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.After all, theAmerica Alone Page 86 differences between Fijian natives and Indians are nothing compared to those between theFrench and les beurs.All those Bush Doctrine naysayers who argue that Iraq is an artificialentity that can never be a functioning state ought to take a look at the Netherlands.Youthink Kurds and Arabs, Sunni and Shia are incompatible? What do you call a jurisdictionsplit between post-Christian secular gay potheads and anti-whoring anti-sodomite anti-everything-you-dig Islamists? If Kurdistan's an awkward fit in Iraq, how well does Pornostanfit in the Islamic Republic of Holland? Europe's problems don't nullify the Bush Doctrine somuch as present a more urgent case for it.As to the "French" "youth," a gentleman in Antibes cautioned me against characterizingthe disaffected as "Islamist" and advised me to examine them more closely."They look likeL.A.gangsters," he said, "not beturbaned prophet-monkeys."Leaving aside more than a few cries of "Allahu Akhbar!" on the streets, my friend iscorrect.But that's the point.The theoretical virtue of "multiculturalism" is that it's a form ofmellifluous cultural cross-pollination: the best of all worlds.But just as often it gives us theworst of all worlds: the worst attributes of Muslim culture--the subjugation of women--combined with the worst attributes of Western culture--license and self-gratification.Tattooed, pierced Pakistani skinhead gangs swaggering down the streets of northernEngland are as much a product of multiculturalism as the turban-wearing Sikh Mountie inthe royal escort.Islamofascism itself is what it says: a fusion of Islamic identity with old-school European totalitarianism.But, whether in turbans or gangsta threads, just asCommunism was in its day, so Islam is today's identity of choice for the world's disaffected.In 2001, Paris elected its first openly homosexual mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, and, asalways, this was taken as evidence of how cool and relaxed everyone is about the whole gaything nowadays.M.Ie Maire certainly worked hard to put the gay in gay Paree--potted palmsand parasols along the Seine all summer long, etc.His big idea was the Nuit Blanche--the"Sleepless Night"--of October 5, 2002, when the city's landmarks would be open for one bigall-night party.Come to the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, and if you makeit through till dawn there'll be free coffee and croissants.City Hall itself was done up like astylish 'tween-wars nightclub--and no state security metal detectors on the doors, because,after all, what genuine jazz boïte would have such things?And that's where M.Delanoé was, in the thick of the festive throng, when he gotstabbed.His assailant missed his aorta by less than an inch, but gamely the mayor insistedthat the party go on while he was taken to the Pitié-Salpétrière hospital for a three-houroperation that saved his life.His would-be killer was a Muslim immigrant, Azedine Berkane.But, as the establishmentwas at pains to emphasize, the good news is that he wasn't a terrorist.No, he's just a Muslimwho hates homosexuals.And that's good news how, exactly?Le Monde reported from M.Berkane's wretched riot-prone ghetto the views of hisneighbors: "He was a bit like us," said one."We're all homophobic here, because it's notnatural.""It's against Islam," said another."Muslim fags don't exist."A traditional terrorist has demands which are in most cases subject to circumstances: Hedoesn't want your troops on his soil? Okay, we don't really need them there anyway.But a Muslim who hates you just cuz? That's all but impervious to external pressure.America Alone Page 87 The old joke about British Palestine was that it was the twice-promised land: hence todaya Western democracy and a disaffected Muslim population exist in (for the most part) twosolitudes on the same piece of real estate.But doesn't that sum up Europe too? The jihadistsunderstand that the Continent is up for grabs in a way that America isn't.And as theirnumbers grow it seems likely that wily Islamic leaders in the Middle East will embrace thecause of the rights of European Muslims in the same way that they claim solidarity with thePalestinians.When France began contemplating its headscarf ban in schools, it dispatchedgovernment ministers to seek the advice of Egyptian imams, implicitly accepting the view ofIslamic scholars that the Fifth Republic is now an outlying province of the Dar al-Islam.Asthe Zionist Entity can testify, that's not a club you necessarily want to be signed up for(though it helps explain why the Quai d'Orsay can live with Iran becoming the secondMuslim nuclear power.As things stand, France is on course to be the third).And what happens when, say, Iran starts spreading a little terror start-up money throughFrance and the Netherlands the way the ayatollahs have done in Lebanon and Gaza? Whatwould it take to persuade a European Muslim to blow himself up in an Amsterdam gay bar?Few EU leaders have a clue what to do about this, but, as France's headscarf law andBritain's Incitement to Racial Hatred bill underline, mediation between what Tony