Start With the Children

A reader sent this text in response to my previous post on the Islamization of France. I felt it was worth presenting as a separate item. She opens with a quote from the end of my post:

Notice that the Muslims calmly plot the takeover without any thought of a rebellion from the natives.

She asks:

Have you read the recommendations adopted on 14 March 2003 at the conference "Learning to live together: What kind of education for what kind of citizenship" jointly organized by the French and Moroccan Commissions for UNESCO in Rabat? It is very enlightening and states:

Some excerpts:

We are witnessing today a period of trial for a world order which took half a century to build.
We observe the fragility of what we used to regard as universal values and established principles, when these are confronted by other ideas which we thought had been unanimously condemned.

Hence the importance of this initiative taken by the national commissions of the Arab and European States : the idea of a Euro-Arab dialogue able to reveal a historical dimension and an understanding of the changes that the world is undergoing, as well as the will to control their course.

The key to harmonious Euro/Arab cultural diversity is through the education of young children and also adults in "citizenship"

The third issue is education in world citizenship. This must be a form of education which leads to the building of a pluralist, intercultural society in which the catchwords would be solidarity, tolerance, peace and freedom : an education in human rights, which would include rights and responsibilities, and which would make it possible to release creative forces and to develop the ability to think and the critical faculties.

"Learning to live together", is one of the "four pillars of lifelong education"

The revision of school syllabuses in the two regions in order to eliminate stereotypes;

The need for European programmes to present Arab culture on an equal footing;

The need for Arab programs to present colonization as the aspiration of a ruling class, and not as the imperialist aim of an entire people;

The development of the teaching of the Arab language as the vector of Arab-Islamic culture.

Source: Unesco (a 28-page pdf document).

She closes with this observation:

It is very deviant of them to target our children in order to realise their Eurabian Utopia.

Note: The above text seems to be a ramification into the world of education of the original Resolution of Strasbourg from 1974, in which it was agreed that Arab culture and religion (meaning of course Islam) would be welcomed on European soil and allowed to flourish on an equal footing with Christianity. This, plus the laws on family reunification, were what opened the floodgates to massive immigration.

Will France Really Be A Muslim Country?

There's a 16-page discussion at a Muslim forum called Mejliss el kalam, linked by François Desouche. To translate the entire discussion is out of the question. But here is the first page somewhat simplified....

The initial question, dated April 11, 2009, comes from ShamsTabrizi, from Somalia:

- Salam. In a city of 22 thousand inhabitants a few miles from Paris, more than 6 thousand persons participated in the Friday prayer at 2:00 p.m., including a significant number of converted Frenchmen and Frenchwomen. At the end of the prayer, seeing these people, I began to wonder in how many years France will be a mostly Muslim country.

- (Abelatif from Belgium responds): You must not have any illusions, my brother. France as a Muslim country will be several generations form now, or more. But it's true that it's beautiful to see Muslims of all origins at the mosque... Praise be to Allah

- (ShamsTabrizi): I don't agree. considering the evolution of the situation I have been witnessing, I do not give it more than 30 years before we will see mayors giving sermons on Friday to the faithful.

- (Abdel93600 from The Netherlands): Salam. The French are no longer having many children. Let's do France a favor and ensure the renewal of generations. It's a problem for many European countries! The birth rate in France recently reached a record, the highest in Europe, due in great part, to immigrant women.

- (Prince.Hakim from Belgium): I think we're heading for a Franco-Creole-Maghrebin civilization with massive intermarriage under the aegis of Islam.

- (Maléikite from Belgium): Brussels will be majority Muslim in less than 20 years (these are non-Muslim statistics). Inch'Allah.

- (MonSpeudo2 from France): Stop dreaming up tales about our country. It will never belong to you

- (ShamsTabrizi to Prince.Hakim): Then you agree with me. France will surely be a Muslim land for our grandchildren, maybe our children. So we must begin to construct a good basis to avoid unpleasant surprises for them in the future.

- (Maléikite to MonSpeudo2): Don't worry, we'll protect your rights, you will have the status of dhimmi.

- (ShamsTabrizi to MonSpeudo2): Ask your father if he ever imagined so many mosques and Muslims when he was your age. Then you'll have the answer as to whom France will belong. I like France, and I will like it even more when it's Muslim. Don't worry, we will be lenient on Christian minorities.

- (Prince-Hakim to MonSpeudo2): It will not be a matter of conquest, but of adherence to a joint effort between Frenchmen and Maghrebins. You should consider converting to Islam.

- (Ilyas_95 from France to MonSpeudo2): Bah! As far as I know France belongs to me as much as to you, doesn't it?

- (Parisien from France to Ilyas_95): No. I don't think so...

- (Prince.Hakim to ShamsTabrizi): I would even say the French deserve to be a part of the Umma.

- (Ilyas_95 to ShamsTabrizi): It's ridiculous to use threats... We're stuck in the suburbs and the high-rises. To say things like we're going to turn France upside-down, when we are not even able to agree on the best way to scratch our noses...

- (Ilyas_95 to Parisien): Really? Why not?

- (El-che from France): In 1974, at the UN, the Algerian president Houari Boumediene, declared: "One day, millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere to go north. And they won't go there as friends. Because they will be going to conquer. And they will conquer and people the land with their sons. It is the womb of women that will bring us victory."

In Le Figaro, December 19, 2006, our great friend Muammar Quadhafi declared: "Without sword, without rifles, without conquests, the 50 million Muslims in Europe will transform it soon into a Muslim continent!"

- (Prince.Hakim from Belgium): I think we should have a friendly attitude towards the French and convince them to join us.

- (ShamsTabrizi to Ilyas_95): There is no threat but a simple observation, and when you say we can't agree among ourselves you're off the topic. I don't see what that has to do with the evolution of society advancing in the interests of Islam and Muslims. And that is precisely why I said earlier that we must begin to construct a good basis for the future of our children.

- (Abdel93600 from The Netherlands): Salam. Are there any cities in France that are already majority Muslim or close to it? Except for Roubaix (that goes back a long time) and Marseilles? We're off to a good start, one at the northernmost end the other at the southernmost end?

- (Ilyas95 to ShamsTabrizi): The political power is now in the hands of a minority that remains in power. The numbers do not in any way change the rules of the game... we just have to see to what extent "our" cities (those that are majority Muslim) represent an enviable model for the entire world...

- (Le Compagnon from the UAE to MonSpeudo2): It already belongs to us. First mission accomplished, second mission: children, third: Islamization. End of operation. You will have the right to attend school without a veil.

- (Shams Tabrizi to Prince.Hakim): Salam. That's the way things are going. In the mosque where I prayed on Friday, it was the number of French Muslims that surprised me the most. Naturally, Islamization of society will take place with their help.

- (Ilyas_95 to ShamsTabrizi): What is "Islamization" of France??? The fact that everybody is Muslim???I say this because it is an important point after all...

