The worst of the violence seems to have subsided, but the destruction has been considerable: As of yesterday 600 or more vehicles have been torched and nearly 500 buildings damaged, 74 of which were likewise set on fire, among them the Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar in Marseille. There have been at least 20 attacks on police barracks, and even one on the home of L’Hay-les-Roses mayor Vincent Jeanbrun. Rioters crashed a car onto his terrace and attacked his fleeing family with fireworks, putting his wife in hospital. There have been around 2,000 arrests, and as of yesterday perhaps 500 police injuries. Probably the intensity of the violence has been greater than in 2005, but there is hope at least that it will be of shorter duration, with less damage overall.
The right-thinking European press, in its deep originality, has blamed the unrest on racism and a “rhetoric of exclusion”, which we are asked to believe has “become completely normal in France”:
In everyday life, France is ostensibly a functioning multicultural society, but in the talk shows and on the opinion pages of Right-wing papers and websites, open racial warfare prevails. Here, hatred of ethnic minorities is mixed with Islamophobia and class conflict: inhabitants of the banlieues are, in in this view, the dirty opposite of good France. The entire Right wing of French politics sees migration as the country’s biggest problem, and hardly anybody can be found to contradict this view.
Perhaps the opinion columnists at Süddeutsche Zeitung need remedial lessons in how to use the internet, if they cannot find any voices in France denouncing French racism. Within seconds, I found this piece by literal Atlanticist agent Rokhaya Diallo, which works hard to reframe the rioting in American terms, as an antiracist uprising in the mould of the Floyd protests from 2020. “Nahel’s death,” Diallo writes, “is another chapter” in the “long and traumatic story” of French colonialism, racism and police violence towards minorities:
Whatever our age, many of us French who are descended from postcolonial immigration carry within us this fear combined with rage, the result of decades of accumulated injustice. This year, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of a seminal event. In 1983, Toumi Djaïdja, a 19-year-old from a Lyon banlieue, became the victim of police violence that left him in a coma for two weeks. This was the genesis of the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first antiracist demonstration on a national scale, in which 100,000 people took part.
For 40 years this movement has not stopped calling out the violence we see targeted at working-class neighbourhoods and more broadly black people and people of north African origin. The crimes of the police are at the root of many of the uprisings in France’s most impoverished urban areas, and it is these crimes that must be condemned first. After years of marches, petitions, open letters and public requests, a disaffected youth finds no other way to be heard than by rioting. It is difficult to avoid asking if, without so many uprisings in cities across France, Nahel’s death would have garnered the attention it has. And as Martin Luther King rightly said: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
It goes without saying that such understandings were never extended to public demonstrations against the Corona hygiene regime. The state is firmly uninterested in hearing those kinds of voices, and Diallo is too.
In much the some vein, American-educated UN human rights spokesbot Ravina Shamdasani has used the protests to demand that France “seriously address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in law enforcement”. She’s also very concerned about the protesters and their unheard message, which has been carried by all major European press on front pages for days now:
We also emphasise the importance of peaceful assembly. We call on the authorities to ensure use of force by police to address violent elements in demonstrations always respects the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, non-discrimination, precaution and accountability.
What incited the rioting was not the nefarious colonial past of France, and it is not so easily discounted as a random act of police racism either. On June 27th, police in Nanterre stopped a car driven by a 17 year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent named Nahel Merzouk. When he tried to flee, one of the officers shot and killed him. This officer is now in custody and under investigation for manslaughter, but it’s far from clear he acted beyond his authority.
Beginning around 2012, and escalating in intensity through 2017, France has been subject to a series of terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic militants. These included not only the Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan massacres of 2015, which together took the lives of 148 people, but also vehicle attacks like that carried out in 2016 by the Tunisian driver of a cargo truck in Nice on Bastille Day, who was able to crush 86 people to death before security services could kill him. In the wake of these attacks, the French Government passed legislation permitting police to fire on motorists who flee traffic stops if they believe they pose a danger to others. France, in other words, responded to assaults on public life from self-identified Islamic militants by granting their police wider latitude in the use of force, extending to the shooting of noncompliant drivers like Merzouk.
