As the mainstream media finally picks up on riots in Paris, those in Denmark remain unreported. (thanks to those who commented and emailed for sending this item).
Not that well covered is a very similar series of riots, also running for four days, in �rhus, Denmark. Nothing of it has penetrated to the english-language sections of Danish media, so the following is my translation of a piece in daily Jyllands-Posten:
Rosenh�j Mall has several nights in a row been the scene of the worst riots in �rhus for years. “This area belongs to us”, the youths proclaim. Sunday evening saw a new arson attack.
Their words sound like a clear declaration of war on the Danish society. Police must stay out. The area belongs to immigrants.
Four youths sit on the wall in Rosenh�j Mall sunday afternoon, calling themselves spokesmen for the groups, that three nights in a row have ravaged and tried to burn down the restaurant and other stores.
Around the parking lot, cars with youngsters from the immigrant community are swarming, and many are walking around, greeting each others with a sense of victory after the worst riots in �rhus in years.
Every night 30-40 youts took part, especially immigrants.
It’s also the first anniversary of the Van Gogh murder in Holland by an Islamist terror cell. Pieter Dorsman remembers.
Chirac ain’t coming to Canada because of it! This time, the STORY DID NOT ESCAPE THE CBC’S ATTENTION! Gomery did…
Europe!!! Enjoy!!!
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving back of stupid compassionites. Fools … idiots …
Canadar !!!! Don’t “feel left out” it’s coming to a Canadian ghetto near you. Just for the sake of self-esteem.
We don’t like to be “left out” eh?
May I quote another poster, by simply saying Bwaaahahahaha
Kate: Thank you very much for the link to the Viking Observer. It was most educational. I learnt two new words, “Koranimals” and “islamopigs.” As well I was reliably informed that the best way to deal with a heavily Moslem populated area was to evacuate the non-Moslems then slaughter the rest like livestock. That was a lot of information for a Wednesday afternoon.
Thanks once again and have a great day. I going to go have a shower now.
I’d like to say it a little more tactful than Duke – but it’s not like we’re not walking down the traintracks and looking straight at the train.
Look at Toronto – ethnic minorities won’t even talk to cops. What happens when these same people start setting up bloackades or riot? It’s funny that this story wouldn’t get more news coverage but the “Evil” war in Iraq seems to get coverage in perpetuity.
Hey Don, I guess you have some idea now how I feel when I find the spoor of left wing anonymous commentors who post similar troll bait here.
Don – stop using my name. Get your own.
France and Denmark are experiencing little versions of the same conflict wrought in the Netherlands through years of open immigration policies and belief in the tenets of multiculturalism.
Many say Canada is “Little Europe”. How long before we have a similar situation on our hands? What has to happen before we consider un-PC restrictions on immigration, as the Netherlands now have?
According to Victor Davis Hanson, the U.S. is not necessarily immune either:
If the Problem Is Muslim Terror, Then What?
Mark,
In the future, when Canada has finished gutting it’s military and using the money to build youth centers in Toronto, there certainly will be rioting in the streets as a result of the multi-cult/official bilyng feel-good socialist tenets.
Canada will be on it’s knees begging for support from the Albertan National Army to step in and restore order.
Is it only me or is there a pattern here?
First world countries do well and prosper. They look to immigration (not necessarily a bad thing) to add to their work force and share in the prosperity.
Next, the do gooder socialists try to make the immigrants feel welcome by stifling the country’s existing culture, religion, history and way of life to make the new people feel wanted. Political correctness is formed.
Now you have the tail wagging the dog. Christ is not allowed to be capitalized (in the EU), Christian founded society cannot have Christmas or Easter lest someone be offended and personal beliefs that conflict with the “agenda”, such as marriage is between a man and a woman, are deemed hate and phobias.
So what is next? That I do not know but it cannot be good.