- (Parisien from France): Then the Israelis are right after all.

Note: He links to another thread where Israelis are said to call for the slitting open of the stomachs of pregnant Muslim women. "Parisien" was eventually suspended from the forum, not surprisingly.

- (Need_Peace from Morocco): Assalam alaikom to all. I was in France just once, in August 2007. I spent two weeks there on holiday. I did not make any particular acquaintances with our brothers and sisters of Islam, but for the entire time, I had the certitude that it was a country where Islam will be majority, and I said to everyone that France will be glorified by Islam. Inch'Allah. It warms the heart to see the number of committed sincere converts.

- (ShamsTabrizi to Ilyas_95): Who said anything about taking power? Here we are talking about a majority of the population and it's already a good start. If you also want power, then instead of thinking of yourself as weak and saying that we'll never succeed, rise up and give yourself the means to do it. Don't look for excuses to stay in bed.

- (Didyme from France to ShamsTabrizi): Hello. There are about 3 thousand converts to Islam each year. Let's be liberal and say 5 thousand. Let's forget about the Muslims who become apostates. In order for France to become a majority Muslim country only through conversion, 20 million Frenchmen would have to convert (half of the 60 million Frenchmen minus the 10 million who are already Muslim).

Note: Notice that he said TEN million, not the usual five or six we so often hear about.

At the rate of 5 thousand conversions per year it would take... 4000 years! So it's difficult to count on conversions alone.

You can count on the higher birth rate among immigrant Muslim families than among non-Muslims. But as Muslim immigrants attain the same standard of living as non-Muslims, the birthrates will become equal.

You can count on immigration even though the current policies indicate the opposite, that is, a policy of expulsion.

Note: If he thinks Sarkozy is expelling many immigrants, he is perhaps fooling himself. Larger numbers are coming in than returning home.

But some can always dream about a majority Muslim France in a "maximum of 30 years."

- (El-che to Prince.Hakim): We are not supposed to be a people who terrorize and who seek to wage war and cause blood to be shed, so yes, we must have a friendly attitude towards them.

-(Prince.Hakim to Parisien, re: the Israelis): They should go back to Russia or Poland or Ethiopia.

The conversation goes on for 15 more web pages. I have not had time to read through it all, but French readers may be interested. The comments at François Desouche are worth a look, although I can only post a few at random out of the 200:

- I will not have my children baptized, so that they don't appear on the lists of Christians. Islamists, when they are in power in France, like the Nazis before them, love to consult lists.

- History always ends with massacres and bloodbaths! If you know how to read between the lines, you know what you have to do!

- (...) In short, I'm very pessimistic for the future of France. I think that the only element that could change the situation might come from international events and a possible conflict with Iran. The Muslims of France will feel threatened and I think very violent riots are foreseeable on French territory, even kamikaze attacks! At that moment, a possible civil war between pro-Iranian and ethnic Frenchmen (of Christian origin) could break out.

- What a bunch of rats... but frankly, even if the country becomes Islamized, I don't think it will become a Muslim country so easily. I have hope that the French people in their majority will finally revolt before that happens.

- We still have time. You don't need 50% Muslims in France for chaos to reign. there are about 4-5 million Muslims in France, or 6 to 8% of the population. They already have quite a bit of nuisance value. Not to mention the non-Muslim foreigners. In all, perhaps 8 million non-Europeans, or 13% of the population.

- (...) Really I would tend to say there are about 8 to 10 million Muslims in France.

- With respect, I feel that the number of 5 million Muslims in France was surpassed long ago. There are at least 10 million!!

- I would say 10 to 12 million. Sometimes, I feel like leaving this country. It's becoming too hard, like seeing a woman you love, with her veins slashed, in a bathtub, and not being able to help her.

- Nobody is really fooled. At any rate not the ethnic Frenchmen. Almost everybody knows that there will be violence at the moment of the "passing of the torch", when the Muslim community is almost in the majority and their "cultural demands" become laws... There will always be a temptation on the part of this community to affirm its domination. It's then that things will begin to go badly.

- (...) Our friends the immigrants, Islamists, collaborators should not worry too much: the French are patient, very patient, too much so, but above all they are unpredictable and the day when the fire is lit, no one will be able to stop it. History has already proven that. (...)

- Having worked a various maternity hospitals in Paris and the nearby suburbs, I can attest that black women are in a very large majority. And they don't have just one child... I saw fewer Maghrebins.

- (In response to the reader who said he wants to leave the country) And that doesn't take into account the social climate. I don't know how it is where you work, but at my job it's war.

- At my job if they're unhappy, they back off. But there's a Frenchman who praises the "virility" of the immigrants, but when it's said about a white man, that's no good, it's Le Pen. Yet in his heart, I feel sure that he suspects it will end in complete chaos. But he prefers to live like an ostrich.

Like the discussion at Mejliss, this goes on and on. It's very interesting, but the main question still remains: What will really happen when the tipping point has been reached? Will the French wait until that happens, then rebel in violence? Violence can be prevented by sane immigration policies, a refusal to build mosques and an affirmation of nationalism, if not Christianity. If violence does erupt it will be chaotic and directed at the "collaborators" as much (possibly more?) as towards the Muslims.

One recurring theme is that despite outward passiveness, the French, in general, know that violence will come. This seems to indicate a higher level of awareness on the part of the population than is generally acknowledged. Notice that the Muslims calmly plot the takeover without any thought of a rebellion from the natives.

EU Elections - The Pro-Sovereignty Parties

This post is an adaptation of an article from Le Figaro dated May 21:

It's a tale of two rivals who know each other well and who have been observing each other for a long time. Which one - Jean-Marie Le Pen or Philippe de Villiers - will come out ahead in the June 7 European elections? The outcome will have an impact on the leadership to the right of Nicolas Sarkozy. And the analyses differ according to the pollsters.

For most pollsters, the Front National is still in the lead, but the gap is closing with the MPF (Movement for France) and the CPNT (Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions), that are presenting joint ballots under the banner of Libertas, the party of Irishman Declan Ganley. The latest indicators from CSA, published on May 17, credit the FN and and the MPF-CPNT coalition with 6% and 5% of the vote. A poll from Ifop attributes 7.5% to Le Pen and 5% to the MPF. Out own opinion poll from May 20 is very similar, with the FN receiving 6% and the MPF 5.5%. A poll from Ipsos inverts the trend and attributes 6% to Villiers and 5% to Le Pen.

Philippe de Villiers, whose mood can change rapidly, is delighted. "For a week I have felt that things are moving. It's a feeling I know well, I've known it both in the good sense and the bad, in the course of my successive campaigns. The real campaign starts now and everything will play out during the last ten days. We are the only ones who dared to transgress and give a name to the solution to the current crisis: protectionism."

If anyone objects to Villiers on grounds that it is the same platform as the FN, he defends himself: "In the mind of the public, I am more legitimate than he is on the theme of protectionism, while he is better on the theme of immigration." The deputy from Vendée (Villiers) predicts he will beat the FN and achieve 7% - 9% of the votes.

