucracy that if China's behavior had been less belligerant, our State and Defense Depts might have gone on for another decade enabling China's defense build-up....(though God knows Clinton continued to try --- remember the Hughs/Loral debacle?).
How long will it take US State and Defense Dept functionaries to notice the sea-change that is occurring in Europe?
It seems that we just don't have enough HATE to fight them. muslims hate us with a passionate intensity that most of us lack.
Posted by: americaningermany
americaningermany, that hate will come unfortunately.
Satan is behind Islam and uses it to drag everything and everyone down to the depths of Hell with him.
Misery loves company.
Islamic jihadists will not...cannot stop, until they have ensured the destruction of Islam.
They are trapped and deep down they wish an end to life and to existence within Islam.
When mankind separates himself from God he seeks death.
They will not stop until Islam is completely destroyed.
I can understand the US not coming to liberate Europe from its own stupidity, all the more as there probably is no way that could be done using standard military armoury.
However, the prospect of the nuclear arsenals, including subs, falling into the hands of islamic regimes of the UK and France must be deemed completely unacceptable in Washington, once that scenario can no longer be ignored. What will the US do, will it react proactively, or resign itself to this new enemy, alongside the Middle East going nuclear too? I find that very hard to believe.
"it could have done without the Mr Potato-head analogy...."
-- from a posting, and sparring-partner, above
Yes, but I like Mr. Potato Head. It is my favorite toy. And Slinkies, even if they break after slithering up (or down) a few steps on Christmas morning.
And in making points, I like as well to use children's books.
I like Millions of Cats.
I like The Little Engine That Could.
I like The Little House.
I like To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street.
I like Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose.
I like Goodnight Moon.
I like Madeleine.
I like Babar.
These are for some American children (perhaps mainly in the fabulous past) the equivalent of folk wisdom, these are the Fables of Aesop and La Fontaine and Krylov, these are Pushkin's Nurse.
Vive l'Enfance!
OK, I suppose in some bizarre way, Mr Potato head is kosher.
When we were kids, it was playing guns. Any functional stick would do....it wasn't the hardware, it was the strategy. Whatever the composition of the respective two sides, me and my brother always made sure we would be pitted against one-another. If we were terminated by a neighborhood kid, so be it, but terminated by each other, we'd have to endure the crowing for days. We'd resort to crawling through creeks, patiently hiding for what seemed like hours in brush, or perched up a tree, ready to shout those magic words that conferred strategic and tactical mastery: "blam, blam, your dead!"
And so it is that I insist on buying my nephews toy guns - to the great consternation of their liberal mother....not necessarily to engender in them a martial culture or a love of fire-arms...just to allow them the chance to role-play the battles of history, and also to role-play survival tactics, to learn facets of human nature, to out-think one's opponent, etc.
God, those were glorious times!
And who will attempt to address the willful ignorance of we the peons? Not our new rulers who acknowledge no god but the false gods of political correctness. How 'bout the free pressz? Naw. The free press has sold out our freedoms to the false gods of political correctness long ago.
With willful bliss we the peons ignore the terrible truth that the Rights of Man cannot be established in terms of Islamic theology. I challenge you to find one Muslim cleric who espouses freedom of conscience for all men and does so publicly, unconditionally and in terms of Islamic theology. The problem with the realm of Islam is not a lack of freedom it is that Islam denies man his God given Rights.
We must demand that the Muslims that live amongst us embrace the western values of individual freedoms or we must ask, or force, them to leave. Our rulers will never do this because the deny we the peons our individual freedoms to maintain the unconstitutional and collapsing welfare state.
What city do you think good Muslims will nuke first?
God, those were glorious times!
Posted by: Cornelius
Indeed.
I can remember as a kid, we made guns out of pipes, firecrackers and marbles for bullets.
Those toy guns could put a marble through a tin can at a few metres.
We made tanks and field guns out of pram wheels and scrap timber, wheeled them out into a field and played war.
I can still remember manning a 'field gun' and hearing a marble bullet cutting through the grass near me, hitting a tree fifty metres to my rear with a 'thud'.
Glorious times, luckily I still have both eyes.