BTW lest lefties call me names, I have friends who are muslim and do not consider a Merry Christmas grreting the least bit offensive, co-workers who are gay that do not scream because I disagree with SSM and anyone who comes into my abode is welcome provided they respect me and my home. My grandparents were immigrents at the turn of the last century. They brought some traditions and culture with them but never forced it on the people already here. And they most certainly did not get government grants to pursue a multicultural program.
Oh, if I move to Saudi, Bombay or Bali, will I be able to get their religious holidays changed because I might be offended?
were there any more shootings today in the multicultural* gang wars in Toronto & Vancouver . .
* the PC term – its Black gangs in TO and IndoSikh ones in BC, but that’s not nice to say because someone might be offended.
Doesn’t matter if they are full of lead & very dead, just don’t offend their community.
downtown333@hotmail.com AKA Don,
You don’t recognize the enemies that are bent on our destruction.
You can’t fight back if you are not allowed to dislike or even hate your enemy.
You may have already transcended human nature as many on the left like to believe they have achieved, but the rest of us must work to protect your tender assess from the islamopigs, and koranimals who want YOU dead.
Dream on and vote for Jack-off Layton as soon as possible …. he will ensure you will die peacefully on a hospital waiting list.
Duke,you slay me. But I think you’re an ass. There are elements of Islam who follow a rather warped version of the religion. These are the terrorists. They are not worth my hatred, my contempt for them is enough. THEY also look perfectly fine when they are dead.
Most Islamists though would like to raise their children in peace and have a few bucks left over at the end of the month. Belittling and degrading them is stupid. These people, if some of you jackasses on the far right ever yank your heads out of your asses, could be allies. Condoning wholesale slaughter of a people or a race “like livestock” does little to warm the moderates of their religion.
There are Canadian soldiers in Afganistan right now. Their job is to kill terrorists. I understand, from my uncle in the military, that they are rather good at their job. They also understand that they are not their to napalm kids, goats, etc.
They would deem a person like you an asshole who does nothing but make their job harder.
Texas Canuck: You are showing your terribly Texan insularity. Bombay is now Mumbai. And bless me if they haven’t changed Calcutta to Kolkata and Madras to Chennai. At least Delhi is still Delhi, old or new.
Don: I suggest you take a look at this post by David Frum, NOV. 2, 2005: “DEFENDER OF THE FAITH”
http://frum.nationalreview.com/
Excerpts:
‘Prince Charles is visiting the US this week and has apparently told friends that he hopes to encourage Americans to take a more positive view of Islam. Greater understanding of Islam is of course always welcome. Americans interested in the impact of Islam on Prince Charles� country should read �Islam in Britain,� a report of the UK Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, available from http://www.isic-centre.org.
�Islam in Britain� paints a vivid picture of a rapidly growing British Muslim community determined to remodel British society along Islamic lines…
The report�s authors cite similar views from authoritative spokespeople, and conclude:
�Muslims find it difficult to assume minority status in a majority non-Muslim society. More than other minority communities, they constantly, sometimes subconsciously, strive to redress the balance and assume an expanding and dominant position in their host countries.�
The report goes on to document this process, showing first how Muslim organizations in Britain have attempted to enforce Muslim custom and sharia law upon unwilling membersof their own faith community, especially women � and then how they have gone on to attempt to enforce Muslim norms on all British people, Muslim or not…
The report describes how British authorities have quietly acquiesced when Muslim groups demanded the removal of symbols like the crown or the cross of St. George from police badges, have accommodated the public observance of Islam while dismantling Christian observances, have quietly accommodated polygamy and Islamic family law, and have granted honored positions in British life to anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-semitic Muslim leaders…’
So far Muslims in Canada seem much more willing to live and let live…but remember the move for Sharia civil law in Ontario.
Mark
Ottawa
Mark, I agree with you that there will be challenges in the years ahead. McGinty made the correct decision on Sharia Law even if he sent out the wrong signals by taking so long. But marginalizing sub-sets of the Canadian populace is a losing strategy (see Aboroginal Canadians, History of). This country needs immigrants to survive. The two most important discoveries of the twentieth century were penicillan and the pill. Penicillan was important because all kinds of people who might have died could be kept alive long enough to be cured. Old guys like you and me could be purged of infection and use even more medical services in the coming years.