Obviously Jean-Marie Le Pen and his lieutenants don't see it that way. The leader of the FN bears a grudge against Villiers for having attempted to take voters from him in the 2007 presidential. At the time Villiers had miscalculated Le Pen's ability to acquire eligibility to run for office, in view of his age and health (something the FN was very shadowy about).

Note: Eligibility depended on getting 500 signatures from elected officials, such as mayors and councillors.

The leader of the Front National gleefully attacks the deputy from Vendée: "With Villiers you'll be eating rabbit stew with Irish sauce: beware of indigestion!"

Bruno Gollnisch, vice-president of the FN, adds his voice and accuses Villiers of being the " an opponent in the service of the court", the "eternal procurer of votes for the UMP."

"I do not sense any dynamic in favor of Libertas," adds Marine Le Pen, vice-president of the FN. Philippe de Villiers' constituents are stunned that he is running under a foreign flag," she declares. In her view, "the Front National will come out ahead of the MPF-CPNT ballots that will have only one winner: Villiers." Marine Le Pen is hoping for a score of between 7% and 8%. To her, this seems "very honorable, since our party is convalescing."

At any rate, it is probable that on June 7, the eternal rivals, Philippe de Villiers and Jean-Marie Le Pen, both longtime deputies in the EU Parliament, will reenlist and continue to stare at each other in the amphitheater at Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg.

EU Elections - The Anti-Zionists

Dieudonné, the famous and infamous comedian who has built a career around his visceral anti-Semitism, and "philosopher" Alain Soral, who has built a career around his... visceral anti-Semitism, will be running together in the European elections, on a ballot for Ile-de-France, which includes Paris and its environs. This, of course, is the region of France most likely to cast votes for their party - the Anti-Zionist Party or PAS.

The news of their collaboration and electoral ambitions has caused oceans of ink to flow at all the websites, and has spurred some to call for a ban on the party. Most of the comments I have seen are opposed to such a ban since it would only help the cause of the PAS by granting it instant martyrdom.

Before going any further it must be stated that nothing like this would have the remotest chance of succeeding were it not for the Muslim presence in France. But the Muslim presence is now coming to the aid of those anti-Semitic elements that lie dormant waiting for their hour to come. The Muslim presence has brought together the Left and Islam and the anti-Semitic Right in a coalition fit for hell. Dieudonné and Soral, but especially Soral, hold hybrid positions on various issues, mixing socialism, tradition, nationalism, anti-EU-ism, multi-culturalism, etc... thus disseminating even more confusion, but at bottom, for these two men and their Muslim-led party, Israel (and by natural extension all Jews), are the cause of all the evil in the world. This is the "traditional" point of view held by the congenital anti-Semite.

It is difficult to choose from the plethora of articles streaming forth on this topic. In March, Le Monde announced that Alain Soral had accepted Dieudonné's invitation to join him on the ballot:

Addressing him as "my dear Dieudonné", Soral, former member of the French Communist Party and one-time adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, affirmed that he heard loud and clear Dieudonné's "vibrant appeal for a union of all those who refuse to submit." And that he was in favor of "opposing Zionism and denouncing the ever more conspicuous and weighty interference by the French pro-Zionist lobby in the affairs of our country."

However, since the fight against separate ethnic communities ("communautarisme") and Zionism are "not sufficient to constitute an electoral program", Soral has added a few other points to his humorist friend's political road map: "The fight against the rise of commercial globalist totalitarianism which is what the European Union is in reality; the defense of French workers and their rights against the plan for the destruction of our industries, public services, and small businesses by globalized capitalism, hence by the European Union; the return of the State to all large economic sectors, or a well-reasoned protectionism" (...)

Ivan Rioufol, a journalist with Le Figaro, writing at his blog earlier this month speaks of the possibility of banning this new party from the elections:

Personally, I have always felt that a democratic debate was not improved by silencing scandalous opinions or realities. For this reason, I have always opposed the Gayssot Law that penalizes Holocaust denial. It seems to me that the best way to victimize Dieudonné and his friends, who are eager for victimization, would be to ban the public expression of their anti-Zionist obsessions. (...) You cannot smother out dangerous ideas. Rather, you fight back in public discussions and in the voting booth. This is how the masks fall (I've learned that at my blog) and hidden realities reveal themselves.

Note: I agree with him in general. There are however times when certain parties, ideas or individuals, in the interests of national security, must be classified as dangerous to the public welfare. This is not one of them mainly because the Muslim presence in France is very significant and cannot be "offended", and because the government itself is responsible for this presence. However, Europe, France perhaps more so than other countries, has reached an explosive point in this Jewish-Muslim war on European soil due to, as indicated, the massive, government-sponsored invasion by Muslims and Africans. Another cause is the deliberate blurring and mixing of issues, achieved by playing upon the general public's indoctrination into egalitarian absolutism: all men are equal, all religions are equal, all cultures are equal, and all hatreds are equal. Thus anti-Semitism, a centuries-old European obsession, is in no way different from the completely justified fear of Islam, conveniently tagged as "Islamophobia." I have no doubts that Le Pen, Dieudonné and Soral are all completely aware of this, and are enjoying every minute of their game with European bureaucrats, so pompously offended by the presence of a group of Jew-haters and Jew-baiters. The same European bureaucrats who prepared the terrain long ago for this very eruption of insanity. Louis Pasteur said, "The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything".

Riposte Laïque, a website fiercely devoted to preserving laïcité (the separation of Church and State decreed by the 1905 law), takes definite sides on the issue of Muslim immigration and its effects on French society, denouncing the Dieudonné-Soral partnership on many grounds, and insisting that the PAS must not be banned, but discredited. Here are some extended excerpts from those parts of the article I consider most relevant to this post:

Listening to the press conference given by Dieudonné and Soral and the first 20 of their running mates on the so-called "anti-Zionist" ballot, one is left with a strange feeling.

The media have pointed out that what is so unusual are the disparities in the list of names. There are names of people who come from labor unions; a former leader of the Front National for Youth; a film-maker claiming to have belonged to the LCR (Revolutionary Communist League); Ginette Skandrani - accused even by some pro-Palestinians of being a fellow traveler in the club of holocaust deniers - and who even managed to get herself excluded from the Green Party; Maria Poumer, a university professor who supports Chavez and claims she wants to reconcile Christian and Communist cultures but who was reproached by her colleagues for her complicity with holocaust denier Roger Garaudy; a mystical guru - psychosociologist and psychotherapist from the extreme-center(!); a republican who wants to kick out all those who don't love France; two traditional Catholics; the token Muslim woman with a veil; and even one individual who is pro-European Union!

Note: In his article on this topic (see below), NDP leader Robert Spieler indicates that there is also one ultra-orthodox anti-Zionist rabbi on the ballot. A motley crew, if ever...