Blaircalled (in the wake of the Tube bombing) "our way of life" and Muslim values has alreadybecome a central dynamic of European political culture--a remarkable achievement, for aminority few Europeans were more than vaguely conscious of before September 11.Meanwhile, across the borders pour not primarily suicide bombers or suitcase nukes, thoughthey will come in the end, but ideology-fierce, glamorous, and implacable.Here's the finalirony, and perhaps the most distressing of all to European anti-Semites: in one of history'sbetter jests, in this scenario they're the Jews.CONQUESTAs the Guardian reported in London in 2005: "French youths fired at police and burnedover 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in aweek of urban unrest."Ah, those "French youths." You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse?Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn'ttake much time in les banlieues of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of theirprimary identity as "French," and likely never will.Four years after September 11, it turnedout there really is an explosive "Arab street," but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.Since the beginningof this century, French Muslims have been carrying on a low-level intifada againstsynagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc.The concern of the political class has beento prevent the spread of these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest.They're losingthat battle.Unlike America's Europhiles, France's Arab street correctly identified Chirac'sopposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.The French have been here before, of course.Seven-thirty-two.Not 7:32 Paris time,which is when the nightly Citroen-torching begins in the 'burbs, but 732 AD--as in one and athird millennia ago.By then, the Muslims had advanced a thousand miles north of Gibraltarto control Spain and southern France up to the banks of the Loire.In October 732, theMoorish general Abd al-Rahman and his Muslim army were not exactly at the gates of Paris,but they were within two hundred miles, just south of the great Frankish shrine of St.Martinof Tours.Somewhere on the road between Poitiers and Tours, they met a Frankish forceand, unlike other Christian armies in Europe, this one held its ground "like a wall.a firmAmerica Alone Page 88 glacial mass," as The Chronicle of Isidore puts it.A week later, Abd al-Rahman was dead,the Muslims were heading south, and the French general, Charles, had earned himself thesurname "Martel"--"the Hammer [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.After all, theAmerica Alone Page 86 differences between Fijian natives and Indians are nothing compared to those between theFrench and les beurs.All those Bush Doctrine naysayers who argue that Iraq is an artificialentity that can never be a functioning state ought to take a look at the Netherlands.Youthink Kurds and Arabs, Sunni and Shia are incompatible? What do you call a jurisdictionsplit between post-Christian secular gay potheads and anti-whoring anti-sodomite anti-everything-you-dig Islamists? If Kurdistan's an awkward fit in Iraq, how well does Pornostanfit in the Islamic Republic of Holland? Europe's problems don't nullify the Bush Doctrine somuch as present a more urgent case for it.As to the "French" "youth," a gentleman in Antibes cautioned me against characterizingthe disaffected as "Islamist" and advised me to examine them more closely."They look likeL.A.gangsters," he said, "not beturbaned prophet-monkeys."Leaving aside more than a few cries of "Allahu Akhbar!" on the streets, my friend iscorrect.But that's the point.The theoretical virtue of "multiculturalism" is that it's a form ofmellifluous cultural cross-pollination: the best of all worlds.But just as often it gives us theworst of all worlds: the worst attributes of Muslim culture--the subjugation of women--combined with the worst attributes of Western culture--license and self-gratification.Tattooed, pierced Pakistani skinhead gangs swaggering down the streets of northernEngland are as much a product of multiculturalism as the turban-wearing Sikh Mountie inthe royal escort.Islamofascism itself is what it says: a fusion of Islamic identity with old-school European totalitarianism.But, whether in turbans or gangsta threads, just asCommunism was in its day, so Islam is today's identity of choice for the world's disaffected.In 2001, Paris elected its first openly homosexual mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, and, asalways, this was taken as evidence of how cool and relaxed everyone is about the whole gaything nowadays.M.Ie Maire certainly worked hard to put the gay in gay Paree--potted palmsand parasols along the Seine all summer long, etc.His big idea was the Nuit Blanche--the"Sleepless Night"--of October 5, 2002, when the city's landmarks would be open for one bigall-night party.Come to the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, and if you makeit through till dawn there'll be free coffee and croissants.City Hall itself was done up like astylish 'tween-wars nightclub--and no state security metal detectors on the doors, because,after