Colonial sins are a very poor explanation for negative European experiences with the mass importation of foreigners from the developing world. Sweden had no colonies to speak of, but it has not been spared migrant violence since opening its borders in 2005. The consequence of migrant attacks is a steady brutalisation of society and the police, whose harsher methods are then freely reinterpreted as signs of racism and xenophobia in the next step of this tiresome game. It is the same with the rise of populist-Right parties in Europe, which are direct reactions to mass migration and its attendant social disorders. Alternative für Deutschland, a small Euro-sceptic party founded in 2012, was polling around 3% before Merkel’s wir-schaffen-das moment of 2015. In the wake of the Cologne sexual assaults months later, it surged to 13%. These political developments are subjected to the same disingenuous interpretation as escalating police force, and cited as evidence of the ambient racism to which migrant violence is merely a response.
The Leftist Green-adjacent France Insoumise party has published a lengthy tirade anticipating a new alliance between the ethnic minorities of the banlieues, victims of state violence, and the climate activists, who “resist the destruction of living things and the planet” and believe that this makes them police targets as well. John Keiger, writing in the Spectator, has also noticed this fascinating statement, and to it he adds the evidence of reports in Le Monde on the role of climate activists, anarchists and other extreme-Left groups in organising the rioters and directing their violence towards specific police and state targets. His conclusion, based partly on the rhetoric of the activists themselves, is that France may be facing a civil war.
I don’t think that’s right. Protests about carbon emissions, racism and colonialist sins are not sincere demands for a better and more just world, but they are not the pretence of internal seditionists bent on the overthrow of the state either. They are rallying cries in support of the globalist programme, and an appeal to the issues via which our political elite aim to free themselves finally from the constraints of their own native populations.
It’s no surprise to find American soft power behind some of these episodes, but U.S. influence is only one factor here. The postwar international order, founded around organisations like the United Nations and the European Union, bears the explicit mandate of counteracting nationalist politics, which are regarded as the root cause of the great world wars. Especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this globalist ethos has given rise to a whole world of densely interrelated political parties, NGOs and philanthropists, while also fostering an increasingly uniform and inward-looking elite political culture. These new elites hope to find in imported minorities a basis of popular support for globalism at home and a counterweight to the dreaded nativist Right. Most major Leftist and Green parties are mere instruments and expressions of this culture, as is any demonstration that is not immediately and brutally repressed.
This is about power and they don’t care. They’ll vaccinate billions and take years of heightened mortality in stride. They’ll burn whole cities to the ground if they have to.
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Concentrating on the symptoms rather than recognising and understanding the disease will provide the wrong diagnosis and treatment.
The race riots, precarious energy grids, fake pandemics, inflation, high taxes, censorship, stifling of dissent, the explosion of woke, proxy war with a nuclear power, involving all developed, so-called democratic Countries, are the direct result of the disease.
The disease? A global cabal of vested interests, which has infiltrated our institutions and governments with their place men, to work against the interests of the people, to hurt and weaken the people by provoking social and economic collapse in order to serve the interests of the cabal to achieve total, global power and control in a single governing body.
And in this case, the mechanics of it began a long time back, in the colonial history. It was quit well described in, of all places, the BBC propaganda channel which occupies the R4 channel overnight.
Best annalysis I’ve ever seen.
And so true of modern medicine and imposition of all “vaccines”
Rings depressingly true.
One picky point – the headline seems to me like it’s contradicted by the content of the article – misleading. Perhaps I am missing the point?
One picky point – the headline seems to me like it’s contradicted by the content of the article – misleading. Perhaps I am missing the point?
Have to agree. I’m struggling to understand this article. Probably my own fault.
France burns in another Intifada. Its Black, Musulman, disaffected white youf are revolting, or taking an opportunity for loot and plunder.
Less than 1 year ago a WHITE 12 year old French girl, Lola Daviet, was abducted, raped, and murderd by a Muslim Algerian. She was cut up and her pieces put into a suitcase.
No riots. No ‘mostly peaceful burnings and looting’. No political speeches against the sex and rape Jihad. Nothing.
I’m so glad you posted that, because it sums everything up succinctly..
We have the same thing in Rotherham, Telford etc. There is this determination to dilute crime based on the ethnicity of the culprit (s). In Sweden you can be arrested for disagreeing with Immigration Policy, or for saying that crimes are being committed by certain ethnic groups, even though it is clear that rapes and sexual crimes are committed twenty times more often by these groups than by indigenous Swedes.——–At one the truth would set us free, but now it gets us locked up or cancelled.
The scenes in France remind me of the English riots of 2011 which kicked off when the police shot and killed Mark Duggan.