The pill was even cooler. Fucking was now officially fun for everybody. The one teensy side effect was that it completely buggered up all the fertility rates in the Western World. As we “white guys and gals” screwed incessantly, it was usually for purely recreational purposes. Not for restocking the earth with the fruit of our loins.
The “baby Boom” was not a world wide thing. It was confined mainly to the U.S., Canada, Austrailia, and New Zealand. Apparently in Europe after two world wars, people were a tad reluctant to bring a whole passle of youngsters into the world and the fertility rate there began to drop in the fifties, ten years before the pill’s enterance. In Japan the birth rate dropped like a stone, something about atomic monsters.
The first boomer was 16 years old when the pill became available in 1961. It has shaped our generation.
Thus we now need immigrants. Ex-immigration, the population of Canada has been declining. Another promblem, places like Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, England etc. have built respectable economies since that second world war and no longer hunger to come to the “New World.” Bastards.
So, we’re gonna have to find a way to populate this country and live together in peace and harmony at the same time. Got any ideas?
It’s sad. I have relatives in Aarhus — it’s a beautiful university city, traditionally European and peaceful, but now it’s another place paying the price for the idiocy of the left, who believe that importing large numbers of human dogs who disrespect women, democracy, and freedom of speech and religion, will somehow put us on a path to greater freedom and democracy.
And now, those of us who are products of European civilization apparently have a collective moral obligation to mutate and erase the customs and beliefs (piggy-banks, Christmas, etc.) of our own culture, in order to placate those who despise us.
The west needs to get over its collective fist-in-the-air multi-culti pimping, and to start undertaking swift and certain deportations wherever appropriate. If we don’t collectively grow a pair, as it were, we are going to be hooped within a few generations, and our vaunted freedom of worship, and even our physical safety will no longer be assured.
Those who respect their host country should be welcomed with open arms; those who despise their host country, and who want to bring about it’s destruction should be given a quiet, quick and austere send-off at the nearest airport. It’s really hard to understand why such ideas are so offensive to the chattering left.
A side note, is it just me, or has the Arab “street” acted in fomenting “jihad” on the continent just as it was spelled out in Zawahiri’s letter. (I’ll try to find it at the US Homeland Security and add to this thread later)
This letter, attributed to Zawahiri ( I may be butchering the spelling, but I. Don’t. Care.), has some speculating that it was not really a letter from him but a clever Iranian misdirection plant. I don’t know myself. It just seems a leetle too co-inkydinky, with new enrichment, swapping ambassadors globally, and now Syria in the dock for killing one of its former puppets. Iran’s mullahs may be feeling a little squeezed with the decadent west on their western border and the Security Council pinning Syria’s pawn. Their explosives in Iraq are not causing the US to run, so what’s a mullah to do?
How about sparking a little unrest in more multiculturist states so as to have them put the pressure on the US to get out of the region. Strategically, this smells more realistic than any “class struggle” arguments some may posit.
I’m just thinking out loud, but Al Qaeda and Iran seem to have become very focused on the exact same thing at a very interesting time.
Opinions anyone? or am I just blowing smoke (speaking of that, I’m going outside for one and load up the truck for drywall fun tomorrow.) I’ll have to check this thread later.
Here’s to “peace in our time” in Europe.
Don: Rational and intelligeant people breed according to what they are prepared to support.
Irrational and stupid people don’t mind letting somebody else pay for their habits. In a world where jobs are being exported offshore, ( or eliminated altogether), to say that we need more uneducated and unskilled people goes beyond stupidity. (Even if it does create more jobs for ‘social services’ government flunkies.)
You’re an ass dave and obviously uneducated and unskilled. I agree, we don’t need people like you. Waste of oxygen, waste of space. Please re-read and try again.
