France discovers the path to national ... unity

France discovers the path to national … unity

Increasingly worried in recent years about its growing and every more hostile Muslim minority, France has finally found the magic key to assimilation and national unity: siding with Arab tyrants and terrorists against America. According to CNS News:

With up to 90 percent of the population supporting President Jacques Chirac in his opposition to the war in Iraq, the French government has found itself for the first time sharing common ground with the country’s largely disenfranchised Muslim youth, who often live in housing projects where drugs, violence and unemployment are rampant.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin held a meeting with more than a dozen official representatives to make plans for the integration of young Arabs, often children of immigrants, and “unite the community of citizens around a shared project.”
“What is extraordinary,” said Jean-Louis Borloo, the minister for cities, “is that the whole immigrant community completely supports France’s position. There has never been such national solidarity.”

C’est merveilleux, n’est-ce pas?
Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 27, 2003 05:05 PM | Send

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To paraphrase Ann Coulter’s wonderul phrase from an article last year - we can all soon look forward to the Grand Mufti of Paris ordering that Notre Dame be dynamited. Chirac has not only signed the death certificate for the UN, he’s signed it for France as well.

Posted by: Carl on March 27, 2003 8:40 PM

“Chirac has not only signed the death certificate for the UN, he’s signed it for France as well.”

That’s what happens when resentment rather than the rational good becomes your guide.

To the three principles of French culture—vanity, fornication, and appeasement—a fourth must be added: resentment.

Posted by: Lawrence Auster on March 27, 2003 10:07 PM