The French have been mugged by reality — the reality of mass immigration by Muslims, chiefly from North Africa, who are economic migrants posing as asylum seekers. These immigrants come not to work, but to batten on the many benefits that the generous French state provides – free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits even for those without a work history in France, and more. These maghrebins – the Muslims from North Africa, especially from Algeria and Morocco — are responsible for a steep rise in street robberies, home burglaries, and violence of every kind, including rape and murder; more than half of the crimes committed in Paris, President Macron has admitted, are now committed by the “foreign born,” as he prefers to call the migrants, carefully not specifying their Muslim countries of origin. Muslims make up 8-10% of the population in France, but they constitute 70% of the prisoners. Among the recent rioters, Muslim Arabs were represented far beyond their percentage of the population.
The French government spends billions of euros every year to provide millions of Muslim immigrants with government support of every kind. Those billions spent on these migrants – who are in no hurry to find gainful employment – is money that the French government does not have available to spend on its retirees, which is the main reason, though no politician has pointed it out, why President Macron felt compelled to lower the retirement age from 64 to 62. The result of all this expense, mayhem, crime, and general insecurity has led to a precipitous drop in support for immigration, including among those on the left. This was true even before the recent riots, as is clear from this story from April: “Support for mass immigration among French left has plummeted in last 5 years,” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, April 11, 2023:
A recent national study revealed that almost 1 in 2 people who affiliate with French left-leaning parties think there are now too many immigrants in the country.
The number of those on the left of French politics who believe the level of immigration into the country is too high has almost doubled in the last four years, according to a new study.
An in-depth survey, conducted by French research and consulting group, BVA France, observed a hardening on the topic of immigration across the French public when compared with the same study conducted in 2018.
Nearly seven out of 10 French people (69 percent) believe “there are too many immigrants in France today,” a view that has seen an increase in support of six points compared to the 2018 study. However, when analyzing the attitude of those who affiliate with left-leaning political parties, this statement is supported by 48 percent, up 21 points in just five years.
Adélaïde Zulfikarpasic, general manager of BVA France, discussed the results with Fondation Jean-Jaurès, a French think tank associated with the Socialist Party, in a bid to ascertain why politically left-leaning French nationals have become disillusioned with the country’s liberal migration policy, and to analyze the extent to which the topic of immigration has now become an issue of concern across the French political divide.
The notion that France now welcomes too many immigrants is naturally one that receives majority support from voters for the National Rally (95 percent) and Reconquête! (93 percent). However, even within Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing populist La France Insoumise party, a majority of supporters (51 percent) agree with the statement, and one in two (50 percent) supporters of Europe Écologie Les Verts (“The Greens”) agree with the statement. This is an increase of 20 percent and 22 percent, respectively, in support of the statement among those who affiliate themselves with the two left-wing parties when compared to the 2018 study.
More and more French are heeding the warnings about “the Great Replacement,” that refers to the demograpic change when the indigenous Europeans are replaced by non-European Muslim migrants, almost all of them Muslims. It is this Great Replacement that, according to the celebrated writer Michel Houllebecq, is already underway. Both the Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi and the Algerian leader Houari Boumedienne long ago predicted that “in the wombs of our women,” Muslims would take over Europe. While millions of Muslim migrants continue to flow into Europe every year, even more worrisome are the increasing numbers of Muslim babies now being born in Europe. The fertility rate for Muslim women in France is three times higher than that for the indigenous French, who are not reproducing themselves. Assuming no changes in the immigration policy, and no changes in the fertility rates of the French and of the Muslim migrants in France, the French population will inexorably be islamized through a kind of demographic jihad. Eric Zemmour recently pointed out that many Muslims from North Africa seem to think that France, as a kind of reparations for colonialism, is obliged to take in their demographic surplus. Other Muslims describe the many benefits they receive from the French government as a justified exaction of the JIzyah from the Infidels, even in the absence of a Muslim state.
Although a minority (43 percent) still agree that France has too much immigration, among supporters of the Socialist Party, this figure has also increased by 18 percentage points in five years.
In other words, five years ago, only 25% of far-left people in France, supporters of the Socialist Party, agreed that there were too many immigrants in France, but that figure has now nearly doubled, to 43%. That is still a minority of those voters, but if the trend of the last five years continues, by 2026, a majority of Socialist Party supporters, too, will have concluded that France has too many (Muslim) immigrants. And the obvious solution to that to call a complete halt to Muslim immigration into France.
On a second statement regarding the extent to which French people believe immigrants are “well integrated in France,” just 39 percent of respondents agreed, compared to 60 percent who do not agree.
