11/9/2005
Paris burning
Michelle Malkin’s roundup is here and here.
The riots in France are spreading; and this is due, in part, to the “salad bowl” mentality that Terry Dillard pointed out at Right Track Blog; where instead of viewing your country as a “melting pot” where people come from other countries and assimilate, they’re instead NOT encouraged to assimilate, learn the English language, respect the police and other authorities figures–even the government. Individual pieces in a salad bowl; green onions, tomatoes, iceberg lettuce and romaine; each with their distinctive characteristics that make them unique…and we must treat them “with understanding and accommodation rather than expect them to assimilate”. This pervasive attitude will one day wreak havoc on our soil if we don’t wake up.
The violence that has erupted from the accidental electrocution of two teenagers who fled police and hid in a power station is the symptom of a larger problem, as Robert Spencer points out:
But of course, all these problems are exacerbated by the non-assimilation policy that both the French government and the Muslim population have for so long pursued: the rioters are part of a population that has never considered itself French. Nor do French officials seem able or willing to face that this is the core of their problem today. It is likely that the riots will result only in intensification of the problems that caused them: if French officials offer an accommodation to Muslims, it will probably result only in further intensification of the Islamic identity, often in its most radical manifestations, among French Muslims. The French response to the riots is likely to unfold along the lines of a decision by officials in Holland last May: they declined to ban a book called De weg van de Moslim (The Way of the Muslim), even though it calls for homosexuals to be thrown head first off tall buildings. The Amsterdam city council did not want to contravene “the freedom to express opinions.”
This is a most disturbing happenstance, in view of the fact that in many ways, we are modeling the same multicultural liberalism here in the United States.
LaShawn Barber says it eloquently:
Paris is reaping what it’s sown, and if we don’t heed the warnings (as if the murder of thousands and destruction of two buildings in New York City weren’t enough), we can expect the same.
Lax immigration policies, prostration to the god of multiculturalism, and the refusal to fight fire with fire are three reasons why Muslim “youths” in Paris are rioting in the streets.
As I see it, the religion of Islam is inherently incompatible with the concept of individual liberty, a crucial component of western countries. It’s no accident that a culture like the West and a nation like the United States were envisioned and created by people who were either Christians and/or biblically literate and/or respected the Christian tradition. In countries under Islamic law, there’s no such idea as “individual liberty.” You’re either a Muslim or in danger of having your throat sliced open.
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