Mark:
My appolgies for not having the latest map to refer to. My National and Canadian Geo must be lost in the mail. The publishing is probably contracted out.
BTW: Is Ottawa still a city or a capital region or has that changed too? Last time I was there the Roughriders were playing.
This ain’t cute multiculti festivals, Canada. This is TSHTF and Sarajevo in our own streets. What will it take for Joe 2-4 to grow a spine?
Eh, don…
What do you call the people running the “Democratic” “People’s”
“Republic” of Korea???
Koreanimals.
French prime minister nixes Canadian trip to deal with riots at home
Canadian Press
Wednesday, November 02, 2005>>>>
Zut, alors. AdScam Martin/PP/ Bruno snubbed by de Villepin. L’amour, toujours, l’amour.
So. Zis ess what zee fuss/adodo iss aboot? de Villepin snubs for that? Maudit. Sever relations with France/send G-G on a fact-finding mission to Haiti/woman zee live-boats, Capatin SEEHESSSHELL Martine/ recall Morrice Strong/ call Bush/ send Bruno an SOS— he’s at the Deluxe Bar, Rooms 45-98/ red alert Willy Graham @ 1-8889900Librano$$$$$— get that AdScam loot out of Paris, vite. $$$$$$$
wednesday, november 02, 2005
Seventh Night of Paris Riots
North African Muslim gangs rampaged through Paris suburbs for the seventh straight night, torching dozens of cars.
PARIS (Reuters) – Violence broke out in Paris suburbs for the seventh night running overnight on Thursday after French youths set fire to dozens of cars.
The continuing unrest compounds pressure on Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin�s government, which has promised to restore order but is battling to paper over differences between ministers over the best way to tackle the unrest.
Youths went on the rampage in a total of nine areas in poor suburbs ringing the French capital to the north and the east, setting alight about 40 cars, two buses, and dustbins, a local authority official said. >>>>
Via LGF
Texas Canuck: How times change. Ottawa is still the capital, but several years ago the provincial government amalgamated Ottawa itself, the separate major suburban cities, many small towns in the area, and much farmland, into a monstrosity that is 50 miles wide east to west, and 30 north to south. And that was done by a Conservative government. Go figure. It is a disaster.
The current CFL team is called the Renegades. They too are a disaster; something to do with Detroit ownership.
Daily Telegraph leader Nov. 3,
“Dirty work in Paris”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/11/03/dl0302.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/11/03/ixoplead.html
‘Nicolas Sarkozy, a man in a hurry to reach the Elys�e, has come up against a deeply engrained, long-term problem which is defying his formidable energies. Reacting to the riots which over the past week have scarred several of the poor suburbs with heavy concentrations of immigrants around Paris, the French interior minister has rightly called for zero tolerance of violence.
But he has damaged his case by resorting to the language of the far Right, speaking of cleaning the “scum” out of the suburbs “au K�rcher”. That is the name of a German maker of pressure washers which have been used in recent years to spruce up the Brandenburg Gate, the colonnade of St Peter’s Square and the presidential faces on Mount Rushmore…
In suburbs such as Clichy-sous-Bois, where the rioting began, they are facing the consequences of decades of flawed integration policies and an economy that has failed to produce enough jobs. The riots have cruelly laid bare the inadequacies of the French model…’
Mark
Ottawa
Don: Been a qualified tradesflunky for over thirty years- but you are correct about the “lack of education” though. (The last highschool teacher I had-in Newfoundland- got busted ten years later at Mount Cashel in St. Johns.)
It has been said: “God must love the stupid- he makes so many of them.)
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Caillera & Cie.
posted by U*2 @ 1:28 PM
Some images of the ongoing Paris suburban riots. Chiraq seeks calm.
Et �a gueule!… (8) | Trackback (0)
http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2005/11/caillera-cie.html
This country needs immigrants to survive.
No, the welfare state needs more taxpayers to survive.