Again, typically a majority of National Rally, Les Républicains, and Reconquête! supporters strongly disagreed with the statement, but those among the French left did as well. La France Insoumise was the only party that had a majority of supporters agreeing with the statement, with 53 percent, while just 43 percent of the Greens and 42 percent of Socialist Party supporters believe immigrants have integrated well into French society.
Not even a majority of the Greens (the Environmental Party) and of the Socialists agree that immigrants are “well integrated in France.” Only by a the slimmest of majorities – 53% — do the members of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left party, La France insoumise, agree that migrants are “well-integrated.” And perhaps they are thinking not of the Muslim migrants, but of all those other immigrants – Poles, Romanians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hindus – who have also come as migrants to France but, unlike the Muslim migrants, promptly set to work. And unlike Muslims, they are ideologically capable of integrating into French society. Muslims hold back from attempts at integrating into societies run by Infidels, who are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6), while Muslims are “the best of peoples” (Qur’an 3:110). It would make no sense, given those Qur’anic descriptions, for Muslims to want to integrate into such a society. They will pocket all the benefits offered by the French state, but remain firmly aloof from the Infidels who pay for them.
Upon analysis of the wider results of the study, Adélaïde Zulfikarpasic noted that the French population can be divided into three main categories. “The open (are) individuals who do not agree with the idea that there are too many immigrants in France today. They represent 31 percent of the population compared to 35 percent in 2018.”
Fewer than one-third of the French disagree with the statement that “there are too many immigrants in France today.” And since among those polled there were a considerable number of Muslims living in France, all of whom would have disagreed with the statement that there are too many immigrants in France, one can conclude that among the non-Muslim French, far fewer than 31% would disagree with that statement that there are too many immigrants in France today. Those indigenous French who still refuse to admit that there are too many immigrants in France may actually be as low as 25% of the French population, and their numbers continue to plummet.
Second is “the reserved,” which is comprised of individuals “who feel that there are too many immigrants in France today but who, at the same time, think that France should welcome refugees who seek asylum. These represent 35 percent of the population,” Zulfikarpasic said.
I think we can read between the lines of this response. The French are capable of distinguishing the Muslim economic migrants, who they think “are already too many,” from the non-Muslim migrants who are genuine asylum seekers, fleeing war or despotism – such as Ukrainians, or Cubans, or Venezuelans.
And lastly, “the refractors,” who believe that there are too many immigrants in France today and who do not agree with the idea that France should welcome refugees who seek asylum. Zulfikarpasic noted that this category has strengthened in the past few years and now constitute 69% of the French population.
Nearly 70% of the total population of France don’t want to accept any more immigrants, even if they are genuine asylum seekers. Of the 30% who would be willing, one-third are Muslim migrants themselves. Their experience with Muslim immigrants has been so unpleasant in every way, that 70% of the French no longer want to accept any more immigrants, period, and that includes asylum seekers. Perhaps they have lost faith in their own government’s ability to distinguish the genuine asylum seekers from the Muslim economic migrants who have been draining the French treasury
“We therefore measure it quite clearly: The opinions of the French on the subject of immigration have hardened. However, this development is not the prerogative of the right. And now, nearly one in two supporters of the left, as we have seen, believe that there are too many immigrants in France,” Zulfikarpasic told Fondation Jean-Jaurès. “And barely one in two consider that, in general, immigrants are well integrated in our country.”
The study results are published at a time when the French government is proposing a new immigration bill — one that has been pushed back on the government agenda after being deemed too politically explosive at a time when French society is already highly charged over President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reforms.
Moreover, 83 percent of French people consider it difficult to talk about immigration today,” Zulfikarpasic concluded. “The upcoming review of the immigration bill will be an opportunity to put it at the center of the table.”
The conclusion is clear. Whatever questions about immigration that were posed, the answers show that the French public’s support for immigration has plummeted among all political parties. The French have seen how the Muslim economic migrants have behaved, living on the government dole, and making sure they can take advantage of every benefit that is offered – free or subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits even without a work history — and more. They have seen, and suffered from, the high rates of Muslim criminality — street muggings and holdups, smash-and-grab robberies from shops, house burglaries, rapes, and murders. This all takes its toll, and changes the minds of those unwary French who just a decade or two ago were naively welcoming Muslims into their midst.
Will the political leaders in France do as the French clearly want them to do, and call a halt to these Muslim economic migrants, or will they, with the exceptions of Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, continue their whistling in the dark, and avoid adopting the only immigration policies that make sense if France is to remain France?
