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Letter From Paris

Slouching Toward Dhimmitude

By from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

What rough beast is being born in France?

FRANCE’S LATEST BOUT OF JIHAD JITTERS came in September when two small homemade bombs were thrown into a crowded Jewish grocery store in suburban Paris. The attack was largely symbolic—windows were broken, a few patrons injured—but it was yet another wake-up call to a country still in denial about the extent of the Islamist threat. Police tracked the bomb-thrower to Strasbourg, where he welcomed them to his apartment with fire from a .357 Magnum before being shot. Raids in Paris, Nice, and Cannes netted 11 others ready to kill for love of Allah, one of them arrested as he returned home from his local mosque carrying a loaded rifle. Along with a list of targets and jihadist literature preaching war against France, the police found a small arsenal for that purpose: an assault rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun with 800 cartridges, and materials for making time bombs. An investigator said it all amounted to “an operational unit that was much more dangerous than we had thought.”

The authorities’ surprise at the extent of Islamist determination to take down France is itself surprising. Only a few months before, Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, had shot three French soldiers in the south of France, then slaughtered a teacher, the man’s two young sons, and an 8-year-old girl at a Jewish school in Toulouse before gendarmes satisfied his desire for a martyr’s death. Despite his declared goal of “bringing France to its knees,” his proclaimed affiliation with al Qaeda, and his training trips to Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, the government preferred to describe him as a lone fanatic. “For heaven’s sake,” it said in effect, “don’t blame terrorism on France’s peace-loving Muslim community.” The dozen jihadists arrested in the raids knew better: They praised Mohamed Merah as their role model.

Like him, they typify the new French jihadist, who no longer arrives on strike missions from the Middle East but is home grown. (And there are plenty of potential recruits. If America’s Muslim population were proportionate to France’s, it would number nearly 40 million.) Most come from the festering public housing projects surrounding all major cities, the banlieues that have been turned into zones de non-droit, lawless neighborhoods where police dare not venture for fear of provoking violent, stone-throwing, car-burning riots. Far from the glittering Champs Élysées and trendy Saint-Germain-des-Près, these areas are seen by neither tourists nor the French bourgeoisie. The conservative British writer Theodore Dalrymple aptly calls them “threatening cities of darkness” surrounding the City of Light. They come, too, from France’s overloaded prisons. Impressionable young convicts, disproportionately Muslim, are easily radicalized by self-appointed imams.

But if bomb-throwing jihadists are the cutting edge of militant Islam’s campaign to conquer France, cowing the population and instilling a climate of fear, a more insidious danger is the temptation to self-censorship and appeasement. Running scared, French authorities are trying to avoid anything that might possibly offend Muslims.

The recent flap over caricatures of Muhammad published in a French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, revealed the government’s pusillanimity in all its glory. The cartoons, showing The Prophet in, shall we say, compromising positions in the buff, were the paper’s way of mocking the overwrought Muslim reaction to the amateurish online video “Innocence of Muslims.” The authorities had pleaded with the paper’s editors not to publish the cartoons for fear of offending the Arab population; when they went ahead in the name of press freedom, the government cravenly rebuked them for lacking “good judgment.” In his rejoinder, the paper’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, neatly summed up the poisonous double standard in today’s France: “It’s officially okay for us to attack conservative Catholics, but we can’t poke fun at Islamist fundamentalists,” he said. “It shows the climate here. Everyone is driven by fear, which is exactly what this handful of extremists wants.” Significantly, only 51 percent of French citizens supported the paper’s position.

THIS IS DHIMMITUDE. Coined by the writer Bat Ye’or from the Arabic noun dhimmi, meaning a non-Muslim citizen of an Islamic state, dhimmitude describes the submissive condition of second-class citizens subject to special taxes and other humiliations. What they say and do must be approved by Islamic authorities. In her prescient book Eurabia, Ye’or predicted that some European nations would adopt “a strict political correctness that brooks no criticism of Arab governments or Muslim immigrants, and that, in deference to Arab prejudices, promotes anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel attitudes.” That’s a pretty fair description of France today.