It’s easy to tell when a _country_ needs more immigrants to survive – that’s when the employment rate for healthy adults is close to 100%, and employers have more job openings than they do applicants.
Don, I don’t where you get your information about the Canadian population declining without immigration.
Births still exceed deaths by a good number, nearly 100,000 per year and are expected to do so well into the future.
328,802�babies were born in 2002 and about 225,000 people died.
But I heard all kinds of radio commentators, polticians and the general public say what you are saying.
Terrible to base social policy on errors.
By the way, Fake Don The Anoymous Troll isn’t so anonymous. Over at Rube’s Joint The Good Don’s doppelganger admitted that he is a Liberal campaign worker, hence the comment spam.
Have the rioters issued any demands? When can we expect the French to dismantle their illegal settlements and pull out of … France?
There’s something so Pythonesque about all this.
‘And our final question-for that beautiful lounge suite- is for You, Karl. Are you ready? Who won the Cup Final in 1967?
Karl: “The workers control the means of production! The struggle of the urban proletariat!”
MC: No- it was the Wolverhampton Wanderers, who beat Leister, 3-1.”
Karl: “Shit!”
A Reuters report on the rioting leads off, interestingly with the promise of French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to determine how a police tear gas cannister inadvertantly rebounded against a MOSQUE.
[note to Sarkozy: Could it possibly be that since Police fired a tear gas grenade in the direction of a crowd of Muslims busy trying to dismantle FRANCE, and because it was a Muslim neighborhood, a Mosque was more or less inevitably involved in the fracas?]
First of all, a linguistic observation: The “center” (as we call it here) in Rosenh�j is hardly a “mall” by any definition, but a longish, low building containing a small off. license, a pizza bar, a vegetable/fruit shop, a baker and a bingo hall. Nearby is a bar and a gas station.
Secondly, the riots here (I speak as a resident of the very area you mention and I know well which youths are behind this) are hardly a question of “Muslims wanting to be in charge”.
The perpetrators were actually a mix of youths from various backgrounds, most from immigrant (mainly Muslim) families, but also many Danes. None would, I guess, be considered “good Muslims” by any standards whatsoever. This is really a story more about exclusion, unemployment and poverty than anything else.
And no, it wasn’t motivated by cartoons either; even though some of the young ones may have mentioned the infamous cartoons as a lame excuse for arson, violence and wanton desctruction, it is more about general disenchantment.
No one said the rioters were “good” Muslims, Carsten, and quite frankly, religion isn’t the issue here. In that specific regard, I find your post to be almost overwhelmingly politically incorrect.
Your assessment of the character flaw of the Danes is right on the money, though. In effect, the arsons and the cobblestone missives were only the inevitable results of that vaunted Danish social policy of enforced poverty and exclusion.
A Ministry for the Enfranchisement of Disenchantment might work if it has teeth, but until that happens all Danes — not only in Denmark but also abroad — will be complicit in these riots, and no apology could suffice as an inducement for cessation.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Denmark’s general lack of wherewithal makes it a legitimate target, henceforth, and makes the Danish people complicit in their own much-deserved doom.
It’s a relief to hear that comics weren’t involved, rumours be damned.
EBD: Unlike Canada, Denmark has certainly made arranged marriages–and indeed legal residency in Denmark resulting from even a “true” marriage to a Dane–much more difficult.
See from Danish Immigration Service:
http://www.udlst.dk/english/Family+Reunification/Spouses/Default.htm
E.g.: “Attachment requirement
If the person residing in Denmark has had Danish citizenship for more than 28 years he or she does not need to satisfy the attachment requirement.
This also applies to persons who have been legally residing in Denmark for more than 28 years, and who are born and raised in Denmark or have been
living in the country since childhood.
In other cases is it a precondition for family reunification that the spouses’/ partners’ or cohabiting companions’ overall attachment to
Denmark is greater than their overall attachment to another country.