But besides Dieudonné, there are the two individuals who really weigh most heavily in this coalition. During the press conference, one could see the important role played by the Zahra Center in creating the ticket. Dieudonné and Soral were seated between Yahia Gouasmi, a shiite Muslim of the Party of God (Hezbollah), and a veiled woman who never spoke (see photo below). The image was revealing. Yahia Gouasmi is both president of the Anti-Zionist Party (PAS) and the Zahra Center. Recently he took part in a demonstration by the Party of Muslims of France, demanding the abolition of the law against religious signs in schools. Riposte Laïque has been interested in the Zahra Center, in the north of France, that openly advocates the disappearance of Israel and does not hide its links with Iran. During the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, Jean-Marie Le Pen had accepted an invitation to attend the ceremonies in Paris, and granted an interview in which he praised the revolution and the ayatollahs. We have also been interested in the remarks of Yahia Gouasmi, who cannot mask his hatred of Jews behind rhetoric that condones the eradication of the State of Israel.


Note: I covered the event alluded to above in the last part of a post entitled Focus on Iran.

The press conference made it clear that if Gouasmi held the purse strings (the only comment he made was to say that "there is no financial problem"), it was Alain Soral who was the boss, the composer of the music played by Dieudonné, in the provocative key that is his alone. Alain Soral, essayist, polemicist, Marxist, longtime member of the French Communist Party, special adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen during the presidential campaign, who left the Front National amidst confusion and conflict with Marine Le Pen. (...)

Note: The article discusses at length certain of Soral's positions that are similar to those of Riposte Laïque, but the author is quick to point out that these areas of agreement do not mean affinity with Soral or support for his party.

The Dieudonné-Soral rhetoric is very simple. Jews are everywhere. They are at the center of a conspiracy. They govern the world and they have invaded France. The country must be liberated from this invasion. Remember their slogan during the war in Gaza: "Zionist, get the hell out of here, France is not yours!" (...)

Note: Of course France DOES belong to the Muslims???

What can one say about the stupid idea of Claude Guéant, Elysée chief of staff, when he declared that he wanted to examine the ways to ban this ballot. It was a boon for Dieudonné, who, of course, knows how to use this to his advantage. (...)

We mustn't underestimate Soral-Dieudonné-Gouasmi. They've done good preparation. And it isn't by chance that they are running only in Ile-de-France - that is where the terrain is most fertile. They participated in the Gaza demonstrations, (...) they were present at the UOIF convention (Union of Islamic Organizations of France which is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood) where they spoke at length with Tariq Ramadan. Soral, in the aftermath, gave a joint lecture in Bordeaux with Tarek Oubrou, grand mufti of UOIF. (...)

One shudders at the "national republican reconciliation" that the trio promises us, behind their anti-Zionist rhetoric.

It would be a France with the Islamic veil, the uniform of the Party of God in which Gouasmi is a participant. He would have total freedom to impose himself in all areas of our society. It would mean public prayers, as we witnessed during the January 2009 demonstrations in Paris.

One century after the 1905 law, under pressure from Islam, religion is regaining control of our public affairs (...)

Note: There follows a long list of acts that Jews are NOT responsible for. For example:

It is not Jews who form the majority of inmates in our prisons.

While Riposte Laïque condemns ALL religions, except insofar as they are completely separate from the State, we have seen that certain Christian and Jewish religious leaders and "intellectuals" welcome Islam - the Catholics on grounds that Islam restores spiritual feelings and "saves" Europe from hedonism, Jews on grounds of multiculturalism, which they perceive as a safeguard against persecutions. Both Christians and Jews who belong to the Socialist line of thinking (i.e., Vatican 2, multiculturalism, anti-racism, etc...) regard anti-immigration movements as "racist" or "despotic".

And so the confusion of values, the adoption of harmful ideas by those most entrusted with the job of clarifying and opposing those values, continues to poison the public discourse and provide grist for the mills of men like Alain Soral, keen enough to adopt enough "good ideas" and to carefully mix them with noxious ideas, thus attracting both Muslims and some nationalists who couldn't care less about the consequences of such a mixture, but who just want to get rid of Israel.



For now, it is not likely this party will win many seats, but the mere fact that it is there and growing, as the number of Muslims increases, either through immigration or through large families, is ominous. Robert Spieler, head of the Nouvelle Droite Populaire (NDP), a new party formed by those members of the Front National who had had enough of Le Pen, attempts to see this as a kind of bad joke. He cites the old Jewish legend of the Golem, a creature made of clay that comes alive and spreads terror in the ghetto of Prague:

(...) And so the creature has escaped from those who had deluded themselves into thinking they were its masters. The emotions are intense, indignation howls from all quarters. What? An anti-Zionist ballot? Can we ban it? Claude Guéant, chief of staff of Elysée, for whom anti-Zionism means of course anti-Semitism, declared on the radio: "Dieudonné is an anti-Semite 100% of the time." To which Alain Soral replied, "Even Adolf Hitler, when he patted his dog, had reduced anti-Semitism. In his bunker, Adolf Hitler was only anti-Semitic 97% of the time." And Soral, always the provoker, added: "What is Bernard-Henri Lévy complaining about? Look at our ballot - it's white, black and Arab. We have accomplished what he wants."

Note: Unfortunately there is some truth in this and confirms that Jewish Socialists, such as BHL, who fancy themselves "philosophers" should be exposed as the collaborators of the anti-French Establishment that they are. Using anti-racism as their pretext, they rush to the defense of those who would destroy France. This problem exists in Israel as well as in America and Europe - pundits, sophists, talking heads fill the TV screens every night, attempting to control the way people perceive events.

(...) It is likely that Dieudonné's ballot, appearing as the most rebellious, the most anti-Establishment, will have great success in Ile-de-France. The demiurges of anti-racism will have reaped what they have sown. (...)

Spieler wonders if the EU Parliament, having modified its regulations in order to ban Jean-Marie Le Pen from presiding over the first session of the body after the election (assuming he were elected), will now ban a Golem, even if he is black:

It would be the logical outcome of the anti-racist masquerade that would end (for us) with a gigantic burst of laughter.

Note: Jean-Marie Le Pen, 81, could have, in certain restricted circumstances, addressed the opening session of the new Parliament by virtue of his status as senior member. It was not likely to happen, and now it will not happen.

Finally, to add to the confusion Dieudonné is now often called an "extreme right-winger". But they give that label to Philippe de Villiers as well!

Below, Alain Soral in 2007.

Criminals Beware!

By all means read Thomas Landen's excellent summary of Nicolas Sarkozy's record on crime and credibility (or lack thereof), and his chances for winning in the EU elections. The article posted at The Brussels Journal deals with several topics that I have covered over the last many months, but Landen has conveniently put everything together under one roof.

One topic he dwells on is Sarkozy's current campaign promise to fight even harder against crime. Considering how little he has done (and Landen points out that the French feel less safe today than seven years ago, when Sarkozy became interior minister) this promise becomes something of a joke, like his oft-repeated proclamations against Turkey in the EU.