Then of course, there were the 'hand grenades', made from bottles and penny bungers.
Good, healthy education IMO.
When we were kids, it was playing guns. Any functional stick would do....it wasn't the hardware, it was the strategy. Whatever the composition of the respective two sides, me and my brother always made sure we would be pitted against one-another. If we were terminated by a neighborhood kid, so be it, but terminated by each other, we'd have to endure the crowing for days. We'd resort to crawling through creeks, patiently hiding for what seemed like hours in brush, or perched up a tree, ready to shout those magic words that conferred strategic and tactical mastery: "blam, blam, your dead!"....
God, those were glorious times!"
-- from a posting above
Guns, and tiny log-cabins, and Fess Parker coonskin caps. The Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and Gabby Hayes and the whole U-nit-ed States (and Texas). Even, on Saturday mornings, Tom Mix, and sheepmen mixing it up ("He rolled over me. I rolled over him. We rolled over us." -- as Humbert Humbert recalls), and the cowboy who slithers from one side to the other of his horse, dodging bullets, dodging arrows, dodging anything that the outrageous fortune of the Wild West can fling at him. And the railroad roof-top chase, jumping from the top of one car to another, either toward the caboose in the back, or forwards, toward the engine room, where my god, the engineer has been hit over the head and is lying unconscious. And there's no one to stop the train, it's a runaway, and now it's going through a tun...nel, whew that was close, oh my god, here's another tunnel, well, that wasn't as bad as the first one was it, but how is Black Bart, not to mention his sinister retinue, ever going to be caught?
And on Saturday nights, Marshall Dillon and loyal limping Chester, and wise old Doc, and Miss Kitty, and then Paladin, with that heart-warming calling-card ("Have Gun, Will Travel"), and then on Sunday, wisecracking James Garner as Maverick, or as both Mavericks, Brett and Bart.
The poster is right about that past.
We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.
Mike,
You guys obviously had a lot more ingenuity than we did. The furthest we ever went in utilizing actual fire-power would be to shoot bottle rockets at each other from a distance.
Hugh,
I guess you grew up in the 50s. We definitely watched Gunsmoke....and I remember Fess Parker playing Davey Crocket and James Garner as Maverick, but the other names were a bit before my time.
Still, it's nice to know you were a kid once...and a raucus one at that. Who'd have thought?
"I guess you grew up in the 50s...."
--- from a posting above
Unless I grew up in the American 1940s, with mairzydats and doazydoats and littlelamsydivy, and the Ted Mack Amateur Hour and Little Lulu, and Walter Winchell and Elmer Davis. Or in the 1930s, with Nov Shmozz Kapop, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Shadow, and still the Katzenjammer Kids, and for god's sake, hurry up, it's H. V. Kaltenborn who's just come on. Or in the 1920s, with Winsor McCay's welsh rarebit in the funny papers, and archy and mehitabel, and Felix the Cat, and Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, and the Sheik o of Araby.
Or it could be in England in the 1960s, with the Goon Show, and the Kray Brothers, and dignified Hugh Gaitskill, and Jeremy Thorpe losing his head and getting into all that hot water. Or in France in the 1960s, with Alain and Nathalie Delon, and Capucine, and the Ballet Rose, and and the very last of the Poujadistes, and General Salan in prison, and Jacques Soustelle, and honk duh duh duh duh dum duh if you don't want to lose Algeria, and...
Or Russia, in the 1960s, with Bulat Okudzhava playing at a little gathering at MGU -- "kogda posle vakhty gitaru voz'myosh', i tronysh' strunu za strunoju" -- Korpus G, I think, but don't tell anyone -- and over here is Bella Akhmadulina, and please turn off the radio with that damn Demian Bedniy poem about the soldier at the station, I can't stand it or the or the ukrainisms of Nash Vozhd', and just look at this latest issue of Noviy Mir, my god, can you imagine with all that talent, and that level of educated audience, what will happen if only Russia ever becomes free again? Anatolij, my old history teacher, told me he just found a copy of the Biblioteka Poetov volume devoted to Pasternak with Sinyavskiy's foreword -- it cost him two month's salary. Do you want to come with me to his place and take a look? Sonya will be there. And then we can listen to Willis Conover and that series on emigre literature, including that "Victor Nabokov" I was telling you about?
