Sarkozy’s immigration policies here are on a continuum with his “one law for all Frenchmen” policy that so enflamed the rioters. This could be France’s last hope — but much, much more needs to be done. “France: Interior Minister Aims for 25,000 Expulsions in 2006,” from AKI, with thanks to JE: Paris, 30 Nov. (AKI) […]
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France: Extremism on the rise while intertwining with foreign terror groups
While government officials bicker amongst themselves on how to appease blatant rioters, an insidious infiltration is quietly occurring right under the authorities’ noses. From the Los Angeles Times: PARIS “” Employees set up clandestine prayer areas on the grounds of the Euro Disney resort. Workers for a cargo firm at Charles de Gaulle airport praise […]
Muslim apartheid burns bright in France
In an article last week I argued that “France has not neglected its sizable Muslim minority,” and then detailed some official efforts to accommodate and pacify that minority. That is true, but it does not of course mean that racism does not exist in France, or that the French citizenry has in general been welcoming […]
Car Torchings Rise Slightly in France as Police Fan Out in Paris to Face Feared Attacks
Police fan out in Paris! Today is November 12. The rioting began on October 27. Police are just fanning out now? French Surrender Alert from AP, : PARIS (AP) – The number of cars torched overnight in France climbed slightly over the previous night to 502 in a 16th night of unrest that took its […]
Fitzgerald: Douce France
We first posted this piece by Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald on dhimmitude in France at Dhimmi Watch in 2004. Over the last two weeks I have had many, many requests to repost it. Normally I don’t like to do such things, for if I start reprinting archived material there could be no […]
State of Emergency Begins in France
…with rioters defying it. But look on the bright side: only 617 cars were torched last night. French Impotence Alert from AP, : PARIS “” Rioters defied a state of emergency that took effect Wednesday, as they looted and burned two superstores, set fire to a newspaper office and paralyzed France’s second-largest city’s subway system […]
Iranian journalists call for probe into unrest in France
Chutzpah alert: I suppose they have completed investigations into their own country’s abuse of non-Muslims and denial of the freedom of conscience, stonings for adultery, flogging of women for violating the dress code, gouging-out of eyes and hanging of teenagers, so they have a bit of time on their hands. From Mehr News Agency, with […]
Pipes: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Under that magnificent Burkean title, recalling an age of Frenchmen both more venal and more noble, Daniel Pipes provides a great deal of important information on the jihad in France in FrontPage (many good links in the original): The rioting by Muslim youth that began Oct. 27 in France to calls of “Allahu Akbar” may […]
Fitzgerald: The legacy of Algérie française: France algérienne
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald considers the question of whether the rioting in France presents a problem that can really be solved by ameliorating the lot of Muslims there, by considering the case of Algeria: From 1830 to 1962 the French ruled in Algeria. They had arrived to finally put paid to the […]
Rioters Set Fire to Bus in Southern France
“Youths” now at it in Southern France. “Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind.” From AP: PARIS (AP) – Rioters in the southern city of Toulouse set fire to an empty bus Monday evening, then pelted police with firebombs and rocks, an official said. A 61-year-old man died of wounds sustained in the spreading violence, the […]