[Editor’s note: Hugh Fitzgerald first published this essay here at Jihad Watch in 2004. Now, in light of the landslide election of Emmanuel Macron as President, it is more germane than ever, and hence eminently worthy of republishing. The names of the politicians have changed; the overall situation is the same.]
Imagine that you are a cosseted member of the French elite. One child is doing the khâgne, aiming for rue d’Ulm. Another is now a politechnicien. You are very comfortable, working for the state. You and your spouse are journalists, or writers, or one of that vast tribe of people conducting “recherches,” and life is comfortable, good, the way it should be. Yes, you do notice more and more Muslims about you as you walk, no longer in the banlieues, but in the center of Paris, or Toulouse, or Lyon. And you remember how uneasy you felt, four years ago, when you happened to be walking on the Canebière in Marseille. You decided, then and there, that you would not return.
And you have friends who live in the south. And they tell you that the beurs — some call them maghrébins — make life hell for everyone. They attack French children on the way to school. They vandalize cars. They threaten, and do more than threaten, anyone who is still foolish enough to walk out wearing a kippah or a cross. Whole areas of cities in the south, as in the north, and east, and west, have become off-limits to non-Muslims. In the schools, the teachers have lost authority. They cannot even cover the subjects of World War II, the Resistance, and the murders of the Jews as the state prescribes; they fear, with reason, the violent reaction of the Muslim students.
And as the schools become more and more dangerous for non-Muslim students and teachers, with more time and resources devoted to discipline rather than to learning, French parents and would-be parents are now silently factoring into their childbearing plans the present value of the future cost of what, they see, will now have to be added: private school tuition. And that means, of course, that those French people will plan on smaller families. And they will also be factoring in the growing cost, paid by them, those French taxpayers, for the whole expanding edifice of security, the guards in the schools, the guards at the train stations and métro stations and airports and at government buildings everywhere, the costs of keeping the gravestones from being vandalized, the costs of protecting the synagogues and the churches, the costs for all those tapped phones and agents in mosques, and subsidies to lawyers and judges to hear charges and try cases against Muslims, and the costs of monitoring da’wa in the prisons (more than 50% Muslim).
But the Muslims are indifferent to expenses incurred by the French state. France is part of the world; the world belongs to Allah, and to his Believers. That doctrine has remained immutable for 1400 years. Imam Bouziane, the one they keep trying to deport, had 16 children by two wives, all living on the French state: a representative Muslim man. Over time, the difference between average family size of Muslims and non-Muslims steadily increases. And, over time, the education system continues to disintegrate. Right now, perhaps, you cannot see it. Your children go to the best schools, followed by the best lycées. You vacation in Normandy, or Brittany, or the Île de Ré. And you do not take the metro often enough, or walk in the right districts, or work in the right factories or offices, to understand what tens of millions of your fellow Frenchmen now have to endure. You, for the moment, are still immune, still willfully unaware. You have spent the last few decades learning about the Muslim world from Eric Rouleau, and his epigones (after they silenced Peroncel-Hugoz, the one journalist who reported the truth) in Le Monde. You are deeply-versed in the constantly reported-upon, endlessly dilated-upon, perfidy of the mighty empire of Israel. You know what we have all had dinned into us: that the Arab Muslims are reasonable people, with clearly-justified grievances, grievances so reasonable and so limited in scope, that justice demands they be satisfied. Everyone agrees on the “solution.” It is called a “two-state solution” and of course it is a “solution” for otherwise, of course, it would not have been called a “solution.”
