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Using All The Means

"We've had enough. We are saturated by Arabs and things are boiling over. But it is pointless to speak about this because there is no solution."
Pascal Moulin, supporter of Marine Le Pen's National Front

"The dream of the Arabs is to be French, but with my face and my name I can't ever be French in this country."
"We are so used to discrimination and stigmatization that we are no longer shocked by it. Our community cannot go any lower than it already is."
Hadj Jellal, coffee shop manager, Marseilles

Soldiers on patrol in Nice. Human rights groups and UN experts have criticised the continuation of the state of emergency. Photograph: Lionel Cironneau/AP

The port city of Marseille has been settled for the past seventy years with Muslims from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. This represents generations of French Muslims. The result of a gradual, then an accelerated influx of Muslims in France has not been an integration of culture and social mores but an incorrigible separation, mutual distrust and arms-length hostility. In turn this has occasioned discrimination and lack of opportunity, poverty, unemployment and anger.

The Paris banlieues are dingy, dark, crowded and miserable, seething with rage and impotence. When, on occasion, a breakout of young men celebrate their rage by a rampage of torched vehicles, France takes notice. French gendarmes enter the banlieues at their risk, and as a result, far prefer not to, so the areas remain crime-ridden, drug-infested and perfect breeding grounds for Islamism where vengeance is a gruel consumed with hot passion.

After the well orchestrated Paris attacks that took place on Friday, November 13, leaving 130 people dead and countless injured, an atmosphere of expectant dread permeates the public consciousness. They have been warned time and again to be aware and observant. They have been warned by authorities that this will not be the last of such attacks. The attackers were French and Belgian Muslims, born and raised in those countries, aided by a few terrorists who had filtered into Europe in the wake of the flood of Syrian refugees.

France is flush with Muslims, in numbers that exceed any other European country, with Germany bringing up the rear. The problems that both countries have faced, will continue to face, are enormous. None of which would be so daunting as the simple fact that Islam is not conducive to living in harmony with the democratic principles of the West. Islam's goal is clear to all but the most blinkered; to achieve the final dominating conquest.

Muslims, in turn, though they represent the second most populous world religion, growing faster than any other, feel beleaguered and ill done by, loyal to a fault to their religion and all of its fixed and immutable dictates. If there is a solution, it has eluded the most resourceful intelligence minds. And so, France, months after their latest devastating blow from Islam, has extended its state of emergency, fearing to relax its vigil.

The state of emergency in place since the November attacks in Paris, ignoring United Nations experts, is being extended. The state of emergency, stated French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, must remain in place for the "necessary" period of time, "until we can get rid of" Islamic State. "As long as the threat is there, we must use all the means", he stated with finality.

The big unknown is, will it help, and can the ethos behind the ideological thrust of Islamic State ever be gotten rid of since needless to say, that ethos and that ideology represents the very basic thrust of Islam which insists on complete surrender.

Labels: Conflict, France, Immigration, Islam, Jihad, Violence

posted by Pieface @ Friday, January 29, 2016