Over 4 days the riots spread from London to Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham. More than three thousand arrests were made, there were five deaths, at least 16 others were injured, and an estimated £200 million worth of property damage was incurred.
At the time I remember thinking that the young people participating in robbing Foot Locker and setting fire to cars seemed to be enjoying themselves.
2011-I took pics in the Tottenham Court road area post the ‘mostly peaceful destructions’. I actually talked to owners of their small businesses who were sifting through the charred or destroyed remains of their small business. Burn Loot mindless hate. No fake news was there. They never bothered to show up. The BBC said it was poverty. So I took a stroll around the council flats in the area, and took vids and pictures of BMWs, Mercs, Land Rovers etc large numbers of them. Hospitals, schools, parks, endless agencies, sports clubs, transport etc all free for them in the area. Poverty my ass.
When you invite the 3rd world into your land, you get 3rd world results.
France burned because the morons allowed islamists into the counrty
The political class has promotes and still promotes multi- cultural use. That means no need to integrate or even to understand others in the country.
meanwhile they have trawled the work for more and more immigrants: non-Judeo-Christian background the better.
it has worked well for them. They wanted a different public and they are well on the way to achieving it. IMHO they really want race riots so they can give ann excuse to impose permanent Covid style restrictions on liberty.
next time they will use the Canadian method of control through bank accounts. Maybe we should promote a libertarian bank that issues it’s own bank notes and coin?
What I’m going to say will sound well Islamophobic but it’s all backed up with the receipts. These Muslims literally worship a paedophile. Is this common knowledge do you think? Do you think this might have just a smidge to do with the attitudes of Muslim men towards not just women but young girls? It’s not like we have to look too hard for the evidence of this, right? We’ve all heard and read the news stories in all different countries. If their holy book is something they adhere closely to then it provides all the justification for violent, sick scumbags to go out and get their deviant kicks or just treat their wives like dirt. Yes the Koran says it’s OK to beat your disobedient wife too. But first, Muhammad was a paedo and child marriage is just the norm, apparently;
“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).
”Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.”
And lastly, check out this sick, Turkish b*stard;
”President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ally, radical Islamist New Welfare Party’s (YRP) leader Fatih Erbakan in 2020 stated that 14-year-old children can get “married” because they reached “sexual maturity.” His statements caused a great reaction on social media and among opposition politicians when it was resurfaced on Twitter.
Speaking on a Youtube program he participated in at the time, Erbakan said, “For years in Anatolia, our ancestors have married at the age of 14, 15, 16 and established happy homes. Since a 14-year-old has reached sexual maturity, her consent is valid. This is how it has been done in Anatolia for centuries.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/07/turkey-erdogans-ally-erbakan-says-14-year-old-girls-are-suitable-for-marriage
Not a phobia, and you only concentrated on the behaviour and teaching of their prophet on under age marriage. Goof focus ,but here are many other things to criticise,especially the Verse of the Sword 9.29.
Despite being further along the tunnel on 7/7 and not even hearing a blast my wife was not to know and feared I was dead. Many,many people remember these experiences. Politicians do not talk of them as they believe the aggressive religion can be appeased. It cannot be.
Because I didn’t want to turn my post into an essay, and it was relating to that new article by Robert Spencer. It’s an aspect of Islam I don’t think as many people are aware of as the violence and terrorism we’re all unfortunately familiar with by now. TPTP are allowing limitless people into our countries, knowing nothing and caring not about their background or even if they’ve got criminal records, and they adhere to a very hostile, intolerant and misogynistic world view that’s not remotely compatible with Western cultures. And the fact that in their own countries they’d be allowed to commit atrocities which are against the law here, all because some paedo “prophet” says it’s all good does rather explain most if not all of the violent and sex crimes that have been committed in the West since the flood gates for mass immigration opened. We definitely should be scrutinising their motives for coming here because they’re certainly not all coming from war-torn countries either, and I’m still not clear why they can’t go to other countries that are of the same culture. And what are the plans for the 1,500+ men ( presumably ) who will be living at the RAF base in Essex, a stone’s throw from a small village? Will they get help and guidance assimilating into English life i wonder? Or will it become like living next to an open prison for the villagers, only with no staff on-site? I’d be afraid to let kids, that usually go on bike rides and have some healthy independence with mates, out of my sight.