And everything looks the way it always has looked: the linden trees, the river, the bridges, the réverbères, the étalage in the neighborhood boulangerie. Douce France, cher pays de mon enfance. At the end of the school day, chic mothers still congregate in little towns, or small cities, outside the school — this or that Ecole Jules Ferry — waiting to pick up their children. Here come the littlest ones, from Maternelle, running up now — just look at how small they are. And here are the CE1 group, with those huge cartables on their tiny backs. Run, run, run, to Mommy. Oop-la. And then the years of study, study, study marked by ever-larger cahiers — “cahier” and “cartable” are the words that identify French DNA better than Piaf or gauloises, isn’t that true? And now we will read the books, and study the subjects, set down so completely and precisely by the Ministry of Education. And now we are up to the final year, preparing for the Bac, with copies of blue-backed BALISES, guides to Les Châtiments and La Peau de Chagrin. And just look at the results listed in the newspaper: Claire-Alix has a mention très bien. Fantastic. Everything is fine, everything will always stay the same, whole countries cannot change. It’s not possible.
But it is changing, coming apart, quietly, slowly – let’s not look too closely, we mustn’t pay too much attention — the streets, the schools, the hospitals, the ability to speak the truth about things, about life as it is lived, la vita vissuta, as they like to say in a neighboring country. Dominique de Villepin always knew there was nothing to worry about; he was born, after all, in Salé, next to Rabat, even spent a few years of his infancy there; of course he knows his Arabs, his Muslims. And surely Eric Rouleau, who for decades in Le Monde was the resident expert on the Middle East (he was so knowledgeable that he never had to so much as mention the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunna), surely he knew everything, didn’t he? And those French translations of Edward Said that denounced with such passion the Islamophobia, and those vicious cliches with which the blind and rotting West has always caricatured the Arab Muslim world. Oh, we have been so terrible to the Arabs, we colonialists, we French, we Westerners. And then there is the never-ending outrage of Israel, that running colonial sore. Of course, they have every right, those Muslims, to come here to France. We went to their countries once, now they come to ours. And they have every right to hate us, don’t they?
So now we have decided not to understand, and to cut all ties of sympathy to, Israel — and how did we ever have any sympathy for it in the first place, the way some of our parents did back in 1948 or 1956 or 1967? How could they not have seen what the “Palestinian people” had to endure? Hanan, Yasser, Said, Saeb, Aziz, Walid, Rashid, Mohammed — you have won our hearts and minds. Take us, do with us what you will.
No one will mention what is happening or what kinds of things we must begin to think about doing to save ourselves. No one of any decency. And whatever Le Pen and Megret say, we must say the opposite (except, of course, when they show their hostility to “the Jews”). Do not say those things, do not think them. Free thought is all very well in theory, but really — consider the consequences. Don’t dare to think outside that box brimming with idées reçues. Défense de penser au dehors du box.
No, everything will be all right as you stroll down the Avenue Paule-Anne. Those Muslims will never be a match for us. Why, just look at those legionnaires marching à pas lent down the Champs-Elysées, think of that string of desert victories. Inside our heads, it is 1930 and over here is the Exposition coloniale. You remember, tu t’en souviens, that painting by le Douanier Rousseau, don’t you, with the burnoosed Arab standing next to the black Senegalese? I have it right, don’t I? France will always be France. Nothing will ever change.
At a certain point, and despite everything that causes you not to see what is staring you in the face, you realize that something has gone irreparably wrong with your country, and you, and your children, are in danger of losing that country, down to every village and house, qui m’est une province et beaucoup davantage. And you do not know what to do, or how to explain this feeling to others, or in whom to confide your secret fears, or what can be done. It is so confusing, and so upsetting. You cannot vote for Le Pen. You cannot endorse “cowboy” Bush or those ridiculous Americans. You have no place to go.
