Lost Territories, Forgotten People

What the French people live through on a day-to-day basis is grim. Especially if they do not have the means to move to better neighborhoods. This article by Mireille Popelin is from Riposte Laïque:

There are 12 million of them. French salaried workers. And everything is being done to make them disappear. No one even talks about them anymore! The radical chic ("bobo") Left even says they no longer exist. They endure discrimination. The workers at Conti, at Caterpillar, etc... who fight against the relocation of their companies, who fight against so-called social plans, i.e., unemployment, have to wage their battles alone. They are the people who live in low-income housing and who are subject to the laws of the fanatics and the mafiosi.

Many left the suburbs that had become unlivable. But not those who did not have the means to buy or rent elsewhere. Old retired people who were not able to leave are insulted: "dirty French, old whores, and 4 square meters." You don't know what "4 square meters" refers to? It's the grave. They reduce these older workers to the grave! With targeted spitting, near their shoes. With seats in the bus offered to a veiled Muslim woman apparently younger than they are. At the marketplace it is the Muslim woman who is served first, ostensibly, while the French woman has to wait. The merchants are Arabs. The butcher shops are almost all halal and the retirees have to take a bus or subway to stock up on meat that is not halal. I know them, I listen to them in their retirement clubs.

What of the schools? Islamists are at the door and put pressure on the poor teachers... no swimming pool for girls, no "sex" ed. (We have religion, they say, we don't need that. We don't talk about that.) Biology, history... the teachers often break down, torn between fear and the desire to "pull" these kids towards emancipation and knowledge. I know this well, because it has happened in my family, and it ends with depression and heart attacks.

I'm tired of reading everywhere about the great fears of Muslims who are discriminated against, when fanatics and mafiosi force their "law" in the "lost territories of the Republic".

Note: The Lost Territories of the Republic is the title of a book by Emmanuel Brenner (a pseudonym) that came out in 2002. It describes the breakdown of law and order in large areas of France where even the police dare not go. The following is drawn from a review of the book at JCPA:

The testimonies indicate the serious plight of French democracy. Many teachers close their eyes to the violence, intimidation, and racism. Others describe the perpetrators as "hooligans" or "hoodlums," in denial of the fact that there are elements in the French Muslim community as well as foreign television stations that systematically incite against others. Other teachers try to maintain "social peace" by appeasing the bullies and withholding sympathy from their victims.

The schools' attitudes broadly reflect those of the left-wing government and the previous political position of President Jacques Chirac. During three years of major anti-Semitic incidents, he denied that there was anti-Semitism in France. Only after yet another arson attempt against a Jewish institution in November 2003 did Chirac decide to change his stance.

The cases described are not limited to Jewish victims. Some Christian pupils are so intimidated by the Muslim majority in their classes that they have considered converting to Islam. Teachers are harassed as well. Some Muslim pupils expressed their joy about 11 September, and Bin Laden is a hero to them. It would be a mistake to think that the hatred focuses exclusively on Jews and Americans; the Muslims' main disgust is for the French and French society.

You can read another very interesting review of the book at The Social Contract.

I found the photo of a Muslim butcher shop above at a website called Chris Kutschera.

As I post, a brief just appeared at François Desouche about the torture and murder of a retired couple, both 76, in the department of Oise. They were found on Friday afternoon (January 29) in a pool of blood inside the apartment where they had lived for more than 20 years. The wife was bound in the kitchen, her husband was in the living-room. The exact circumstances of their death are not known, but some evidence points to a robbery that went wrong (sic!). Friends became worried when they could not reach them, and called the gendarmes.

The "sic!" is due to the ridiculous euphemism so often used in crimes such as these: a robbery gone wrong, or a burglary gone wrong, etc... In fact it was a torture and murder that went very well.

Without more information we can only speculate on the perpetrators. It could have been anybody, any group, any age. But this does not stop FDS readers from indulging in some sardonic speculation on how the press will name the perps once they are caught:

- Norwegian bastards
- Eskimo filth
- Auvergnat bastards
- Japanese scumbags
- Viking trash
- No. It must have been Swedes. Dirty Swedes...
- What did we ever do to the Swedes for them to treat us like this?

etc...

It is true that the Western media will do almost anything not to name Muslims or blacks as criminals until it can no longer be avoided. Instead with a strange mixture of brazenness and cowardice they choose some unlikely ethnic group, usually white. This happens in France where initial crime reports often assign French names like Pierre or Stéphane to the alleged criminals. Only later do we learn it was really Mohammed or Rachid or Youssef...