Emilie Green says
“Support for mass immigration among French left has plummeted in last 5 years,” by Thomas Brooke
Okay, do the French have an appetite for mass deportation?
As Robert is wont to ask, “What do you think France [take your pick, UK, Germany, Italy, et alia] will be like in 5 more years, 10 years?”
The Tour de France race organizers never route any of the Tour’s stages through any Zones Urbaines Sensibles. Now, why might that be?
PRCS says
“Okay, do the French have an appetite for mass deportation?”
Checkmate!
Eva says
What worries me is that they will deport them all to britain.
Our government is too corrupt, cowardly and stupid to stop the ones already coming here.
I’m sure they won’t make a peep if france decides to send even more our way.
David M says
Now that’s a suggestion. Imagine the Peloton winding through a Muslim no-go zone. Instead of the normal crazies you see on the road supporting the riders they would have to weave through a huge bunch of Muslims trying to attack them. That would up the ante a bit.
Captain Bligh says
After Jenin, we all know how to handle ‘no-go zones’.
Ade says
What kind of dopes need recent events before they BEGIN to wake up !?
tim gallagher says
I couldn’t agree more, Ade. What slow learners they must be to have taken so long, probably already too long to fight back successfully against this invasion, to wake the hell up to the damage being done to the society by these knuckle dragging barbarians that have been let into the country. Anyway, hopefully, a strong fightback will be mounted against the invaders by the majority of the French people and also other western European countries.
Ade says
The media doesn’t help at all of course !
The finger is seldom pointed at the culprits
And precious few know what muhammad was like
or what’s really in the quran
because of conflicting information
Things won’t change much until the truth finds it’s way out of echo chambers
Ade says
I’m guilty too
Despite having an academic interest in comparative religion
I too assumed that islam was like other religions,
I thought surely it’s about being good and just to everyone .. it’s a religion right !
I thought if islam was bad in any way, we can rely on the media to inform us
9/11 came and went without me investigating
I have two friends involved in the fall out from the Boston marathon bombing
in a big way and still I didn’t investigate !
It was only after the Bataclan massacre that I finally looked into it
and only then because I only work 25 hours a week and have time for study
It took a couple of years to work the truth out with all the smokescreens and misinformation
Who has the time ? .. Who will bother ?
tim gallagher says
Originally, Ade, i had a welcoming attitude towards Muslims as they began to arrive in Australia back in the 1980s but then i began to notice pretty bad criminal behaviour out here that i believed we had not faced before. In the early 1990s I began to try to find out what the hell was wrong with these people. i started to read up a bit on islam and its nature. Of course there were also those endless terrorist attacks. I remember coming across books by Robert Spencer, “Islam Unveiled” and by Ibn Warraq, “Why I am not a Muslim” and also I began to read a website Ali Sina had and i realised how barbaric and evil islam is. I meet some Muslims who seem OK but islam itself is rotten to the core as far as I am concerned. I wrote to quite a few of our Australian politicians and tried to wake them up and also to a major talkback radio guy out here. Most people still haven’t woken up..
Fitna says
Good point Tim…my fear is that because humans are in general are very stupid and slow to change…the French will elect another Leftist govt because the French media/elites will render the center-right too toxic to elect, which is how they kept Marine Le Pen from becoming PM for so many years.
Then when it’s no longer possible to ignore the problem as Muslims will have affected every French citizen’s life directly, it might be too late to stop the inevitable slide to an Islamic state.
Let’s also not forget that if the Muslims and Leftists are aligned they could find a way to steal the election from the Right wing parties…nothing is beneath them so I’m sure they’ll try if they can, as the Left has done in the US.
This would be a good time for French smugglers to make money in the black market selling arms to citizens, because if Muslims are not stopped, then civil war is inevitable. Islam and Freedom are like oil and water, the two cannot mix, one will defeat the other.
The stupid non-Muslims have been helping Islam to grow like a giant weed and soon it’ll grow uncontrollably and they’ll realize their mistake when its far too late to stop them.
On the flipside, the next election is absolutely critical for France. While Reconquete would be the best party to fix this mess I think Marine Le Pen could be the winner…also she’s gotten weaker in her policies, she’ll still be better than any Leftist or centrist party.
Ofc as others have pointed out it’s not enough to just end immigration. Deportations are absolutely essential. They must return the invaders that had no right to be here in the first place and they need to institute laws to allow any Muslim who commits a crime to be returned after they complete their sentence.