In the case of Charlie Hebdo, Sunni Islam’s highest authority, Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar and president of al-Azhar University in Cairo, quickly slapped down the French upstart. Said el-Tayeb (who just happens to hold a PhD in Islamic philosophy from none other than the Sorbonne) in a communiqué, “Al-Azhar expresses its and all Muslims’ utmost rejection of a French publication’s printing caricatures offensive to Islam and its Prophet, the prophet of humanity.” A cyber attack from Pakistan soon blocked the paper’s website “because of its blasphemous contents.” In some communities, men appeared at newspaper stands early on the morning of the issue’s publication and bought up all copies—a form of de facto censorship.

Optimists point out that France should get some credit for banning the Muslim head scarf in schools and other public institutions. But it would have been a more convincing act of independence from Islamic pressure had authorities not enacted a corresponding ban on wearing yarmulkes and large crosses, too, in an attempt to protect themselves from Arab reaction. It didn’t work. As Christopher Caldwell reports in his important Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, the Sunni mufti of Egypt threatened that the anti-veil law would “destroy the social peace of French society.” The Muslim Brotherhood bored in, calling it “interference in the realm of Muslims’ personal and religious liberty.” In a telling display of advanced dhimmitude, Nicolas Sarkozy, then minister of the interior, humbly made a hajj to Egypt’s al-Azhar. To the vast relief of France’s dhimmis, he returned with the good news that the grand imam had authorized France to ban the veil. The government could go ahead with its project, and excuse us for troubling you, sir.

The country’s growing dhimmi status skews its foreign relations. As protests and demonstrations swept the Arab world during the “Innocence” kerfuffle, it was quick to cower. Even though France had nothing to do with the video produced by a nutcase in California, the government found discretion decidedly the better part of valor. Without receiving any known threats, it preemptively closed its embassies, consulates, cultural centers, and schools in 20 countries of the Muslim persuasion. So internalized is the country’s dhimmi attitude, it seemed perfectly normal to close up shop and hunker down to avoid the painful consequences of Arab displeasure.

A month later, President François Hollande made unbidden conciliatory gestures to Algeria over an incident that occurred half a century ago and is now remembered only by Arab fanatics. Referring to the police actions during an October 1961 Paris riot by thousands of Algerians demanding independence from France, Hollande officially recognized the “bloody repression” and paid homage to the “victims.” Whether he was responding to pressure from the Mali-based group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which has designated France as its main enemy, can only be surmised. As a French diplomat put it recently, “Its threats have become pressing, immediate, and multifarious, a real problem of national security.”

When incipient dhimmitude clashes with traditional French culture, guess which wins. Intellectuals and teachers already live in fear of saying or writing the wrong thing. When a philosophy teacher wrote a newspaper op-ed piece criticizing Muhammad as a “master of hatred,” he received death threats and had to go into hiding under police protection. Guy Millière, a professor of cultural history at the Sorbonne, writes in despair, “France will become a Muslim country. French leaders know it. They will never take a decision that could make young Muslims angry….They have accepted too many things to go back now.”

IN HIS REVEALING 2006 BOOK, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, Bruce Bawer cites a study by a French ministry of education inspector that was leaked but never officially released. It’s easy to understand why it was kept secret. After investigating 61 schools, he reported that Muslim pupils increasingly refuse to sing, dance, participate in sports, draw a human face, or play a musical instrument. They shun school cafeteria food that isn’t halal, refuse to draw a right angle in math class because it looks like part of a Christian cross, won’t swim in pools to avoid polluted “infidels’ water.” They reject Voltaire and Rousseau (anti-religion), Cyrano de Bergerac (too sexy), Madame Bovary (promotes women’s rights). Other studies note that dhimmified French lycées are often dropping whole areas of their curricula, e.g., in history and geography, for fear of angry reactions by Muslim students or their parents.

