Contrary to the impression you may have received by reading your newspaper the violence has not stopped in France. It’s just levelled off:
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 heaviest toll on the French provinces, police said Saturday.
Security was boosted in the capital with some 3,000 police officers fanning out around strategic points to counter feared weekend attacks targeting Paris. Gatherings were banned from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.
“We returned to an almost normal situation in Ile de France,” said national police chief Michel Gaudin, referring to the Paris region. Arson attacks were counted in 163 towns around France, he said. The count of those detained overnight stood at 206, bringing to 2,440 the number of suspects picked up in just over two weeks of unrest.
Two Molotov cocktails were tossed at a mosque Friday evening in the southern town of Carpentras, but it was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to the unrest that has wracked the poor suburbs and small towns of France since Oct. 27. President Jacques Chirac demanded that investigators quickly find out who was behind the attack.
Presumably, the attack on the mosque was the work of radical Islamists.
Le Figaro notes that the Parisian prefecture of police has issued a report on the recent violence. I haven’t been able to locate a copy of the report online as yet. The report apparently cites “structural reasons” as a cause of the violence and points to the use of the Internet, cellphones, and text messaging by the rioters.
No, it hasn’t stopped. In fact, it has barely begun. These minor burps of incivility are simply minor indications of the underlying and rapidly growing problem. Although these second and third generation hooligans were born inside France, they are not French and never will be. France cannot digest such a large meal of alienness, particularly an alienness that can never be cooked or seasoned to French taste. These rapidly procreating families from outside France are from cultures and countries that have not adapted well to modernism. They have little or nothing to contribute to the modern, western world. Dave, you boast about your IQ. Do you know how high the average IQ of these hooligans is? Can you guess?
That’s a fine expression of old school bigotry and racism as I have ever read.
Funny, the same thing was said about the undigestable, smelly Slavic and Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s.
Alien.
Low IQ
Not French and never will be.
Made it easy to ship them off to the Nazi death camps when the time came, these Alien Un French creatures.
Nice to see people never unlearn bigotry.
Do I? I can’t find any mention of it on my blog. I don’t have any specific recollection of mentioning it to anyone at all other than in one private email and once to my wife. Was that email to you? I’ve forgotten. That was no boast just fact. I just don’t like to be talked down to.
Two mentions in a lifetime doesn’t sound like boasting to me.
And yet, can you guess what the average IQ of the french maghrebis might be? There is no reason to suspect that French born maghrebis are any more intelligent than natives in the maghreb. Islam is not a race, granted, and should never be referred to in terms of race or racism. Islam does tend to dominate in third world areas where the indigenous people are not the brightest bulbs in the global box. Aside from oil, arabs have virtually no economic production. How many books are published in or translated into arabic every year? That is a running joke. \
The intellectual output of the arab world hovers near the undetectable. If that is a racist statement, even though based on fact, the racism comes from the intellectual depravity of arabs.