Right On!

I just found a comment on The Marathon Pundit, about an article written in the National Review. Alex Alexiev drew the same conclusions about the root problem - the lack of assimilation of the Muslim diaspora (Alexiev’s term) into French society. His winning point is that the article was written well before the events took place.

(lifted from The Marathon Pundit)
“From the November 7, 2005 National Review, Alex Alexiev writes:

In the West itself, Islamic extremism has made huge strides and dominates the burgeoning Muslim diaspora communities in many European cities. Under Islamist control, they are being transformed into separatist anti-societies that reject Western civilization and its norms. Many are increasingly willing to engage in violence against their fellow citizens. Fully 13 percent of British Muslims, according to a 2004 Home Office survey, approve of terrorist, and 1 percent–a staggering 16,000 people–”engaged in terrorist activity at home or abroad, or supported such activity.” Earlier German studies indicate that a quarter of Muslim school students are ready to use violence on behalf of Islam.”

Mark Steyn also has an article about the riots quoted on The Marathon Pundit. Evidently, most close observers of the European political and cultural scene saw something like this coming.

Is it prescient that Disney just released an animated version of Chicken Little?

A very thought provoking post on YARGB on the intifada in France reinforces the issue of assimilation. It points to a comment made by Chadi Bou Habib on the BBC news forum

Excerpt:
“I lived in France for 8 years and I have never understood why the “youths” deal with “social problems” only through riots. Until one day, I was admitted in a meeting of a so- called “cultural association” subsidized by the local council. A Muslim “brother” talked for about an hour on the difference between “us” and “them”, to conclude that whatever we do to “them” is of god’s will, a kind of Jihad. Well, the French authorities should start inquiring on the kind of “culture” they are subsidizing.”

I repeat myself, but normal people do not burn their own homes, or kill themselves. It’s the “us” and “them” problem all over again.

Olivier Guitta at The Counterterrorism Blog has an interesting excerpt from the article he’s posted with the Weekly Standard. The description he gives makes one think of the American gang centers in the ethnic communities. Northern Virginia is facing much the same threat from the MS13 gangs which have moved into the immigrant Latino neighborhoods there.

To wake up! Also one way to translate Intifada into French. Fitting, since the French and the rest of the PC multi-cultural commisars need to wake up to the fact that the Muslim population that moved to France did nothing else to assimilate into French or European culture. The hot air of multi-culturalism has certainly reaped a firestorm of violence for the French.

So much for multi-culturalism as practiced by the commisars of the left! Their view is that western, especially US American, culture is bad. People who move from other countries must be allowed, nay, encouraged, to retain all of their original culture, language, habits, and behaviors. The rest of us must respect their cultural heritage. It makes you want to ask why they came here (wherever “here” is) in the first place.

One way to describe people who move somewhere, keep their own identity from their place of origin, and then later rampage through the streets of the “host country” would be “invaders.” “Barbarians” also comes to mind.

Assimilation is a two-way street. It isn’t just that the new comer needs to learn the ways of the host country - but they do. It’s also that the host country must accept those new comers into society. If the multi-culturalists self-haters thought about it, they’d see that that is exactly how the subcultures that enrich US American culture ended up. Likewise, those instances where this mutual movement toward each other’s cultural base failed, note especially the riots in the 20th century in many US cities, came about as a result of this division in both groups’ minds. Put simply, people don’t normally set fire to their own homes. If the home isn’t “theirs” in some way or other, the instinct for self preservation doesn’t kick in.

What a bad example of group think, racial steriotyping, and bigotry!

I’m talking about the behavior of some of the Maryland State Democrat Delegation. Several bloggers have posted on this topic since it first broke the day after Steele made public his decision to run for the Senate seat of retiring Paul Sarbanes.

Michelle Malkin has a piece on it, as does Sister Toldjah on this page.

Even the half-hearted objections of a few Maryland Democrats came only after they were challenged to take a stand on the statements. Perish the thought that any of these black Democrats would have an independent thought. Not allowed in this group!

This sort of group think is just what the Nazis and the Communists required of their members - blind obedience to the party line.

Whether Steele, or any other Republican, agrees with these lock-step Demoncrats isn’t based on what he or the Republicans see in the mirror (”I’m black, therefore I must think like dem ocrats.”).

In fact, looking at the thoughtful Republicans who happen to be black (e.g., Lt. Gov. Steele, Condoleeza Rice, Thomas Sowell), and comparing that to the blind groupthink of the Maryland Demoncrats, causes me to wonder if the determining factor isn’t the ability to think for one’s self.

Modern day group think - don’t question any facts or data about the political positions of The Party. If you’re a “true” black, you’ll follow the rest of the herd to the Democrat trough.