The doctors here at the asylum agree: they keep telling the patients that one must choose just one past and stick to that. So I'll go with the United States of America, 1950s. Much more fun. Besides, if I didn't choose that time and that place, my parents would have missed me.
"Hitler ordered the poorer Jews to be exterminated and yet had very rich, affluent Jews in his cabinet, or so I've read."
You're right, Hitler had some very rich, affluent Jews in his cabinet -- in the form of bars of soap.
I often lamented the how Hindu India fell in the hands of Muslims, and how it fell into an abyss from which there is no way to come out. Indians did not have the benefit of history and previous knowledge, and were weak and divided militarily at the crucial points, so that can be understood.
But how the hell European are willingly walking into the same trap, just like sheeps without any thought or regard for the preceding examples, how Islam totally destroyed the indigenous cultures everywhere it went and replaced it with distorted imitation of Arabian culture, ranging from Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malayasia, central Asian Buddhist cultures. Take my word, Europeans, even those who are somewhat aware, have no idea in their wildest dreams, where they are headed.
Fall of Europe would be a great tragedy to not only Europeans but the whole humanity, many of the best achievements of humanity came from the Europe, which is either ignored to the point of total apathy or hated to the point of self destruction by it's own descendents.
Many good things of Europe will be preserved in USA, but how long it will be able to resist the invasion from the organization of lunatic submissive slaves who are spending all the adult life daydreaming about 72 virgins and rivers of alcohol is anybody's guess. US is somewhat not going the fate of Europe does not mean that in US there is something intrinsic in US culture which can counter this threat, or any proactive measures, but simply because the infection is in latent stage. US is as much dependent on the oil and corrupt politicians whose nexus with corporations would sell this country much faster than any other, once they have controlled Europe to the significant extent.
Hugh,
Why do I get the impression that on the day you were born, you emerged from your mothers womb wearing bifoculs and holding a volume of Shakespeare.
Of course I know it's impossible. I'm sure you weren't reading Shakespeare 'till you were two or three.
That's not how I remember it. The obstetrician who delivered me became the local head of Planned Parenthood soon after. My mother claims there was a connection.
Dear Hugh,
I wouldn't worry too much about Jeremy Thorpe losing his head, it was his boyfriend who lost his head well at least his maidenhead, and bit and cryed into his pillow. Apart from that what about a good cry for us Brits. I was almost crying when I read this. I gleaned it from the BNP website, heaven forbid that people call me a rascist for reading such arrant rubish but it does show how far the British people: like Jeremy Thorpe's boyfriend are being Liberally and literally Buggered. It makes me ashamed to be British. Please remember that this gentleman will most likely spend his Christmas in prison, they need a victim to hang out to dry to cower the rest of us into silence, after they couldn't convict Nick Griffen, of the BNP of rascism. Please read and weep, I am sure there are Vietnam vets will understand what this man is going through.
A very unpleasant story this afternoon from our SE England Regional Organiser - a story that is
typical of these debased times and one that should have the blood boiling in the veins of every true
Briton!
Yet another injustice against our people.
In the BNP we are used to some horrendous stories of injustice and prejudice against the indigenous
population but what follows beggars belief!
The story starts in the first week of October when there was rioting in the Dedworth area of
Windsor. This was centred on a Muslim owned dairy in which, without planning consent, a section
was being used as an Islamic Centre. Those using it were not only blocking the access for residents
but also verbally abusing them.
With this heightened tension, the spark that ignited the rioting was when a 15-year old boy was
assaulted by young adults from the centre. His sister went to remonstrate with them and she was
physically assaulted and her car wrecked, over £3,000 of damage was done by Muslim males
wielding iron bars and baseball bats.
By an extraordinary coincidence the mother of the brother and sister happened upon the scene as
she was walking their dog. She too was assaulted!
Police reluctant to act!
Initially, the police declined to take any action at all. When pressed they condescended to take notes
and report it, but not as a racially motivated incident. They informed the two females that, as they
could not recognise their assailants - there was nothing they, the Police, could do!