Philosopher Alain Finkielkraut says Islamists’ hostility toward schools and other state institutions is due not to the frustration of feeling deprived, but to hatred for symbols of France itself. Out of political correctness—or dhimmitude—“We translate their cries of hatred into cries for help, and their vandalism of schools into demands for education,” he writes. Schoolyard hatred surfaces when Muslim pupils talk about “the French” and “us,” and sneer at their French classmates as les Gaulois. Told by their teachers they are French, they respond, “that’s impossible, we’re Muslim.” Despite symptoms like this, the left-leaning Le Monde tries to put the best face on the situation. “France can make its singularity—the fact of its having, and accepting, the role of the first Muslim country of Europe—a peaceful weapon,” it editorializes, hoping the country can “surpass ideological and religious confrontation.” The only way there will be no confrontation is if it capitulates completely.

Meanwhile, the world’s most famous museum, the Louvre, is doing its dhimmi best to confirm France’s enviable position as Europe’s first Muslim nation. In September it opened its new $130 million wing devoted entirely to a lavish display of Islamic art. Virtually on bended knee, the curators have expressed the timid hope that it will offer a suitably respectful alternative to the grossly unflattering depictions of Muhammad in Western media that have met with such justified Muslim displeasure. Still, one of them acknowledged ruefully that some of Allah’s faithful could possibly be shocked by three discreet images of The Prophet’s exposed face that somehow got included among the 18,000 artifacts on display.

Scimitar-wielding Arabs of the Ummah, take note: The Louvre curators might have made a mistake, but they are good dhimmis at heart and really, really didn’t mean to offend you. So please don’t issue a fatwa and lapidate or behead them.

About the Author

Joseph A. Harriss is The American Spectator’s Paris correspondent. His latest book, An American Spectator in Paris, was released this fall.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (69) |

MelvinNC| 12.18.12 @ 6:32AM

When you give a a lion a morsel of meat, thinking his appetite will be sated, he wants the hand. When you give the lion a hand he wants the arm. When you give the lion a hand and and arm he wants the body. When you give the lion a body he wants your head.
A Progressive is a Progressive no matter what Country they are from. I don't know about the rest of you. I'm not going to allow the Progressive to feed me to the Lion, I'd rather feed the Progressive to the Lion, and hope the Lion dies from food poisoning..

Anthony| 12.18.12 @ 1:53PM

Funny!!! The lion will die of food poisoning, cuz leftists are indeed toxic.
I think all American leftist women should wear burkas, in solidarity with Islam.

MelvinNC| 12.18.12 @ 2:40PM

You are correct. I should have noted, "I hope the Lion doesn't die of food poisoning." Poor kitty, no creature should endure such torture, he'll probably get gas from the meal anyway.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 2:35PM

Unless this Unholy Infestation is Removed, the Muslim Cockroaches will overrun Europe, and Notre Dame will be adorned with Minarets, instead of Crosses, within 50 Years.

It's Inevitable.

Islam is a Cancer, and only by Cutting it out COMPLETELY, will the Patient survive.

Buck Ofama| 12.18.12 @ 3:41PM

This poison is straight from hell. Read the book of Revelation and ask yourself whether Islam, the ragheads, and their cocksucking false "prophet" all be destroyed.

Job| 12.19.12 @ 12:49PM

prayers of saints=incense in holy of holies
Rev 8:4)
false religion=smoke out of bottomless pit???
(Rev 9:2)
holy and unholy smoke??

Al Brooks, bleedingheartlib | 12.18.12 @ 4:31PM

But France is just cheese eating surrender monkeys to AS.

John786| 12.18.12 @ 7:05AM

Even by the low standards of the spectator, this article, has touched even lower levels of fascism. It conflates a variety of themes into a incoherent whole. The right continue to suprise: they are for endless freedoms, but then call for all kinds of religious restrictions, especially against Muslims. Either the right is hypocritical or racist or probably both.

MelvinNC| 12.18.12 @ 7:30AM

That is why Muslims have their lands and Christians have theirs.