And then you learn what Jacques Chirac — who now has a Muslim grandchild himself — and Dominique de Villepin, do not wish you to learn. For if you did, you might be very angry. You discover that 1 out of every 3 babies born in France today is a Muslim baby. And that means, in 20 years, one of every three 20-year-olds in France will be a Muslim twenty-year-old. And that means, twenty years after that, at present rates of reproduction, France will have a majority Muslim population. Where shall we hide the statues from Marly-le-roi? And the Venus de Milo? And what about all those paintings of animated life — all those portraits in the Louvre, and the Grand Palais, and the Musée Guimet down there in linden-lined Aix, and everywhere else in art-filled artful France, mère des arts, des armes, et des loix — that are absolutely forbidden according to the immutable strictures of the Qur’an. Should they be sent for safekeeping to those Americans across the seas? By then most of the Jews in France will have left, gone across the oceans for their own safekeeping, to Israel or to English-speaking Canada (they were worried about the Muslim population of Quebec, you see, which had been allowed to grow under the Province of Quebec’s policy of encouraging francophone immigrants, preferring North Africans to potential immigrants from Italy, Greece, Spain), and above all, to America. What luck those Americans have had. No more bequests to France by the likes of the Rothschilds, or Nissim Camondo. No more Donations from another Pierre Lévy. Enjoy the Kufic calligraphy; some find it endlessly fascinating.
For the moment, you allow yourself to believe that something will come up. Most likely, all those Muslims will simply convert. I mean, they do that, don’t they, quite easily I’m told. Of course, why didn’t I think of it, that is exactly what will happen. The situation is always saved in time. Just like during the war. Nothing to worry about. Nothing.
Keys says
France is a boiling frog.
Walter Sieruk says
That jihad truck attack in Nice,France and before that on July 14 those heinous and murderous Islamic terrors attack in the city of Paris and the other jihad- Muslim shooting in France and the Muslim riots in France and also Muslim rapes of French girls and women may all serve as an example of Muslim ungratefulness and unthankfulness for letting them enter France to live. This this further exposes the Muslim’s Islamic contempt for people who are Westerners and Western civilization, Western laws.
This Muslim violence may be yet better explained by one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled THE FARMER AND THE VIPER. So here it is “Once in ancient Greece there was a farmer outside on a very cold winter day walking in if field to make sure that everything is in order and as it should be. The farmer came upon a half-froze viper about to die from the bitter cold. The kind yet foolish farmer took pity on the viper and in an action of kindness put it his is vest jacket to warms and up and thus save its life. The viper warned up revived and then bit farmer through the vest jacket. So the kind but foolish farmer died a slow painful death in awful agony because he felt sorry of the viper and saved it life. The point to this fable is the no amount of kindness will change and vicious and evil nature.
So it is with those Muslim migrants who were allowed to enter France to live . Those violent migrants who are Muslims will not be impress and change because kindness of Westerners. This is because those violent Muslims have that ungrateful dangerous viper nature because of their venomous and violent religion which is Islam.
DANIEL L BARBOUR says
Ditto!
Walter Sieruk says
No matter how much kindness the French people show to the Muslim migrants who the French allow to enter their nation to live the end result to be only disaster. Compassion ,love and kindness will not change the minds and heats of those infected with Islam. To illustrate is the following story.
The sad and tragic reality of jihad-minded Muslims engaging in Islamic suicide/homicide bombings attacks is for a large part, the outcome the extreme brainwashing that is performed in Islamic mind programming centers which are mosques and madrasas. In those jihad mind control places students are thoroughly indoctrinated into the jihadist mindset of committing murderous bombing attacks in the jihad for the advancement of Islam. As Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran instructs in 9:111. , for example, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” Therefore, those who come out of those Quran based mind programming centers .mosque and madrasas, are so terribly harmed and damaged that they are literally, as it has be rightfully called, “dangerous to self and others.” This results in jihad suicide /homicide attack in which those jihadists who commit such murderous actions are so very deluded that they think of that jihad mass murders as “martyrdom operations.” This is Islamic delusion of the most heinous and malicious kind.
This may be, somewhat, explained by the narrative from the fable of Aesop which is entitled THE SCORPION AND THE FROG So “Once upon a time there was a scorpion who really wanted to get to the other side of the river, but he could not swim. Therefore, the scorpion begged a frog to carry him on his back across the river. The kind but foolish frog agreed and then half-way across the river the scorpion stung the frog. In shock and horror the dying frog asks the scorpion “Why did you sting me since this means that we both are going to die” The scorpion replied “The reason that I stung you even though we both will now die is because that just what a scorpion, by nature, does.”
