"We Are Transforming France..."

In December 2006, I posted an article on Houria Bouteldja, a young Algerian woman who regularly goes on verbal rampages against the French people, French civilization and white European culture in general. These rampages are frequently seen on television where her appearances are an occasion for national collective self-flagellation while seated in front of the tube. She is currently spokesperson for Les Indigènes de la République, an association of activist North Africans, blacks and Muslims who fight against racial inequality (actually, they fight against white culture). In 2006 she said:

"I believe it is necessary to denationalize the history of France...French identity is built around Christianity and Europeanism, that is, the fact of having white skin...French identity is being white and Christian... We Arabs, blacks and Muslims will always be outsiders...this Franco-centric identity must burst and bring into it everything that isn't white or Christian..."

In a subsequent post dated August 2007 I spoke of another television appearance during which she coined the term "souchien" to designate an ethnic Frenchman, with "souche" being the French word for "root". However her term had a double meaning: "souchien" also means "sub dog", i.e. lower than a dog (where "sous" means "sub" and "chien" means dog). This was the true intent of the insulting term which is now often used ironically or sarcastically at the French websites.

I was sure I would not be writing about her again, as I considered her to be psychotic. In the videos available of Ms. Bouteldja, she speaks like one possessed, her words spewing forth from her raging over-wrought mind like so many bullets aimed at the helpless, compliant whites sitting opposite her.

Despite my vow to avoid this woman, I came upon the following diatribe at the website Les Indigènes de la République. Addressed to Elisabeth Badinter (1), it is another Bouteldja rant, except, as one French blogger, Gérard Pince, has pointed out, her words, vindictive though they may be, are also unhappily all too true. She begins with cutting remarks about Badinter's belief in the notion that France is a melting pot, that Badinter's desire to ban the burka is a joke, that whether or not Badinter likes it she is slowly metamorphosing into an Afro-Arab, that Badinter's demand that those who do not love France should leave is also a joke, etc... In other words, for Bouteldja, it is not just an issue of integrating blacks and North Africans into France, but more significantly of integrating Frenchmen into the immigrant culture. Here are some excerpts:

(...) Not to mention the specific laws passed to stop us from anchoring ourselves here, and special ministers just for us. Little by little Elisabeth is metamorphosing from within. Sure, she resists. Her immune system is working well, sometimes it really works overtime. Her weapons? Words. Words that wage war on us. Words that label us, pigeonhole us, freeze us. Words to stifle us, prevent us from breathing: diversity, integration, visible minorities, black, beurs, moderate Islam, lost territories of the Republic... And yet we breathe and our breath is ARABIC, AFRICAN, MUSLIM. It is from the BANLIEUE (2).

As she learned at school, Elisabeth is convinced that France is a melting pot of integration and that France, knowing how to integrate, is integrating us as surely as Monsieur Jourdain (3) made prose without knowing it.

And the gal is right! The boa has swallowed us up. Those who, at least once in their life, have been ashamed of their parents, their accent, their manners will have no trouble understanding me. (...)

But fortunately, the reverse is also true. As painful as it may be to those who are super-sensitive about the French flag and those who sing the praises of eternal Gallic France: WE ARE TRANSFORMING FRANCE. In other words, France too, is integrating INTO US. Yes, it takes time, but there is no need for a conspiracy fomented by the Arab-Negroid-Berber masses, or for a plot hatched by bearded men with knives between their teeth. France will never again be as she was in the films of Fernandel. Our mere existence, combined with a relative demographic weight (1 for 6), is Africanizing, Arabizing, Berberizing, Creolizing, Islamizing, and darkening the eldest daughter of the Church, formerly immaculately white, as surely as the wash and backwash of the waves polishes and re-polishes blocks of granite claimed to be eternal. (4)

However, there is a limit we have not yet dared to go beyond: that of assuming this situation to be an irreversible fact and to have the audacity to demand the right to actively participate in the future of this country and in the construction of its identity. Worse still, we have not dared to go after Power. Or at least to take the part of power that is due us and to render homage to those who teach us that "to exist, is to exist politically." (5) (...)