Al Brooks, bleedingheartlib | 12.18.12 @ 4:33PM

"That is why Muslims have their lands and Christians have theirs."

And we fought a Civil War to keep you Southerners down south and not out west.
Don' you forgit it, BOY!

delahaya| 12.19.12 @ 9:54AM

Al, or should I say "Allah lover", you really are doing a nice job of being a troll. Seriously. You have taken juvenile, stupid comments to a whole different level.

Frog in Uniform | 12.18.12 @ 12:42PM

Jamal786, when I hear the words "fascism" and/or "racism"at work my reaction is immediate: I slap in the face and I say:"See the difference? If I were a fascist or a racist, you would be dead by now. Now show me some ID."
I hate hypocrites, I meet them at every corner, especially in your neighborhoods. I dream of a day when we are so fed up that we'll follow the examples of some Latin American units when they are off duty. Talking to you is useless anyway, you only respect brute strength and senseless violence. I can live with that.

Buck Ofama| 12.18.12 @ 3:43PM

John786, go back to jacking off to your collection of faded Ovomit posters.

John786| 12.18.12 @ 7:49AM

In a pluralistic world, this country for this religion, and that country.., no longer makes any sense. In this infinite universe we are a small dot of conscious life; we should learn to live together. And let our, religious, differences be left to the next life.

Frog in Uniform | 12.18.12 @ 12:06PM

Jamal 786, I know your kind. Buzz off, moolood.

CJW| 12.18.12 @ 12:14PM

That is the way it is in the USA, but not in any of the Muslim countries. What country do you reside in?

Al Adab| 12.18.12 @ 12:28PM

Respect does not imply compliance. Live and let live some call it. Christians can light trees publicly, Jews the menorah, Moslems may pray publicly again is the operative word. It is their right and none may censor or interfere.

Al Adab| 12.18.12 @ 12:36PM

Site is working again?

ladydi| 12.18.12 @ 12:45PM

Hey Johnny, go check your goat.... her veil just slipped off and showed her face. Get over yourself.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 2:39PM

He'll do it later.

Right now he's busy collecting Rocks, to throw at his Wife, when she gets home.

Frekki| 12.18.12 @ 1:13PM

Do you not understand that Islam wants you converted or dead. Defend yourself or die.

Seapuss| 12.18.12 @ 1:27PM

The real problem appears to be that Islam itself is not compatible with freedom and pluralism.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 2:41PM

It's a Pig Religion for Men who are afraid of their women.

soljerblue| 12.18.12 @ 5:56PM

Hear! Hear!

Buck Ofama| 12.18.12 @ 3:44PM

John786, tell your Pollyanna notion to the raghead c0cksuckers. Meanwhile, we sane individuals will lock and load.

KyMouse| 12.18.12 @ 4:16PM

"this country for this religion, and that country,...no longer makes any sense."

Tell them that in Saudi Arabia. And tell me how many churches and synagogues they have there.

markenoff| 12.18.12 @ 4:28PM

Tell that to the Fillipinos who work in Saudi Arabia and our not allowed to worship. Tell that to the Egyptian Copts or Iraqi Chaldeans whose presence in their respective countries predates the birth of Mo, the pedophile bandit. Tell that to the Jews of Yemen, famous for their silverwork. Oh wait, you can't tell that to the Jews of Yemen because they were all killed or expelled by the folowers of Mo, the pedophile bandit.

Taxguy| 12.18.12 @ 8:11AM

I wonder if the French have the right to possess weapons. If not, I wonder if they are re-thinking that position. They should be.

