November 01, 2006

Report: How Socialism and Islam Work Together to Destroy Europe

Yesterday I spoke to a local business owner, a man who was born in France, and came to the U.S. in the mid-70's. I haven't yet gotten his permission to identify him here, so I'll call him Curtis.

I asked him what was up with the riots in France. Why don't the French just expel those guys from the country?

I don't yet have corroboration for his statements. Take this as the verbal testimony of one man.

Curtis said that over 80% of the French population would like to expel the radical Islamists, but the government refuses to.

He said that government approval is required to build a house of worship - and that 20 mosques are approved for every 1 non-Muslim temple.

He said that in the airport (he may have been referring to the one that serves Paris), there is a mosque - but there is no non-Islamic house of worship.

He said that Muslims reproduce every 17 years, and that they have over four children for every 1.8 non-Muslim children. (I referred him to Mark Steyn's new book on this subject, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.)

He said that the Muslim population in France is constantly going to the government asking for help. The government - that is, the French taxpayer - gives them free housing.

I asked how the French can tolerate 100+ cars being burned every day all this year. He said police have no power to break up crowds of Muslims who come and "dance" threateningly in front of homes and businesses. The police are only able to act when they see a crime being committed in front of them. It's illegal to hold a teenager in jail for more than 2 days. If a citizen asks for a teenaged Muslim who is attacking his property to be arrested, in two days the same criminal will return to threaten or harm him again. Store owners are afraid to call the police when a crowd of Muslims "dance" (Curtis used the word repeatedly) threateningly in front of their business, because he knows the result will be that his business will be burnt. Such store owners often let the Muslims steal whatever they want.

Curtis said that with the huge difference in birthrates, France was doomed.

I said, I thought Socialism was responsible for the poor birthrate, because it literally makes life unrewarding - it takes away the rewards for living your life well and achieving things for yourself and those around you. Curtis responded with great interest to this suggestion.

He said that many French people live in small houses he compared to a U.S. trailer home. He said that for many Frenchmen, permits are required from the government if they want to move, and that such permits are so difficult to get that people often don't try. He said that visitors to France often see how good the social life is there, with friends often getting together - "I'll bring the bread, you bring the wine, you bring the cheese" - but that what visitors don't see is that government regulations strangle any attempts at work so much that beyond social life, there is nothing else. The social life is so good because nothing else is permitted.

And if all that wasn't enough, here's the real shocker.

He said that for 30 years, Muslims and non-Muslims worked side-by-side in French factories and businesses. Everyone thought the Muslims had assimilated. But when the Islamic riots started in France last year, these Muslims "flipped in a second" -- they immediately supported the riots. Their non-Muslim friends said to them, "We thought we knew you - this is wrong, what they are doing, burning cars and rioting." But the supposedly-assimilated Muslims supported the rioters.