In conclusion, just as that scorpion in the fable had proven himself by the dangerous and deadly, to self and others, because of his nature. The violent and murderous jihadists of Islam are as that scorpion, dangerous so self and other because they is their nature because they have been thought programmed in the ways of the violent and murdering jihad of Islam. As always stated above ,this is the sad and tragic reality of Islamic terrorism in today’s world.
Joe says
Mr Fitzgerald, I appreciate your essay, but it’s ignorant and bad-mannered to throw French into an essay without translating it. Quite a number of well-educated people don’t know French, and all educated people know this.
JAR says
Joe, I appreciate your advocacy for non-Francophones, but perhaps you’re showing your ignorance and bad manners. Our esteemed essayist does not need to conform to your editorial expectations. Authors, and gifted ones, may write as they choose. “Some birds aren’t meant to be caged; their feathers are just too bright.” Receive the piece for what it is, not what it isn’t. And use Google Translate if you want to know what the French passages are.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Grande réponse!
Joe should explore the observation by Samuel Johnson: “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it”.
Joe says
It was always obvious to me that I can use Google translate. The point is that it is not considerate to readers. I know some Hungarian. Would it make sense that I spatter my English essays with Hungarian? Of course not. The readers COULD use Google translate. But that’s a red herring.
Joe says
JAR, I disagree. It’s bad manners. Period. Those points about using Google translate are red herrings.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Here you are, with my apologies:
khâgne- after receiving the baccalaureat, students preparing for the entrance examinations for one of the three Grands Ecoles take a two-year course. The second year is known as the khâgne.
politechnicien- a student at, or graduate from (no matter how old), the Ecole Polytechnique
recherches- research, of all kinds.
réverbères-street lamps .A lovely word.
boulangerie- bakery
Douce France, cher pays de mon enfance- “Sweet France, dear land of my childhood”- first line of a famous song, most famously sung by Charles Trenet. Listen to at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbBbezVtUQ. .
cahier- notebook, the kind in which French students take their notes, write out their homework –or did, in the pre-computer and email period of their existence.
cartable- the student’s school bag, now most often a backpack
Bac- the baccalauréat –the degree you get when you successfully complete secondary school studies in France.. You must pass an examination, not merely complete a course of study, in order to receive the bac. If you do well, ” may receive the bac with “mention très bien.”
Les Chatiments– collection of poems by Victor Hugo, publ. 1852 — often part of the French school syllabus
La peau de chagrin- literally, -The Shagreen Skin, or often translated as “The Magic Skin” by Balzac. Also a favorite of the French school syllabus. Incidentally, “le peau” in the text is a typo that I should have corrected
banlieues — suburbs, which is where in France many of the Muslims live. And if you use the word you are assumed, without more, to be referring to “Muslim-inhabited suburbs.”. .
tu t’en souviens -“you remember, don’t you?”
France, mère des arts, des armes, et des loix- France, mother of arts, of arms, and of laws” – a famous line from a famous sonnet in the collection “Les Regrets” (1558) by Joachim Du Bellay.
One more time, all together now, please feel free to sing along with Charles Trenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbBbezVtUQ
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Correction:” Douce France, cher pays de mon enfance” is NOT the first line of “Douce France.” Sorry.
Joe says
Thankyou Hugh.
The problem I can see is lack of awareness in your case.
Joe says
The problem is partly historical. It may well have been a long time ago that pretty much all literary people in England knew French as well, I don’t know. But it certainly became common to liberally use French in English writing. The same never happened to the same extent for any other European language.
Some authors who should know better do it to this day still, such as Mark Steyn. But it’s an unpleasant experience for non-French speakers.
Thanks again for the glossary.
dumbledoresarmy says
For France, France, sweet France.