Frog in Uniform | 12.18.12 @ 12:31PM

In theory we are allowed to own weapons, concretely it's another matter, as is often the case in Frogland when you trip on government double speak. The situation is as bad as descripted by Monsieur Harriss. The only mistake is in the magnitude of the muslim population. As I wrote elsewhere, we have no public official statistics about the ethnic composition of our society, because it's illegal to disclose them. It doesn't mean they don't exist but you have to rely on foreign statistics to know the full extent of the problem. After having been brainwashed by our government and our media for years about the 3,000,000+ muslims living in Frogland, it is slowly dawning on us that they're more likely to be in between 12 and 14 millions. This was The Lie Of The Century, made possible only with the active complicity of the left, the radical Grand Orient de France freemasonry and le Club du Siecle. The goal was manifold, stop the population erosion, crush the Christian roots of Frogland, eradicate the Frog culture, line up some happy deep pockets with dirty money from oil rich muslim countries. This is the reason behind Muammar's outlandish official visit in 2007, not to mention the evil relationships with Syria, Algeria, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The muslim scum has invaded my country with the active help of the so called Right based on gaullism and the notorious left, the one that has betrayed my country since the 1989 revolution.

KennesawJack| 12.18.12 @ 1:46PM

Frog, such a long way from "L'audace, l'audace, toujour l'audace!" to "Je me rends". What the hell happend to your country? I wish we had a LaFayette we could loan back to you but, sadly, we, too, are practicing how to capitulate.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 2:42PM

They're all Gay.

That's what happened.

ncatty| 12.18.12 @ 12:37PM

Islam is a political system as much as a religion.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 2:42PM

It's a Mental Disorder.

Period.

Occam's Tool| 12.18.12 @ 12:37PM

Frog: if there were only MORE of you. G-d Bless, sir, and Merry Christmas!

John786, your religious rights stop WELL before killing children. When I see you decrying the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in France, then I may take your mewlings more seriously. You, sir, are a vile piece of human filth, like your prophet.

Al Adab| 12.18.12 @ 1:13PM

O/T:
In the movie Destination Tokyo, Cary Grant explains to his submarine crew why it was a downed Japanese pilot stabbed the crewman who was trying to resuce him. Grant explained that in Japanese culture (at the time) children were given a dagger at age five and a ceremony of warriorship at age seven, while American got roller skates and a childhood. Grant explains that the war is to put an end to the culture of making killers of five year olds.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 2:46PM

Look at the picture of that poor woman, and tell me that Islam is not an Abhoration.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 3:48PM

This is not an attack on you.

Just an Observation.

John786| 12.18.12 @ 5:18PM

Mad Occam,
My religion is not killing anybody. There are black, white, tall, small etc.. Muslims. And of course there are muslims who have transcended divine boundaries. These are individuals who represent only themselves. And do not by definition represent an entire civilisation: Al Islam has no centre. By any objective measure Islamic civilisation has been the most peaceable in human History: what you would expect from the last affirmation of monotheism to humanity. Anyway, it's a bit rich coming from you: a man calling for genocide in every sentence. You are to ethics what the Devil is to goodness.

KennesawJack| 12.18.12 @ 5:57PM

People are killing in the NAME of your religion, just like your prophet ,who raped a 9 year old girl in front of her mother, told them to. Islam is a gutter religion in EVERY sense of the word.
By the way, what exactly is is about Muslim men that has them so much in fear of a librerated women? Little dick syndrome or what?

Pecos Pete| 12.18.12 @ 6:27PM

Oh my KJ, be careful, you might, really, upset 786. If so, that's ok with me.

John786| 12.18.12 @ 7:37PM

The angel of death will come to all and sundry. We are equal in the world,but in the next life it will be a different story. There will be those who stand with the prophets ( pbuthem), and there will those in utter loss. It is my faith (iman) that God protects Al Islam: So your mockery & taunts will come to a loss. The reason,muslims are demonised, is to hide ethnic cleansing in Palestine. You nutters think somehow Muslims will forget- never. Even you don't believe the lies anymore. Fate is a very important concept in Islam: I find its riches are lost to other civilisations.

KennesawJack| 12.18.12 @ 8:38PM

You are one very, very sick puppy. But then, so are most Muslims. I find your comment regarding fate as a very important concept in Islam and that its riches are lost on other civilizations interesting. That statement presupposes that Islam is civilized. Ergo, your statement is one without meaning.