In mid-April, Le Figaro reported on Nicolas Sarkozy's new anti-crime plan. (The photo shows him in Nice, unveiling his project.)You will see that it is like putting a band-aid on a hemorrhaging wound. It doesn't even sound good in theory since it never addresses the major cause - immigration. And it complicates the situation by creating new crimes, which may actually increase crime, since every new law often results in renewed resourcefulness on the part of criminals:

"Expressing his satisfaction over the drop in the annual number of crimes - down 15% in seven years, or "two million victims spared", according to Sarkozy, (...) he now hopes to accelerate the trend.

Note: There is something not quite right in his satisfaction. First, as Thomas Landen points out, certain types of violent crimes have increased. But in addition, to say "two million victims spared" is to betray his awareness of how bad the crime situation really is. Why does he wait for the European elections to suddenly get "tough"on crime? Silly question.

Belonging to a gang is henceforth a punishable offense. The deputy-mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi has been commissioned to draw up a bill to reenforce the laws against violent gangs.

Note: Estrosi was Sarkozy's man during the 2007 legislative elections. Placed on the UMP ballot by the president, he defeated former deputy from Nice Jérôme Rivière, who had been kicked off the ballot after expressing views that differed from those of Nicolas Sarkozy. Rivière ran as an independent but was unable to counteract the momentum of the UMP landslide.

Note: According to Thomas Landen:

Public gang warfare in France erupted in earnest during the Sarkozy era. Since late 2007, gangs from all over Paris regularly meet up for fights in underground, bus and train stations. One and a half years later this sort of violence has become routine.

So having created a deadly problem, Sarkozy now boasts that he will make it illegal. I know that gang members are trembling in their boots.

To demonstrate in a rally wearing a mask is now a crime as well, as it is in several other countries such as Germany. Nicolas Sarkozy is also concerned about the intrusion of thugs in schools. "Violence in schools is a scandal. The school should be a sanctuary." (...) For example, "to enter or to stay inside the boundaries of a school" without authorization is now punishable by one year in prison and a 7,500 euro fine. Thomas Landen gives a good summary of some recent attacks in schools - but these are the tip of the iceberg.

But the most cynical measure involves the availability of legal counsel:

Finally, Nicolas Sarkozy asked that the possibility for a victim to have "a lawyer at the moment of the assault" be examined. Pointing out that the criminal "has a right to a lawyer the minute a case is opened", the president hopes to "determine in what circumstances the victim could be treated as well as the criminal."

Isn't that reassuring? Now, if you're raped, mugged, beaten, or robbed, you can recuperate with your mind at ease knowing you will have a lawyer almost as quickly as the privileged criminal who assaulted you.

As the French say: "Il se moque de nous." (He takes us for fools).

Those interested can turn to this interactive map of France showing the crime rates in each of the departments, including those overseas. Due to the nature of the illustration it cannot be copied. Run your cursor over each department to see the name of the department, followed by the rate of crime, then the number of attacks in 2008, and the variation from one year before (I assume that is what "variation sur un an" refers to). The greatest number of crimes are committed in the north central part of the country, in particular Paris and surrounding suburbs. In Paris alone there were 34,434 assaults during 2008. (Paris is the tiniest brown circle between Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis). Note also the overseas departments pictured at the top left of the map. Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Guiana rival Seine-Saint-Denis in terms of crime rate.

Not surprisingly, after the northern departments, the area around Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhône) has the most significant crime rate.

It certainly doesn't take much brainwork to figure out why certain areas have more crime than others.

The map deals with crimes against persons, and includes robbery with violence, violence where robbery is not a motive, sexual violence and threats of violence.

If you click "atteintes aux biens" at the top right of the map you will see another map illustrating the rates of crime against property. These include theft, destruction and damage to property. Once again it looks like Paris wins the sweepstakes.

Update: May 22 - A minor editorial adjustment has been made in this post. It does not in any way affect the translation of Le Figaro's article or the article by Thomas Landen.

From Kärcher to Kalashnikov

While he was still minister of the interior, Nicolas Sarkozy promised he would clean up the ghetto of Seine-Saint-Denis with a power-cleaner, known as a "Kärcher". This phrase become a household expression overnight, and he became known as a "tough cop".

Naive or misled voters put him in office on grounds he would attempt to clean up crime. Today these voters have to acknowledge that the never-used "Kärcher" has been replaced by a Kalashnikov rifle (AK-47), turned on the very police entrusted with the thankless job of protecting the population, including the immigrants who commit the crimes. An incident that occurred on May 16-17, in the notorious project of La Courneuve is the subject of this article from Marianne2:

In the ghettoes the important thing is what tools you utilize. Nicolas Sarkozy, a long time ago, chose the Kärcher. The problem is that he never allocated sufficient funds to actually use it. If he had, he would have been able to offer the inhabitants of La Courneuve, in addition, what he had promised them: elevators as clean as a newly minted penny.

Across the way, the little dealers of the neighborhood have grown up. Now they are adults. They saved their profits and got enough money together to buy the tool they had been dreaming of: assault rifles. Not to put behind glass in the family living-room, but to use. At first they drew their guns to kill a few rivals. But last weekend was unprecedented: they used their rifles to attack a police van. The tool gave them satisfaction even though they did not attain their objective: to liberate their two comrades in the van who were under arrest.

The president of the Republic cannot help but admit the damage done: if he stayed at the level of rhetoric, the thugs, for their part, kept their promises: each new generation displays a determination superior to the preceding one. (...)

A royalist blog called La Faute à Rousseau reports these statements from various police unions:

"Our colleagues are worried about the trends and the violence that is on the rise in Seine-Saint-Denis," declared Thierry Mazé, a representative from Alliance, the second largest police union. He tells how the police who went to La Courneuve "fell into a veritable trap set by individuals with war weapons." In La Courneuve inscriptions on the walls warned the police that violence "would be used against them" after several previous incidents.

Questioned by France Info, a colleague of Thierry Mazé said she heard these heartening comments: "A good policeman is a dead policeman..." "We'll raid the police headquarters...", "We'll burn police headquarters...", etc...

For UNSA, the largest police union, it is "urgent" that the "judicial police possess the necessary means to put the caïds out of business." The SGP-FO police union stressed in a communiqué that "to shoot the police is no longer a taboo," and spoke of an "event of exceptional seriousness... troubling... in a context of urban violence."

Note: In France the judicial police is the branch of the national police in charge of criminal investigations.

The author closes by suggesting that all foreigners who commit crimes be expelled immediately, and that those with French nationality be stripped of their nationality and expelled as well.

The Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie paid a surprise visit to La Courneuve late Tuesday night, to express her support for the police and to announce a plan called "opération coup de poing", roughly translated as "operation punch". In French a "coup de poing" is a punch in the face. Here it refers to the sudden police raids she is hoping will stop these criminals. A comical if not pathetic solution to the serious problem of immigration, and to the frightening level of danger that prevails in Seine-Saint-Denis. Already one such raid took place in Orly, south of Paris. One hundred fifty police, plus dogs, did not find any drugs or weapons, only five stolen bicycles.

Jean-Marie Le Pen issued this pertinent communiqué:

It has been known for a long time that war weapons existed in the lawless zones, of which the project called La Courneuve is one of the most typical.

It is quite evident, with all due respect to the ostriches that are governing us, that these weapons are not meant to serve as decorations in your basement.

The attack on a van transporting a "young person" who had himself used lead shot against the forces of law and order is but the start of a new escalation of violence in the ghettoes.

Remember that in 2002, seven years ago, Monsieur Sarkozy became minister of the interior and boasted that he was going to take action to restore security. Seven years later, Monsieur Sarkozy is president of the Republic. He still boasts, but it is the thugs who act, and insecurity has crossed yet another limit.

The Kalashnikovs of La Courneuve demonstrate the extent to which the French people have been dupes.

I have already reported on the existence of war weapons here.

Highly recommended too is this post from December 2007 about a French judge's warning...

The beautiful black and white photo, taken by Arnaud Schelstraete, of La Courneuve Park is from Libération. I believe the buildings are part of a project, but in this photo they look almost surreal. In some other photos I've seen they are depressing, nondescript structures lacking in character.

Turkey in Brussels

This article from Dunya Gazetesi, a Turkish website, dated May 14, announces the opening of a new bureau in Brussels for the purpose of "educating" Europe about Islam. The article was picked up by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, and translated into French at Bivouac-Id:

Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate next month will open an office in Brussels to educate Europe about Islam, in line with a decision made during Pope Benedict XVI's 2005 (sic) visit to Turkey. During the visit, it was decided that Turkey's presence in Europe proves the possibility of Islam and Christianity's peaceful coexistence. It was also concluded that Turkey, with its secular state and Muslim identity, could be a good reference for Muslims living in Europe. In order to block efforts to sow misunderstandings about Islam and stir up Islamophobia in the continent, the directorate decided to open a bureau in the European capital. This decision was also supported by the pope. It is hoped that the office will counter efforts to inflame Islamophobia. Work to make the idea a reality was accelerated in light of the Alliance of Civilizations project, co-chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Spanish counterpart, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. The bureau, which will work as a research center, will be opened by directorate head Ali Bardakoglu. Its establishment has been closely followed and supported by the European Union. Primarily targeting Turks living in Europe, the office will also organize interfaith dialogue activities. Five secretaries and 30 theologians will be employed in Brussels for these purposes.

Note: The Pope visited Turkey in 2006, not 2005.

Turkey is certainly setting up shop and staking its claim. Whether or not EU membership becomes a reality, the Turkish presence in Europe is a reality. Its influence cannot help but grow, since no one is making any attempt to stop it. Au contraire, assistance and support are coming in from all sides.

Did someone say Turkey was a "secular" State?

Wilders and Flemish Secession

Some of you may enjoy this article by Paul Belien, posted at The Brussels Journal, on Geert Wilders' hopes for an independent Flanders that would join (or re-join) the Netherlands, a position he has defended before - there is a link to an earlier article at TBJ.

As interesting as the post is, the discussion that follows, in which readers discuss the history of the split between the Dutch and the Flemish, and the differences in their mentalities is even more fascinating. France is also mentioned as working behind the scenes to prevent any separation of Flanders into what many assume would be a highly successful, work-ethic dominated, anti-Socialist State, that would put its neighbors to shame.

Whether or not you agree, the article is worth a detour.

EU Elections - The Turkish Question

The question of Turkey in the EU is one of the major stakes in the European elections and one of the few good reasons for voting in an election that leaves many Europeans indifferent. At the very least, this is an opportunity to voice a protest against Turkish membership, even if it doesn't result in a concrete rejection of Turkey's candidacy.

But in the past nobody has heeded the wishes of the voters when they ran counter to the EU's pre-fabricated plans. The most one can hope for is a strong showing from the sovereigntist parties, so that, at the very least, the EU will be in a defensive position, should it proceed with its nefarious plan.

Politicians are anxious to cover up their true intentions, and to appear resolutely, adamantly, anti-Turkey, as this article from Le Figaro illustrates. (The author is keen enough to point out that Nicolas Sarkozy may be attempting to wrest votes from his sovereigntist adversaries. This was his winning tactic in 2007 - he pretended to be a "conservative" long enough to win, then shamelessly [and with impunity] set up his own special version of a socialist State.)

"I have always been opposed to this membership and I still am," explained Nicolas Sarkozy on TF1-TV, returning to a position he had defended during the 2005 referendum and during his 2007 election campaign. "Debate in our ranks had been resolved long before the presidential elections. We are working with Turkey on creating a privileged partnership, even a unique one, nothing more", indicated campaign coordinator Michel Barnier to Le Figaro. A longtime supporter of accession, he explained that he has "evolved" on the issue since 2005. "The failure of the referendum was the failure of a plan for a Europe that had no limits or borders," he declared, and added that today he has "no regrets."

As a sign that the ranks are tightly closed, Jean-François Copé, majority leader in the National Assembly, announced that his party is "absolutely, in its majority, against the entry of Turkey into the Union." Strengthened by this declaration, the spokesman for UMP, Frédéric Lefebvre, is taking jabs at the parties to the right of UMP. His favorite target: Philippe de Villiers and his use of "double language". "He has made an electoral alliance under the Libertas banner, with an Irish billionaire known for his changeable position on Turkish accession," says Lefebvre. Villiers finds this declaration "comical", pointing to the "total contradiction, that has existed for two years, between the rhetoric and the acts of the UMP party."

And Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the Front National, denounced this "new lie of Nicolas Sarkozy" who, according to Le Pen, "allowed negotiations for accession to proceed once he was elected".

Earlier this month (May 2009) Nicolas Sarkozy exposed the following grandiose plan in a speech delivered in Nîmes:

"Europe must have borders. There are countries like Turkey that share a common destiny with Europe, that have a mission to construct a privileged relationship with Europe, to be associated as closely as possible with Europe, without becoming members of the European Union. For centuries, France has maintained friendly relations with Turkey, and it is in the name of this friendship that unites our two countries, in the name of the respect that we owe our friends, that I wish to tell Turkey the truth. We would be better off engaging now in negotiations with Turkey to create an economic space and a joint security program. We could also propose this great ambition to Russia, which should not be considered as an adversary of Europe but a partner. Thus, a great space of more than 800 million inhabitants, sharing the same security and the same prosperity, would be created."

Note: Sarkozy is certainly not suffering from agoraphobia.