When the Danish Immigration Service assesses whether the attachment requirement is fulfilled, attention to the following circumstances are
considered, among other things:
* How long both the individual already resident in Denmark and the applicant have lived in Denmark.
* Whether one or both have ties to other individuals in Denmark: for example, family members.
* Whether one or both have custody of or visiting rights to minors in Denmark.
* Whether one or both have completed an education, or have a permanent connection to the labour market in Denmark.
* The Danish language proficiency of both parties.
* The extent of both parties’ ties to another country, including whether they both, or either of them have made extended visits to that country.
* Whether the applicant has children or other family members in another country.”
Mark
Ottawa
I’ve always been more than transparent about my political affliations and involvement Anonalogue. Perhaps that’s the differce between me and you. While you whine and simper and crap and make excuses why your sorry ass is going to lose the next election, I go out into the streets and engage voters.
Does Mohammed & Allah have selective breasts, er memories? Will Islamists terrorists pull down this wall of silicon built by the Dutch??????
Holland is dead. >>
Designer creates wall of breasts
Posted by jasoncann
On 11/03/2005 5:49:31 AM PST � 36 replies � 793+ views
Ananova ^ | 11/03/05
A Dutch designer has created a wall of fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives or girlfriends. Wendy Rameckers works at the Piet Zwart Institute for Retail and Design in Rotterdam, reports Het Nieuwsblad. “Most men have a selective memory,” she explained. “They know all about their car, but never seem to know their wife’s bra size. “When trying to buy a sexy bra for their wife or girlfriend, usually they point to other women in the shop or, when asked about size, they say a ‘handful’.” The wall consists of rows of silicon breasts… >>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514796/post
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514796/posts
It wasn’t Chirac who was scheduled to visit Canada, but rather Dominique DeVillepin.
Well! If it takes muslim riots to keep ’em out of the country, then so be it! He was slated to visit Ottawa( window dressing), Montr�al and then Qu�bec City; in other words our dear Dominique was on a mission to fan the flames of Seperatism……
Wretchard cites SDA. >>>>>>>
Update
One thing that has gotten French authorities jumpy is a report that Islamists have smuggled two MANPAD surface to air missiles into Europe. However, another French newspaper says there is nothing to worry about, as one if its sources assure them that the missiles were intended for ‘non-European’ targets (“Ces missiles �taient destin�s � des cibles extraeurop�ennes et n’ont jamais p�n�tr� en Europe”). Readers will have noted that some of the areas convulsed by rioting in Paris are near the Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget airports.
Also Kate at Little Dead Animals asks her readers not to forget Muslim riots Denmark, which are on a much smaller scale and at lower levels of violence, but which have run into their fourth day.
Additional via Glenn Reynolds, the Brussels Journal says that events in France are repeated on a smaller but daily scale all over Europe. It quotes Theodore Dalrymple’s prescient City Journal article’s vision of the future: “The sweet dream of universal cultural compatibility has been replaced by the nightmare of permanent conflict.” >>>> more
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
“Canada will be on it’s knees begging for support from the Albertan National Army to step in and restore order.”
I’m sure they’ll be able to spare a Sikh regiment.
A taste/smell/aroma of what is coming to GTA/Toronto/Montreal/Ottawa & etc. unless… what?
Annie “She has your guns”? Keep your powder dry.
Murderous Islamists are plotting your death.
Meanwhile, in Canada, Red Jack Layton, has sold his soul and that of his Party to the Librano$$$$.