After a period of weeks, and once the situation had calmed down, at the request of our local
members we leafleted the area. There were 34 activists out, and such was our reception, that we
were being stopped on the street and asked for leaflets. To date we have had over 100 enquiries and
membership applications – as recently reported on by the British National Party’s Regional Voices.
Cries for help from public
However, what was particularly disturbing was that within hours our help line was receiving calls,
mainly from elderly women who just wanted someone to talk to and to listen to their fears and
problems. In some cases I was on the phone to individuals for over an hour reassuring them that we
would be able to help if there was more trouble and just to call the number. Interestingly, none of
the callers wanted to talk to their local councillors because they felt betrayed by them, that their
fears were not understood and that they would be dismissed as `racist`!
Last week I received a rather strange call on the help line from a close friend of a person who had
been charged with an offence under our oppressive race laws, requesting a meeting and the help of
the BNP.
Ex-serviceman with disturbing tale to tell
duly arrived at the appointed time and place and met the close friend. The person I was due to
meet eventually arrived well over an hour and half late and carrying a plastic bag with some items
in it.
I was then told the most strange and disturbing story:
The person I met was a male, obviously not well and aged, I thought, about 60. Three days after the
assaults and after playing darts in the local pub, having had a large number of beers he was walking
home and his route took him past the scene of the assaults. As he did a reporter came out of the
shadows and accosted him, asking him what his feelings were about the incident. In rather robust
and salty language he replied that he had fought them in Iraq and it now appeared he had to fight
them in his neighbourhood.
Others came out of the shadows and promptly arrested him, kept him in a police cell and eventually
charged him with a `race` crime!
As I have said, the man was obviously unwell and yet he told me that the police had denied him his
medication, despite his requests for such, for a considerable period of time.
Exemplary history of service to our country
Now we come to the most appalling and disgraceful part of this story.
The man is actually aged 44, has spent 24 years in the Army and is broken by Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder - for which he is on constant medication. He is managing to hold down a job in security
with the MoD.
His Army career included 4 tours of Northern Ireland, Kosovo and the Gulf War. The plastic bag
contained a scrapbook in pristine condition, with all his discharge papers and recommendations
from his CO to any prospective employers, plus his service medals - including his Long Service and
Good Conduct Medal.
He has an exemplary record and has never been in trouble.
By the most bizarre coincidence he also happens to be the father of the two youngsters assaulted
and the estranged husband of the assaulted woman! And, as he was walking past the scene, he was
thinking of what had previously happened there when he was accosted by the reporter.
Ex-soldier charged under Race Act
He has now been charged and is due to appear in Court on 20th December. He cannot even begin to
think about Christmas as he is worried sick about what is going to happen to him and, as he was
telling me all this, he was close to tears.
He then told me that only 5 days previously he was at the Remembrance Service standing proudly
in his Sunday Best, wearing his Medals and remembering the mates he had lost. At this point he
burst into tears, threw his medals across the floor, and asked why no one cared about him when he
had given his life and health to the service of his country?
What could I say! I was nearly in tears myself, as I am whilst I write this.
How a person, an old soldier be treated like this? What is our country coming to?
Why did the Police not console him, take him home and make him a cup of tea?
My promise to him was that I would do all I could.
We need to publicise this nationwide.
We need to demonstrate outside the Court.
We need to make sure that those in authority responsible for this travesty are held to account!
South East England BNP may be contacted by email
These 751 "Zones Urbaines Sensibles" was defined year 1995 within a program for special education efforts, lower taxes in some zones and so on. The aim was development. So ZUS is not an acronym (in despare) for areas where France no longer rules.
The Zone strategy in France politics was launched year 1993.
These ZUS-areas were relatively problem areas in 1995 when they was defined in the problem targeting program and the interresting thing is whether the program has achieved anything or not. I don't think the zones has to be inhabited by muslims.
So don´t blame the ZUS to be islam ruled zones. That is not the case.
Well, I see a problem with cultural clash in Europa, I can say! The world politics combined with a large amount of radical immigrants can surely be a heavy threat!
Hugh - Is there room on your envelope for #26, Edith Piaf?