CJW| 12.18.12 @ 9:19PM

Ethnic cleansing in Palestine? Gee, I thought Muslims have a bad name because in every muslim country they kill Christians and Jews, burn churches, hold women in virtual slavery, and have since 1968 committed virtually all of the terrorist attacks, such as Sept 11, July 11, Achile Lauro, Lockerbie, Rome Airport, etc , killing women and children. Whenever muslims do engage in open war, such attacking Israel or Kuwait they get their ass kicked. So they resort to cowardly attacks at airports, cafes, churches, and synagogues.

delahaya| 12.19.12 @ 9:47AM

www.thereligionofpeace.com

delahaya| 12.19.12 @ 9:50AM

Actually, John you're an ignorant moron. Islam is by far the most dangerous, murderous movement (religious or otherwise) the world has ever seen - probably even beating 20th century communism. Muslims have been warring on other people for over a thousand years straight. During the "caliphate period" of India some 65 - 100 million Indians were murdered by Muslims, in a world much smaller than todays. Even today, not a single day goes by where a Muslim isn't murdering someone in the name of religion. www.thereligionofpeace.com. Lastly, FU>

Dave Williams| 12.18.12 @ 1:18PM

....and that whirring sound is the corpse of Charles Martel spinning in his grave. Who will now arise to save the West from Muslim barbarism?

irish19| 12.19.12 @ 1:23AM

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Frog in Uniform | 12.18.12 @ 1:18PM

Thank you Monsieur OT, and Happy Hannukah for you if it is not rude to say so. I was absolutely ashamed for my country when the Mean-Rat killed those Jewish children in Toulouse. I thought since World War II we have not been able to make sure Jews could live in safety in France, while at the same time allowing the satanic cult to overwhelm our defenses and change the very cultural fabric of Frogland. Bibi came to Toulouse, he had really touching words for the victims, but being the gentleman that he is, he chose not to embarrass "Casimir" (the way his bodyguards nickname the president Hollande)with harsh statements in a city full of muslims.
Re WW II, I am not particularly proud of the role played in the Shoah by the very institution that I work with and that I respect the most. Of course we had heroes and dissidents, but for the bulk of law enforcement, Gendarmerie and Police, it was routine as usual. To be continued

Occam's Tool| 12.18.12 @ 3:37PM

It is a privilege and an honor to be wished Happy Hannukah by one such as yourself. G-d Bless, stay safe, and realize that when I criticize France at times it is because the Men are not like you. You, sir, are a blessing to your country.

If more of them were like you, every day would be vive le France!

Frog in Uniform | 12.18.12 @ 1:19PM

Suite
We must not be much over 5 or 6% of the population to realize the full extent of the problem we're facing in Frogland. I hear dumb things everyday re the religion of peace, the well meaning of most muslims (bullshit! They waved algerian flags and posters of Ben Laden during 9-11 in most Frogland islamhoods) I even have difficulties to be trusted when I recall that there was a muslim brigade in the Waffen SS, and that the only religion that still worships nazism is Islam! Proof are posters of Adolf and swastikas in most markets in the muslim world, without even a mention in the so called free press.
Hopefully your country will react before it is too late.

MelvinNC| 12.18.12 @ 2:43PM

Frog buddy, your back. It took me a little while to jog my memory. It's been a while homey where ya been?
I have always enjoyed your posts. If I don't see ya, and before I forget Merry Christmas.
Damn, it's good seeing you post again.

Frog in Uniform | 12.19.12 @ 8:19PM

Hi Melvin! Merry Christmas to you too. By the way, I had the greatest difficulties finding a Season's Greetings card with the Holy Family on it. In a country where you are warned 2 weeks in advance about the Ramadan... France got it coming. Sometimes I feel like Loth in the last days of Sodom, trying to bargain the city's fate with the Lord. Take care and G-d bless your Nation.

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 2:48PM

They danced in the Streets, Right Here in This Country, on 911.

The sooner they're erased from the Memory of Man, the better.

markenoff| 12.18.12 @ 4:30PM

I understand there are four terrorist threat levels in France:
Run
Hide
Surrender
Collaborate

TLP| 12.18.12 @ 5:35PM

You left out: CONVERT.