An article from Observatoire de l'Europe provides a blow by blow account of Sarkozy's record on Turkey: the rhetoric and the acts. The author, Christophe Beaudouin, declares that the discrepancy "is no longer a large gap, it is schizophrenia". Due to its length, the article had to be condensed:

I. As candidate for the presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy took one stand:

- November 30, 2006 - Candidate Sarkozy declared:

"I demand the suspension of all negotiations with Turkey for one simple reason: Turkey does not apply the protocol of Ankara, Turkey does not allow planes from Cyprus to land at its airports, or boats to come into its ports. Cyprus is one of the 25 States in the European Union. How can you discuss the future accession of a country that does not recognize the 25-member Europe, and who decides unilaterally that Europe is not 25 countries, but 24? It is not negotiable, it is not acceptable.

- January 14, 2007 - Candidate Sarkozy declared:

"Turkey is a country of Asia Minor (...) "To extend without limits is to run the risk of destroying the European political union. I do not accept this."

II. However, once elected President Sarkozy opened the doors of the European Union to Turkey:

- Ten chapters, (i.e. themes or topics) of negotiations have been opened since they began in October 2005: two were opened during Chirac's presidency and eight during that of Nicolas Sarkozy.

- The obligatory consultation of the French people through a referendum was abolished on July 21, 2008:

In March 2005, article 88-5 of the French Constitution provided this safeguard:

"Any bill authorizing the ratification of a treaty relative to the accession of a State to the European Union and to the European Communities is subject to referendum by the President of the French Republic".

On July 21, 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy had Parliament adopt a revision of this article that did away with the safeguard, but replaced it with an option giving Parliament the power to decide on any enlargement of the EU. Thus, he bypasses the people and turns the decision-making process over entirely to the Parliament.

III. Since the presidential elections, many have called for the door to Turkey's membership to remain open:

- Sarkozy said in August 2007:

"France will not oppose new chapters of negotiations (...) in the coming months and years, provided they are compatible with the two possible visions of any future relations: either accession, or as close a relationship as possible without going so far as accession."

- Bernard Kouchner said in December 2002 (five years before he was appointed foreign minister):

"Turkey is in Europe (...) Opponents of accession advance false pretexts. In reality, they want to maintain a Europe conceived as a Christian club, reserved for countries of Christian tradition. Just as membership of countries from the Eastern bloc was desirable because they were emerging from Communism, it is fitting to reach out to Turkey, the only Muslim country to have achieved separation of religion and State (...) Until there is a new order, the moderate Islamist party,victorious in the most recent Turkish elections is comparable to the Christian-Democrat parties established in a succession of European democracies.(...)"

- José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, said in April 2008 to the Turkish Parliament:

"Today Turkey is an integral part of our agenda for enlarging the EU. Our common objective is that Turkey become a full-fledged member. Many people in the member States, as in Turkey, want to dwell on what does not work in our relations, on the short-term obstacles and the difficulties we may encounter. (...) To all those I say that our present and our future are intimately connected."

IV. The party of Nicolas Sarkozy (i.e.,the UMP party) has not ceased to endorse Turkish accession:

- Every year the majority party votes on a budget bill that includes "pre-accession" credits for Turkey. These credits continue to be increased. By the year 2013 France will have paid 96 million euro in pre-accession credits to Turkey.

- Since January 2005, in the European Parliament, the UMP party has been seated next to the Turkish AKP party - the party of "justice and development" of Islamist orientation, headed by the current prime minister Erdogan. The AKP is there as an observer of the PPE i.e., the coalition of center-right parties that includes UMP.

- In March 2004, in the EU Parliament, UMP voted for the Brok report that declared that if Cyprus were reunified, the EU would be immediately ready to "accept Turkish as an official language".

- In September 2006, the near totality of the UMP and Socialist Parties voted in the EU Parliament against an amendment introduced by Philippe de Villiers that "urged the European Council and the Turkish government, in view of the opposition to Turkish accession by the vast majority of European peoples, a fact regularly confirmed by polls, and the growing reservations of the Turkish people on this issue, to confine themselves to the objective of a privileged partnership."

The noisy declarations of the French president against the entry of Turkey into the EU will change nothing. All the decisions made in Paris, Brussels and Strasbourg over the past two years indicate that the red carpet of Turkish accession to the European Union has been rolled out.

Pro-Cologne - More Views

Due to continued delays in posting I was not able to post this link from La Yijad en Eurabia to photos of last weekend's demonstration in Cologne, Germany. Possibly you have all seen them and have moved on to other topics of interest. But these photos focus on the counter-demonstration of the Left. Particularly striking is the one (above) showing the support of homosexuals for the mosque project. We seem to be moving in the direction of total acceptance of Islam by some of those most likely to be persecuted under Islamic rule: homosexuals, women, Catholic and Jewish religious leaders (not all of them, of course, but major figures). If these "progressive" groups and individuals are digging their own grave, it doesn't seem to bother them one whit.

For the gays and feminists, ANYTHING is better than a return to the Christian moral order, even a blood cult. In fact, IMHO, they are attracted to the blood cult, fascinated by the power it wields, and by the way it instills fear in ordinary folk like you and me.

Not every conservative was enthusiastic about pro-Köln. The Editrix, writing at her blog (thanks to the reader who sent the link), sheds some light on what she perceives as the true motives of the anti-Islamic European Right. At first I had some trouble following her argument, but the gist of it is that many right-wing European parties are only using the Islamization of Europe as a convenient way to gain supporters, and when push comes to shove, it will be revealed that these parties are much more Nazi in their philosophy than American conservative observers are willing (or knowledgeable enough) to admit.

I know very little about the right-wing parties of Europe, but the party of Geert Wilders (and Wilders himself) seems completely viable, as does Vlaams Belang. The Front National is something else. It still has good people in its ranks, but I no longer regard it as anti-Islamic, though caution dictates that I refrain from calling it pro-Islamic. Yet, that is close to what I believe. Its leader has certainly called for restricted immigration, but has taken no stand on Islam itself, as a force out to conquer Europe and America. He has seen to it that the Nazi streak in the Front National is real and overt for all to see, and not merely an empty accusation from the liberal media. His obviously pre-meditated provocations are designed to attract a cult following, to slowly rid the FN of some of its best adherents and ultimately to discredit the traditionalist cause. In this, The Editrix is right - we must beware of European right-wing parties.

The fact remains that they are still the only ones saying ANYTHING about Islamization. The danger (which is being borne out) is that these parties will ultimately be lumped together in the public's mind as being all alike (yet no two people could be more different than Wilders and Le Pen) and all equally demonizeable. It is essential that people be able to differentiate a man like Wilders from a man like Le Pen. Some of the rhetoric is similar, that is true, but the spirit, the intent, the sincerity of purpose are radically different.

Chelles - Update

Recently I did a post on the projected Muslim school in the city of Chelles. Here is an update from Le Salon Beige:

Three months after the Front National revealed the affair of the Islamic school of Marne-et-Chanteraine, for which the mayor was offering public land, and a petition that contained almost 10,000 signatures, the UMP deputy from Chelles, who was "assailed by protests" has reacted. Deputy Yves Albarello is now proposing a local referendum, but so far has not given his own point of view on this matter.