“Chant a Sainte Jeanne d’Arc”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CO&hl=es-419&v=wb7zokdXbnY
Lynn says
I took a Mediterranean cruise in 2003 with my husband and our son and daughter who had just graduated from college. The ship stopped in Marseille We walked around and then entered a coffee shop to get a drink and rest. Only Arab men were in the shop and they looked at us with hostility. We left quickly without even sitting down. Fortunately, I have since visited Italy, Greece and Turkey and felt fairly safe. I will never take another Mediterranean cruise because it is no longer safe.
EB says
Thank you Hugh for re-publishing this piece. I remember reading it in the original and had been searching the archives for it. I’d forgotten some of the details so I was searching the wrong terms. It was powerful then and is powerful now.
Debi Brand says
“Hugh Fitzgerald first published this essay here at Jihad Watch in 2004. Now, in light of the landslide election of Emmanuel Macron as President, it is more germane than ever, and hence eminently worthy of republishing.”
Indeed. Regarding, “ [… names of the politicians have changed; the overall situation is the same.]”
Indeed.
…………………..
“For the moment, you allow yourself to believe that something will come up.”
Yes indeed. Because now, we have a President, unlike the one we had in 2004, who now regards the realities of the doctrines of Islam.
Thus we know… well … if not the above to be true, then, minimally, we know, as Huge stated in 2004, “Most likely, all those Muslims will simply convert.”
Well of course they will–they trample and toss to the wind daily, their beloved “prophet.”
“I mean,” stated HF, “they do that, don’t they, quite easily I’m told.”
Yes, of course they do. They know that garbage bout “Kill those who change their religion” is just that: garbage.
“Of course, why didn’t I think of it, that is exactly what will happen. The situation is always saved in time. Just like during the war. Nothing to worry about. Nothing.”
Precisely Huge, nothing at all to worry about—of course unless one values lives and limbs here now possibly to be severed when the good Muslims follow “the Book,” refuse to convert, and thus, obey “Allah and His Messenger.”
Don Foss says
Well, some good news and some bad, and Robert Spenser may disagree with me on this, but I’m basing my opinion on living surrounded by Muslims in Islamic countries much of my adult life, as a civilian and with many Muslim friends and collegues. Some I have come to trust and have put trust in me, and some who I would never turn my back on.
I think many Muslims actually do apostate in larger numbers than most of us are aware. In their own culture this can be only in the hearts and soul and not out in the open, where for safety’s sake, job security, and keeping family ties means apostatizing silently and just going through the motions of a Muslim. I have had enough friends tell me this privately to believe it is pretty wide-spread even in the Islamic world – they believe so also – and especially true among females. As for those moving into Western Europe, I believe it becomes even more wide-spread, especially among those who are able financially to integrate into the society rather than cocoon themselves in the Muslim communities. (Those born Muslim in North America have little sense of what Islamic culture is really abut. They haven’t lived in it.)
On the other hand, there are then the practicing and believing Muslims who, now without a strongman to reign in extremists – the Mubarak and El Sisi types and even the Saddams and Gaddhafis of the Islamic world – see Western Europe as a place where they have much more freedom to spread their supremacist message and recruit for finances, da’wa, techies and marketers and professional-class, and actual jihadis/mujaheddin for ISIS and other terror organizations.
The apostates still among their communities in the West can only lay low and go through the motions and are impotent to act as a resistance. BT…there is a lot of apostatizing going on all over the Islamic world. I can’t find numbers, and the nature of their plight make that difficult, but I believe more leave than are being born into or converting.
I would be interested to know Robert;s opinion on this.
Debi Brand says
Hey, Don.
“….Muslims actually do apostate in larger numbers than most of us are aware. In their own culture this can be only in the hearts and soul and not out in the open, where for safety’s sake….”
No doubt about that.
And for that reason, as my mentor in Islam, former-Bangladeshi former-Muslim writer, Abul Kasim stated, those closet-apostates need—deserve–some Western nation to step up, with the courage, to declare, we welcome and will defend the life, freedom and security of those who would openly exercise their apostasy to Islam.
But for any nation to take such a stand, first, that nation would have to have a leader with both the understanding of Islam and the courage to address it for precisely what its orthodox works show it is. Thus far, there, we remain wanting.