Marc Jeric| 12.20.12 @ 5:30PM

Islam is not a religion - it is a political program consisting of 4 phases:
1) Conquest by force of arms; then
2) Conversion, if resisted then
3) Slavery; if resisted then
4) Mass murder.
That has been the immutable history of Islam during almost 14 centuries.

delahaya| 12.19.12 @ 9:46AM

Heck, didn't we have that whole Serb-Kosovo dust up because the Serbs understandably resented being "cleansed" out of Kosov during WWII by the SS and Islamic Nazi brigades? It is my understand hundreds of thousands of Serbs were murdered much like the Jews.

Buck Ofama| 12.18.12 @ 3:32PM

>Police tracked the bomb-thrower to Strasbourg, where he welcomed them to his apartment with fire from a .357 Magnum before being shot.

And C0CKSUCKER OVOMIT the "president" is ready to "go for the guns".

cicero| 12.18.12 @ 3:33PM

The problem with the liberal West is that it has willfully given up its past, and is not willing to fight for its future. The commandment, "Honor Thy Father and Mother" does not mean sending a card on their birthdays. It means remembering where you came, andd the hard won lessons of our history. It may take an existential war to bring us back to reeality.

However, if we stop importing those who hate us, and stop financing and arming those who would kill us, they may fade away as a problem for another hundred years, and give us the time needed to regain our heritage, and our senses.

delahaya| 12.19.12 @ 9:45AM

Decadence is NOT wild orgies but the loss of moral will to defend your own civilization. Muslims aren't winning, the West is giving up.

markenoff| 12.18.12 @ 4:19PM

It will come as a shock to aging native French dependent upon government pensions find that their now majority muslim country cuts off the checks since muslims will not pay taxes to support aging non-mos. We will see a flood of non-mo refugees from Europe in our lifetime. The Vatican will relocate to Brazil. The Islamic nuke I am worried about is the French ICBM or the British SLBM not the Pakistani or even Iranian.

markenoff| 12.18.12 @ 4:25PM

So Mo, the pedophile bandit (may he rot in hell) is out raiding, slaughtering non-mos and raping young non-mo boys when one of his buddies rides up on a camel.
"Hey Mo!", he says, "You better get back to your tent! One of your wives is packing her bags. She says she's going to leave you!"
So Mo jumps on his camel and races back to his tent. Sure enough, there is one of his wives loading her stuff on a camel.
"I'm leaving you!", she says.
"You can't leave me!", says Mo, "I'm the prophet of el-illah, the ancient moon god of the Arabs!"
"I can't live with a man who practices pedophilia!", she says.
"Pedophilia?", he says, "That's an awful big word for a nine year old. Now get back in that tent and unpack your toys!"

soljerblue| 12.18.12 @ 6:05PM

One can see a certain amount of truth in that story.

Commander Kelly | 12.19.12 @ 3:06AM

Very interesting and troubling too. Is there a dhimmi wine, a dghimmi fromage? I fear not. http://americanconservativeinl.....pot.co.uk/

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delahaya| 12.19.12 @ 9:43AM

The US is right there with them. We have just as many attacks - if not more (not that you see it in the press), with a much smaller (proportionately) Muslim population.

Nightwinger| 12.20.12 @ 4:09AM

The world's largest Muslim country is Indonesia (204,847,000), which doesn't seem to pose much of a threat to anyone.

Frog in Uniform | 12.20.12 @ 11:00AM

Nightwinger, I'm not sure the inhabitants of Timor would agree with you. Just check it out.
And don't forget what happened in that night club in Bali. Indonesia is a Krakatoa waiting to explode.

Marc Jeric| 12.20.12 @ 5:26PM

I remember the Algerian riots in Paris in the 1961-62. The French police stations were bunkerized, with their guards equipped with machine guns behind their concrete barriquades. An atmosphere of fear fell on Paris.

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