Sunday, November 06, 2005

Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands

by Mark Steyn

Europe HAS been awake for quite some time now. Mark. It isn't a lack of knowledge that has crept upon them like theives in the night, but rather a total absence of fortitude.

The general consensus was the fact that when kept poor...and most moslems keep themselves poor quite well, thank you...and if lacking the necessary logistics to foment a revolution of sorts, all the moslem communities could do is make themselves quite the bother, but nothing untowards.

And don't for a moment believe the bullswaddle handed out by the mainstream media...these are NOT "youths" acting alone. The bomb factories the authorities are finding have not been created by 12 year-olds fiddling with castaway bottles, dirty rags, and a tin of lighter fluid or two.

Where are they getting the materials? Who is having THEM do the dirty work whilest THEY fund this barabarism? No war can succeed without a chain of command, so who are the generals? Find THEM, cut off the money, and back to the rabbit warrens the "youths" will go.

Anyway, here's some of what Mark Stein has to say on the matter. Nothing earthshattering, nothing we haven't been saying for years, but it's good to know that someone else has his head on the exterior of his posterior.

"Ever since 9/11, I've been gloomily predicting the European powder keg's about to go up. ''By 2010 we'll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,'' I wrote in Canada's Western Standard back in February.
Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule. As Thursday's edition of the Guardian reported in London: ''French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.''


The notion that Texas neocon arrogance was responsible for frosting up trans-Atlantic relations was always preposterous, even for someone as complacent and blinkered as John Kerry. If you had millions of seething unassimilated Muslim youths in lawless suburbs ringing every major city, would you be so eager to send your troops into an Arab country fighting alongside the Americans? For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc. The concern of the political class has been to prevent the spread of these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest. They seem to have lost that battle. Unlike America's Europhiles, France's Arab street correctly identified Chirac's opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness."

Mr. Stein goes on to give far too much weight to a Christian-Moslem battle in 792, but his heart is in the right place. He knows the root cause of this problem, and urges Europe to awaken.

But they are not asleep at the switch, Mark. They simply want it to go away, and the modern French in particular have been this way for over a centuy.

Anyway, read his entire essay, it's a good one.

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