Re: Paris Burning: How Empires End - Pat Buchanan

On 7 Nov 2005 15:34:08 -0800, mortayee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>nah_ wrote:
>> http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10116
>>
>> Paris Burning: How Empires End
>> by Patrick J. Buchanan
>> Posted Nov 7, 2005
>>
>> The Romans conquered the barbarians-and the barbarians conquered Rome.
>>
>> So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the
>> history of the empires of the West.
>>
>> This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in
>> Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid,
>> the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these
>> crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who
>> were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.
>>
>> At this writing, the riots are entering their 12th night and have
>> spread to Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux,
>> Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice. Thousands of cars and buses have been
>> torched and several nursery schools fire-bombed. One fleeing and
>> terrified woman was doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
>>
>> The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While almost
>> all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For
>> never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And
>> some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but
>> are not French.
>>
>> The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they
>> mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and
>> were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots.
>>
>> Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy, a candidate to succeed President
>> Chirac, is said to have infuriated and inflamed the rioters. Before
>> the rampage began, he promised "war without mercy" on crime in the
>> teeming suburbs where unemployment runs at 20% and income is 40% below
>> the national average. He has denounced the rioters as "scum" and
>> "rabble."
>>
>> Like the urban riots in America in the 1960s, which the Kerner
>> Commission blamed on "white racism," Paris's riots are being blamed on
>> France's failure to bring Islamic immigrants into the social and
>> economic mainstream of the nation. Solutions being offered range from
>> voting rights for non-citizens to affirmative action in hiring for the
>> children of Third World immigrants.
>>
>> To understand why this is unlikely to solve France's crisis, consider
>> how America succeeded, and often failed, in solving her own racial
>> crisis.
>> While, as late as the 1950s, black Americans were not integrated fully
>> into our economy or society, they had been assimilated into American
>> culture.
>>
>> They worshipped the same God, spoke the same language, had endured the
>> same Depression and war, listened to the same music and radio, watched
>> the same TV shows, laughed at the same comedians, went to the same
>> movies, ate the same foods, read the same books, magazines and
>> newspapers, and went to schools where, even when they were segregated,
>> they learned the same history.
>>
>> We were divided, but we were also one nation and one people. Black
>> folks were as American as apple pie, having lived in our common land
>> longer than almost every other ethnic group save Native Americans.
>> And America had a history of having assimilated immigrants in the tens
>> of millions from Europe.
>>
>> But no European nation has ever assimilated a large body of immigrant
>> peoples, let alone people of color. Moreover, the African and Islamic
>> peoples pouring into Europe-there are 20 million there now-are, unlike
>> black Americans, strangers in a new land, and millions wish to remain
>> proud Algerians, Muslims, Moroccans.
>>
>> These newcomers worship a different God and practice a faith
>> historically hostile to Christianity, a traditionalist faith that is
>> rising again and recoils violently from a secular culture saturated in
>> sex.
>>
>> Severed from the civilization and cultures of their parents, these
>> Arab and Muslim youth may hold French citizenship and carry French
>> passports, but they are no more French than Americans who live in
>> Paris are French. Searching for a community to which they can truly
>> belong, they gravitate to mosques where the imams, many themselves
>> immigrants, teach and preach that the West is not their true home, but
>> a civilization alien to their values and historically hostile to their
>> nations and Islam.
>>
>> The soaring Muslim population is a Fifth Column inside Europe.
>>
>> Nevertheless, their numbers must grow. For not only do they have a
>> higher birth rate than the native-born Europeans, no European nation,
>> save Moslem Albania, has a birth rate (2.1 births per woman) that will
>> enable it to endure for many more generations. The West is aging,
>> shrinking, and dying.
>>
>> Yet, to keep Europe's economy growing and taxes coming in to fund the
>> health and pension programs of Europe's rising numbers of retired and
>> elderly, Europe needs scores of millions of new workers. And Europe
>> can only find them in the Third World.
>>
>> Nor should Americans take comfort in France's distress. By 2050,
>> there will be 100 million Hispanics in the United States, half of them
>> of Mexican ancestry, heavily concentrated in a Southwest most Mexicans
>> still believe by right belongs to them.
>>
>> Colonization of the mother countries by subject peoples is the last
>> chapter in the history of empires-and the next chapter in the history
>> of the West-that is now coming to a close.
>>
>> Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of The
>> Death of the West, The Great Betrayal, and A Republic, Not an Empire.
>
>
>We live in interesting times!
>It is ironic and quite amusing to see a racist fascist scumbag
>complaining about Islamofascism.

Hardly. Patty boy warned of the impending doom of 5th columns years
ago and was not taken seriously. Now people are listening.


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