Note: It's a drop in the bucket, but it's decent news, and it proves that a concerted effort by a determined population can make a difference.

Twisted, Tortuous Hokum

I've posted several articles on Yazid Sabeg, Sarkozy's "diversity czar", entrusted with the task of seeing to it that France becomes as un-French as possible. This goal is achieved through quota systems, affirmative action and above all, through terrorist-style pressures placed on employers, school administrators, recruiters, real estate agencies, etc...

In March it had been announced that Sabeg would issue a report containing his recommendations on the best methods for keeping ethnic statistics in a country that does not allow such statistics to be kept. Due to be made public on March 21, the report was delayed but has just been sent to Nicolas Sarkozy. According to Novopress, it will not be rejected by the president:

On Thursday (May 7) the Commissioner on Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Yazid Sabeg turned in his report on the "Promotion of Diversity" to Nicolas Sarkozy. Following a meeting with the president, Sabeg declared to the press: "The president will speak about this important question during the latter part of June. At that time he will announce what steps he will take with regard to my proposals."

Already, the seventy-six measures contained in the hundred-page report, that deal essentially with "the education and employment of young people have the complete approval" of the French president, says Sabeg.

Among others, we can point to the desire on the part of the government for "openness to diversity": 20% of the students recruited for the third "concours" (i.e. competition) by the national school of administration (ENA) that prepares students for public office, will have to come from "diversity" (i.e., they will have to be non-French immigrants or children of immigrants). The Commissioner also intends to extend to the sphere of public office the practice of anonymous CV's that is currently used by businesses.

Note: The third "concours" - a competitive entry exam - was set up for people already in the workforce, in particular professionals and businessmen, who wish to change careers and enter public service. Candidates must have at least 8 years work experience, be under the age of 40 and be citizens of France or the European Union. In 2008 there were 8 places open for candidates of the third "concours". Sabeg's quota of 20% would mean fewer than 2 candidates would have been recruited in 2008.

The third "concours" has been controversial for a long time as French readers will learn from this article.

Those interested in the ENA can consult this English-language Wikipedia page.

An anonymous CV is a resumé that does not indicate the candidate's name or any other information that could reveal identity.

On the sensitive question of "measuring diversity", Sabeg favors a statistical database that allows "all of society and the public authorities to be enlightened regarding the mechanisms of discrimination." But the database would operate on the principle of "anonymous and voluntary inquiries". On this point the Commissioner hopes for the approval of the Council of State and proposes a "permanent scientific and ethics committee" to validate the ways in which these statistics are gathered...

Note: The above gobbledegook seems (only seems) to indicate that racial and ethnic statistics will be kept in a database; that these statistics will be gathered anonymously and only with the permission of the person being interviewed; that those who do the gathering will be surveilled by a special committee; that light will thus be shed on what he calls the "mechanisms of discrimination."

If anyone can shed more light on what he is saying, please send your thoughts.

In one of my previous posts on Sabeg I suggested he just separate the whites from everyone else, then shoot them. That way he will have the result he is seeking which is total integration of immigrants into French society. I repeat the suggestion.

"Personally, I hoped that a person could declare his feeling of belonging to a minority", Sabeg argues. On this point, he is supported by CRAN (Representative Council of Black Associations) that welcomes this evidence of an "historical voluntarism at the summit of the State".

In his book Témoignage, published in 2006, that gave a preview of his agenda, candidate Sarkozy defined his "France that is to come" as "a France where the expression 'ethnic Frenchman' will have disappeared". (...)

Note: In August 2006 I posted a few excerpts from Témoignage. Here is one of them:

"This France, that I perceive first and foremost as a free country...A country in which there is no more discrimination by skin color, the sound of a last name or the neighborhood you live in...in this country you can believe and practice a religion without being called a bigot or a terrorist."

Nice words. But in reality, they mean that France is anything but a free country.

Yves Daoudal gives a much clearer analysis of Sabeg, than Sabeg does of himself. This is drawn from his weekly newsletter, Daoudal Hebdo, available through subscription:

(...) Conveniently, a poll, commissioned by CRAN, was published on April 28 by the CSA Institute, showing that the majority of French people are favorable to Yazid Sabeg's idea, i.e., that of "statistical inquiries on a feeling of belonging in order to measure diversity and to better understand discrimination."

Ask anybody in the street what a "statistical inquiry on a feeling of belonging" is... If they have not followed the mental tortures of Yazid Sabeg, twisting into a pretzel to come up with a method for ethnic statistics that do not appear to be ethnic statistics, they cannot understand what it is, for the simple reason that the expression "feeling of belonging" is not part of the current vocabulary.

In truth, this expression is just not part of the French language. An Internet search shows that it only exists in connection to Yazid Sabeg and CRAN. No one else has used it.

It proves that this plan to measure groups according to the subjective perception that individuals have of their potential belonging to a group does not correspond to any reality, except for the fact that it is a statistical aberration.

Daoudal wonders how the CSA arrived at its findings, then moves on:

But that is not the issue. The issue is to be able to trumpet the news that the French people agree with CRAN, and to be able to demonstrate that this racialist (if not racist) lobby is in step with the government...

(...) The poll informs us that 34% of persons interrogated belonging to a visible minority stated that discrimination has increased. You may be wondering how, in the absence of ethnic statistics, they were able to interrogate "persons belonging to a visible minority", and which "visible minority", and how many actually belong, and how many just feel that they belong...

Here is the answer. Now listen well:

Note: There follows an untranslatable text. But I'll give it a try.

"The sampling was of 493 persons declaring themselves as belonging to a visible minority, derived from four national samplings representative of persons ages 18 or older, constituted according to the quota method (sex, age, profession of the head of household), after stratification by region and category of urban area, and an representative oversampling of 152 persons declaring themselves as belonging to a visible minority, ages 18 or older, constituted according to the quota method (sex, age, profession of the head of household), after stratification by region and urban area."

Note: "Oversampling" is defined thus:

The deliberate selection of individuals of a rare type in order to obtain reasonably precise estimates of the properties of this type. In a population which includes such a rare type, a random sample of the entire population might result in very few (or none) of these individuals being selected. Oversampling implies the deliberate sampling of a much higher proportion of this type than of the rest of the population. This is a form of stratified sampling.


Patrick Lozès (left), president of CRAN declared:

"This is a terrible record for the president and the government, for whom the question of minorities was a cause for combat, at least in speeches. We're waiting for action."

Daoudal closes:

It seems that Patrick Lozès is already making the rounds of the ministries to submit his plan (for a publicly financed employment agency serving those who come from "diversity"). While waiting for Nicolas Sarkozy to create the Ministry of Diversity he so ardently desires...

Note: It isn't clear if the "he" in the above sentence refers to Sarkozy or Lozès. Does it really matter?