Keep your powder dry. >>>>
Residents Can Only Watch as Riots Send Their Neighborhoods Up in Flames
Posted by ncountylee
On 11/03/2005 7:54:49 AM PST � 4 replies � 60+ views
AP via TBO ^ | Nov 3, 2005 | Jamey Keaten
LE BLANC MESNIL, France (AP) – Farah, an 8-year-old budding gymnast, cried when she saw the gutted wreckage of her gym crackling with flames and spewing smoke, destroyed in the latest nighttime rampage by immigrant youths in suburban Paris. She, her father and hundreds of other residents poured into the streets by the Les Tilleuls housing complex in the Seine-Saint-Denis region Wednesday night as firefighters and police struggled to keep order during a seventh night of riots northeast of the capital. “It is saddening,” said Farah’s father, Mohammed Fawzi Kaci, 47, proudly showing a picture on his mobile phone of his daughter waering tights and performing a split. “Where is she going to practice now?” >>>>
In other words: That which socialism in France has given us, Allah and Mohammed taketh away. >>>>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514896/posts
November 03, 2005: An American in Paris
Paul Cruce, an American now attending school in Paris to become a baker (great idea!), has written me some fascinating email about his surprising experiences over there in the midst of all the conflagrations:
What I have found to be far more common is a real warmth for the U.S. and I have found it in surprising and unexpected ways. Examples:
* October a year ago I was here for a week. I had been invited to a Hallowe’en dinner party prepared by a couple I know, both of whom are chefs. During the dinner, I was asked by another guest if I supported Bush or Kerry. With a smile, I quickly and firmly replied “President Bush.” To my surprise, the entire table – about 30 people altogether – burst out in applause. One woman said, “The U.S. did the right thing in Iraq. Chirac is on Saddam’s payroll. That’s the only reason our government has opposed yours there,” and all the other heads at the table nodded in agreement. This group included some people whom I know usually vote for the Socialist Party rather than Chirac’s UMP.
* This past May while in Paris preparing for my move here, a woman whom I did not know approached me and asked if I am an American. (It both amazes and frustrates me that they know I am an American before I even open my mouth! I WANT to blend in. Another anecdote about this below.)
When I replied in the affirmative, she said: “I apologize for our government. We don’t hate Americans! We love you! God bless President Bush!”
* Last week before the rioting began, I found myself in a conversation with a Frenchman in the Starbucks between Forum des Halles and (the architecturally hideous) Centre Georges Pompidou. He said, “Don’t believe what the TV and the newspapers say about the French hating Americans. The TV and the newspapers hate Americans and our government is not your friend, but WE are your friends. You did the right thing in Iraq.”
Three examples do not necessarily tell the whole story, but the fact that all three of these things happened spontaneously and most unexpectedly, when combined with my total experience in France, tell me that the notorious French anti-Americanism is centered in the incestuous mindset of the bureaucrats who all came out of the same school and in the media, who here, just as in the U.S., have a symbiotic relationship with the political left.
He also writes this about the current situation:
The government has quietly put a lot of AK-47-toting soldiers on patrol in Paris, especially around key public transportation points and at the monuments and high-traffic areas such as Forum des Halles. I think there are three reasons for this – 1) to reassure the public – and the tourists, 2) to take some pressure off the Police Nationale, who have been deployed in greater numbers to the north-eastern suburbs and 3) to send a message to would be trouble-makers.
The French have the reputation of being wimps, but in my experience, when they crack down, they crack down HARD. For one example, ChIRAQ’s crony in the OFF scandal, Merimee, was quickly imprisoned in la Conciergerie which has the reputation of being one of the toughest prisons in France, despite its scenic location by la Seine and adjacent to the gothic stained glass splendor of la Sainte-Chapelle. >>>>>>
http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2005/11/an_american_in.php
via instapundit
Porter:
Have you read “The Secret History of the Iraq War” by Yossef Bodansky – an excellent tome.
He details the LONG-STANDING collusion between Al-Qaeda and the Iranians.
EPW
The critical battle is against the enablers of terrorism, those bigoted inbreds called Liberals and socialists – assholes like Don. They exist everywhere, in France, America and especially Canada. Their favourite habitat is the newsrooms of the world where they can spin their lies, twist the news and speak as though they are the voice of the host nation. Islamic terrorism is a by-product of the evil Liberal children – multi-culturalism and political correctness mating with Wahabiism.