This was a great in-depth article and I’m glad to see the French are finally waking up. They’ve basically reached that critical mass of 70% that you need in order to change/save their nation…let’s hope they do that in the next 5-10 yrs or France is done.
tim gallagher says
I agree with you, Fitna, about how important the next election will be for the French. I do feel that, with 8% or whatever it is Muslims in the French population, that country may already be too far gone. If they do finally get stuck into the Muslim invaders there will be quite a violent situation with so many Muslims in the population. I agree with you that deportation of many of the invading Muslim enemy will be necessary especially as Muslims outbreed the local people in all the countries that they are allowed to invade. I hope, like you, that France and other western European countries do get tough and do what they need to do to save the countries from the barbaric Muslim invaders.
John Pepple says
For me all it took was the massacre of leftists in Iran in 1979, which occurred after the Muslims took over. I was a leftist at the time, and I simply assumed that every other leftist felt the same way as I did, that Muslims were our enemy. We never discussed it, but I thought (and still think) that that was the obvious lesson of that massacre.
It wasn’t till after 9/11 that I realized that no one on the left felt the same way as I did. I’ve tried to educate them, but it’s a lost cause.
Fitna says
Concurred John, Islam is an evil, dangerous death cult, Muslims are our enemy…but sadly Leftists are the slowest to figure this out…we need the center-right to organize and work to ban Islam and remove Muslims. We also have to be on guard with Leftists as I’ve found they can be traitors and pretend to be on our side.
Iran is a great example of what happens when people sit back and do nothing when Muslims take over gov’t by force or by votes. The end result is the destruction of freedom and state warfare against the non-Muslims. We can never allow Muslims to get near the seat of power and that should be a redline for all of us non-Muslims.
tim gallagher says
I agree, John, that it is hard to wake people up to islam’s evil nature. I felt sure that most politicians here in Australia knew nothing about islam’s nature so I used to write and try to wake them up. I would include those quotes from the Koran calling for Muslims to kill non-Muslims when the opportunity arose. I doubt whether i woke many up. Same with other people I know. Most didn’t want to believe what I told them about the content of islam. Maybe they will wake up one day.
Pray Hard says
As they bleeding out and gasping for their last breath …
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Has it plummeted enough to get Eric Zemmour in the next time around?
jewdog says
It’s too bad that genuine refugees with real claims for asylum, hard-working, moderate and decent people who could contribute to France, will be harmed by the blanket reaction to all immigration that is brewing. The fools who have allowed this to happen have done irreparable harm to the country.
Fletcher Christian says
@jewdog: I agree with you that the people who have allowed this to happen have done irreparable harm to our countries. I disagree with you, however, on your other point. The migrants don’t necessarily all have to come to Western Europe. There are plenty of other places they can go to, especially the mohamedans. Vast stretches of land are occupied by them, and a lot of their lands are incredibly rich because of oil/gas; those countries can easily afford giving shelter to the ‘poor’ (in the sense of propertyless) mohamedans. Moreover, the distinction between a real refugee and an economic migrant is a difficult one. And what about a refugee who is a refugee because he has committed (war?) crimes? We wouldn’t include those now, would we? (well, we do, because there is no real vetting going ont).And what about refugees who will work hard to destroy the country offering them refuge, like mohamedans? Besides, if you ask me (which nobody does), the right of asylum was invented for very few people. Firstly, of course, because there weren’t as many people around as today. Secondly, because there were only comparatively small groups of endangered people. And thirdly because only the wealthy could travel, so originally it was only a privilege for the wealthy.
KoshsShadow says
The original Led Zeppelin Immigrant song is about Vikings. Here is one for today’s world:
All-ah, ah!
All-ah, ah!
We come from the land of the Holy Quran
From the hot desert sun, where the Jihadis all plan
The jihad for our god
We’ll drive your planes to your lands
We’re the horde; you’ll cry and cry
Oh, Allah, we are coming!
On we sweep with exploding bomb
Our only goal will be the dar-el-harb
All-ah, ah!
All-ah, ah!
We come from the land of the Holy Quran
From the hot desert sun, where the Jihadis all plan
How soft you infidels seem
We’ll show you lots of gore
Of how we bring the tides of war
We are your overlords
On we sweep with exploding bomb
Our only goal will be the dar-el-harb
So now you’d better stop and wail at all your ruins
For peace of Allah will win the day; infidels all are losing
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
nicholas tesdorf says
It takes a while for people everywhere a while to work out that Islam is not a religion like all others which tries to train people in virtuous ways. However, once people do notice the difference, they slowly adjust their attitudes to conform to reality. The French have acquired more Muslims than other countries in Europe and are adjusting their attitudes.
