Roger L. Simon

July 31st, 2006 6:52 am

Neville, I hardly knew ya…

Ahmadinejad & company have a new friend (or maybe not so new). French Foreign Minister Phillipe Douste-Blazy called Iran a “respected” and “stabilizing” force on his visit to Beirut:

“It was clear that we could never accept a destabilization of Lebanon, which could lead to a destabilization of the region,” Douste-Blazy said in Beirut.

“In the region there is of course a country such as Iran – a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region,” he told a news conference.

This is beyond comment, of course. I would have canceled my trip to France this summer, except I don’t have one. [Maybe when France turns Islamic, we just let it go this time.-ed. What about La Coupole? A memory. Maybe I should title this post "No Longer 'A Moveable Feast.'" Enough.]

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11 Comments

1. kpom:

Hope the French like being within range of those “stabilizing” Iranian nukes…

I am curious, though. Last January, when Chirac visited a French nuclear submarine base and said that France was prepared to launch a nuclear strike against any country that sponsors a terrorist attack against French interests, who, precisely, did he have in mind if not Iran?

Jul 31, 2006 - 7:17 am 2. jedrury:

“What did Chirac have in mind?”

Your question presumes a Chiracian rationality and good sense.

A highly dubious proposition.

Jul 31, 2006 - 7:44 am 3. Ron:

When the Moslem’s take over, when the Cathederal of Nortre Dame is a Mosque. When mecanized head chopping by the guillotine is a given and when the French women are walking black tents maybe French Foreign Minister Phillip Douche-Blazy will realize the assimilation didn’t work except in reverse. Wonder if we still give immigration priority to these fine Iman’s and Cleric’s who espouse murder and mayhem to their worker bee’s. By the looks of what has transpired in Seattle and over the border in Canada they are still allowed in. Political Correctness should be made a flogging offence, starting with the Seattle Police Chief’s comments about no connections to the peaceful Islamic [religion]. PC more than anything else will get us killed.

Jul 31, 2006 - 7:57 am 4. Robin Goodfellow:

I don’t think the chance of Europe becoming Islamic is really all that great. I think the real risk is one of progressing closer and closer to the breaking point. Europe today approaches Jihadism in a fairly similar fashion as Lebanon. Meaning, they mostly try to pretend that if they don’t antagonize it they can live along peacefully together. This is a grossly mistaken assumption, and it will lead only to Jihadis testing the limit of European patience with greater and greater provocations. However, the Europeans are not, despite much evidence to the contrary, completely spineless cowards, nor do they love Islam, nor do they really fully accept the idea of “multiculturalism”.

What I fear is most likely is that the European elite will go to ever greater lengths to prostrate Europe before the Islamo-fascist Jihadi movements right up until the moment that the “European street” decides it has had too much, and responds sharply and violently. Europe is not a melting pot, Islamic immigrants don’t fit into European society very well (partly because they haven’t been allowed to) it would be all too easy, and all too enticing, to round them up and throw them out, or worse.

It would certainly not be the first, or second or third, time that Europe would have done something of that sort.

Jul 31, 2006 - 8:03 am 5. mrp:

It reads to me like the old Louis XIV ploy of the late 17th century, when France engaged in a semi-alliance with the Ottomans against the Hapsburgs. Ever wonder why the French didn’t ride to the rescue during the Siege of Vienna?

Jul 31, 2006 - 8:33 am 6. syn:

When a British man was given a 6 month prison sentence for standing outside a Mosque yelling “I’m proud to be British. Go back to where you came from” or requiring non-Muslims to hide Piglet as not to offend Muslism, or criminalizing every intellectual who speaks out about Islam so far Robin the exact opposite of what you fear is happening.

The other reason why your fear will never be realized is that Muslims are breeding 3 to every 1 indigenous European. Muslims don’t abort their replacements Westerners unfortunately do. It will be impossible for the ‘European street’ to rise up to defend itself.

Another reason why the short-sighted abortionist movement is leading the cause of Western suicide.

Jul 31, 2006 - 8:49 am 7. Bruce Wechsler:

I think Robin G and Syn are both partly right. Europeans will reach a tipping point and will rise up to fight it, but it probably will be too late for many States in the EU, since few have enough manpower to save their own nation. Barring unforeseen wakefulness in the near term, I expect that the next 50 years will have individual countries “flipping Islamic” one by one every 5 years or so, with interim mass immigrations of Christian/atheists internally from flipped states to yet-to-be flipped states…until the gates come crashing down and sealing the sleeping fools’ fates.

If the Europeans had treated their immigrant work horses with anything close to the melting pot mentality that is much more prevalent in the U.S., things likely would have turned out much differently. But they didn’t…they were [are still] too steeped in and limited by the woefully inaccurate self importance with which they regard themselves. (Forget about “a woman scorned”…it is a “former power” for which Hell hath no similar fury.) Their second class citizens have a right to be mightily pissed about it. Not that I support what they’d do if given a chance, but I understand some of that rage.

Jul 31, 2006 - 9:19 am 8. Camp Runamok:

Roger,

Don’t be too hard on M. Douste-Blazy. He cannot help it. He puts the “duh” in dumb.

Jul 31, 2006 - 12:47 pm 9. Scott:

My brother says that it’s not a world war until France surrenders. Does this statement count?

Jul 31, 2006 - 2:05 pm 10. xrayiiis:

The French whore believes she can avoid being slapped by being the bullies girlfriend.

Jul 31, 2006 - 2:47 pm 11. freetotem:

This is an example of what I have come to call the perfect perversity of the global Left, the “world community,” the world press, the U.N., the whole gang. It reminds me of a Robin Williams routine, where he is making fun of various nationalities. When he gets to a Frenchman, he has the guy say, “I am geeving a ceegarette to a babee!” while looking around to see if anyone is noticing his “outragzhuz” behavior.

Of course, M. Douste-Blazy, the most dangerous terror sponsors in the world are a “stabilizing force.” How impressively intellectually deep and nuanced an observation. Only someone from the loftiest heights of the international intelligentsia could have such a profound realization. You are “geeving a ceegarette to a babee,” and we are all so very impressed. Perfect perversity, Black is white. Evil is good. You, the elite, can see that where we are blind.

This is an example of how the global Left sides with groups like Hezbollah. Why? Anti-semitism? Anti-Americanism? Anti-Westernism? Poststructuralist relativism? Yes to all, but mainly because of the rule of perfect perversity. If it is bleedingly obviously wrong, evil even, then of course you must support and encourage it. Praise it.Only cowboys think otherwise.

Jul 31, 2006 - 3:44 pm

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