Thursday, November 03, 2005
PARIS IS BURNING
The mainstream media reports on the week of non-stop rioting in French "subrurbs" (read Muslim ghettos) continues (BBC, CNN, AFP) with a confused and misleading depiction of the causes and issues. The reasons for the rioting are simple: The Muslim culture of the people in these ghettos is what has kept them from assimilating into French society. There are other immigrant groups who have done well in France (I'm thinking especially of the large Vietnamese segment of French immigrant society). The Muslim North Africans haven't assimiliated because they reject the liberal foundations of modern Western society (yes, compared to Islamic society, France is liberal and enlightened). That is not going to change and blaming "poverty" and "discrimination" only masks the real causes of the problem and serves as a Trojan Horse for establishing a Muslim enclave within French society that will be pampered by post-modernist relativism.
France, more than any other country in the West, has at least superficially embraced pomo cultural relativism as inserted into their society by the vector of a continuing, vital socialist mentality. They are paying the price now.
[Only folks as old as me will get the joke in the title of this post]
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:03 AM
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