James Lincoln says
nicholas,
The problem is, by the time that they find out – it’s likely too late.
dad says
if you are going to be stupid you got to be tough
Rufolino says
Sharp article. But it is already too late for Europe. The foxes, in huge numbers, are already in the hen-coop, and the very idea of deporting these foxes is a hot potato that is unlikely to get acceptance. In retrospect, later this century, it will be seen that Islam has already conquered.
Yogi Bear says
I’m not sure about that, Rufolino. What with the influx of the destroyers of our society and culture, our repressive structures (military, police, judiciary), that is the structures that are repressing opposition to the influx, are bound to weaken, eventually making it possible and necessary for the people themselves to take up arms and fight back. And I’m sure that will happen. It will be a mess, but it is by no means certain that mohamedanism will win.
Yogi Bear says
I would like to add that the government’s monopoly on violence ends when it doesn’t exercise that monopoly, or exercises it to the detriment of the nation.
John Pepple says
I don’t know that they are bound to weaken, especially when it comes to going after us non-elites who want to prevent Islamification. I wish I had your confidence, but I just don’t see that happening. It’s just very dangerous to use violence to oppose our elites.
Westman says
“…though no politician has pointed it out, why President Macron felt compelled to lower the retirement age from 64 to 62.”
” Apr 15, 2023, PARIS — France’s Constitutional Council on Friday approved an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 in a victory for President Emmanuel Macron..”
French workers would have been overjoyed if the pension age was actually lowered.
France is being colonized and barely cognizant of it as are the other major EU members.
It’s a very strange combination of higher energy costs due to a destroyed pipeline, a demand of money and war material for the Ukraine War, and immigrant freeloaders which are sinking the EU economy. Germany, the industrial engine of Europe is declining. The loss of sovereignty has been a disaster for the EU members.
VictorMc says
Sorry folks I find this article total drivel and it’s a pack of lies.
I can only repeat what I have said innumerable times:
“Gadaffi was right when he said “we don’t need guns we will breed you off the face of the earth”
Every Muslim who illegally pours into Europe knows this FACT.
Oh dear, oh dear don’t we ‘do’ facts here !!
Billy the kid says
Talking about a eugenetic experiment….! But you’re right. At some point present day Indonesia was 0% mohamedan; today it is 99% mohamedan. When Constantinople was conquered, present day Turkey was practically 100% Christian (so was North Africa, the ‘Magrebh’, by the way, the granary of the Roman empire; today it is nothing but a desert). At the beginning of last century Turkey was approximately 10% Christian. Today it is 2% Christian at the max; all other Christians have either fled, or converted. The 8% difference is due to the ‘Greek genocide’, which took place at exactly the same time the Armenian genocide took place. Did you know 80% of the Turks have Greek genes?
Again: talking about a eugenetic experiment….! By our very own leaders…! It’s too scandalous for words!!!!
Barry Morgan says
Western countries are beginning to realize, far too late, that there is only one suitable habitat for Muslims, and that is in Muslim countries. They should NEVER be allowed into western Christian style countries! Muslims do NOT integrate and assimilate, they only want to turn your country into a Muslim society.
Jinx the cat says
In the article the following passage appears (copy/paste):
‘Assuming no changes in the immigration policy, and no changes in the fertility rates of the French and of the Muslim migrants in France, the French population will inexorably be islamized through a kind of demographic jihad.’
I understand from (among others) Mr. Spencer, that this is what is called ‘the hijrah’, in conformance with mohamed’s journey from Mecca to Medina. I was also given to understand that this is the standard way for the mohamedans to colonize the world.
Captain Iglo says
It follows that Western women in particular MUST stop their incredibly egocentric feminism and start producing enough offspring for the coming deluge.
Eva says
They also need to stop reproducing with moslem men.
Violet says
Every western country needs to rid ourselves of all ties to ESG corporations & banks and the WEF infiltrated governments. We need to stop any schools and university that pump the youth with poisonous CRT and other self destructive curriculum. No group of people should be a ‘protected’ class. Borders need to be closed & many people need to be deported. The law that automatically gives full citizenship to a child born on our soil by non citizen or new citizen parents needs to end. New citizens of any age should be stripped of citizenship & deported automatically if they break the law.. no appeal. End the government welfare state…it’s a disaster. Leave charity to charities.
Free speech must be 100% protected …Censorship must be absolutely against the law.