all, what genuine jazz boïte would have such things?And that's where M.Delanoé was, in the thick of the festive throng, when he gotstabbed.His assailant missed his aorta by less than an inch, but gamely the mayor insistedthat the party go on while he was taken to the Pitié-Salpétrière hospital for a three-houroperation that saved his life.His would-be killer was a Muslim immigrant, Azedine Berkane.But, as the establishmentwas at pains to emphasize, the good news is that he wasn't a terrorist.No, he's just a Muslimwho hates homosexuals.And that's good news how, exactly?Le Monde reported from M.Berkane's wretched riot-prone ghetto the views of hisneighbors: "He was a bit like us," said one."We're all homophobic here, because it's notnatural.""It's against Islam," said another."Muslim fags don't exist."A traditional terrorist has demands which are in most cases subject to circumstances: Hedoesn't want your troops on his soil? Okay, we don't really need them there anyway.But a Muslim who hates you just cuz? That's all but impervious to external pressure.America Alone Page 87 The old joke about British Palestine was that it was the twice-promised land: hence todaya Western democracy and a disaffected Muslim population exist in (for the most part) twosolitudes on the same piece of real estate.But doesn't that sum up Europe too? The jihadistsunderstand that the Continent is up for grabs in a way that America isn't.And as theirnumbers grow it seems likely that wily Islamic leaders in the Middle East will embrace thecause of the rights of European Muslims in the same way that they claim solidarity with thePalestinians.When France began contemplating its headscarf ban in schools, it dispatchedgovernment ministers to seek the advice of Egyptian imams, implicitly accepting the view ofIslamic scholars that the Fifth Republic is now an outlying province of the Dar al-Islam.Asthe Zionist Entity can testify, that's not a club you necessarily want to be signed up for(though it helps explain why the Quai d'Orsay can live with Iran becoming the secondMuslim nuclear power.As things stand, France is on course to be the third).And what happens when, say, Iran starts spreading a little terror start-up money throughFrance and the Netherlands the way the ayatollahs have done in Lebanon and Gaza? Whatwould it take to persuade a European Muslim to blow himself up in an Amsterdam gay bar?Few EU leaders have a clue what to do about this, but, as France's headscarf law andBritain's Incitement to Racial Hatred bill underline, mediation between what Tony Blaircalled (in the wake of the Tube bombing) "our way of life" and Muslim values has alreadybecome a central dynamic of European political culture--a remarkable achievement, for aminority few Europeans were more than vaguely conscious of before September 11.Meanwhile, across the borders pour not primarily suicide bombers or suitcase nukes, thoughthey will come in the end, but ideology-fierce, glamorous, and implacable.Here's the finalirony, and perhaps the most distressing of all to European anti-Semites: in one of history'sbetter jests, in this scenario they're the Jews.CONQUESTAs the Guardian reported in London in 2005: "French youths fired at police and burnedover 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in aweek of urban unrest."Ah, those "French youths." You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse?Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn'ttake much time in les banlieues of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of theirprimary identity as "French," and likely never will.Four years after September 11, it turnedout there really is an explosive "Arab street," but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.Since the beginningof this century, French Muslims have been carrying on a low-level intifada againstsynagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc.The concern of the political class has beento prevent the spread of these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest.They're losingthat battle.Unlike America's Europhiles, France's Arab street correctly identified Chirac'sopposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.The French have been here before, of course.Seven-thirty-two.Not 7:32 Paris time,which is when the nightly Citroen-torching begins in the 'burbs, but 732 AD--as in one and athird millennia ago.By then, the Muslims had advanced a thousand miles north of Gibraltarto control Spain and southern France up to the banks of the Loire.In October 732, theMoorish general Abd al-Rahman and his Muslim army were not exactly at the gates of Paris,but they were within two hundred miles, just south of the great Frankish shrine of St.Martinof Tours.Somewhere on the road between Poitiers and Tours, they met a Frankish forceand, unlike other Christian armies in Europe, this one held its ground "like a wall.a firmAmerica Alone Page 88 glacial mass," as The Chronicle of Isidore puts it.A week later, Abd al-Rahman was dead,the Muslims were heading south, and the French general, Charles, had earned himself thesurname "Martel"--"the Hammer [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]