Notes:
(1) Elisabeth Badinter (left) is a Socialist author of numerous works of history and the condition of women. She is the wife of French attorney Robert Badinter, who served as Minister of Justice under Mitterrand, and who was responsible for the law against capital punishment. Elisabeth Badinter is the daughter of the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, one of France's most prominent businessmen, and founder of Publicis, a giant advertising and communications company. She is also heiress to the company's fortune, owns about 10% of the stock and is chairman of the board of directors. A very rich Socialist indeed. Like the company she inherited, she is a multiculturalist and promoter of "diversity". She did say that Muslim women who wear the burka might consider going to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan where they would feel more at home, but she has not advocated the closing of borders or any form of repatriation (that I know of).

(2) "Beur" refers to a North African. "Banlieue" refers to the suburbs. I preferred to retain the French terms in this article.

(3) Monsieur Jourdain is the main character in Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. An arriviste without culture, he learns to his surprise that when he speaks it is "prose". Thus, according to Bouteldja, Elisabeth Badinter will one day learn to her surprise that she is an Arab without knowing it. (Those who dislike her would say she already is one, since her Socialist policies were responsible for the opening of the borders in the first place).

(4) The total population of France (including overseas departments) is given as 65,073,482. Is Bouteldja saying that there is one non-European for every 6 Europeans, or that one in six inhabitants of France is non-European? In the latter case, it means that one sixth of the population is Arab-African-Maghrebin, or very roughly, 10,845,000 persons.

(5) The author of the quote is one Abdelmalek Sayed, of whom I know nothing. The quote apparently comes from a book in which he insists that immigrants must be placed in positions of political power.

As I indicated above, Gérard Pince, an economist and founder of the Free World Academy has written his opinion of Houria Bouteldja's diatribe. He starts with an ironic description of the comforts of home:

I hope you are doing as I am doing. Cozily wrapped in a robe with a big woolen bonnet and warm slippers, I refuse to turn on the heat before November 15. They can always increase the price of gas. My lamb stew is simmering on the wood fire. With a great bottle of Juliénas, a delicious dinner awaits me!

He then tells how he managed to obtain a bottle of Corton, vintage 1955, for only 17 euro because the label was damaged. He hopes we all had the pleasure of hearing the unspeakable Bernard-Henri Lévy rage against the justice system for daring to pursue a rapist-pedophile. (Well, I DID report on Polanski, but omitted the profound words of BHL, feeling certain that we are all better off for not having to listen to that bloviator). He notes that rather than vaccinate the people against a flu of no importance, the government is instead giving booster shots on Nazism, and wonders why other genocides (Armenian, Ukrainian, Cambodian, or Rwandan ) are never mentioned.

He moves on to the situation in France:

Meanwhile the ship of the majority party is sinking inexorably. All the polls prove it, at least for those who still know how to count. If the presidential elections were to take place today, Nicolas Sarkozy would be roundly defeated. It's perfectly clear: he is under the evil influence of Madame Veto (i.e., Carla Bruni-Sarkozy). Everybody knows it, nobody dares say anything. So, we have to prepare for a return to power of the Left, since there is no other alternative. (If you still have doubts, review the astounding interview with Le Pen).

Note: He provides a link to the most recent Le Pen interview in which the leader of the Front National claims Islam is not incompatible with the principles of the French Republic. See my post.

Anyway, the way we're going, it won't change a thing. We will crash into the wall a little sooner, but with our eyes open.

Leaving the last word to Houria Bouteldja, he then closes with these words of thanks:

Thank you, Houria. This wonderful frankness does you honor, and above all thank you for confirming my demographic figures. I have more respect for an enemy that advances in full view than for all the phony idiots who pretend to fight Islamism and who spend the better part of their time stabbing us in the back.

You can review Gérard Pince's demographic predictions here.