“I have had enough friends tell me this privately to believe it is pretty wide-spread even in the Islamic world – they believe so also – and especially true among females.”
Indeed, no doubt about that, I share the same experience.
“… see Western Europe as a place where they have much more freedom to spread their supremacist message and recruit for finances, da’wa, techies and marketers and professional-class, and actual jihadis/mujaheddin for ISIS and other terror organizations.”
Indeed, as my Suadi friend, Kalid, once told me, many he grew up with, hated Islam, in their hearts were apostates to it; then, went to the West, US included, and there “radicalized.” Returned home big-time believers.
“The apostates still among their communities in the West can only lay low and go through the motions and are impotent to act as a resistance.”
Indeed. Hence the need for the above stated courage and actions thereto.
Don Foss says
Agreed. And with a sliver of hope to hang on to.
Debi Brand says
Indeed.
However, as long as we sanction Islam, pretend, it is deserving of our respect, and like Christianity and Judaism, Islam’s tenets–instead of begging for our securitization, and then, with those clear details regarded, the holding and practice of such tenets addressed with clear-headedness—deserve our defense, we keep tight the “rope of Allah,” ‘ round the necks of wound-be-open-apostates.
Shame on our leaders for being so damned cowardly.
Shame on us for standing silent in face of their glaring cowardice in face of Islam.
Note, a few words from those—as you noted above, countless there, apostates in their hearts and souls—in the Ummah: “Kufr and riddah are two words that are taboo in
the ‘Muslim’ community of Finland. Few dare to utter them aloud and even fewer dare to accuse anyone of falling into them.”
(Rumiyah, Issue 7, P. 18.)
And why is that so in that Western nation?
For the same reason such is so in every “Muslim” community in every western nation: fear of the unsheathed sword of “Allah.”
That is why.
And we western nations, shamelessly, stand by and allow that fear to reign in our respective nations.
Shame on us. As stated, shame on our leaders. Shame on all who refuse to call them on that shame.
dumbledoresarmy says
Debi.
Hugh is, in those lines you are quoting, not speaking for himself. He is speaking in the ‘voice’ of a certain type of French person.
*He* is not, himself, indulging in any false optimism but, merely, representing it artistically.
Read the piece aloud. Think whose ‘voice’ is speaking, at that point, in the concluding paragraph. It is NOT Hugh himself.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Thank you, DDA. My sentiments exactly.
Debi Brand says
Thanks, dda.
I took it, if Hugh, only Hugh speaking sarcastically–as in, as you stated, another’s voice.
Matthieu Baudin says
I read this piece quite some time ago and was pleased to come across it again. This time around it feels more of a representation of a Parisian Mental Malaise. Last time I found it more depressing than today because one can now feel some traction at long last on the part of those who want to confront the Jihadist Juggernaut. Marine did as well as those level headed insiders could have hoped for a few months ago. Impatience is natural but it is an uphill battle to shift the ‘self blaming’ mentality of the past three generations. The National Front needs to morph into a regular political party with a modern name and cast aside the historical associations with ‘movements’ outside the democratic process. The new President has come onto the stage bereft of new ideas for winning this religiously inspired war and so it probably won’t be long before he’s as popular as the outgoing President. An optimist might anticipate a rupture within the left as their distinctions between ‘victims’ and ‘oppressors’ becomes ever more fragile; a pessimist may anticipate a major push for censorship of internet activity targeting anti Jihad groups together with Jihadist sites all in the name of national security. I’m expecting a honeymoon of sorts with the soon to be elected British P.M. that could lead to the ushering in of new censorship initiatives putting them further at odds with the U.S.
Tom says
Ah yes the Liberal mind in all its splendor is indeed a treasure to behold, except that it is wilfully blind to anything that has the potential to cause it to see that reality in France today is very ugly and dangerous.
The defeat of Le Pen has accelerated the scenario that Mr Fitzgerald presents in his essay.
