Hugh Fitzgerald:
The French Do Not Have An “Identity Crisis” — They Have, Rather, Millions Of Permanently Hostile Muslims In Their Midst
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As you can see from the photo, it was a march by invaders against resistance to their invasion.Here is how a writer for The Irish Times wishes to describe the growing, now unstoppable, recognition in France, as elsewhere in Europe, that — to quote a lapidary formula from a favorite writer — “the large-scale presence of Muslims in the countries of Western Europe has created a situation, both for the non-Muslim indigenes and for non-Muslim immigrants, that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than would be the case without that presence.” Is there anyone of sense in Europe who would not turn back the clock, if he could, knowing what he knows now, so as never to have allowed that Muslim immigration in the first place?
But look how the reporter ignores that, even as he mentions examples of French — and British — unease. Instead, he ludicrously tells us that the French are suffering an “identity crisis.” Oh no they’re not.
Here’s that mixture of truth and tendentious blague.
French officials discreetly applauded the British prime minister David Cameron’s proposals this week to restrict immigration from poor EU countries.
Camoron is barking up the wrong tree. Immigration from poor EU countries might be unpleasant.
Immigration is becoming the thorniest issue in French politics and will figure prominently in next year’s municipal and European elections. Socialists and the conservative UMP are toughening their policies, in the hope of blunting the appeal of the anti-immigrant, far-right National Front.
The UMP wants to abolish the right to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants born in France, and wants to end free medical care for illegals. Interior minister Manuel Valls has promised to re-examine the right to asylum.
Human history has always been marked by major population shifts, from earliest hominid times over the Horn of Africa to the present moment when what social scientists and historians define as a “