Before African Colonialism by Europeans the North Africans terrorised southern Europe and South West Britain with raiding parties that captured and enslaved white people. The North Africans also terrorised any shipping in the Mediterranean. In Christopher Hitchen’s book ‘Arguably’ Chapter 12 (titled ‘Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates’) he writes about the US Navy’s first foreign action to free US sailors that had been captured and enslaved. Again, it seems similar to the formation of the RN. The required actions of the US in the Barbery Wars helped form the US Navy. in 1785 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams asked Tripoli’s ambassador to London by what right Barbary states preyed up American shipping. Abd Al-Rahman responded “It was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their (Islam) authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
There followed a few years where ransoms were paid and the odd skirmish to release ships and crew but eventually in 1815 the US attacked and put a stop to their humiliation by the North Africans (It seems the abolitionists drew parallels between this slavery and the Atlantic Triangle).
The Barbary
A few years back the BBC tried to “de-voice” the Rule Britannia hymn on the basis, apparently, of allusions to this country’s slavery history. Of course, using Covid19 as an additional cover-story justification.
In the 17th century the seas around Britain were ruled by North African Muslim Slavers. They stopped British ships and carried off the crews to be sold as slaves in Algiers and Tripoli. The situation became so bad that fishermen from Devon and Cornwall wouldn’t put out to sea in case they were captured by North African Slave Traders.
Between 1609 and 1616, 466 British ships were captured by Slave Traders in the Bristol channel, English Channel, Irish Sea and North Atlantic, and the crews were sold into slavery. In 1625 a raiding party landed at Mount’s Bay in Cornwall and 60 people who had taken refuge in a local church were dragged out, loaded up and taken off to Africa to be sold as slaves.
On 12 August 1625 the Mayor of Plymouth wrote to London for military help after 27 ships had been seized by North African Muslim Slave Traders in just 10 days. In 1645, 240 people were seized as slaves in Cornwall.
The situation only began to change after the end of the English Civil War when the Navy (future Royal Navy) started building up under Oliver Cromwell. By 1700, North African Slavers generally knew better than to bother the British Isles in the search for slaves because of the Royal Navy.
It was a triumph that Britain was finally able to control its own coastal waters. And it was in commemoration of this that in 1740, James Thompson wrote ‘Rule Britannia’. It is a hymn of thanksgiving rather than a proclamation of aggressive Nationalism’.
France colonized North African countries that had previously treated white Europeans with contempt. In most cases colonization ended the internal trade in black Africans and some time afterward the trade in white Europeans.
Many thanks for this.
great post – many thanks.
thank you for this so many wonderful and so smart writers here
All anyone has to do is research the Kalergi plan and all will be revealed. You might have to do some digging, and wade past Googles influence and a myriad of checkers (always a sign of being on the right track) but its real, and is being adhered to.
The likes of Tony Blair and Angela Merkle have been awarded the Chalemagne Prize for their contributions to it.. mass immigration.
Again.. I know its inflammatory language, but in a nutshell its what’s become known as the great replacement. To anybody capable of a little critical thinking it doesn’t take a lot of figuring out..
“The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.
Destroying National Identity and culture makes it easier for the global governance people as everyone will feel like citizens of the world rather than French or German or whatever. The Poles and Hungarians are a good example of the few that resist this by refusing immigration quotas, and the EU condemns them as racists for it. The race card being the globalists joker in the pack.
It’s been blindingly obvious for several years that the so-called “elite” are encouraging the Eco Nutter organisations (Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil etc) and the anti-Racism Marxists like BLM.
It’s a classic divide and rule tactic: support and encourage the (violent) minorities; suppress and demoralise the law-abiding majority who they really fear.
Well said RTSC..
Lola among others seems to be forgotten amongst the angst..
What the mass immigration of the last 40 years has shown is that the “magic soil” theory – That someone can move from any country to another and always become a functioning member of that country that only adds to it – is a myth. Cultures ARE important, so is language and ethnicity.
There are psychological effects on both immigrant and native of having people with different looks and cultures living in the same area. Several papers – Robert Putnam : Dinesen, Schaeffer and Sønderskov : Gereke, Schaub and Baldasarri – Show trust and social cohesion falls in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual areas. It is time to accept the facts, we are a tribal species and happiest and healthiest amongst people from our own culture who look like us and this is true of every race, creed and colour of people on earth.
Multi-cultural societies don’t work.
Multi-ethnic societies don’t work.
Never have, never will.
You will always have division and fighting and that is why countries are formed, so peoples can live together in harmony.