The demise of France, and indeed the whole of Europe, will not take decades but will be complete, with the helpful assistance of politicians like Macron, in just a few short but very bloody and violent years.
Don Foss says
The French seem to have a special affinity, over the last couple hundred years, of putting the noose around their own collective necks. No worries. Americans will save them again when the times comes.
Don Foss says
And they’ll soon be ungrateful about it…as is their habit.
Clair Reading says
This is WW III even if the damn “leaders” who love to get us involved when their power or personal finances are increased, ignore it this time! It’s up to everyone of us to be prepared to protect America! DC be damned!
Mladen says
I watched the debate. Macron made several blunders like mentioning that the an Islamist was mentally ill, reminded me of Robert Spencer’s article on the Global Outbreak of Mental Illness. On immigration and security Le Pen definitely made more sense, but that was not enough. She came out as petty, ignorant in economics and vindictive.
Why is it that France has to choose between one candidate who underestimates the dangers of Dawa and another who negates the complicity of the French in the persecution of the Jews during WWII? No wonder there were so many blank ballots.
Why does the truth about Islam have to come from people like Le Pen? Where is today’s Churchill who on Page 26 of the Gathering Storm, VOL 1 of The Second World War, wrote:
“Hitler’s sentence was reduced from four years to thirteen months. These months in the Landsberg fortress were however sufficient to enable him to complete in outline Mein Kampf, a treatise on his political philosophy inscribed to the dead of the recent Putsch. When eventually he came to power, there was no book which deserved more careful study from the rulers, political and military, of the Allied Powers. All was there – the programme of German resurrection; the technique of party propaganda; the programme of German resurrection; the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit of the world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”
http://madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/my-amazon-review-of-boris-johnsons.html
Geppetto says
This is already happening here albeit on a smaller scale to date. Young Americans who represent its future, like so many others in western society, are so guilt ridden over what they’ve been taught to believe, that they are incapable of logical, pragmatic, perceptive reasoning. Confronted with episodes of terrorist activity around the world they react with subdued humility and shame and ignore the blatant, undisguised, Islamic supremacist roots blatantly evident amidst Muslims and Muslim converts chanting Allahu Akbar; Allah is the greatest.
A measure of the effectiveness of this perversive strategy is the near violent, vicious, ad hominem, widely publicized overreactions to the election of Donald J. Trump and, in particular, the courts rulings against his efforts to limit immigration from a handful of Muslim ruled Middle Eastern countries in an effort to stem the growing tide of domestic terrorist attacks. Where does this hate filled rhetoric come from and how has it come to consume a disturbingly large segment of American opinion. Was this a naturally developed, deliberative thought process or a purposefully instigated, long term, subversive effort at mass mind control?
To gain some insight all should read and critically understand the Muslim Brotherhood manifesto.
https://clarionproject.org/muslim_brotherhood_explanatory_memorandum/
The MB is not a pacifist, civil rights organization as they like to portray themselves, with ample assistance from those whom they’ve led to fear being labeled Islamophobes, a “dangerous psychosis” invented in the 1990’s for just this purpose.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=777
The MB are an extremely active, devious, major part of this global movement to Islamize the world; not tomorrow, or next month or next year but a slow, purposeful, surreptitious process, a Grand Jihad designed to eventually seize political and religious control over the entire world, and all who proclaim this truth are totally ignored, shunned, besmirched, denigrated as racists and bigots, symptomatic of the now dreaded affliction called Islamophobia.
It will be no easy task to defeat this propaganda war and the longer it goes unchallenged and allowed its lava like advance with not only little to no resistance but rather increasing acceptance as a great hope for a grand future of peaceful co-existence, the more difficult and costly in terms of currency and human life. The result of this election in France may hopefully result in an awakening to the magnitude of the threat. Not a pleasant prospect for France, perhaps Europe and even America but it’s wake up and smell the rotting corpse or prepare for a repeat of the worst of the Dark Ages.
Islam, “a religion of peace” but under Sharia law and for Muslims only.