The critical battle is against the enablers of terrorism, those bigoted inbreds called Liberals and socialists – people like Don. They exist everywhere, in France, America and especially Canada. Their favourite habitat is the newsrooms of the world where they can spin their lies, twist the news and speak as though they are the voice of the host nation. Islamic terrorism is a by-product of the evil Liberal children – multi-culturalism and political correctness mating with Wahabiism.
Gee Ed….you forgot the number of people who exit the country every year. Thankfully we have a net migration rate. You play solitare wit 49 or so cards often , Ed? Hard for you to be cogent, I know.
EPW-
No, I’ll have to work it into the budget (time, that is to say).
Thank you for the “heads up”.
And many thanks to Kate as hostess. This was a good one!
Porter
“Duke,you slay me. But I think you’re an ass.”
Good to know you can actually think Don, but I am not surprised that you think about asses.
“There are elements of Islam who follow a rather warped version of the religion. These are the terrorists.”
They are all warped Don, their religion is warped even in it’s most modest form. I’ll bet a big lefty like you thinks some elements of Christianity is warped too. I think it’s warped even it’s most modest form. Why? it’s belief in magic, like believing in ghosts, astrology .. stuff like that. My curse is that I live reality.
“They are not worth my hatred, my contempt for them is enough. THEY also look perfectly fine when they are dead.”
Not quite sure what you are saying here Don, but I just checked a couple of thesaurus’ and dictionaries and they say that contempt and hatred are pretty much the same thing. Perhaps you are confused. I know that Bill Clinton (likely one of your heroes) liked to reshape language to pull off his bullshit too.
I mean .. your “contempt” is enough for them? What exactly is your sufficient amount of contempt doing to solve the problem of islamic terrorism? If your contempt is truly enough to deal with the terrorists, your actual hatred must be positively nuclear!! And by the way, no one looks perfectly fine when they are dead. .. they look dead! is it sexual with you?
“Most Islamists though would like to raise their children in peace and have a few bucks left over at the end of the month.”
Most islamists don’t earn a living they live on welfare, they don’t get educations unless they are of the elite and they need to go the US or Britain for that. But then those particular folks are into corrupt rule of the low life that they govern. They don’t actually have their own schools Don, they don’t have much in the way of hospitals either, in fact they are so primitive that they think we are bad. They do have Mullahs indoctrinating the children to hate us though. Is that what you mean?
” Belittling and degrading them is stupid. These people, if some of you jackasses on the far right ever yank your heads out of your asses, could be allies. Condoning wholesale slaughter of a people or a race “like livestock” does little to warm the moderates of their religion.”
There you go thinking about ass again Don. Is it sexual with you? While some of us belittle them, instead of kissing their terrorist asses some of them are slicing off innocent heads and holding them up for the camera, or blowing up women and children on buses and so on.
It is they who are conducting wholesale slaughter.
They do not wish to be our allies … we are infidel … unclean our women are all whores and you Don, are a useful idiot to them.
“There are Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan right now. Their job is to kill terrorists. I understand, from my uncle in the military, that they are rather good at their job. They also understand that they are not their to napalm kids, goats, etc.
They would deem a person like you an asshole who does nothing but make their job harder. “
Firstly I note your used the ass word again in that paragraph. I tell ya Don … you gotta see someone about that.
I am not sure you can tell a kid from a goat in Afghanistan. Don, nothing I have said here is will have any influence on the soldiers in Afghanistan they are busy shooing scum and I thank them.
However, it was the former Governor General Adrian Clarkson who made their jobs harder by telling them as they were about to go there .. Quote “you must not hate, we must not hate”. So what kind of message is that? … go and shoot people you like?
Don you have no idea what’s really happening on this planet. It must be nice to know that life still holds so many surprises for you.
Fun sparring Don, I truly hope you can deal with your ass fetish.
I wonder if they’re rioting outside Pettigrew’s Paris love-shack(the city of love & lights indeed…romance by the burning vehicles).
If he’s there, I hope his security expert is with him!